From: Willard McCarty Subject: Happy 19th birthday!!!!! Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 12:30:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 1 (1) Today, 7 May 2006, Humanist completes its 19th year and begins its 20th. By automatic count there are 1446 subscriptions, up 63 from last year at about this time, and a few less messages -- we are getting more to the point? For some years Humanist has been in a steady state and, being somewhat of a social institution, would seem to have a good chance of stability for a long time to come. In recognition of its primary function over the last many years, no longer so much of a revolutionary banner as a social bonding agent, I've changed its epigraph, as follows. Formerly the homepage quoted Colin Cherry's stirring remark, [deleted quotation]Now that we are the first of those future generations, and so share that "commonplace experience", it's time, I thought, to draw attention to its vital force, calling on Benedict Anderson and Robert Asen to articulate what might otherwise go unnoticed, though no less constitutive: [deleted quotation]We know from your messages that change in the field continues apace, however. To point to one kind of evidence for positive development, this Humanist-year there have been more jobs in humanities computing advertised here, and more explicitly academic jobs, than ever before -- most recently an endowed chair (at Dartmouth -- may it be well filled). It seems likely that this trend will continue. To point to another positive sign, we now have at long last a peer-reviewed online journal, the Digital Humanities Quarterly, and an umbrella organization, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, www.digitalhumanities.org, to cover all our activities world-wide. What, then, is on the event-horizon for us? As many here will recall, I've recently asked about the relationship between humanities computing and computer science. Although the manifestations of such a relationship are badly under-theorized from the perspective of the humanities, the growing number of true collaborations between HC practitioners and CS people is highly significant, as is the demonstrable increase in published discussions, speculative reports and conferences, symposia and meetings within the last few years, though most of them have been more wishful than incisive. By my undoubtedly incomplete catalogue, omitting the few article-length writings, these are as follows: 1990 (1), 1992 (1), 1997/8 (1), 1999 (1), 2003 (2), 2005(1), 2006 (3). It is still true, and will remain so, that many invididuals will not be able to see that such collaboration is even possible -- I was told by one senior computer scientist recently that it was unthinkable. Perhaps so, but it is happening. Partly the cause for interest from CS may be declining enrolments in that discipline and its maturation to the point at which tackling real problems in the humanities has become feasible. On our side we also have matured to the point of being able to realise that our theoretical ideas are bent out of shape if not inhibited by the assumptions embedded in commonplace tools -- and, especially, in their data models and system designs. (A few of us have been saying this for years, I know.) What I as a researcher need, for example, lies midway between relational database design and text-encoding; for the moment I am siding with the former, but the work I am doing needs technical rethinking in a way I do not know how to do. My question has another aspect to it that also lies on our event-horizon, something I already mentioned in passing: the theorizing of current activity. The basics seem clear enough to me, presuming the standard story of CS and the traditional view of humanities scholarship. But practice has a way of surprising us, especially computing practice, at least partly because the methodological perspective reveals disciplinary friends among strangers, and these friends require some adjustment on our part, more than a little expansion of our field of vision. Here the problem extends way beyond the involvement with CS to all interdisciplinary involvements. In labs, offices, seminar rooms and so forth, even as I write, mostly unobserved collaborations are happening -- mostly unobserved because in the heat of the moment, with an eye to results, what's happening doesn't seem important enough in itself, and there's the rub. It is clear to me from the lab notebooks that my students have started keeping that were a record kept and analyzed as a standard part of our practice, we'd be quite a bit wiser than we are now. Social scientists with a knowledge of computing are needed. Numerous PhD dissertations are waiting to be written on the basis of participant-observations. Very good training for them, I would think. Very valuable meta-results for us. Part of the theorizing of practice involves our relationship to the older humanities over the question of method. It's easy to conclude that method (by which we tend to mean algorithmic procedure) is our friend, and to note the traditional antipathy of the humanities to method, as discussed for example by Gadamer in Truth and Method. But the apparently tidy picture gets messy when one looks into the details: like all other disciplinary terms I've examined, "method" is relative to the style of reasoning, and that is an historical as well as local phenomenon. (See, for example, Coleridge's Treatise on Method and Descartes' Discourse.) I'd think that figuring out how a discipline is methodical is a first step toward constructing a productive relationship between computing and any discipline. Hence philological studies of more disciplinary terms are in= order. Speaking of PhD students, we at King's College London started a PhD programme in the Autumn of the current academic year. Without publicizing the degree until the last minute, when we were allowed to advertise for a studentship, we've gained a fair number of applicants, and with them the intriguing problem of what, exactly, a PhD in humanities computing (or in the digital humanities) might be. We're in the process of figuring that out, but it does seem highly likely that the norm will be something like a collaborative degree with at least one other department, with of course humanities computing playing the major role. If it is to do so, as here at King's, then I'd think that a practical component to the PhD is a requirement, as I'm starting to insist. It isn't obvious what positions PhD students in the digital humanities are training for, but I point again to the increase in the number of jobs and to the chicken-and-egg dilemma that must be avoided by some judicious risk-taking. One wonders what will happen to the field when in years hence it is populated by those holding such degrees. There are undoubtedly other things on that horizon, but I'll stop here with my speculations on them. In a little over a week's time I head off to New York to receive the Lyman Award, and once again I am surprised and delighted at the attention to Humanist -- a great collaborative phenomenon if ever there was one. The occasion demands reflection on the past, my past in particular. Forgive me for attempting here to draw an historical lesson or two from what seemed at the time more or less a Brownian motion of random events and circumstances. Looking at one thing, seeing another -- can we make meaning out of the world in any other way? What I see, peering into the murk of just-happenings and trying very hard to speak with unforked tongue, is that Humanist is just about the only professional thing I've done from which I never expected reward. I wasn't and isn't that I don't like rewards. Rather because Humanist is unrefereed, self-published and very demotic, it never seemed the sort of thing anyone important would pay any attention to. And I've also never been able to ignore the fact that doing Humanist is its own reward. Yet again, nevertheless and quite unexpectedly, it motivates a giving. Full of hope I conclude that the great principle of reprocity actually works: do ut des, I give that you may give. I also take delight in the fact that DO UT DES is the name of a Tuscan wine. All the best to all of you starting into Humanist's 20th year! 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: symposium: The Computer: The Once and Future Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 07:10:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 2 (2) Medium for the Social Sciences & the Humanities Symposium Announcement: The Computer: The Once and Future Medium for the Social Sciences and the Humanities http://www.brocku.ca/computingsymposium The computer is offering important new possibilities for scholars. Heightened processing power, new categories of software, and, indeed, novel conceptions of computing are offering scholars opportunities to analyze, express and instruct in ways unimaginable even in the early 1990s. Some human science researchers know this. We believe more should. For this reason, the Canadian Committee for History and Computing and the Society for Digital Humanities are pleased to announce their joint sponsorship of the symposium The Computer: The Once and Future Medium for the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The purpose of the symposium will be to introduce scholars to a wide array of new technologies and approaches, with non-technical papers on topics ranging from the use of virtual reality to construct model sites in ancient Rome to the use of simulations to plan for pandemics and the use of software to model the impact that emotion plays in individual and group decision making. The symposium will be convened 8:30 a.m. on May 30th, 2006 at York University during the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The symposium is open to all Congress delegates, and there is no charge to attend. The day-long proceedings will take place at Vanier College, Room 135, with an evening reception to follow at Founders College Assembly Hall. To attend, you must register through the Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. When registering, the Congress requires you to do two things: * Register as a Delegate for the Congress (Fee: $150.00) * Register for the conference or conferences that you wish to attend at the Congress. To attend the symposium, you will need to select Society 910 (No Fee). If you HAVE NOT YET REGISTERED for the Congress, you can sign-up for both the Congress and the Symposium at the Congress website: https://media6.magma.ca/www.fedcan.ca/congress2006form/ IF YOU HAVE ALREADY REGISTERED, you CANNOT amend your registration on the Congress website. Instead, you will need to complete the registration form and fax it to the Congress. To access the form, go here: http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2006/registration/delegates.htm At the top of the page, you will have two options: * One will be to download the registration guide. * The second will be to download the registration form. Select this one. Once you have the form, you will need to: * Indicate that you have already registered. * Indicate that you are amending your registration to include Society 910. There is no registration fee to attend this symposium. * Fax the form to (613) 236-4853 For further information, please contact John Bonnett at: jbonnett_at_brocku.ca Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Being methodical in Latin philology Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 12:38:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 3 (3) Willard, for Latin philology, there is a German book by Gregor MAURACH, Methoden der Latinistik. Ein Lehrbuch zum Selbstunterricht (Wiss. Buchges., Darmstadt 1998. ISBN 3-534-14103-2) --- which is, as they say, not for the faint of heart. A review by Reinhold Glei is on the http://www.gfa.d-r.de/dr,gfa,002,1999,r,04.pdf Also, the introductions may be useful, e.g.: Fritz Graf (Hrsg.): Einleitung in die lateinische Philologie. Teubner, Stuttgart [u.a.] 1997. ISBN 3-519-07434-6 Yours, Neven From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 20.001 Happy 19th Birthday to Humanist Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 06:41:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 4 (4) You really don't want to use the term "event-horizon".... In physics the event horizon is the boundary around a black hole past which no light escapes back into the real world. Approaching the event horizon is to be approaching a black hole beyond which everything would disappear from the visible universe. From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 20.001 Happy 19th Birthday to Humanist Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 06:42:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 5 (5) Hello Willard, 19 years! Remarkable. That goes right back to the beginning of my use of email. It would never have happened without you. Which suggests an interesting little project and one that you are the best person alive to do, a meta-study, as it were: how the technology and social practices of *discussing* humanities computing have evolved. In the same way as the community can hardly even remember the operating systems of the early 80s, let alone use them (causing, as we know, all sorts of problems with old datafiles), we are on the cusp of forgetting how we used to use the internet to discuss things like humanities computing and how the ways we use it now evolved. Just a thought -- I'm not the one who'd have to do the work. Andrew -- Andrew Brook Chancellor's 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: Shuly Wintner Subject: Haifa-Sorbonne Workshop on Computational Linguistics Date: Thursday, May 18, 2006 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 6 (6) Time: 9:30 - 17:00 Location: University of Haifa, Education and Sciences Building, Room 570. Program: see website, http://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/events/2006/sorbon/ sorbonne.php From: "Christian Wittern" Subject: TEI Day in Kyoto 2006 Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 06:38:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 7 (7) Dear readers of HUMANIST, you are cordially invited to the TEI Day in Kyoto 2006, to be held this coming Wednesday May 17th in the city of Kyoto, Japan. The event is hosted by the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University and the TEi Consortium, it is an experimental new format, partly within the TEI community, partly within a TEI friendly outside, conceived with the aim of spreading the information on * practical aspects of the TEI encoding scheme, its uses (and misuses), through examplary presentations and posters * new developments of the TEI encoding scheme and to introduce the TEI to new areas and environments. The program and abstracts of presentations and posters are now available in English and Japanese from the following website: http://coe21.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/tei-day/tei-day2006.html I am looking forward to meet you here, Christian Wittern, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University Chair, TEI Technical Council From: "Walid Chainbi" Subject: ATAC'2006: Deadline approaching Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 06:39:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 8 (8) First International Workshop on Agent Technology and Autonomic Computing (ATAC'2006) Erfurt, Germany, September 18-21, 2006 http://www.netobjectdays.org/en/conf/atac.html AIMS AND SCOPE Agent technology is one of the most prominent and attractive technologies in computer science at the beginning of the new millenium. It is not only a promising technology, but it is also emerging as a new way of thinking : a conceptual paradigm for analyzing problems and for designing systems, for dealing with complexity, distribution, and interactivity while providing a new perspective on computing and intelligence. Recently, an interest has been witnessed in computing community to autonomic computing. Inspired by the functioning of the human nervous systems, autonomic computing is to design and build computing systems that posses inherent self-managing capabilities. While autonomic computing is a quite new revolutionary move to the discipline of computing and so far a holistic solution has not yet appeared, we think that agent technology is already available for being integrated into the framework of autonomic computing. We look primarily in this workshop for ideas that foster the link between agent technology and autonomic computing. Theoretical as well as practical aspects are welcome. The organisers welcome participation and contributions from those working or interested in the intersection of agent technology and autonomic computing. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of interest for ATAC'06 include, but are not limited to : Agents for autonomic systems Agents in self-healing Agents in self-optimization Agents in self-cofiguration Agents in self-protection Agent computing versus autonomic computing Applications domains of agent technology and autonomic computing SUBMISSION PROCEDURE and FORMATTING GUIDELINES Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format to Walid.Chainbi_at_lycos.com by the deadline given below in the list of important dates. The contributions should be named as contact-author-surname.pdf (example: gregory.pdf). Papers should be written in english with a maximum of 12 pages. Accepted papers will be published in a workshop note and distributed among participants during the workshop. Depending on the quality of contributions, we are planning to publish a post-proceedings of the papers either as a book or a aspecial issue of an international journal. WORKSHOP CHAIR Dr. Walid Chainbi ENIS Departement d'informatique et de mathematiques appliquees B.P.W. -3038- Sfax - TUNISIA E-mail: Walid.Chainbi_at_lycos.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE Walt Truszkowski, NASA Goaddard Space Flight Center (USA) Walid Chainbi, Ecole Nationale des Ingénieurs de Sfax (Tunisia) Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) Cherif Branki, University of Paisley (UK) Hans Czap, University of Trier (Germany) Cosimo Anglano, University del Piemonte Orientale (Italy) David Chess, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Research Division (USA) Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster at Jordanstown (Northern Ireland) Manish Parashar, The State University of New Jersey (USA) Salim Hariri, University of Arizona (USA) Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies AG (Switzerland) IMPORTANT DATES May, 15, submission due. June, 15, Notification of acceptance. July, 15, camera-ready due. From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 18TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL OF Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 06:40:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 9 (9) LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION ESSLLI 2006 ESSLLI 2006 ESSLLI 2006 ESSLLI 2006 ESSLLI 2006 ESSLLI 2006 (Early registration deadline: May 14, 2006) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 18TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL OF LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION July 31 - August 11, 2006 Malaga, Spain (Early registration deadline: May 14, 2006) ESSLLI 2006 is organized by the Software Engineering Group of the University of Malaga, under the auspices of FoLLI, the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students, researchers and IT professionals interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. The 18th edition of ESSLLI is offering 48 courses, organized into three interdisciplinary areas (Language & Computation, Language & Logic, and Logic & Computation), at a variety of levels (foundational, introductory, advanced), as well as seven workshops. All the information may be found at: http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es Foundational courses aim to provide truly introductory courses into a field. The courses presuppose absolutely no background knowledge. In particular, they should be accessible to people from other disciplines. Introductory courses are intended to equip students and young researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques, and to allow experienced researchers from other fields to acquire the key competences of similar disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Advanced courses are intended to enable participants to acquire more specialized knowledge about topics they are already familiar with. Workshops are intended to encourage collaboration and the cross-fertilization of ideas by stimulating in-depth discussion of issues which are at the forefront of current research in the field. In these workshops, students and researchers can give presentations of their research. In addition to courses and workshops a student session is being also organized, with the aim of providing Masters and PhD students with an opportunity to present their own work to a professional audience, thereby getting informed feedback on their own results. Unlike workshops, the student session is not tied to any specific theme. The early (extended) registration deadline is approaching (May 14), 2006. Ernesto Pimentel Local Organizing Committee Chair University of Malaga esslli2006_at_lcc.uma.es From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: 19.758 less is more? a note on interface design Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 06:41:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 10 (10) Hi Willard, I'm not entirely sure how my note from last year (18.756) ended up here again as a new note (19.753), but let me give the link to the jpeg: http://www.ualberta.ca/~sruecker/Minard-Napolean-3-ways.jpg. There was some subsequent discussion under the subject line "Digital Microhistory." Perhaps it got revisited because the month was the same? yrs, Stan Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Alex Koohang Subject: Call for Papers - Interdisciplinary Journal of Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 06:40:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 11 (11) Knowledge and Learning Objects Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting a fine paper to IJKLO. For author's guide and submission please visit http://review.ijklo.org/author/submit.php Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects (IJKLO) is an academically peer refereed Journal. All submissions are blind refereed by three or more peers. IJKLO is published in print by subscription and its articles also appear online free of charge. The mission of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects (IJKLO) is to provide readers around the world with the widest possible coverage of developments in knowledge and Learning Objects. IJKLO is an interdisciplinary forum that publishes high quality articles on theory, practice, innovation, and research that cover all aspects of knowledge and Learning Objects. In addition, IJKLO provides those who submit manuscripts for publication with useful, timely feedback by making the review process constructive. IJKLO will strive to be the most authoritative journal on knowledge and Learning Objects. JKLO is published by the Informing Science Institute (http://informingscience.org). IJKLO is listed in the Index of Information Systems Journals (http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/journals/), the ISWorld Publications Page (www.osu-tulsa.okstate.edu/nromano/wwwroot/iswjsp/), Cabells Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management, Vol. II-I, 9th Edition, 2004-2005 (http://www.cabells.com/), and Ulrich (http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/). Best wishes, Alex Alex Koohang Editor-in-Chief Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects www.ijklo.org From: Willard McCarty Subject: summer institute: Cyberinfrastructure for Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 06:36:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 12 (12) Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences CI-HASS Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences a Summer Institute (CI-HASS) http://flatiron.sdsc.edu/projects/ci-hass/main.php The comprehensive infrastructure needed to capitalize on dramatic advances in information technology has been termed cyberinfrastructure. Cyberinfrastructure integrates hardware for computing, data and networks, digitally-enabled sensors, observatories and experimental facilities, and an interoperable suite of software and middleware services and tools. Investments in interdisciplinary academic teams and cyberinfrastructure professionals with broad expertise in content production and technology systems is essential to exploit the full power of cyberinfrastructure to create, disseminate, and preserve data, information, and knowledge. The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and the University of California San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) invite applications from scholars, faculty, graduate students and IT intellectuals of all ranks to participate in a hands-on workshop designed to introduce humanists, artists and social scientists to commonly used and emergent information technology tools and resources. Event Date: July 24-28, 2006 Event Location: UC San Diego Campus Application Deadline: June 1, 2006 Event Cost: $350 Registration Fee Includes: Instruction | Lodging | Three Meals Each Day Note: If you do not require lodging, the registration fee is $150. Program Overview The Institute is an intensive one-week summer program for faculty, scholars, graduate students, professionals and public intellectuals. The Institute will host 40-50 distinguished participants in a "laboratory" where together they can engage important and creative thought and application. Workshops will include conversations with cutting edge technological innovators, humanists, artists and social scientists; they involve demonstrations of new technological devices, and their applications as well as scholarly practices. Participants will have opportunities to familiarize themselves with new digital applications in the context of small working groups. Workshops Topics: Introduction to Cyberinfrastructure | Cyberservices | High-Performance Computing & Storage | Networks | Grid Computing | Portals & Gateways | Knowledge & Semantic Systems | Large Scale Data & Databases | Visualization | Virtual Research Environments Note: Program subject to change 307 Administration, Irvine, California 92697-3350 (858) 534-5020 - Fax: (949) 824-2115 - cihass_at_uci.edu [This message has been heavily edited to remove formatting and various links; see the URL at the top for several items that could not be included. --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: dis_at_labe.felk.cvut.cz Subject: IEEE 2006 Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 06:36:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 13 (13) Systems - Programme ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS - Collective Intelligence and its Applications ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE workshop on distributed intelligent systems as collective robotics, agent-based manufacturing and agent-based coalition formation and their applications Location: PRAGUE, Czech Republic, June 15-16, 2006 Programme --------- The programme of the IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems has been published at the workshop web pages at http://www.action-m.com/dis2006, including the assignment of lecture rooms, workshop timetable and social programe information. Deadlines: -------------- Early registration at reduced fee...................................... May 15, 2006 IEEE DIS 2006 Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems.......... June 15-16, 2006 For details, please, see http://www.action-m.com/dis2006. Contacts: --------- Scientific issues: V. Marik, dis_at_labe.felk.cvut.cz Local arrangements (registration, accommodation and social program): M. Zeithamlova, milena_at_action-m.com http://www.action-m.com/dis2006 http://www.diplomatpraha.cz _______________________________ From: Willard McCarty Subject: summer school: Neural Networks Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 06:39:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 14 (14) ============================================================= SUMMER SCHOOL NN2006 NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING July 3-7, 2006, ISEP - Porto, Portugal ============================================================= <http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt> http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt email: nn-2006_at_isep.ipp.pt GENERAL INFORMATION The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University (FEUP). Following last year experience, this year's edition also includes a WORKSHOP SESSION providing a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects. [...] COURSE CONTENTS Neural networks (NN) have become a very important tool in classification and regression tasks. The applications are nowadays abundant, e.g. in the engineering, economy and biology areas. The Summer School on NN is dedicated to explain relevant NN paradigms, namely multilayer perceptrons (MLP), radial basis function networks (RBF) and support vector machines (SVM) used for classification and regression tasks, illustrated with applications to real data. Specific topics are also presented, namely Spiking Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, Modular Neural Networks and Data Mining using NN. Classes include practical sessions with appropriate software tools. The trainee has, therefore, the opportunity to apply the taught concepts and become conversant with a broad range of NN topics and applications. A special workshop session will provide a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects. Official language is English. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME A preliminary programme and further information about the classes are available at the school webpage ( <http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt> http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt) [...] Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.18 Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 06:39:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 15 (15) Volume 7, Issue 18 May 9, 2006 - May 15, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: UBIQUITY INTERVIEWS DAVID HANSON As CEO of Hanson Robotics, Inc, David Hanson creates robot faces that have been dubbed "among the most advanced in the world" by the BBC, and inspired Science to label Hanson "head of his class" in social robotics. After receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and dabbling in AI programming at Brown, David Hanson worked at Walt Disney Imagineering, leading development of an autonomous walking robot and electro-active polymer (EAP) actuators. Later Hanson went on to work toward a PhD at the University of TX at Dallas, developing social robots affect naturalistic conversations with face tracking AI, speech recognition, and realistic expressions that use Hanson's patent-pending polymer materials.] Go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i18_hanson.html Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 18 ( May 9 2006 - May 15, 2006) From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: Density of Language Taxa Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 06:41:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 16 (16) Dear Humanist colleagues, please comment on the following: Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk Pedagog. University, Russia. yutamb_at_mail.ru Dispersion of the Uralic language taxon from a typological viewpoint. The goal of this research was to compute the similarity of the distribution of 8 consonantal groups (labial, front, palatal, back, sonorant, occlusive, fricative and voiced) in the speech sound chains of different world languages. The value of the coefficient of variance was chosen as the measure of similarity. Let us analyse the values in some language taxa: groups, families and super-families. The Value of the Mean of the Coefficient of Variance (V%). Ugric group (5 languages) - V%= 27.66% Volgaic group (4) - V% = 17.90% Baltic-Finnic group (7) = 23.24% Finno-Ugric family (20) = 23.91% Samoyedic family (4) = 16.30% Uralic super-family (24) = 28.31%. The value of the mean of the coefficient of variance of the Ugric group (27.66%) is really great. We can compare it to the analogical means of the groups of the Indo-European family: Baltic (2 languages) - 9.08%; Iranian (8 languages) - 11.69%; Slavonic (12 languages) - 15.78%; Indic -20.40%; Germanic (6 languages) - 24.51%. It is possibele to explain the great value of dispersion of the Ugric group by the fact that the structure of the Hungarian speech sound chain is too different from those of Mansi and Hanty. The fact that the value of the mean of the coefficient of variance in the Samoyedic language taxon may tell us that the languages of the Samoyedic origin are more typologically similar, than those of Indic or Germanic origin. If we unite the Finno-Ugric languages (23.91%) and the Samoyedic languages (16.30%) into one language taxon, called Uralic, then the dispersion increases to 28.31%, which is much greater than those of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic families taken separately. It means that typologically these two parts are quite different. This is why, one should be cautious to unite them. They seem quite different from the point of view of the distribution of the consonants in their speech chains. Usually, genetically related languages have similar speech sound chains, that is, they are typologically close. Basing on the typological data, it is possible to suppose that Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic languages have gone into different directions and this distance is rather great. I'd like to hear comments of colleagues concerning the distances between the languages inside the language groups, families and super- families based on the typological data. I wish I could co-operate with the linguists who may be interested in my method. It is possible to study the density and dispersion of the language taxa of American Indian language taxa or the taxa of the Aboriginal languages of Australia, etc., etc. Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_mail.ru Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk Pedagog. University, Novosibirsk, Russia. From: Willard McCarty Subject: a better metaphor? Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 06:30:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 17 (17) Bob Amsler, in Humanist 20.004, was quite right about my use of "event-horizon". Although numerous instances can be found of similar usage online, for example, the term almost inevitably summons its technical meaning from the cosmology of black holes, and the analogy between what foresight foresees and what the stationary observer of a black hole observes, according to theory, doesn't yield much that is useful. (How about a moving observer, as he or she approaches the speed of light? But then, whatever was seen, said observer would quite soon plunge into the black hole, with speculative results one can read about.) Better to make one's analogy with hill-walking, or walking on a somewhat misty day, perhaps. Except that I wanted to get at the notion that events on their way to being factual are forming in what we call the future, and to some limited degree we, as participants in that formation, can see what's coming with increasing certainty. Ian Hacking is the only one I know who talks about our participation in the making real of that which we infer about the stuff out there. Anyhow, the analogy I used raises the wrong sort of questions. Suggestions for a better one would be most welcome. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 06:43:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 18 (18) (7/1/2006, 9/14/06-9/16/06) call for papers / performances Announcing BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media, hosted by the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. September 14-16, 2006. BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media is an interdisciplinary symposium on the re-invention of life in digital media. The term BIOS captures capture boundary-crossing and hybridization of human and machine. For the ancient Greeks, BIOS referred to particular forms of life rather than life in general (zoe). BIOS therefore, was the form of life specific to the development of human society and political culture. Understanding BIOS means understanding how humans adapt nature into culture. In computer science, by contrast, BIOS means something quite different: the basic input output system, the lowest level of code that allows a computer to run. BIOS is burnt into computer hardware and enables the machine to boot and run software programs and media. The two meanings of BIOS resonate with each other as basic requirements for a social system, whether in civic space or in cyberspace. BIOS will combine talks and creative work / performances. We already plan a rich and exciting schedule. Proposals are welcome on any area within the topic. Keywords/subtopics include but are not limited to: electronic literature; hypertext; embodiment; media specific analysis; net.art; digital performance; complexity and emergence; the limits of computability; posthumanism and cyborgs; virtual reality; artificial life; biotechnology; cyberfeminism; biopower; social software; ... Innovative formats and approaches are welcome. We will also consider remote/tele-presentations. Webcasts/podcasts of the event and an DVD archive will be available. Send proposals of no longer than 200 words to clc_at_mail.wvu.edu by July 1, 2006. BIOS is organized and hosted by the Center for Literary Computing, and co-organized by the Electronic Poetry Center / Digital Media Studies program at SUNY-Buffalo. The symposium is associated with the E-Poetry series of festivals and symposia. From: "Kiril Simov" Subject: Third CFPs: Workshop on Natural Language Processing Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 06:47:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 19 (19) for Metadata Extraction Natural Language Processing for Metadata Extraction (NLP4ME 2006) http://www.bultreebank.org/NLP4ME2006/ Workshop to be held on September 12th as part of the AIMSA 2006 Conference Varna, September 13-15, 2006 http://www.aimsaconference.org Workshop Motivation and Aims In spite of the massive amount of work in the last years in the area of Semantic Web, the problem of the creation of semantically annotated electronic content is still one of the main bottlenecks for the Semantic Web technology. A key technology, which is employed to overcome this problem is Natural Language Processing, because most of the content of the web is still textual. Any support for automatic and semi-automatic extraction, elicitation of metadata to such content will be of great assistance to the authors and users of the web content. The workshop aims at being a forum for researchers to present their work in the area of semantic annotation, key word extraction, practical compositional semantics etc. It will provide an opportunity to present and discuss original methods for identification of metadata in text, semantic annotation of text, dealing with multilingual content, interconnecting metadata with ontologies, etc. Topics of interest are connected with, but not limited to the following suggestions: - extraction of metadata from texts - metadata and ontologies - extraction of concepts and keyphrases from text - metadata in a multilingual environment - metadata in WWW - role of linguistic metadata in document processing - harmonization of metadata across documents - use of metadata in search, retrieval and visualization of documents - extraction of metadata from multimodal documents (including text, video, images, sounds, graphics) - metadata annotation tools - standards for metadata Important dates Deadline for workshop abstract submission: 20th May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 24th June 2006 Final version of paper: 30th July 2006 Workshop: 12th September 2006 Invited Speaker Paul Buitelaar, DFKI [...] From: Carlos Areces Subject: CFP: International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2006 (HyLo 2006) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 06:48:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 20 (20) ******************************************************************* FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2006 (HyLo 2006) Affiliated with LICS 2006 August 11, 2006, Seattle, USA ******************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic in which it is possible to directly refer to worlds/times/states or whatever the elements of the (Kripke) model are meant to represent. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it is only in the 1990s that work on them really got into its stride. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on applied grounds, because of the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant,and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals --- atomic symbols true at a unique point --- together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the behavior of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes far simpler to formulate modal tableau, resolution, and natural deduction in hybrid logic, and completeness and interpolation results can be proved of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. Hybrid logic is now a mature field, therefore a theme of special interest at this HyLo workshop will be the combination of hybrid logic with other logics, the basic methodological question being "what is the best way of hybridizing a given logic?" However, submissions in all areas of hybrid logic are welcome. The workshop HyLo 2006 is likely to be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic, for example the LICS-affiliated HyLo 2002 (http://floc02.diku.dk/HYLO) which was held as part of FLoC 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. If you are unsure whether your work is of relevance to the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organizers for more information. Contact details are given below. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). INVITED SPEAKERS: Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Lorraine, France) Title: Hybrid Logic and Temporal Semantics Valeria de Paiva (PARC, USA) Title: Constructive Hybrid Logics and Contexts Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, UK) Title: Hybrid Logics and Ontology Languages [...] From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: Re: 20.009 a better metaphor? Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 06:47:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 21 (21) Why not just horizon? both Benjamin and Virilio use it this way in varied places. On May 11, 2006, at 1:44 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]jeremy hunsinger jhuns_at_vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal From: "Gray Kochhar-Lindgren" Subject: RE: 20.009 a better metaphor? Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 06:49:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 22 (22) I quite like the metaphor--if that's what it is--of "event-horizon," used in the non-cosmological sense as an opening toward a becoming of the future. Yes, within its domain of knowledge and among a set of practitioners it has a particular meaning that should be respected, but words always move beyond their domains. In addition, the "event" and the "horizon"--what magnificent words!--have histories long before physics comes on the scene, so why keep such beauty time or domain-bound? After all, the goal of science is poetry, isn't it? Cheers, Gray Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD Interim Coordinator Center for University Studies and Programs University of Washington, Bothell [...] From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The May 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 06:43:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 23 (23) Greetings: The May 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, a project update, a workshop report, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month D-Lib features The Museum of Musical Instruments. The articles include: Why OpenURL? Ann Apps and Ross MacIntyre, The University of Manchester Using Annotations to Add Value to a Digital Library for Education Robert A. Arko and Kim A. Kastens, Columbia University; and Kathryn M. Ginger and John Weatherley, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research A Technical Approach and Distributed Model for Validation of Digital Objects Justin Littman, Library of Congress A Handful of Things: Calisphere's Themed Collections from the California Digital Library Isaac Mankita and James Harris, University of California, Berkeley; and Ellen Meltzer, University of California Office of the President The project update is: Digital Library Federation (DLF) Aquifer Project Katherine Kott, Digital Library Federation; Jon Dunn, Indiana University; Martin Halbert and Liz Milewicz, Emory University; Leslie Johnston, University of Virginia; and Sarah Shreeves, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The workshop report is: Integration of Services - Integration of Standards: Workshop Report, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague March 3, 2006 Theo van Veen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: senior humanities computing programmer job at Virginia Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 06:41:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 24 (24) Senior Humanities Computing Programmer Position Opening at U. of Virginia Senior programmer position for software development with NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship: <http://www.nines.org/>http://www.nines.org). This position will work in collaboration with project manager and software specialist to develop the Juxta tool for conducting comparative analysis on texts. Additionally, the position will develop the Ivanhoe tool with two new visualizations. Position requires object-oriented software expertise, knowledge of XML, Java Swing and Java 2D. A Masters degree is preferred but not required. Experience in software development is required. A humanities or arts-oriented computing background is preferred. The ideal candidate would have solid experience building desktop applications in Java and would posses an eagerness to develop new ways of visualizing humanities data. More information about these tools are available online at: <http://www.patacriticism.org/juxta>http://www.patacriticism.org/juxta http://www.patacriticism.org/ivanhoe Send email applications to: Jerome McGann: jjm2f_at_virginia.edu Or Duane Gran: dmg2n_at_virginia.edu 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: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Digital Medievalist 2.1 published + cfp Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:08:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 25 (25) 1) Digital Medievalist 2.1 now available I am pleased to announce the publication of the second issue of our refereed journal, the Digital Medievalist http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm. In this issue * Experimental markup in a TEI-conformant setting - Particia R. Bart * Liturgy, Drama, and the Archive: Three conversions from legacy formats to TEI XML - James Cummings * P5-MS: A general purpose tagset for manuscript description - M. J. Driscoll * Designing the Old English Newsletter bibliography database - Roy M. Liuzza * Bernard J. Muir, ed. 2004. A digital facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Junius 11. Software by Nick Kennedy. Bodleian Library Digital Texts 1. Oxford: Bodleian Library. - Murray McGillivray 2) Call for papers With the publication of Digital Medievalist 2.1, Digital Medievalist will shift over to a rolling publication. This means that accepted articles will be published as soon as they are copy-edited and proofed, rather than twice a year. Articles will be grouped into virtual volumes for archiving and referencing each December and June. We are seeking contributions on digital topics for publication in our journal. Our interest is in articles discussing the use of technology to teach or research medieval topics. Suitable topics include reports on projects or tools making innovative use of technology, research results achieved using digital tools or techniques, theoretical or practical articles on the use of digital technology in medieval studies research or pedagogy. We accept notes as well as longer articles. We are especially interested in articles on work in non-Anglophone culture, articles on innovative uses for computers in teaching, and research results produced using technology. Articles on other topics and Anglophone culture are of course also welcome. All articles are peer-reviewed by experts with appropriate specialisations in humanities computing and/or medieval studies. Our rejection rate currently stands at approximately 50%. DM also publishes reviews of tools, websites, and books/CD-ROMs. To discuss proposals for articles, recommend a work for review, or to enquire about opportunities to serve as a reviewer, please contact the general editor, daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor and Chair of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Vox +1 (403) 329-2378 Fax +1 (403) 382-7191 daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca http://www.uleth.ca/ http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: energizing inertia: the mobile metaphor Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:10:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 26 (26) Willard, You seem to want to capture an image of a mobile observer who discovers a what-has-been-occuring. You could perhaps reach for a technologically informed metaphor if you imagine a stationary observer: happenings that occupy the space "below the radar" can shift and become observable. Describing events as "off-screen" or "off-line" may meet your needs for capturing the relation between area which an apparatus can access and an area beyond. Such metaphoric uses would play upon the divide between public and private (or semi-private) spaces. Alas these suggestions lack the poetic grasp of "event horizon" whose semantic field can in some readers' minds juxtapose the "black hole" with the "black box". Your search for the adequate metaphor seems to be patterned on a _terra incognita_ model in that, as it is discursive deployed in your epistles, the "event horizon" is a space from which to hope to expect a signal though such hoping may be hoping for the all-impossible. This leads me to ask if what you are after is not a place that is unknown but one that is unknowable. Is there a plea, however sotto voce, in your marshalling of the metaphor of the "event horizon" for the preservation of a space beyond scrutiny? Is there some mocking of the trend predictors? Shifting to temporal in lieu of spatial markers, "jetztzeit" might do if a tad too messianic. But somehow in the appeal of "event horizon" there is a hint of Kantian detachment and disinterestedness in a space beyond scrutiny. A most rebellious hint that suggests that a use-value is not the only value. A space beyond perdition: where the very memory of what went there is erased. "You cann't get there from here" as they say. Yet the very imagining of such a space of loss serves what ends I know not. But some ends surely. To arrest the mobility of the observer, so that they may attend to the present? From: Matt Jensen Subject: Re: 20.014 a better metaphor Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:10:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 27 (27) Gray Kochhar-Lindgren wrote: [deleted quotation]"Light" and "year" are both magnificent words, but "light year" has a specific meaning. If you try to use "light year" to describe time, or a year of the unbearable lightness of being, you will confuse people. Or rather, they will be confused at what you intend, but they will at least be sure you don't understand what "light year" means. Cheers, Matt Jensen NewsBlip Seattle From: David Zeitlyn Subject: PhD Studentship at Kent Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:11:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 28 (28) PhD Studentship at Kent Deadline extended till 25 May 2006 Using the material culture of the Ovambo to explore cultural memory among a displaced population Outline The Powell-Cotton Ovambo collection was made in southern Angola in the 1930s. Many people asserting descent from that population now live in northern Namibia. This project will use the Powell-Cotton collection as the basis for the ethnographic exploration of the maintenance of cultural identity and social memory among Ovambo in northern Namibia. A further aspect of the research will be to explore ways in which collections of material culture can be documented and made accessible to those with connections to the collection. Applicants must have completed a first or upper second class honours degree or its equivalent, and/or a Masters degree, in Anthropology or Museology by the starting date. No prior experience of research in Africa is necessary. Starting date: 1st October 2006 To be eligible for funding, you must also fulfil ESRC requirements: EU citizens will be eligible for a full award as long as they have been resident in the UK for the previous three years. An EU Citizen who does not fulfil the residency condition will be eligible for a fees only award. Applications (including the receipt of references) must be received by 25 May 2006; interviews will be held week beginning 26 June 2006 (provisionally 26 June). For more information Contact David Zeitlyn: D.Zeitlyn_at_kent.ac.uk and see http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/postgrad/gradapply.html (for online application forms) -- Dr David Zeitlyn, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, Marlowe Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NR, UK Tel. +44 (0)1227 823360 (Direct) Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office) Fax +44 (0)1227 827289 http://lucy.kent.ac.uk/dz/ (personal) http:/www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/ http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/postgrad/gradapply.html (online application forms) From: Willard McCarty Subject: fundamentals? Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:05:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 29 (29) My colleague John Lavagnino sent me the following: [deleted quotation]His basic point, about fundamental ideas vs the latest tech, seems just right to me. But I disagree over the contents of the list of fundamentals -- I'd keep the Turing Machine on it, also Goedel's proof. I suspect that the cause of disagreement is the difference in perspectives, that of humanities computing vs that of computer science and engineering. What would you put down as the fundamental ideas we want students to remember? 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: "Hildebrand, Doug" Subject: new book: E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:13:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 30 (30) and the Humanities University of Toronto Press is pleased to announce the publication of E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory, and the Humanities by Marcel O'Gorman. E-Crit is an ambitious and provocative examination of how university scholarship, pedagogy, and curricula might be transformed to suit a digital culture. Arguing that universities were founded on the logic of print culture, O'Gorman sets out to reinvent the academic apparatus, constructing a hybrid methodology that draws on avant-garde art, deconstructive theory, cognitive science, and the work of painter and poet William Blake. For more information and to order online, visit <http://www.utppublishing.com/pubstore/merchant.ihtml?pid=8604&step=4>http://www.utppublishing.com/pubstore/merchant.ihtml?pid=8604&step=4 or call 1-800-565-9523. From: Willard McCarty Subject: requirements of the metaphor Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 08:18:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 31 (31) Francois Lachance's questioning, in Humanist 20.017, causes me to reflect further on the job I want a metaphor of future-sight to do, specifically to ask myself how I think humanities computing is constructing its near, not quite predictable future. In phrasing the question that way I am suggesting that "the future" is already shaped, made a particular kind of thing, by the context within which it is imagined. And by asserting such a strong role for context I am suggesting further that "future" is one of those terms, like "theory", "imagination" or "realism", which for convenience we use as if they referred to some one thing but which on close examination (seldom conducted) we realize are more placeholders for what particular contexts need them to be. Yes, all words are like that to some degree, but words having to do with mental phenomena would appear to be so receptive that they belong in a class of their own. When, for example Descartes writes in his Discourse on Method (1637) that, "many people... never lift their minds above sensible things", that they are "so accustomed to consider nothing except by imagining it (which is a way of thinking appropriate for material things)", that "everything unimaginable seems to them unintelligible", he is speaking of an idea of 'the' imagination radically different from our own. Having recently read a few histories of what is presumed to be a singular thing called imagination, some philosophies of a quite different singular thing with the same name, several literary-critical assessments and so on, I am forced to conclude that there is a very loosely grouped gaggle of imaginations one can cull from across time and disciplinary space, and that if in fact we can speak of a grouping at all, it is functionally. "Imagination" is (as Jerry Fodor says in Modularity of Mind) whatever *does* X. The job, then, is to ask what X might be. And the way I am currently trying to get at X is by looking at how its opposite is conceived in any given instance. Another example. As epigraph to his article "Rethinking Bazin: Ontology and Realist Aesthetics" (Critical Inquiry 32 (2006): 443-81, Daniel Morgan quotes Bazin's Jean Renoir (1973), p. 85: The word "realism" as it is commonly used does not have an absolute and clear meaning, so much as it indicates a certain tendency toward the faithful rendering of reality on film. Given that this movement toward the real can take a thousand different routes, the apologia for "realism" per se, strictly speaking, means nothing at all. The movement is valuable only insofar as it brings increased meaning (itself an abstraction) to what is created. Note here: "movement toward the real". So, I suggest, with the future-ing of humanities computing. To get an idea of this future we look, of course, to the past, where examples school us as to the conflicting roles of techno-economic contingencies (as with the QWERTY keyboard), human desires, cultural mythologies and so forth. The best we can do, I suppose, is then to take these variables, read their current values and attempt to estimate the trajectory of our practice. That is doing future. The problem with a metaphorical horizon seen as one walks metaphorically along is that it's more or less the same for all walkers, unless we start to play with the conditions of seeing, e.g. in a mist or fog, throw in a highly variable landscape and so forth. Edsger Dijkstra remarks in Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing (ed. Denning and Metcalfe) that attempting to see into the future that far hardly seems sane, yet educators do it all the time: "when designing our courses, we do dare to decide what to teach and what to ignore, and we do this for the benefit of students, many of whom will still be active forty to fifty years from now. Clearly, some vision of the next half century of computing science is operational" (p. 59). I like his metaphor very much: "when building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide" (p. 60). Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.19 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 11:41:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 32 (32) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 19 May 19, 2006 - May 22, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: THE WANING IMPORTANCE OF CATEGORIZATION Espen Andersen of the Norwegian School of Management says: "The Internet is the fastest medium of them all, swarming with updates, links and searchability. Influence is determined by its readers, who, using dialogue and references, feed priorities to the search engines. Media companies who do not shape their product to this evolution will gradually lose their ability to decide what is important." [Andersen's last essay for Ubiquity was the very popular "Why You Should Choose Math in High School <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i11_math.html>" For this week's Ubiquity go to <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/>. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 19 (May 19, 2006 - May 22, 2006) Go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i19_waning.html From: "Prof. Martin Charles Golumbic" Subject: Haifa-Sorbonne Workshop on Computational Linguistics May 18 Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:23:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 33 (33) Reminder: The Caesarea Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science cordially invites the research community to attend its "Haifa-Sorbonne Workshop on Computational Linguistics". Thursday, May 18, 2006, 9:30 - 17:00 University of Haifa, Education and Sciences Building, CRI Room 570. For the Program, visit our website, http://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/events/2006/sorbon/sorbonne.php This workshop is being held within the new academic cooperation agreement between the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of Haifa, to be signed the following day. _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol From: "James J. O'Donnell" Subject: A splendid evening Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:24:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 34 (34) Willard (for the list), The fifth annual Richard W. Lyman Award was presented this evening, as you may recall, to one Willard McCarty of King's College London, in recognition of his lifetime achievement (so far) in the domain of humanities computing. He follows Jerry McGann, Roy Rosenzweig, Robert Englund, and John Unsworth in this honor. The award, which includes a substantial monetary recognition, is administered by the National Humanities Center, on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation, which made the original grant in honor of its former president, R.W. Lyman. The selection committee was chaired, as you may recall, by myself, as a sometime trustee of the National Humanities Center, and included the other Lyman winners as well as a palaeographer, a president, and another provost. I write not to spread the news, but to describe a memorable evening -- for the attendance. Among others, we had the pleasure of seeing Bob Hollander of Princeton, source of the Dartmouth Dante Project and the Princeton Dante Project, two complimentary resources of immense value and now some antiquity (the DDP -- comprising the history of formal commentary on the Divine Commedia with full texts of every major commentary back to the fourteenth century) and Joe Raben, emeritus of CUNY and both founding president of Association for Computing in the Humanities and founding editor of the journal Computers in the Humanities (when I asked him when he got into humanities computing, he said "1962", which is enough to make all of us feel young), and a fair galaxy of other contemporary worthies from across the academic community. Your own acceptance remarks, suitably illustrated from Blake and Bunyan, inter alios, reminded me that your removal to London has deprived many of us of the pleasure of hearing you *speak* as often as a kinder -- or more intelligently designing -- deity would have allowed -- ever articulate, ever allusive, ever learned, ever sage. That we discovered in the bargain that you do indeed have a mother -- appropriately beaming -- and did not spring full-blown from the head of Zeus as the other evidence would have suggested was one of only many pleasures of the evening. In the course of preparing my own remarks, I did some archive-trawling and found that indeed I am young in another way, having made my first intervention on Humanist when the list was already two and a half years old, in August of 1989, and that I did so with unusual and unconscious appreciation of the symbolism of dates, choosing the Feast of St. Augustine for the actual day. In doing so it was pleasant to be reminded of the Good Old Days and to have a very Good New Day in the bargain. To paraphrase and contort Yogi, thanks for making this day necessary, old friend. Jim O'Donnell Georgetown From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: a joint project on verbs of motion in different styles Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:23:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 35 (35) Dear Humanist colleagues, I guess we could launch a joint project on the use of the verbs of motion, state, etc in Russian. I hope their frequency of occurrence can distinguish different styles: poetry, drama, fiction, etc. If you have some additional remarks or proposals, please contact me : yutamb_at_mail.ru Looking forward to hearing from you soon about our joint project to yutamb_at_mail.ru Please, do not send attachments since they cannot be opened by my computer system, I can read only simple txt messages. Be well, remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: Codework on plain_text Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:22:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 36 (36) New and updated writings on Codework on the plain_text zwiki [concerned with the agency and programming of writing technologies]. Read, respond, post. http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/projects/plaintext_tools/FrontPage From: Willard McCarty Subject: fundamentals? Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:05:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 37 (37) My colleague John Lavagnino sent me the following: [deleted quotation]His basic point, about fundamental ideas vs the latest tech, seems just right to me. But I disagree over the contents of the list of fundamentals -- I'd keep the Turing Machine on it, also Goedel's proof. I suspect that the cause of disagreement is the difference in perspectives, that of humanities computing vs that of computer science and engineering. What would you put down as the fundamental ideas we want students to remember? 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: B Tommie Usdin Subject: Extreme Markup Languages 2006 Program Posted! Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:35:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 38 (38) The program for Extreme Markup Languages 2006 is now available at: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2006/e06-at-a-glance.html Topics at Extreme 2006 will range from XSLT, RDF, XPath, Ropic Maps, XML schema languages, overlap, SGML, and metadata to design and promulgation of tag sets. Presentations that may be of particular interest to the participants in Humanist include: "Tag set promulgation panel" Jeff Beck, Jon Bosak, Patrick Durusau, Daniel Pitti, Norm Walsh "MultiX: an XML-based formalism to encode multi-structured documents" by Nouredinne Chatti, Sylvie Calabretto, Jean Marie Pinon "Rabbit/duck grammars: a validation method for overlapping structures" by C.M. Sperberg-McQueen "From Metadata to personal semantic webs" by Eric Freese "Metadata enrichment for digital preservation" by David Dubin, Joel Plutchak & Joe Futrelle "Conveying meaning through space and time using XML: Semantics of interoperability and persistence" by Ann Wrightson Pre-conference tutorials that may be of particular interest to Humanist participants include: "Introduction to Open Document Format" by J. David Eisenberg "XML Schema Languages" by John Cowan "Introduction to XPath 2.0 (for those who know XPath 1.0)" by Wendell= A. Piez and Deborah A. Lapeyre "Introduction to XSLT 2.0" by Norman Walsh ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Extreme is an open marketplace of theories about markup and all the things that they support or that support them: the difficult cases in publishing, linguistics, transformation, searching, indexing, storage and retrieval, the things you wish you could do in XML so much that you're thinking of creating your own markup system. At Extreme, markup enthusiasts gather each year to trade in ideas, not to convince management to buy new stuff. Extreme actively seeks controversy, not just the same old applications. WHEN: August 7-11, 2006 WHERE: Montr=E9al, Canada SPONSOR: IDEAlliance General information on Extreme: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/ Registration: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2006/registration.asp --=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Extreme Markup Languages 2006 mailto:extreme_at_mulberrytech.com August 7-11, 2006 http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme Montreal, Canada http://www.extrememarkup.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: ICARA2006_at_massey.ac.nz Subject: CFP: Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2006) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:37:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 39 (39) CALL FOR PAPERS Selected papers will be considered for publication in an issue titled Autonomous Robots and Agents which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the book series Studies in Computational Intelligence in June 2007. The 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2006) Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand 11th December 2006 (Tutorials) 12th-14th December 2006 (Paper Sessions) http://icara.massey.ac.nz/ Keynote addresses and tutorials by Prof. Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada and Prof. Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, is pleased to announce that the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2006) will be held in Palmerston North, New Zealand from 12th to 14th December 2006. ICARA 2006 is intended to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the area of autonomous robotics and agents. ICARA 2006 will include keynote addresses by eminent scientists as well as special, regular and poster sessions. All papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of a full length manuscript and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. The review process will be double blind. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Topics will include, but are not limited to, the following: Intelligent Control DNA Computing for autonomous agents Bio-robotics, Bio-Mechatronics Implantable sensors for Robotic Applications Artificial Intelligence in Bio-systems Autonomous Systems Multi-Agent Collaborative Systems (MACS) Robotics, Humanoids Smart Sensors and Sensor Fusion Cooperative Robotics Robot Soccer Systems Entertainment Robotics Human Robot Interface Distributed Intelligent Control Systems Real Time Supervisory Control Embedded Systems Educational Technology Fuzzy Systems, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Biped and Humanoid Robots Rough Sets, Data Mining Navigation and Path Planning Genetic Algorithm (GA) Evolutionary Computation (EC) Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms Real Time Evolutionary Computation Evolutionary Systems and Algorithms Vision Systems for Robotics Artificial Neural Networks in Bio-robotics [...] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.20 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:35:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 40 (40) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 20 May 23, 2006 - May 29, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: 1) NET NEUTRALITY 2) MICROPROCESSORS M.E. Kabay reviews the politics relevant to the "Net Neutrality" debate in Congress, and asks: Is there cause for alarm? Go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i20_neutrality.html. The second paper, by V.Lalith Kumar and S.T.I.C Garividi, considers embedded microprocessor-based relays for the protection of electrical systems. Go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i20_microprocessors.html. For this week's Ubiquity go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 20 (May 23, 2006 - May 29, 2006) From: Willard McCarty Subject: possibly irrelevant conferences &c Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:59:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 41 (41) It occurs to me that some Humanists may be puzzled if not annoyed at the number of conference announcements which have little to do with humanities computing, or at least little directly. When, for example, a long-time member of this group drops out with a comment about the decreasing relevance of Humanist's content, I pay attention and wonder what he or she means, actually. Not that I believe him or her necessarily, but clues are clues. In the old days, people used to mutter that there was TOO MUCH E-MAIL before they shuffled off, and that proved a very interesting and valuable clue toward the improvement of Humanist. But I had to puzzle out what "too much" was a symptom of. What, I wonder now, does the claim of irrelevance indicate? The delete key is still where it always has been, more or less. Anyhow, an explanation with a query may be in order for those here to hear it. In my own work, esp in the last few years, I've discovered that much is happening, esp in computer science and in its nearest neighbours, which is either helpful to us or which deserves our critical commentary. I like to have information about the currently hot topics running by me so that I can have a sense of what our colleagues are up to, even if I sometimes regard their attention as misplaced. I may of course be proved wrong, but for me the primary value of this background chatter is to sharpen or direct my critical focus. I take my own need for this chatter to be widely shared by our loose community. Is this a mistake? I would also point to the fact that the community is indeed very loosely bounded. All sorts inhabit this metaphorical space, and that makes it what it is. No need, I say, for us to be singing from the same hymn-sheet. Quite the opposite. What say you? 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: "Princeton University LISTSERV Server (14.5)" Subject: Communication between Human and Artificial Agents Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:41:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 42 (42) CALL FOR PAPERS [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] Workshop on COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HUMAN AND ARTIFICIAL AGENTS http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke/IAT06Workshop/workshop.html as part of the The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-06) 18-22 December 2006, Hong Kong http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/iat/ ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The ability to communicate in a complex manner with others, to exchange ideas and thoughts, to convey factual information as well as wishes, goals, and plans, to issue commands, instructions and questions, and to express emotions and interact on a social level, is one of the most important and distinguishing aspects of humankind. If artificial agents want to progress to the next level, and truely and deeply interact with humans, they must possess expanded communicative abilities. Agent communication languages, like ACL and KQML, have been a focus of attention in recent years. They have been shown to be effective for communication among agents in multi-agent systems, or for simple human-agent interaction, but they are far from reflecting the complexity of human communication. Architectures for agents and agent systems designed so far include representations of mental states, believes and intentions, sensory information, formal representations of actions and action ontologies, and the integration of context and situation information, which serve as a basis for implementing intelligent agent behavior and communication among agents, but they still lack an in-depth, elaborate connection to human communication skills, regarding form and content. Interdisciplinary research integrating methods and models from linguistics, psychology, philosophy, and other areas with computer science, has provided some basis for the extension of artificial agents and their "human" characteristics and abilities. Building on the approaches developed so far, this workshop focuses on new methods and models to describe and implement communication between human and artificial agents, in all forms and on all levels. The ultimate goal of this endeavour is to bridge the gap between the richness, complexity and expressiveness of human communication, and the (in)ability of artificial agents to deal with it and to (inter) act adequately within cooperation with humans. Topic Areas: * models of communicative behaviour, communication languages * natural language processing, interpretation of verbal expressions by agents * dialog structures * action representation, action theory, action ontology * knowledge representation, ontologies * context, including physical, spatial, temporal and semantic context * gestures and facial expressions * multi-modal communication * speech and speech characteristics in communication * cooperative behaviour, negotiation, judgement * social norms and roles, social behaviours, social interaction * learning of interactive behaviours, learning in interactions, imitation learning * distant communication, wireless communication * others [...] From: Carlos Areces Subject: Conference on Logic, Computability and Randomness, Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:32:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 43 (43) Buenos Aires, January 10-13, 2007 Conference on Logic, Computability and Randomness 2007 January 10 to 13, 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.dc.uba.ar/people/logic2007/ The theme of the conference will be algorithmic randomness and related topics in logic, computability and complexity. The program will consist of invited talks, contributed talks and discussions. The conference will be held at Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. The meeting is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic. There is no registration fee. Student members of the ASL can apply for travel grants (the approval process takes a few weeks). Submissions Abstracts of contributed talks should be sent by October 1st 2006, to logic2007_at_dc.uba.ar. Plenary Speakers Eric Allender (Rutgers University) Roberto Cignoli (CONICET, Argentina) Serge Grigorieff (Universite Paris 7) -to be confirmed- Joos Heintz (University of Buenos Aires / University of Cantabria) Carl Jockusch (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Antonin Kucera (Charles University, Prague) Steffen Lempp (University of Wisconsin) Wolfgang Merkle (University of Heidelberg) Andre Nies (University of Auckland) -to be confirmed- Joseph S. Miller (University Connecticut) Jan Reimann (University of Heidelberg) Claus-Peter Schnorr (University of Frankfurt am Main) Theodore Slaman (University of California) Sebastiaan Terwijn (Technical University of Vienna) Program Committee Rod Downey (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand) Denis Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago, USA) Veronica Becher (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Local Organizers Veronica Becher, Santiago Figueira, Daniel Gorin, Sergio Mera, Mariano Perez Rodriguez. ------------------------------------------------------------- -- Carlos Eduardo Areces INRIA Lorraine INRIA Lorraine. 615, rue du Jardin Botanique 54602 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France phone : +33 (0)3 54 95 84 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: Charles Ess Subject: ECAP'06 - Program now online Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:33:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 44 (44) Dear Humanists, With apologies for duplications and cross-postings - please distribute to appropriate lists and colleagues: On behalf of the Program Committee for ECAP'06, we are very pleased to announce that the conference program is now available on the conference website, - then follow the link on the left-hand side of the page to "Conference Program" As a reminder: COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY E-CAP 2006_at_NTNU Norway Norwegian University of Science and Technology Dragvoll Campus, Trondheim, Norway, June 22-24, 2006 Conference Co-Chairs: Charles Ess (Drury University / NTNU): May Thorseth (NTNU): http://www.eu-cap.org E-CAP is the European conference on Computing and Philosophy, the European affiliate of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP, www.iacap.org). E-CAP is organized in cooperation with the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) E-CAP is the premier European venue for current research, reflection, and lively discussion of all aspects of the "computational turn" that has emerged over the past several decades, and continues to expand and develop as a result of the multiple interactions between philosophy and computing. The "culture" of E-CAP, like its sister CAP conferences in North America and Asia-Pacific, discourages paper reading - and stresses instead the presentation of ideas and lively discussion, along with informal networking. We are very pleased with the quality and scope of the program of presentations now established for ECAP'06 - we believe you will find it of compelling interest indeed! On behalf of the Program Committee and presenting authors, we invite your participation in ECAP'06. - Charles Ess (co-chair) - May Thorseth (co-chair) - Johnny S=F8raker (local coordinator) Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: fomi Subject: CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - Second Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:34:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 45 (45) International Workshop *********************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Second International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi December 14-15, 2006 University of Trento ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized by: - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento - University of Trento - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi ******************************************************** Following the great success of the previous edition, we are glad to invite you to attend the second Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop (FOMI 2006). Description =========== FOMI aims to become an international forum where researchers in different disciplines and practitioners of various industry sectors meet to analyze and discuss issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. It is nowadays widely understood that the semantic dimension and model driven approaches play an important role not only in research fields but also in networked economy. In particular, it has emerged that semantic based applications are relevant in distributed systems such as networked organizations, organizational networks, and in distributed knowledge management. Namely, these knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same worldwide organization. The business world also considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. In all these fields, a new emerging trend is to evaluate the interdependencies between theories and methods of formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs of enterprise organizations. A typical example of this is the evaluation of the benefits that huge organizations can obtain by implementing ontology based systems. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. ******************************************************** Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprize modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology effectiveness; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance; - ontologies and e-government. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. [...] From: "Ebook Library (EBL)" Subject: Evening reception with EBL at ALA New Orleans Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:37:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 46 (46) EBL [Ebook Library] invites you to join us at ALA=20 [American Library Association Conference] for an=20 evening reception. Come meet the EBL team,=20 mingle with colleagues, and learn about the=20 exciting developments in progress at EBL for the forthcoming year. Omni Royal Orleans Hotel Royal Garden Terrace Sunday, June 25, 2006 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm The event will include cocktails, refreshments,=20 and hors d'oeuvres. Rsvp to Alix Vance at=20 alix.vance_at_eblib.com. If unable to attend, please visit us at exhibit=20 #3626 in the exposition hall, June 24th - 27th. We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans! Coming Events <http://rd.bcentral.com/?ID=3D4097346&s=3D9254244>Society for Scholarly= Publishing Crystal Gateway Marriott Arlington, VA June 7th - June 9th <http://rd.bcentral.com/?ID=3D4097345&s=3D9254244>SLA Annual Conference 2006 Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore, MD June 11th - June 13th <http://rd.bcentral.com/?ID=3D4097344&s=3D9254244>ALA Annual Conference =96= 2006 Morial Convention Center New Orleans, LA June 24th - June 27th From: ELPUB 2006 Subject: ELPUB 2006: Celebrate 10 years of ElPub conferences Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 08:00:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 47 (47) We're happy to inform you that the Final Programme is online now - http://www.elpub.net The conference promises interesting presentations and fruitful discussions. Furthermore, Herbert van de Sompel and Dan Matei will present keynotes. *** Bansko, Bulgaria *** June 14-16 2006 *** ELPUB 2006 - 10 Sessions - 36 papers - 11 posters - 2 demonstrations *** Closing session, offering views for the future of Electronic Publishing *** From: Lou Burnard Subject: Oxford Workshop on Advanced Text Encoding with TEI P5 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:55:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 48 (48) Reply-To: Lou Burnard To: TEI-L_at_listserv.brown.edu Registration is now open for a three-day workshop on Advanced Text Encoding and Teaching using TEI P5. The Workshop will be held at Oxford University Computing Services, from Sept 18th to 20th. See http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2006-09-methNet/ for further details. The Workshop is intended for trainers and advanced users of text encoding methods in the Arts and Humanities. We will try to combine an investigation of current training methods with an exposition of the full range of capabilities now available in TEI P5, with a view to developing generic training materials which can subsequently be made available via the AHRC ICT Methods Network, which is sponsoring the event. In addition to the Oxford team (Rahtz, Cummings, and Burnard), the Workshop will be taught by three internationally known experts in the domain: Julia Flanders (Brown University); Edward Vanhoutte (Royal Flemish Academy); Laurent Romary (Max Planck Inst, Berlin). Participation in the workshop is free of charge, but the number of places available is strictly limited. Please visit the website at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2006-09-methNet/ *now* to register your interest -- places will be allocated during July. Sebastian Rahtz, James Cummings, and Lou Burnard -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 20.030 possibly irrelevant conferences &c Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:10:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 49 (49) At 09.05 24/05/2006, you wrote: [deleted quotation]i like to get many conferences announcements, as long they are currently hot topics giving me the sense of what's happening in the humanities computing field and in the other nearest fields. once we could be happy to limit ourselves to the very subject of humanities computing but now this same subject has grown in dimensions and wisdom and so it is essential to know what's happening nearby. this said, when i'm in a hurry i read only few humanist messages, which i select by subject. this is obvious, but it is a consequence of the wealth of content of humanist: what i cannot read can be read and become useful for another fellow humanist. maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Universit=E0 del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: Patricia J. Moran Subject: possibly irrelevant conferences &c Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:14:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 50 (50) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 30. ". . . I like to have information about the currently hot topics running by me so that I can have a sense of what our colleagues are up to, even if I sometimes regard their attention as misplaced. I may of course be proved wrong, but for me the primary value of this background chatter is to sharpen or direct my critical focus. I take my own need for this chatter to be widely shared by our loose community. . .I would also point to the fact that the community is indeed very loosely bounded. All sorts inhabit this metaphorical space, and that makes it what it is. . ." (WM, UK, 5/24/06) I agree with WM. I not only like to have, but need, a sense of what the world is up to. I seek it in physical public places, such as conferences, as well as in virtual ones. I find background chatter stimulating, though others find it bothersome. Some of my most productive editing and writing has been done in mundane food courts. I can never predict when some linguistic variant, some technological snippet, or some odd behavior exhibited by passing shoppers will trigger an epiphany. These people enter my space (the mall) briefly, cause a kind of splitting off (akin toVirginia Woolf's theoretical feminist double vision), and disappear. Their presence teases me to create new fictions (new metaphorical spaces), as Woolf's train-riding protagonist did in An Unwritten Novel. [Woolf's character manufactured an entire imaginary life for a fellow passenger.] Humanities involves the arts--philosophy, music. . .subjectivity! Computing involves the sciences--numbers, machines. . .objectivity. Humanities Computing is where they overlap. Glory in it and its many conferences, or allow yourself the thrill of taming the virtual frontier by using the delete button. Patricia J. Moran, MS Ph.D. Candidate, FSU 114 STB, College of Education Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA Cell: 850-240-2460 Messages in COE: (850) 644-1598 From: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren Subject: RE: 20.030 possibly irrelevant conferences &c Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:15:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 51 (51) All: I love background noise; the chaos from which a few points of foci emerge. Cloud-points and black-holes; mixed and missed metaphors; other people talking about "ontology" and "objects" in ways I'm unfamiliar with. So, my vote is to keep the edges turning outward. Cheers, Gray From: Francois Lachance Subject: irreverant relevancy Re: 20.030 possibly irrelevant Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:16:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 52 (52) conferences &c Willard I was intrigued by the use of "metaphorical" in your characterization of a diecticly-indicated space. [deleted quotation]So I went to a "hymn book" online and lo found missing sheets. By "hymn book" I mean an online dictionary. The interface was splendid in picking up the single word to search and returning an entry from a now public domain dictionary. However the interface didn't allow a nice quick link to the material that would explain the abbreviations used in the entry returned. The was not even a link to the prefatory material of the edition. And yes I tried Project Gutenberg but the edition there transcribed from print omits the material. One could of course, as a traverser of metamorphizing space, send out a call and receive perhaps a scan of the key to unlocking the mystery of the abbreviations. I relate this episode in living via the screen not just to sound a discordant note but also to suggest that an echo-gatherer might be a suitable function to add to the repetoire of Humanist postings. By this I mean a posting that picks up relevant (or related) threads from the archive. Yes, the archive is available to all. However there is value in watching someone comb the archive esp. in observing the play of shifting terminology. [e.g. onomastics, names, monikers, epithets, handles] And so "relevance" returns some 260 hits from the Humanist archives. "Relevance" plus" list returns 107 or so. The WWW interface doesn't entertain the possibility of "relevance NEAR list". If I recall correctly there was a popluar search engine by the name of Altavista that was capable of such feats ["Altavista" mentioned in some 22 postings to Humanist; "google", 151]. I don't want to rehash search engine shortcomings. New topic: Tag clouds. "Tag clouds" prior to 2006 no mention on Humanist. "Clouds" some 22 mentions. "Tag" I leave the gentle reader to count. Francois Lachance From: vogel_at_cs.tcd.ie (Carl Vogel) Subject: PhD Research Funding, Trinity College, University of Dublin Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:41:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 53 (53) [... apologies for multiple postings ...] 2 Phd Research Positions in Automatic Text Classification. The Science Foundation Ireland Research Frontiers Programme has provided funding for two three year PhD research positions for a project in extending existing implementations and developing and testing new techniques for text classification. The research is to include accompanying experimentation to quantify the reliability and validity of the techniques given a range of corpus types. Application problems may include authorship identification, spam filtering, fraud detection, estimation of semantic similarity and dissimilarity across texts, among other possibilities. The research is to be conducted within the Computational Linguistics Group in the Intelligent Systems Cluster of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, under the supervision of Carl Vogel. (see http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/clg) Candidates should possess undergraduate honors in computational linguistics, cognitive science, computer science, statistics or another closely related discipline. Applicants with strong alternative undergraduate qualifications but significant relevant postgraduate experience will also be considered. Successful applicants will contribute to the research project and to the intellectual life of the Dublin research community. The research stipend will be c.22,000 euro per annum (inclusive of College fees c. 4.3K for EU applicants 9.3K for non-EU candidates; see the college website given below for exact figures). The project will commence on September 1, 2006. Applicants must satisfy the general graduate studies entry requirements of Trinity College Dublin. Application forms and information about TCD is available here: http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/ Informal inquiries can be made to Carl Vogel via email: vogel_at_tcd.ie Applications received before June 15, 2006 will receive fullest consideration. Dr. Carl Vogel Centre for Computing and Language Studies Department of Computer Science Trinity College Dublin vogel_at_tcd.ie From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: irreverant relevancy Re: 20.030 possibly irrelevant Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:43:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 54 (54) conferences &c Willard I was intrigued by the use of "metaphorical" in your characterization of a diecticly-indicated space. [deleted quotation]So I went to a "hymn book" online and lo found missing sheets. By "hymn book" I mean an online dictionary. The interface was splendid in picking up the single word to search and returning an entry from a now public domain dictionary. However the interface didn't allow a nice quick link to the material that would explain the abbreviations used in the entry returned. The was not even a link to the prefatory material of the edition. And yes I tried Project Gutenberg but the edition there transcribed from print omits the material. One could of course, as a traverser of metamorphizing space, send out a call and receive perhaps a scan of the key to unlocking the mystery of the abbreviations. I relate this episode in living via the screen not just to sound a discordant note but also to suggest that an echo-gatherer might be a suitable function to add to the repetoire of Humanist postings. By this I mean a posting that picks up relevant (or related) threads from the archive. Yes, the archive is available to all. However there is value in watching someone comb the archive esp. in observing the play of shifting terminology. [e.g. onomastics, names, monikers, epithets, handles] And so "relevance" returns some 260 hits from the Humanist archives. "Relevance" plus" list returns 107 or so. The WWW interface doesn't entertain the possibility of "relevance NEAR list". If I recall correctly there was a popluar search engine by the name of Altavista that was capable of such feats ["Altavista" mentioned in some 22 postings to Humanist; "google", 151]. I don't want to rehash search engine shortcomings. New topic: Tag clouds. "Tag clouds" prior to 2006 no mention on Humanist. "Clouds" some 22 mentions. "Tag" I leave the gentle reader to count. From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: 19.672 'information' in communications theory Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:46:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 55 (55) and in philosophy Willard You asked about works that broached the topic of the spread of the concept and term "information". Rudolf Arnheim's small book _Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order_ (University of California Press, 1971) is perhaps worth adding to the pile. Fair warning it might hurt (but not harm) the student who would want to zip through its 56 pages plus illustrations and notes. This passage though not characteristic of the whole will give you and other readers a taste of its very Socratic style: The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory. here order is described as the carrier of information, because information is defined as the opposite of entropy, and entropy is a measure of disorder. To transmit information means to induce order. This sounds reasonable enough. Next, since entropy grows with the probability of a state of affairs, information does the opposite: it increases with its improbability. The less likely an event is to happen, the more information does its occurrence represent. This again seems reasonable. Now what sort of sequence of events will be least predicatable and therefore carry a maximum of information? Obviously a totally disordered one, since when we are confronted with chaos we can never predict what will happen next. The conclusion is that total disorder provides a maximum of information; and since information is measured by order, a maximum of order is conveyed by a maximum of disorder. Obviously, this is a Babylonian muddle. Somebody or something has confounded our language. Took me many a rereading to see just what pivots on the contention that "with chaos we can never predict". We can predict. We can even predict what will happen. We can predict what will happen next. What we cannot predict is whether or not the prediction will be judged retrospectively as being successful. Order has nothing to do with prediction. I can predict heads or tails in a coin toss. I can only verify the match between prediction and actuality after the coin toss. None of this challenges Arnheim's description of the muddle surrounding the various uses of the term "information". It does however open upon considerations of temporality and computing. [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: What to do with a Million Books: Chicago Colloquium Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:53:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 56 (56) on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (2006) [From Arno Bosse ] What to do with a Million Books: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science Sponsored by the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In the wake of recent large-scale digitization projects, aimed at providing universal access to the world's libraries, humanities scholars and computer scientists find themselves newly challenged to make these resources functional and meaningful. As Gregory Crane recently pointed out (1), digital access to "a million books" confronts us with the need to provide viable solutions to a range of difficult technical problems: analog to digital conversion, machine translation, information retrieval and data mining, to name a few. But mass digitization leads not just to problems of scale. A key goal is to catalyze the development of new computational tools for context-sensitive analysis. If we are to build systems to usefully interrogate massive text collections for meaning, we will thus need to draw not only on the technical expertise of computer scientists but also learn from the long traditions of self-reflective, inter-disciplinary inquiry practiced by humanist scholars. If we do not, we run the risk of having our interaction with these resources defined by purely technical and commercial interests. In addition, computer scientists may also enable humanities scholars to interact with texts in novel ways, particularly as linguistic, visual, and statistical processing provide us with new modes of reading, visualization, and understanding. The book, as the locus of our knowledge, has long been at the center of discussions in digital humanities. But as mass digitization efforts accelerate the shift from a print-culture to a networked digital-culture, it will become increasingly necessary to pay more attention to how the notion of a text itself is being re-constituted collectively. This shift makes evident the necessity for humanities scholars to enter into a dialogue with computer scientists to understand the new language of open standards, queries, visualization and social networks. Digitizing "a million books" is not only a problem for computer scientists. Tomorrow, a million scholars will have to re-evaluate their notions of archive, textuality and materiality in the wake of these developments. Our familiar modes of scholarly edition, analysis, interpretation and publication are being challenged and transformed in a world where blogs and wikis are busy creating new knowledge and folksonomies are shaping our access to online archives. How will the humanities scholar and the computer scientist find ways to collaborate in the "Age of Google?" The goal of this colloquium is to bring together scholars and researchers in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry, and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. (1) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/crane/03crane.html Date: November 5th & 6th, 2006 Location: The University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Keynote Speakers: Ben Shneiderman is Professor in the Department of Computer Science, founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland. He is a leading expert in human-computer interaction and information visualization and has published extensively in these and related fields. John Unsworth is Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, he was on the faculty at the University of Virginia where he also led the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. He has published widely in the field of Digital Humanities and was the recipient last year of the Lyman Award for scholarship in technology and humanities. Program Committee: Prof. Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago Dr. Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Prof. Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University Dr. Mark Olsen, Associate Director, The ARTFL Project, University of Chicago Prof. Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology Prof. Wai Gen Yee, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology Call for Participation: Participation in the colloquium is open to all. We welcome submissions for: 1. Paper presentations (20 minute maximum) 2. Poster sessions 3. Software demonstrations Suggested submission topics: * Representing text genealogies and variance * Automatic extraction and analysis of natural language style elements * Visualization of large corpus search results * The materiality of the digital text * Interpreting symbols: textual exegesis and game playing * Mashup: APIs for integrating discrete information resources * Intelligent Documents * Community based tagging / folksonomies * Massively scalable text search and summaries * Distributed editing & annotation tools * Polyglot Machines: Computerized translation * Seeing not reading: visual representations of literary texts * Schemas for scholars: field and period specific ontologies for the humanities * Context sensitive text search * Towards a digital hermeneutics: data mining and pattern finding Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page maximum) abstract in either PDF or MS Word format to dhcs-submissions_at_listhost.uchicago.edu. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: August 15th Notification of Acceptance: September 15th Full Program Announcement: September 15th Contact Info: General Inquiries: dhcs-conference_at_listhost.uchicago.edu Organizational Committee: Mark Olsen, mark_at_gide.uchicago.edu, Associate Director, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago. Catherine Mardikes, mardikes_at_uchicago.edu, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago. Arno Bosse, abosse_at_uchicago.edu, Director of Technology, Humanities Division, University of Chicago. Shlomo Argamon, argamon_at_iit.edu, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology. From: "Marinos Ioannides" Subject: INVITATION and 2nd CALL - International Conference Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:54:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 57 (57) on e-Documentation in Cultural Heritage in Cyprus Dear Madame/Sir, The island of Cyprus and the organizing committee are pleased to announce a joint conference to be held from the 30th of October to the 4th of November, 2006 focused on building regional capacity in Cultural Heritage www.cipa2006.org : "The e-volution of Information Technology in Cultural Heritage, Where Hi-Tech Touches the Past: Risks and Challenges for the 21st Century". A joint event for the exchange and sharing of know-how in the areas of Cultural Heritage (CH) and Information Technology (IT) focusing on e-documentation and Computer Graphics: - The 37th CIPA International Workshop on e-Documentation and Standardisation in Cultural Heritage (http://cipa.icomos.org ) - The 7th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. - The 4th Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (http://www.eg.org ) - The 1st Euro-Med Conference on IT in Cultural Heritage. - EPOCH General Assembly and EPOCH SME meeting (http://www.epoch-net.org/ ) - The 6th RecorDIM Roundtable (http://extranet.getty.edu/recordim/ ) It is the first time that several organizations have decided to join together in order to create an optimal environment for the discussion and explanation of new technologies, exchange of modern ideas and in general to allow the transfer of knowledge between a maximum number of professionals and academics during one common time period. We would appreciate it if you would distribute this announcement to any interested colleagues. We hope you find this 2006 joint conference to be of interest and look forward to seeing you in Cyprus! For questions or requests for additional information, please visit our website: www.cipa2006.org or www.vast2006.org Best regards, Marinos Ioannides Email: chairman_at_cipa2006.org www.cipa2006.org From: Andrew Brown Subject: Biographical authorities Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:47:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 58 (58) Working on a number of related text databases for publication on the web, I would like to link our persons table(s) through to some sort of permanent authority, and/or allow for the attribution to each entry of an established number, universally recognised. Are there any moves towards a union catalogue of people? If not, can I do better than a major library authority file? Given that most of our material is related to France, that of the BNF would be the obvious choice, and it has the great virtue of being publicly accessible. Am I right to assume that the reference numbers of the BNF entries have no wider relevance, and that every library has its own number for Shakespeare? (WBIS, ODNB and other commercial projects do not fit the bill: the records need to be freely available.) AB From: Helen C. Agüera Subject: NEH Preservation and Access grants Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:56:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 59 (59) The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities (an independent federal agency of the United States government) will be accepting applications for Reference Materials Grants and Grants to Preserve and Create Access to Humanities Collections on July 25, 2006. Any U.S. nonprofit organization with 501(c)3 tax exempt status is eligible, as are state and local governmental agencies and tribal governments. Grants are not awarded to individuals. Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the division's staff (at 202-606-8570 or at preservation_at_neh.gov). Reference Materials Grants support projects that create reference works and research tools, including: * databases and electronic archives that codify and integrate humanities materials, or provide bibliographical control of a subject or field; * print and online encyclopedias about various fields in the humanities or about a particular area or subject; * historical, etymological, and bilingual dictionaries for undocumented languages, as well as reference grammars and other linguistic tools (separate funding is available for endangered language projects <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05590/nsf05590.htm> in partnership with the National Science Foundation); * descriptive catalogs that provide detailed information about humanities materials; * tools for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographical information systems (GIS); and * digital tools specifically designed to develop or use humanities online resources. The program guidelines can be consulted at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/referencematerials.html . Grants to Preserve and Create Access to Humanities Collections fund the following activities: cataloging; arrangement and description; documentation; preservation microfilming of brittle books and serials; mass deacidification of items not yet embrittled; conservation treatment; transfer of materials to more stable media; creating digital surrogates to enhance intellectual accessibility; creating oral histories; and conducting archival surveys. The program guidelines are available at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pcahc.html . All institutions applying for an NEH grant must submit their applications via Grants.gov. Be sure to register with Grants.gov as soon as possible since the registration process takes a minimum of two weeks to complete. To help you through the Grants.gov registration process, please use the checklist located at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsgov/grantsgovchecklist.html. Helen C. Agüera Senior Program Officer Division of Preservation and Access National Endowment for the Humanities Room 411 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20506 voice: (202) 606-8573 secretary: (202) 606-8570 FAX: (202) 606-8639 e-mail: haguera_at_neh.gov From: Julia Flanders Subject: TEI 2006 poster submissions: one-week extension Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 06:40:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 60 (60) The program committee for the 2006 TEI annual meeting has received a number of requests for extensions to the submission deadline for poster and demonstration proposals. We have decided to issue a general one-week extension. Our thanks to all those who sent in their proposals on time (if you were rushed and would like to submit a revised proposal, you may). The new deadline for poster and demonstration proposals is Monday, June 5. Please send all submissions to info_at_tei-c.org. Thank you! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Program Chair, TEI-C 2006 annual meeting Brown University From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: ICCH and ALLC conferences Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 06:40:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 61 (61) Dear All, The first joint conference of the ALLC and the ACH (University of Toronto, 1989) was announced as the '16th International ALLC Conference -- 9th ICCH Conference' <http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v01/8711.1324>. In my attempt to reconstruct the chronology of these conferences up to this first joint one, I lack the details of some of them. I hope that the community can help me complete my information. ICCH Conferences: - Does anyone know whether the proceedings of ICCH/2 (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1975) and ICCH/4 (Darthmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1979) were published? - Where were ICCH/7 (1985) and ICCH/8 (1987, Columbia?) held, and were their proceedings published? ALLC Conferences: - Where was ALLC 1986 hosted? - Apart from the 10 biannual series of ALLC conferences from 1970-1988, there must have been an (occasional) series of 5 ALLC conferences which took place between 1982 and 1989. The 1982 conference in Pisa was, according to the proceedings, the 7th conference whereas the 1984 conference in Louvain-la-Neuve was the 11th conference. The 1988 conference in Jerusalem was the 15th conference. So I guess I'm looking for three 'missing' ALLC conferences in 1982-1984 and two in 1984-1988. - In 1979 an international conference on Literary and Linguistic Computing was held in in Tel Aviv (Israel) and the proceedings were published as Malachi, Zvi (ed.) (1979). Proceedings of the International Conference on Literary and Linguistic Computing Israel. Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. Apparently, this conference was not counted in the 16 ALLC conferences up to 1989. Does anyone know of more ALLC conferences outside of the series I sketched so far? Or maybe someone got their maths very very wrong. Thanks for all your help, Edward -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Independent Researcher Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing University of Antwerp - CDE Dept. of Literature Universiteitsplein 1 b-2610 Wilrijk Belgium edward dot vanhoutte at kantl dot be http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/staff/edward.htm From: Carlos Areces Subject: HyLo 2006: Extended Deadline Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 06:41:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 62 (62) ******************************************************************* HYLO 2006 DEADLINE EXTENDED! New deadline is Thursday June 1 ******************************************************************* FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2006 (HyLo 2006) Affiliated with LICS 2006 August 11, 2006, Seattle, USA ******************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic in which it is possible to directly refer to worlds/times/states or whatever the elements of the (Kripke) model are meant to represent. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it is only in the 1990s that work on them really got into its stride. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on applied grounds, because of the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant,and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals --- atomic symbols true at a unique point --- together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the behavior of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes far simpler to formulate modal tableau, resolution, and natural deduction in hybrid logic, and completeness and interpolation results can be proved of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. Hybrid logic is now a mature field, therefore a theme of special interest at this HyLo workshop will be the combination of hybrid logic with other logics, the basic methodological question being "what is the best way of hybridizing a given logic?" However, submissions in all areas of hybrid logic are welcome. The workshop HyLo 2006 is likely to be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic, for example the LICS-affiliated HyLo 2002 (http://floc02.diku.dk/HYLO) which was held as part of FLoC 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. If you are unsure whether your work is of relevance to the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organizers for more information. Contact details are given below. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). INVITED SPEAKERS: Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Lorraine, France) Title: Hybrid Logic and Temporal Semantics Valeria de Paiva (PARC, USA) Title: Constructive Hybrid Logics and Contexts Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, UK) Title: Hybrid Logics and Ontology Languages [...] From: John Lavagnino Subject: What it's like to use a computer Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:30:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 63 (63) People used to write articles about their discovery of word processing or e-mail or the web, way back in the twentieth century; nobody does that now. A merit of those articles was that they offered some account of the mass everyday experience of computing, useful for those who might have some kind of professional support (at a university or other place of work) or were seriously into it rather than only concerned about getting a job done, and so lived in a different world. To get an idea of the mass everyday experience of computing now, we need research. "The Long Term Fate of Our Personal Digital Belongings" by Catherine C. Marshall, Sara Bly, and Francoise Brun-Cottan offers a sample of that sort of research (and is available at http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/pubs.html). I don't mean to dismiss its overt subject, that of what we need in a system for preserving our "digital belongings": it's an important subject and the paper has a lot of valuable things to say about it. But I was more moved by its evocation of what the digital world is like for the small group of people interviewed. It's a world in which you never quite know why anything is happening, in which you can never quite get everything working just right, don't have a good way to preserve things that are precious to you, feel that it's somehow your own failing and so try to disavow any real attachment to those things. It's a familiar picture, really, but the concentration of data and the precise analysis make it all vivid again. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: "John Roper" Subject: Re: 20.041 ICCH and ALLC conferences? Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:29:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 64 (64) The 1985 ALLC conference was held in Nice, France and the 13th ALLC conference was held in Norwich UK in 1986. Regards, John Roper ***************** From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Re: 20.041 ICCH and ALLC conferences? Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:30:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 65 (65) There was an ACH conference in Provo, at Brigham Young University, around 1985. I went out there about a year earlier and and invited Randy Jones to organize a conference on behalf of the ACH. He did an excellent job, and we had some fine entertainment up at Sundance. If there are any surviving documents, Chuck Bush should have them, or know where they are. Joe Raben From: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v03/1120.html Subject: Re: 20.041 ICCH and ALLC conferences? Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:03:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 66 (66) Espen From: "Arianna Ciula" Subject: CLiP 2006 full programme available Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:05:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 67 (67) Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the full programme for CLiP 2006 "Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world" conference is now available on the conference website at http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/content/programme/full.html The early registration period is now over, but you can still register using the online form at http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/content/registration/registration_form.html Kind regards, Arianna Ciula From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: Digital Textual Studies Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:07:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 68 (68) CALL FOR POSTERS Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future Texas A&M University, College Station, TX October 19-21, 2006 The Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future Symposium Planning Committee is issuing a call for posters that highlight digital humanities projects, tools or techniques or work in progress. We also encourage any college or university digital humanities program, center or group to present a poster that overviews their program. Posters may include a demonstration, traditional printed poster, or a combination of both. Wireless internet access will be available at the poster venue. Short abstracts (250-500 words) should be submitted to the conference website, digitaltext.tamu.edu, before June 30, 2006. The proposals will be reviewed by the planning committee and successful applicants will be notified by July 31, 2006. The poster session will take place on the evening of October 20, 2006. Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future, will assess the current state and future prospects of digital textual studies, with an underlying emphasis on how digital media might change our ways of knowing or experiencing textuality. The symposium will feature an opening address by Jerome McGann, and presentations by Morris Eaves, Julia Flanders, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Kenneth Price, Peter Robinson, Peter Shillingsburg and Martha Nell Smith. For registration details see the symposim website, digitaltext.tamu.edu. For more information about the symposium or poster session, contact Maura Ives (m-ives at tamu dot edu). 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: Andrew Brown Subject: Re: 20.042 Hybrid logic: LyLo 2006 Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:03:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 69 (69) Does anyone know of a discussion group in our field, preferably on the practical aspects of the electronic diffusion of texts? We just seem to get conference announcements here. AB From: "Helena Francke" Subject: Human IT 8:3 - Dynamic maps Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:02:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 70 (70) Dear humanists, [sorry for any x-posting] A new issue of Human IT (all in English this=20 time) is now available on the Web at http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/ This issue's theme is Dynamic maps, and it is=20 guest edited by Patrik Svensson at HumLab, Ume=E5 University, Sweden. Digital maps offer exciting new possibilities for=20 humanities and social sciences research. The=20 contributions in this issue provide several good=20 examples of how maps and visualisations can be=20 used both to support research and to provide=20 interesting results and end-products, useful to=20 people within as well as outside of the academic=20 world. The articles present new approaches to=20 interfaces to geographical and social=20 information, methods for linking spatial and=20 temporal data, and a presentation of an artistic=20 project involving political maps. Contents: * Zachary Devereaux & Stan Ruecker, "Online Issue=20 Mapping of International News and Information=20 Design." [Refereed section] <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/zdsr.htm> * William E. Cartwright, "Exploring Games and=20 Gameplay as a Means of Accessing and Using=20 Geographical Information." [Open section]= <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/wc.htm> * Martyn Jessop, "Dynamic Maps in Humanities=20 Computing." [Open section] <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/mj.htm> * Jeannette L Zerneke, Michael K. Buckland & Kim=20 Carl, "Temporally Dynamic Maps: The Electronic=20 Cultural Atlas Initiative Experience." [Open=20 section] <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/jzmbkc.htm> * Jan Svenungsson, "Controlled Production of=20 Virtual Geo-political Reality through Failure."=20 [People & Opinions] <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/js.htm> Human IT is a multidisciplinary, scholarly=20 journal which publishes new research and=20 discussion on digital media as communicative,=20 aesthetic, and ludic instruments. It is published=20 by the University College of Bor=E5s. Best regards, Helena ************** 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 phone +46 33 435 43 20 (Bor=E5s) +46 31 773 58 49 (G=F6teborg) fax +46 33 435 40 05 e-mail helena.francke_at_hb.se From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- May 2006 Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:04:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 71 (71) CIT INFOBITS May 2006 No. 93 ISSN 1521-9275 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. You can read this issue on the Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitmay06.html. ...................................................................... Is the Internet Weakening the Elites' Edge? Designing the Future Physical University Using Blogger to Get Started with E-Learning Books vs. Blogs The Role of Emotion in the Distance Education Experience UNC-Chapel Hill Digital Publishing Program Wins Award Recommended Reading ...................................................................... IS THE INTERNET WEAKENING THE ELITES' EDGE? In a study of economics and finance faculty affiliated with the top 25 U.S. universities, E. Han Kim, Adair Morse, and Luigi Zingales looked at the changes on scholarly research brought about by the Internet. They sought answers to several questions: "How did these changes modify the nature of the production of academic research? Did local interaction become less important? If so, how does this decline affect the value added of elite universities and hence their competitive edge?" Their findings are published in the report "Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?" (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12245, May 2006). The complete report is available online at http://papers.nber.org/papers/W12245. Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a "private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works." For more information, contact: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-5398 USA; tel: 617-868-3900; fax: 617-868-2742; email: info@nber.org; Web: http://www.nber.org/. ...................................................................... DESIGNING THE FUTURE PHYSICAL UNIVERSITY "In discussions about the future of the university, little has been said about how these changes will affect its spatial layout, even though a university's physical characteristics must complement and strengthen its mission." In "Designing the University of the Future" (PLANNING FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, vol. 34, no. 2, 2005-2006, pp. 5-19) Rifca Hashimshony and Jacov Haina discuss several factors, including teaching and learning technology, that may define what the physical facilities of the university of the future will look like. The paper is online at http://www1.scup.org/PHE/FMPro?-db=PubData.fp5&-lay=ART&-format=read_inner.htm&-error=error.htm&ID=PUB-iNAUNaEFTRvZnwyAWs&-Find. Planning for Higher Education is published by the Society for College and University Planning, 339 E. Liberty, Suite 300, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA; tell: 734-998-7832; fax: 734-998-6532; email: info_at_scup.org; Web: http://www.scup.org/. See also: "The Impact of Facilities on Recruitment and Retention of Students" by David Cain and Gary L. Reynolds FACILITIES MANAGER, vol. 22, no. 2, March/April 2006 http://www.appa.org/FacilitiesManager/article.cfm?ItemNumber=2567&parentid=2542 or http://www.appa.org/files/FMArticles/fm030406_f7_impact.pdf According to a survey conducted by the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers: "Nearly three out of 10 students spurned a college because it lacked a facility they thought was important." "Facilities Can Play Key Role in Students' Enrollment Decisions, Study Finds" by Audrey Williams June THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, May 30, 2006 http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/05/2006053002n.htm (Online access requires a subscription to the Chronicle.) ...................................................................... USING BLOGGER TO GET STARTED WITH E-LEARNING In "Using Blogger to Get Teachers Started with E-Learning" (FORTNIGHTLY MAILING, May 25, 2006), Keith Burnett discusses how "[s]imple class blogs can be used to post summaries of key points, exercises, links to Web pages of value, and to provide a sense of continuity and encourage engagement with the material." He includes a link to an online blogging tutorial and to examples of how some instructors are using blogs in their classes. The article is online at http://fm.schmoller.net/2006/05/using_blogger_t.html. Fortnightly Mailing, focused on online learning, is published every two weeks by Seb Schmoller, an e-learning consultant. Current and back issues are available at http://www.schmoller.net/mailings/index.pl. For more information, contact: Seb Schmoller 312 Albert Road, Sheffield, S8 9RD, UK; tel: 0114 2586899; fax: 0709 2208443; email: seb@schmoller.net; Web: http://www.schmoller.net/. ...................................................................... BOOKS VS. BLOGS "Why would I write a book and wait a year or more to see my writing in print, when I can blog and get my words out there immediately?" In "Books, Blogs & Style" (CITES & INSIGHTS, vol. 6, no. 7, May 2006), Walt Crawford, both a book author and a blogger, considers the different niches and purposes of the two communication media. The essay is online at http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ6i7.pdf. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large [ISSN 1534-0937], a free online journal of libraries, policy, technology, and media, is self-published monthly by Walt Crawford, a senior analyst at the Research Libraries Group, Inc. Current and back issues are at available on the Web at http://cites.boisestate.edu/. For more information contact: Walt Crawford, The Research Libraries Group, Inc., 2029 Stierlin Ct., Suite 100, Mountain View, CA 94043-4684 USA; tel: 650-691-2227; Web: http://waltcrawford.name/. ...................................................................... THE ROLE OF EMOTION IN THE DISTANCE EDUCATION EXPERIENCE "Presence, a sense of 'being there,' is critical to the success of designing, teaching, and learning at a distance using both synchronous and asynchronous (blended) technologies. Emotions, behavior, and cognition are components of the way presence is perceived and experienced and are essential for explaining the ways we consciously and unconsciously perceive and experience distance education." Rosemary Lehman, Distance Education Specialist Manager at the University of Wisconsin-Extension, explores the idea that understanding the part emotion plays in teaching and learning "can help instruct us in effective teaching, instructional design, and learning via technology." Her paper, "The Role of Emotion in Creating Instructor and Learner Presence in the Distance Education Experience" (JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE LEARNING, vol. 2, no. 2, 2006), is available online at http://www.jcal.emory.edu/viewarticle.php?id=45. Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning (JCAL) [ISSN: 1549-6953] is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published twice a year by Oxford College of Emory University. To access current and back issues go to http://www.jcal.emory.edu/. For more information, contact: Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning, c/o Prof. Ken Carter, Oxford College of Emory University, 100 Hamill Street, Oxford, GA 30054 USA; tel: 770-784-8439; fax: 770-784-8408; email: kenneth.carter_at_emory.edu. ...................................................................... UNC-CHAPEL HILL DIGITAL PUBLISHING PROGRAM WINS AWARD [Editor's note: although I try to keep a non-partisan position in my role as Infobits editor, as an employee and alumna of UNC-Chapel Hill, it gives me great pleasure to share with readers news of this award at my institution.] Last month the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library's "Documenting the American South" digital library collection won Gettysburg College's 2006 Electronic Lincoln Prize for significant contribution in new media to scholarship about Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or a subject relating to the Civil War era. "Documenting the American South" was launched in 1996 to make available for study several fragile slave narratives. From that modest beginning, the collection now includes thousands of primary research resources related to southern history, literature, and culture: books, images, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, and recorded music and oral histories. For more about the program and to access the collection link to http://docsouth.unc.edu/. ...................................................................... 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 Tom Wason (tom_at_twason.com) has written a paper on developing metadata and taxonomy systems. Wason used this method on a US Air Force project, which he describes in the paper. "Dr. Tom's Method of Multiples: A Concrete Taxonomy Development Method" http://www.twason.com/Docs/MethodOfMultiples.pdf Abstract: "An effective metadata system can be established with the participation of multiple teams each with a different perspective, the subject matter expert (SME) teams. Each SME team is comprised of multiple members. The SME teams are given a carefully chosen concrete task that spans their different perspectives. As they work on the task in facilitated joint meetings, a taxonomy team records the comments of SME teams. The taxonomy team is comprised of multiple, independently tasked recorders. The intent is to define and capture metadata and taxonomy definitions from each of several different vantage points. Each recorder provides separate reports that are consolidated into a single report with resulting recommendations for metadata and taxonomies. These recommendations are then validated by an independent set of SME participants. A case study using this method is presented. The results are compliant with SCORM, IEEE-LOM and IMS-MD specifications." From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.21 Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:05:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 72 (72) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 21 May 30, 2006 - June 19, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: STUCKEY, LI, and HONG JOHN STUCKEY of Jefferson & Lee University says: "There are plenty of good reasons to incorporate information technology into teaching and learning, but the fear of being left behind or left out or rejected by demanding techno-proficient applicants is not among them." Go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i21_stuckey.html. AIGUO LI and BINGRONG HONG of Harbin Institute of Technology describe a low-cost correction algorithm for transient data errors. Go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i21_lihong.html. For this week's Ubiquity go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 21 (May 33, 2006 - June 19, 2006) From: "Edward Vanhoutte" Subject: historical hygiene Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 08:01:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 73 (73) Only three years ago, David Robey reported in LLC (18/1: 3-9) on the important 'roadmap' meeting held in Pisa in 2001. The graphical representation of this report was developed by Harold Short and Willard McCarty, who used this 'rough intellectual map for humanities computing' both in his contribution to the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science and in a variant version as the basis for his chapter on Discipline in his recent book Humanities Computing (Palgrave, 2005). This chapter refers to the original map as appearing on-line on <http://www.allc.org/reports/map/> and to the full reports on the state of the art in the multiple disciplines to which this map is linked. So far, apart from the report by Robey, all information can be found on the basis of Willard's book. Starting from Robey's report, on which the map was based, the eager student won't find the fuller accounts on the multiple disciplines, because the URI's to which Robey's report refers, have disappeared from the Web. Yet again, this is a deplorable instantiation of the disinterest in documenting and maintaining the documentation of the several activities of the humanities computing community that I am observing on a general level in my research. Collections of conference abstracts are 'lost'; conference sites don't exist anymore; nobody seems to know where the on-line version of the journal 'Canadian Humanities Computing' (formerly Ontario Humanities Computing) which was available through anonymous ftp in the mid 1990s has gone to; and these are just a few examples. If, as Willard suggests in his article in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, the question what humanities computing is need not be answered but continually explored and refined, and if these explorations, on the basis of the intellectual and disciplinary map, concern the activities which are identified as belonging to the realm of humanities computing (including self reflection), a definition of humanities computing is to be found in the history of its activities. Therefore we need to pay more attention to our historical hygiene and make sure that documents and publications which are at the core of the debate on our self awareness remain accessible for a long time. The roadmap-report-by-Robey example shows that we don't seem to take care of this. Maybe there's an important role here to play by ADHO. Their website could become the digital memory of digital humanities and prevent the unacceptable fact that on-line material complementing a paper in a refereed journal disappears after only three years. Edward -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Independent Researcher Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing University of Antwerp - CDE Dept. of Literature Universiteitsplein 1 b-2610 Wilrijk Belgium edward dot vanhoutte at kantl dot be http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/staff/edward.htm From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 20.049 historical hygene Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:42:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 74 (74) On Jun 3, 2006, at 2:04 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]That is indeed part of the purpose behind setting adho (the alliance of digital humanities organizations) up on digitalhumanities.org, first and foremost a site that is not hosted at any individual's institution, but on a commercial ISP (textdrive.com). It's also why, for DH2007, we will (for the first time) have the reviewing system installed on digitalhumanities.org and not on a server at the local host's institution. ADHO is intended to oversee the joint activities of its constituent societies, in particular conferences and publications: speaking as chair of the ADHO steering committee, I think I can say that ADHO would be glad to have copies of any of the materials that Edward refers to on deposit at digitalhumanities.org. Some have already been collected, with help from Stefan Sinclair, at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/Essays/ Also, the ACH is already hosting its site on textdrive.com but ALLC can't, because textdrive won't allow java on shared servers (because of fears of memory leaks): the ALLC site is xml-driven, and uses Tomcat (which is Java) to publish. That's good hygiene of a different sort, but it happens to conflict with the objective of moving the web site to neutral ground. Of course, neutral siting is only one part of the problem, too-- managers of those sites then also need to be aware of the consequences of moving files and changing URLS. If it's absolutely necessary to do these things, there are ways to keep the links from breaking (apache redirects, for example), but in very longest run, it's only libraries that can come close to guaranteeing a stable record of this intellectual community, and they are still struggling with (though, I would say, gaining on) the problem of how to do this when the record is digital. One small part of that process is represented here: http://www.ndiipp.uiuc.edu/ Of course, another very practical intervention in this area is http://www.archive.org/index.php where you will actually find, for example, an archived copy of Willard's map, but only with some persistence. It's at: http://web.archive.org/web/20021229004846/www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/ cch/allc/reports/map/ but if you search for the URL that Edward gave (http://www.allc.org/ reports/map/) using "The Wayback Machine" (not the first but the second search-term entry window on the page at http:// www.archive.org/) it'll tell you that it doesn't have a copy. But if you search for http://www.allc.org/ it will give you snapshots from 1999 to 2005. Some of these don't seem to be there any more (for example, June 4, 2002) but others are (for example, Dec. 1, 2002) and if you drill down in one of those, you can follow links to reports, and then to the map intro and then to the map itself. www.archive.org itself represents the remarkable committment of an individual, Brewster Kahle, to preserve the web--and it is quite useful and in many cases the only record of the past that exists. However, as users of archive.org will learn and attest, it is partial and fragile--as all memory is I guess, especially the older it gets. John From: Willard McCarty Subject: historical awareness Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:43:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 75 (75) Edward Vanhoutte's call for historical hygene, in Humanist 20.049, is cogent and timely. Without developing an historical awareness of ourselves as practitioners, we can hardly claim to be among the humanities as one of their kind. I am thinking of what R. G. Collingwood would argue if he were here, what many including him have argued about what makes the humanities humane. The problem is not only loss of primary historical evidence like conference websites, reports and so forth. Except anecdocally we are unable to support our claims for change in scholarly thought and action because the evidence is not usually recorded at all. With eyes firmly fixed on RESULTS we discard or overlook the means, and as an intellectual practice focused on means, this is a serious matter. The evidence for a history of means applied and changes effected, including the odd metanoia here or there, vanishes with the words spoken in meetings, the experiments tried, the diagrams sketched. We have not cultivated the habit, as we should, of keeping laboratory notebooks in which to write down thoughts as the research proceeds. Should anyone here have the ear of a major granting body, he or she would do us great good by speaking into that ear about funding (post)graduate/postdoctoral researchers of the social scientific kind to study humanities computing research-in-action. Some good, badly needed articles and books could be generated that way, and these would help greatly, not just toward the goal of intellectual hygene that Edward argues for but also toward better practice within the disciplines served. To be fair to ourselves, neglect of this hygene is not unusual for a practice little more than half a century old. Even historians seem not terribly well equipped to be historical about such a recent past when the problem arises, e.g. in the history of science. Some such historians have argued that you cannot write history or think historically until the dust has settled, the major players are dead etc. -- that, I suppose, loss clarifies. Others, with whom I think we should stand, would rather invent a new understanding of history than suffer the loss of all that confusing evidence and the conflicts of interest. But even if history, properly speaking, cannot be written for a while yet, or the best sort of history, we can preserve what we have more responsibly than we have. And we can strive to begin to think historically about what we do, as Edward has done. We can cultivate a dissatisfaction with chronologies of heroes and the firsts they are responsible for; we can look beyond the time-lines of technological progress to the patterns in formation. We can sharpen our minds by asking historical questions. We can look for and pay attention to our natural allies in the history of science, technology and computing, some of whom are quite preoccupied by the problems noted here. In part exclamations e.g. over the wisdom of Roberto Busa to have thought about X, Y, and Z so perspicuously in 1980, or whenever, are simply to recognize a great scholar's greatness. But in part, or potentially, they hide the realities of history by plucking events out of context. For one thing, since philosophy is numbered among the humanities, we must be more aware than we are of the intellectual problem Alan Turing was responding to, and how he responded. Over and over again we run into the root-nature of the scheme he designed, and repeatedly the collision would lead us, if we paid attention, to this problem. For another thing, if Busa is a great mountain on the landscape, then he is in relation to many hills and summits, and all of these are part of a terrain that gives them their significance. The first 25 years of the journal Computers and the Humanities is not the only source, but it is one to which more attention needs to be paid, and esp the lesson taught by the first few issues in the early 1960s: of astonishing diversity and intensity of research efforts already well underway. (Read it tonight!) For a third thing (my last, I promise), Busa and many others were and are working in a tradition of analysis dating back at least to the 13th Century. O for an intellectual history of the concordance! Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Shuly Wintner Subject: Workshop on Large-scale Grammar Development and Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:11:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 76 (76) Grammar Engineering Large-scale Grammar Development and Grammar Engineering Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation University of Haifa, Israel, 25-28 June, 2006 http://www.cl.haifa.ac.il/workshop/ Call for Participation Linguistically motivated approaches to Natural Language Processing in recent years have made significant advances in terms of linguistic coverage, wealth of analysis and efficiency of processing. However, large-scale grammar development still could benefit from improvements in grammar engineering. The Workshop is intended as a forum for discussing ongoing work in declarative, constraint- and resource- based approaches, informed by linguistic theory. It will cover various aspects of the computational implementation of grammars based on linguistic knowledge, and in particular address issues of grammar engineering and modularity. For more details on the program, speakers, venue etc. please refer to the web site: http://www.cl.haifa.ac.il/workshop/ Shuly _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol From: Ken Friedman Subject: Last Call for Papers -- Events and Event Structures Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:12:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 77 (77) Events and Event Structures Last Call for Papers Call for Conference Papers The Center for Design Research calls for papers on events and event structures for a conference to place on May 24-27, 2007. The conference will take place in Copenhagen at the Center for Design Research at Denmark's Design School and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture. Following the conference, participant papers will be published as a book. The conference co-chairs are Prof. Ken Friedman of the Norwegian School of Management and Denmark's Design School, and Prof. Owen Smith of the University of Maine. Scholars in many fields are now working with events and intermedia. These fields include art, design, architecture, informatics, and new media, as well as art history, musicology, philosophy, theology, theater, performance studies, management, and economics. We welcome contributions from different views and perspectives. Background In 2002, Smith and Friedman joined Ric Allsopp as guest editors of a special issue of the journal Performance Research (Vol. 7. No. 3, 2002) focusing on events and performance in Fluxus. They also prepared a digital edition of the Fluxus Performance Workbook. A free-to-download copy of the Fluxus Performance Workbook is available at this URL: http://www.performance-research.net/pages/epublications.html This past year, Friedman and Smith completed two special issues of the journal Visible Language (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2005; Vol. 40, No. 1, 2006) with several articles on events and intermedia. To sharpen the focus on events and event structures, Smith and Friedman are now organizing this conference in Copenhagen. In addition to invited scholars and artists, they issue an open call for paper proposals. The conference will be limited to fifty participants. We seek a working forum for productive dialogue, rather than the more traditional presentation forum of most conferences. Conference topics The conference will explore some of the many issues that arise at the intersection of events, interactive art, and new developments in design and the information society. This includes exploring the event as designed art activity; process and co-creation in art; the design aspect of event production; staging and prop management for events; the design of publications, digital editions, and web sites. We welcome papers on different approaches to events and event structures. Examples of topics include: Events in the work of a specific artist; Thematic approaches to events (water, time, maps, etc.); Event as performance; Co-creation in art; Process in art; The ontology of the event; The epistemological qualities of event-based work; The hermeneutics of the event; Translating event structures from art into daily life; The philosophy of events; Events, time, and memory; Process in art, philosophy, and society; The idea of the event: control, power, and history; Events and gender; Musicality and emergent order in events; Algorithms and events, event as algorithm; Event and homiletics; Publishers of event scores and event-based books; Designing events: boxes, books, and kits; Event scores and objects; Event scores and installations; Theater of the object; Digital editions for interactive art; Documenting events and performances; Photographic events; The influence of events; Events in relation to other forms of instructional or scored works; Event-based projects and exhibitions; Interactive events on the web. Publications Before the conference, participants will receive advance drafts of all papers as a proceedings document to encourage exchange and conversation. Authors will discuss ideas in conference sessions that emphasize dialogue rather than presenting written papers. The proceedings will be the first of two conference publications. Following the conference, selected papers will be revised as chapters in a book on events and event structures to be published by the Design Research Center. Selected research libraries will also receive copies of the proceedings, and the proceedings will be available to a wider public on a conference web site. Conditions There is no conference fee. The Design Research Center will fund the conference. Participants must pay their own travel and hotel accommodations. While we do not have travel funds, we will help participants to apply for funding from universities or other sources. We hope to make early decisions on proposals to give participants time to seek funds. To preserve an atmosphere of open exchange and reflective dialogue, the conference will be limited to 50 participants. The conference will take place from Thursday May 24 through Saturday May 27. Proposals and questions If you wish to participate in the Copenhagen conference on Events and Event Structures, send a paper proposal to both organizers. They also welcome full papers or drafts of full papers. Please write if you have questions. Deadlines Proposals due: July 15, 2006 Response to Authors: August 15, 2006 Finished papers due: January 5, 2007 Please sent proposals to both co-chairs: ken.friedman_at_bi.no, Owen_Smith_at_umit.maine.edu Please place the word EVENTS in the subject header of your email. -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Oslo Center for Design Research Denmark's Design School Copenhagen +47 46.41.06.76 Tlf NSM +47 33.40.10.95 Tlf Privat email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Oslo Center for Design Research Denmark's Design School Copenhagen +47 46.41.06.76 Tlf NSM +47 33.40.10.95 Tlf Privat email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: "Arianna Ciula" Subject: CLiP 2006 full programme Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:24:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 78 (78) =========================================================== CLiP 2006 PROGRAMME AVAILABLE The 7th Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference: 'Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world' Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, UK Thursday 29 June - Saturday 1 July 2006 http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ We are pleased to announce that the full conference programme for CLiP 2006 conference is now available on the conference website at http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/content/programme/full.html The international Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference, which has taken place at a variety of European universities since the first conference in 1998, invites you to register for this year's conference in London and which is dedicated to the emerging communities interested in the use of computing in the humanities, specifically (but not exclusively) in the fields of study that are relevant to Romance languages and related literature/history. This year's theme is "Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world". The discussions at CLiP conferences focus on the integration of Philology and Information Technology. In this context, 'Literature' and 'Philology' are to be understood in more general terms. 'Literature' means all sorts of texts (spoken, written, hypertext etc.), which may also contain images, sound materials, graphs etc. 'Philology' means the scholarship devoted to these texts from diverse perspectives. Please see the website for versions of informative pages in other languages and for the collection of abstracts. From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Call for Papers: Society for Textual Scholarship conference Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:35:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 79 (79) [deleted quotation]Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Panels should consist of three papers or presentations. Individual proposals should include a brief abstract (one or two pages) of the proposed paper as well as the name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation of the participant. Panel proposals, including proposals for roundtables and workshops, should include a session title, the name of a designated contact person for the session, the names, e-mail addresses, and institutional addresses and affiliations of each person involved in the session, and a one- or two-page abstract of each paper to be presented during the session. Abstracts should indicate what (if any) technological support will be requested. [deleted quotation]For information about membership, please contact Executive Director Robin Schulze at rgs3_at_psu.edu or visit the Indiana University Press Journals website and follow the links to the Society for Textual Scholarship membership page. For conference updates and information, see the STS website. [deleted quotation] From: Julia Flanders Subject: Intensive Introduction to TEI, August 2006, Brown University Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:36:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 80 (80) Space is still available in this year's TEI workshop at Brown University. See below for details. Second announcement: Intensive Introduction to TEI August 10-12, 2006 Brown University Co-sponsored by the Scholarly Technology Group and the Women Writers Project, in conjunction with Summer and Continuing Education at Brown University http://www.stg.brown.edu/edu/tei_intro2006.html The Scholarly Technology Group and the Women Writers Project are once again offering a three-day workshop on text encoding with the TEI Guidelines. This intensive hands-on introduction will cover the basics of TEI encoding, including a discussion of stylesheets and XML publication tools, project planning, and funding issues. The workshop is designed to help encoding novices get quickly up to speed on basic text encoding, with particular emphasis on the transcription of primary sources and archival materials. Archivists, librarians, digital project managers, humanities faculty and graduate students will all find this workshop a useful background for a closer engagement with text encoding theory and practice. The course will be taught by Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman. Attendees are encouraged to bring materials from their own projects for discussion and practice. Deadline for registration is July 14. The course fee is $425 ($475 after June 25), with low-cost accommodation available on the Brown campus. To register, and for more information, please visit the site above. Thanks! Julia Julia Flanders Women Writers Project Brown University From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Extreme Programming and Agile Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:47:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 81 (81) Processes in Software Engineering Volume 4044/2006 (Extreme Programming and Agile=20 Processes in Software Engineering) of Lecture=20 Notes in Computer Science is now available on the=20 springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: A Distributed Cognition Account of Mature XP Teams p. 1 Helen Sharp, Hugh Robinson DOI: 10.1007/11774129_1 Foundations of Agile Decision Making from Agile Mentors and Developers p.= 11 Carmen Zannier, Frank Maurer DOI: 10.1007/11774129_2 Software Development as a Collaborative Writing Project p. 21 Brian Bussell, Stephen Taylor DOI: 10.1007/11774129_3 Comparative Analysis of Job Satisfaction in Agile=20 and Non-agile Software Development Teams p. 32 Grigori Melnik, Frank Maurer DOI: 10.1007/11774129_4 Investigating the Impact of Personality Types on=20 Communication and Collaboration-Viability in Pair=20 Programming =96 An Empirical Study p. 43 Panagiotis Sfetsos, Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angelis, Ignatios Deligiannis DOI: 10.1007/11774129_5 The Collaborative Nature of Pair Programming p. 53 Sallyann Bryant, Pablo Romero, Benedict du Boulay DOI: 10.1007/11774129_6 Is External Code Quality Correlated with=20 Programming Experience or Feelgood Factor? p. 65 Lech Madeyski DOI: 10.1007/11774129_7 Leveraging Code Smell Detection with Inter-smell Relations p. 75 Blazej Pietrzak, Bartosz Walter DOI: 10.1007/11774129_8 Studying the Evolution of Quality Metrics in an=20 Agile/Distributed Project p. 85 Walter Ambu, Giulio Concas, Michele Marchesi, Sandro Pinna DOI: 10.1007/11774129_9 The Effect of Test-Driven Development on Program Code p. 94 Matthias M. M=FCller DOI: 10.1007/11774129_10 Configuring Hybrid Agile-Traditional Software Processes p. 104 Adam Geras, Michael Smith, James Miller DOI: 10.1007/11774129_11 Rolling the DICE=AE for Agile Software Projects p. 114 Bartlomiej Zi=F3lkowski, Geoffrey Drake DOI: 10.1007/11774129_12 Agility in the Avionics Software World p. 123 Andrew Wils, Stefan Van Baelen, Tom Holvoet, Karel De Vlaminck DOI: 10.1007/11774129_13 Architecture and Design in eXtreme Programming;=20 Introducing =93Developer Stories=94 p. 133 Rolf Njor Jensen, Thomas M=F8ller, Peter S=F6nder, Gitte Tj=F8rneh=F8j DOI: 10.1007/11774129_14 Towards a Framework for Integrating Agile=20 Development and User-Centred Design p. 143 Stephanie Chamberlain, Helen Sharp, Neil Maiden DOI: 10.1007/11774129_15 Security Planning and Refactoring in Extreme Programming p. 154 Emine G. Aydal, Richard F. Paige, Howard Chivers, Phillip J. Brooke DOI: 10.1007/11774129_16 Divide After You Conquer: An Agile Software=20 Development Practice for Large Projects p. 164 Ahmed Elshamy, Amr Elssamadisy DOI: 10.1007/11774129_17 Augmenting the Agile Planning Toolbox p. 169 J.B. Rainsberger DOI: 10.1007/11774129_18 Incorporating Learning and Expected Cost of=20 Change in Prioritizing Features on Agile Projects p. 175 R. Scott Harris, Mike Cohn DOI: 10.1007/11774129_19 Automatic Changes Propagation p. 181 Maciej Dorsz DOI: 10.1007/11774129_20 Making Fit / FitNesse Appropriate for Biomedical Engineering Research p.= 186 Jingwen Chen, Michael Smith, Adam Geras, James Miller DOI: 10.1007/11774129_21 Sprint Driven Development: Agile Methodologies in=20 a Distributed Open Source Project (PyPy) p. 191 Beatrice D=FCring DOI: 10.1007/11774129_22 Storytelling in Interaction: Agility in Practice p. 196 Johanna Hunt, Pablo Romero, Judith Good DOI: 10.1007/11774129_23 Towards an Agile Process for Building Software Product Lines p. 198 Richard F. Paige, Xiaochen Wang, Zo=EB R. Stephenson, Phillip J. Brooke DOI: 10.1007/11774129_24 Extending the Embedded System E-TDDunit Test=20 Driven Development Tool for Development of a Real=20 Time Video Security System Prototype p. 200 Steven Daeninck, Michael Smith, James Miller, Linda Ko DOI: 10.1007/11774129_25 Evaluation of Test Code Quality with Aspect-Oriented Mutations p. 202 Bartosz Bogacki, Bartosz Walter DOI: 10.1007/11774129_26 Experimenting with Agile Practices =96 First Things First p. 205 Fergal Downey, Gerry Coleman, Fergal McCaffery DOI: 10.1007/11774129_27 Test-Driven Development: Can It Work for Spreadsheet Engineering? p. 209 Alan Rust, Brian Bishop, Kevin McDaid DOI: 10.1007/11774129_28 Comparison Between Test Driven Development and=20 Waterfall Development in a Small-Scale Project p. 211 Lei Zhang, Shunsuke Akifuji, Katsumi Kawai, Tsuyoshi Morioka DOI: 10.1007/11774129_29 A Practical Approach for Deploying Agile Methods p. 213 Minna Pikkarainen, Outi Salo DOI: 10.1007/11774129_30 Streamlining the Agile Documentation Process=20 Test-Case Driven Documentation Demonstration for the XP2006 Conference p.= 215 Daniel Brolund, Joakim Ohlrogge DOI: 10.1007/11774129_31 Open Source Software in an Agile World p. 217 Steven Fraser, P=E4r J. =C5gerfalk, Jutta Eckstein, Tim Korson, J.B.= Rainsberger DOI: 10.1007/11774129_32 Politics and Religion in Agile Development p. 221 Angela Martin, Rachel Davies, Jutta Eckstein, David Hussman, Mary= Poppendieck DOI: 10.1007/11774129_33 How Do Agile/XP Development Methods Affect Companies? p. 225 Steven Fraser, Barry Boehm, Jack J=E4rkvik, Erik Lundh, Kati Vilkki DOI: 10.1007/11774129_34 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: "Natasha Smith" Subject: Position announcement: Head of the Carolina Digital Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:42:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 82 (82) Library (2nd posting) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks a skilled and energetic person to lead the Carolina Digital Library. The Head of the Carolina Digital Library will have the opportunity to create a major new library department composed of three units: the award-winning Documenting the American South and two new units, Digital Publishing, and Digital Production Services. The new department will also develop and deploy the University's institutional repository. Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections, the successful candidate will build and oversee a strategic digital library program that advances innovation in collections, services, scholarly communication, preservation, and education. The successful candidate must demonstrate vision, creativity, commitment to continuous service improvement, integration of access technologies for seamless presentation to users, and leadership to the digital library community. The new department will be instrumental in the Library's investigation and application of emerging digital library technologies. For more information, see the entire job posting: http://www.lib.unc.edu/jobs/epa/carolina_digital_library.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: Kluge Fellowship Competition Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:50:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 83 (83) The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress Kluge Fellowship Competition Deadline for receipt of applications: August 15, 2006 The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars of the humanities and social sciences to conduct research in the John W. Kluge Center using the Library's collections and resources. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multilingual research is particularly welcome. Eligibility: Scholars who have received a terminal advanced degree within the past seven years in the humanities, social sciences or in a professional field such as architecture or law are eligible. Exceptions may be made for individuals without continuous academic careers. Applicants may be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals. Tenure and Stipend. Fellowships may be held for periods from six to eleven months at a stipend of $4000 per month. Constraints of space and the desirability of accommodating the maximum number of Fellows may lead to an offer of fewer months than originally requested. Stipends will be paid monthly, usually by electronic transfer to a bank account. Applications: All applications must be written in English. The application must include a research proposal (no longer than three single-spaced pages) and a single paragraph summary, a two-page curriculum vita which should indicate major prior scholarship, an indication of the collections at the Library of Congress that will be used for research and three letters of reference (in English) from individuals who know the quality of the applicant's scholarship. The application form and reference form may be printed from the website referenced below Deadline: Applications must be received at the Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress, by August 15, 2006. The Library continues to experience lengthy delays in the delivery of mail by the U. S. Postal Service. To ensure that your application arrives by the receipt deadline, please consider using a commercial delivery service. Language Certification: For applicants whose native language is not English, there must be evidence that the applicant is fluent in English so as easily to conduct research, discuss work with colleagues, and make a public presentation, although the ultimate product of the research may be written in the applicant's native language. For English speakers who seek to do research in the Library's foreign language collections, there must be evidence that they have a command of the relevant language or languages at the level requisite for serious research. Awards: Up to twelve Kluge Fellowships will be awarded annually by the Library of Congress. Awards will be announced by March 15 of the year following that in which the application is due. For further information contact The John W. Kluge Center, Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress, LJ120, 101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540-4860 phone: 202-707-3302; fax: 202-707-3595 email: scholarly_at_loc.gov web: www.loc.gov/kluge http://www.loc.gov/kluge> Jane Aikin Senior Academic Advisor Division of Research Programs Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Charles Faulhaber Subject: Identification of quotations Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:39:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 84 (84) Dear Colleagues, I need to identify the source of three quotations on a peace memorial in San Francisco, and I am hoping that someone can direct me to corpora of electronic texts of the authors in question: Adlai Stevenson: "For a man to love his country he must also know how to love mankind." Yevgeny Yevtushenko: "Nothing great can be imposture." Mahandas Gandhi: "Love beauty in every man." Many thanks for your help, Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab_at_library.berkeley.edu From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: cooperation on previously uncomputed languages Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:43:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 85 (85) Dear HumanistList colleagues, thank you very much for reading some of my contributions for the list. Thank you for deciding to write me. Thank you advising me to continue with my work. Thank you for considering my work important or very important. I mean the work of computing the sound pictures of world languages. I wish we could start some kind of exchange and cooperation in the field of languages which you study. Why don't you compute the sound pictures of the world languages which have not been computed to obtain the frequency of occurrence of their phonemes in their speech chains? I guess many of the world languages have not been computed to obtain the phonemic frequencies of occurrence of their speech chains. It is possible then to construct a sound picture of any language. After that it is possible to compare these sound pictures and to set up clusters and other language taxa. Have you fed in a lot of native texts in your computer? I have no access to web sites. I can only read the e-mail messages without attachments therefore I cannot comment on your ongoing work if you send me attachments. I can give you some suggestion only with the phonostatistics. However, my methods developed on phonostatistics can be applied in the lexical or syntax statistics. I wish we could start a joint venture on the native languages in the field of phonostatistics if you send me their texts or if you compute them yourself. Do you know any e-mail addresses of the editors of the linguistic journals in your country where we could publish our results? How do you like this idea? Where do you propose to get published? If you answer me and agree to start a joint project, tell me briefly about yourself. What is your speciality? What university have you graduated from? What was your major? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_mail.ru Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia From: Sobhan Raj Hota [mailto:s.hota_at_sbcglobal.net] Subject: Gender in Shakespeare? Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:49:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 86 (86) Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 1:02 AM Hi, I found the following web link on stylistics in Shakespeare. Basically I am also solving a classification problem using style. That is Gender Classification of Literary Characters by the Word usage is Playwright. This proposal has been accepted in Association of Computers in Humanities ACH this year. The paper can be found at: http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~cogcomp/mclc/finalPapers/hotasob_AT_iit.edu__Hot a-MCLC06-Full-Paper.pdf Now I am trying to understand the statistical analysis (mainly regression based approach) of the stylistic features used for classification. If anyone has worked on understanding the relationship of stylistic variables for a classification task, that would be a great help. Thanks Sobhan 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: Antonella D'Ascoli Subject: JIIA Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:38:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 87 (87) 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' http:// www.jiia.it JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository) http://eprints.jiia.it/ Latest Additions: http://eprints.jiia.it/30/ http://eprints.jiia.it/31/ Textes juridiques / Écriture ibérique / langues sémitiques PRE-PRINT: Sauren Herbert, Le jugement du temple Le document (feuille de plomb, 2,7 x 3,0 cm., écriture senestrorsum sur face et revers, Museo Arqueológico de Barcelona) a été trouvé durant des excavations archéologiques, exécutées depuis 1972, et la premičre publication date de 1982. On parle d’une ville ibérique, qui était sur la Penya del Moro, un mont de 275 m de altitude ŕ 10 km. de distance de l’ancien ville de Barcelone Le document demande la collaboration de plusieurs disciplines scientifiques, notamment de l’archéologie, de la paléographie, de l’histoire de religion et des ethnies, et finalement de l’histoire du droit. L’étude paléographique et lexicographique révčle un document principalement en langue sw., écrit vers 175 a.C. La société était plurilingue, pluriethnique et il y avait des groupes mono- et polythéiste. POST-PRINT: H. SAUREN, Un procčs de calomnie, époque préromaine avant la lex Julia. Un seigneur accuse son ancien serviteur Abstract: En haut de la montagne, Pico de los Anjos, dans la province de Valencia, et dans les fondations d'une maison, on a trouvé une série de plombs inscrits. Une partie de ces plombs forment le dossier d'un procčs. Il s'agit d'un procčs de rupture d'amitié et calomnie, qu'un seigneur d'une ville a entamé contre son serviteur. La date approximative des faits est la derničre moitié du 1er sičcle avant J.C., encore avant l'époque impériale. L'administration des villes se trouve dans les mains des habitants du pays, bien que les Romains contrôlent tout. Le lieu, oů on a trouvé les documents, n'a probablement jamais été un centre urbain. Il n'y a pas de fouilles archéologiques scientifiques, et en outre des plombs, rien n'a été dégagé. On doit donc accepter, que les objets, 5 plombs au total, ont été transportés d'une ville voisine. REVUE INTERNATIONALE DES DROITS DE L'ANTIQUITÉ 3e Série, Tome LI 2004 Best regards A. D'Ascoli ______________ Antonella D'Ascoli Direttore Responsabile di JIIA & ADR 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' URL: http://www.jiia.it & 'Archaeological Disciplinary Repository' JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository) URL: http://eprints.jiia.it/ Address: Via Giacomo Leopardi n.56 80044 - Ottaviano (NA) - Italy tel. +39 (0)81 8278203 tel. fax +39 (0)81 8280384 cell. 333 2899783 Skype: dascoli1957 e-mail: dascolia_at_tiscalinet.it e-mail: dascoli1957_at_gmail.com From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.22 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:41:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 88 (88) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 22 June 13, 2006 - June 19, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: SEMANTIC DRIVEN ASSERTIONS Goutam Kumar Saha examines how a single-version algorithm can establish software based fault tolerance by designing in thoughtful software based execution-time checks in a computing application. Go to <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i22_driven.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i22_driven.html. For this week's Ubiquity go to <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 22 (June 13, 2006 - June 19, 2006) From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: Extreme Markup Languages 2006 - Program available - Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:13:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 89 (89) late-breaking papers due Extreme Markup Languages 2006 - Program available - late-breaking papers due The preliminary program for Extreme Markup Languages 2006 is now available at: http://extrememarkup.com/extreme/ Over four full days of program. Join us as attendees ponder, argue, and theorize on a number of highly technical topics related to markup and the things it supports or that support it. Extreme offers a number of half-day and full-day pre-conference tutorials to bring attendees up to speed on new standards, technologies, and the applications they support: http://extrememarkup.com/extreme/2006/Tutorials/index.html A few program slots have been left available for late-braking submissions. If you have recent developments to present at Extreme (or did not have time to submit a prior paper) now is your chance. The deadline for late-breaking proposals is June 16. For full details on submitting a paper, see: http://extrememarkup.com/extreme/2006/latebreaking.html. Extreme takes place at the Hotel Europa Montreal. Information on the hotel, room rates, and reservations can be found at: http://extrememarkup.com/extreme/2006/hotel.html The deadline for reservations is July 1. -- ====================================================================== Extreme Markup Languages 2006 mailto:extreme_at_mulberrytech.com August 7-11, 2006 http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme Montreal, Canada http://www.extrememarkup.com ====================================================================== From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Call for Bids, Members' Meeting, 2007 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:48:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 90 (90) This is a second announcement of the call for bids for the 2007 TEI-C Members' Meeting The deadline has been extended to July 1, 2006. --------- Call for Bids: TEI-C Members Meeting, 2007 Deadline: July 1, 2006 The TEI-C Annual Members' Meeting takes place every year in October or November. We are now seeking bids to host this event in 2007. The meeting this year (2006) will take place in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on October 27-28. The previous meetings have been: Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2005, hosted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Baltimore, USA,October 22-23, 2004, hosted by Johns Hopkins University Nancy, France, November 7-8 2003, hosted by ATILF. Chicago, USA, October 11-12 2002, hosted by the Newberry Library and Northwestern University. Pisa, Italy, November 16-17 2001, hosted by the University of Pisa. The site of the meeting has typically alternated between Europe and North America, but that is not a fixed rule. We welcome proposals from other parts of the world, and in particular from areas where new TEI communities are arising. The meeting is a two day event, the first day open to all interested parties with an eclectic mix of invited and peer-reviewed presentations, including a poster and demonstration session. The second day is restricted to TEI members and subscribers only, which includes reports on the TEI's work and the annual elections for the TEI Board and Council. Meetings of TEI Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are usually also scheduled for this day. 2007 will also mark the 20th anniversary of the TEI, so we would like to include some special events at the meeting to mark this occasion. Below is a list of the minimum and ideal requirements to host the annual meeting: Rooms needed * minimum: one large room for two days to seat entire meeting group (~75-100 people); four small rooms on the second day for SIGs (~10 people each); one large open room on second day for poster/demo session; one small meeting room on the third day for board meeting (~15 people); space for coffee breaks. * ideal: one large room for two days to seat entire meeting group (~75-100 people); six or more small rooms on the third day for SIGs; one large open room on second day for poster/demo session which is the same as or near to the space for coffee breaks Equipment needed * minimum: data projector in main room; internet access in main room; power for a dozen computers in poster session room; whiteboard or equivalent in smaller meeting rooms * ideal: the above plus internet access in poster session room, data projectors and internet in smaller meeting rooms Food needed * Coffee breaks: there should be morning and afternoon coffee breaks each day, and also coffee available at the start of each day unless there is coffee available for purchase very nearby * Lunch: typically lunch is not provided unless no adequate eating options are available within easy walking distance. * Reception: there should be a reception at the end of the first day; it will typically be sponsored by a vendor or by some other organization who receives publicity in exchange Funding for the annual meeting usually comes from three sources, the TEI-C budget (travel, room and board for invited speakers), the local hosting institution (typically in the donation of space, equipment, and technical support for the meeting), and from corporate sponsors (typically for coffee breaks and receptions). Bids should be sent to info_at_tei-c.org by July 1, 2006, and should include the following information: The name of the institution(s) making the bid The name, address, email, and telephone number of the contact person A brief description of the facilities available for the event (rooms, equipment, technical support, food, lodging) A description of what financial support, if any, the hosting institution is prepared to give (for instance, funding for a reception, for coffee breaks, for a pre-meeting workshop, for speaker travel expenses; free meeting rooms and equipment; etc.). Any other details that may be useful in assessing the bid (e.g. the presence of a conference on a related topic at the institution around the time of the meeting; the launch of a new TEI-related initiative at the institution, etc.). All bids will be reviewed by the TEI board, which makes the final decision. Thank you very much! Matthew Zimmerman Chair, TEI Consortium From: Willard McCarty Subject: nominations for exemplary articles? Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:05:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 91 (91) Dear colleagues, I am designing a course in which 4 disciplines are to be considered by undergraduates for how they use digital resources. Before I get to listing which are in fact used, I'd like the students to understand in a broad sense how each works -- what sort of questions it entertains, what it accepts as answers or responses, what sort of language is employed and so forth. My colleague John Lavagnino suggested that for each discipline I should be giving the students an article to read, specifically one in which the audience comprises others in the field. So I need recommendations for exemplary articles. The disciplines are philosophy, history, literary studies and archaeology -- chosen precisely for the differences in what each considers a resource to be. Of course the practices within each vary widely, so choosing one article is a bit problematic. But if you wanted someone (say a daughter or son) to get a grip on what each of those disciplines is all about, and you wanted to make sure said person did the homework, what articles would you choose? 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: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Virtual Lightbox in Action? Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:48:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 92 (92) Dear all, I'm collecting examples of the Virtual Lightbox as its been implemented in various places around the Web. If you've used the Lightbox yourself, or know of a use to which someone else has put it, would you send me along a link? The Virtual Lightbox is a free Java applet distributed by MITH for comparing, studying, and manipulating sets of images online: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/ Thanks in advance--Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Acting Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: discussion on computing in health-care? Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:51:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 93 (93) [Sent by Peter Jones, ] Hello everyone, I have recently subscribed to the list and look forward to following discussions. Living in the NW of England for almost 30 years now I have worked in the NHS in mental health. An interest in informatics began in 1981. Currently I am seconded to my Trust's NHS Care Record Service Project, and since 1997 I have been webmaster for - Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm] http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/ - can help map health, social care PLUS other issues, problems and solutions. The model takes a situated and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains: * Interpersonal; * Sociological; * Empirical; * Political. Our links pages cover each care (knowledge) domain e.g. Interpersonal: http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links.htm Sociology: http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links3.htm I am currently trying to complete a paper on Hodges model and selected works of Michel Serres. Kind regards Peter Jones Clinical Specialist: NHS Care Records Service Project / Informatics Preston Lancashire UK Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model h2cm: help 2C more - help 2 listen - help 2 care Peter Jones http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/ Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model h2cm: help2Cmore - help-2-listen - help-2-care 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: Julia Flanders Subject: 2006 TEI Members Meeting: Registration now open Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:18:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 94 (94) Register now for the 2006 TEI Annual Meeting! The 2006 TEI Annual Members' Meeting will be held on October 27-28, 2006 in Victoria, Canada. The meeting is being hosted by the University of Victoria, with Ray Siemens as the local organizer. Those who attended the ACH/ALLC conference in Victoria in 2005 will remember the excellent arrangements and also the beautiful location--we hope the TEI meeting will be just as successful. Registration is now open at http://etcl.uvic.ca/public/tei2006/index.php. The meeting is open to all and free to TEI members and subscribers. Non-members pay a $50 registration fee which covers a TEI subscription for the remainder of the calendar year. Register now to maximize your benefit! The program this year includes keynote lectures by Gregory Crane, Liam Quin, and Stephen Ramsay, as well as presentations on a variety of TEI topics, and a poster/tools demonstration session. The TEI Special Interest Groups will be meeting and giving reports at the TEI business meeting. In addition, the meeting this year is being co-located with a meeting of the Text Analysis Developers Alliance (TADA) and the Human Computer Interaction/Interface of the Book (HCI-Book) research initiative. Members of both of these groups will be attending the TEI meeting and presenting posters and demonstrations. Information about the event, including a preliminary program and information on making hotel reservations, is available at http://etcl.uvic.ca/public/tei2006/index.php. Accommodation at discounted rates is available at the conference hotel. Reservations must be made by September 27 in order to take advantage of the discounted rate. We look forward to seeing you in Victoria-- Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Chair, Program Committee Vice-Chair, TEI Consortium Brown University From: Gabriel BODARD Subject: Re: 20.059 Virtual Lightbox? Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:19:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 95 (95) Just by chance, we're being addressed in London this afternoon by Amy Smith on the Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives as implemented by the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology in Reading. See http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Ure/VLMA/ for the VLMA, and http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/ for the seminar. Very best, -- ======================================= Dr Gabriel BODARD Inscriptions of Aphrodisias / Digital Classicist Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London The Strand London WC2R 2LS Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)2078481388 / Fax: +44 (0)2078482980 ======================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: nominations for exemplary articles? Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:05:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 96 (96) Dear colleagues, I am designing a course in which 4 disciplines are to be considered by undergraduates for how they use digital resources. Before I get to listing which are in fact used, I'd like the students to understand in a broad sense how each works -- what sort of questions it entertains, what it accepts as answers or responses, what sort of language is employed and so forth. My colleague John Lavagnino suggested that for each discipline I should be giving the students an article to read, specifically one in which the audience comprises others in the field. So I need recommendations for exemplary articles. The disciplines are philosophy, history, literary studies and archaeology -- chosen precisely for the differences in what each considers a resource to be. Of course the practices within each vary widely, so choosing one article is a bit problematic. But if you wanted someone (say a daughter or son) to get a grip on what each of those disciplines is all about, and you wanted to make sure said person did the homework, what articles would you choose? 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: Zoe Borovsky Subject: Digital Librarian position at UCLA Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:19:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 97 (97) Librarian for Digital Collection Development Department: Digital Library Program Rank & Salary: Salary and appointment level based on experience and qualifications. Assistant Librarian Rank ($39,000 =AD $43,860) Associate Librarian Rank ($43,860 =AD $65,448) Librarian Rank ($65,448 =AD $84,060) Position Availability: Immediately The UCLA Library seeks applications/nominations for the position of Librarian for Digital Collection Development in the Digital Library Program. Description of Library Unit The UCLA Digital Library Program (DLP) serves as the catalyst for the creation, management, and delivery of digital content in support of the UCLA Library mission and goals. The program reports to the Associate University Librarian for the UCLA Electronic Library and currently consists of 4 academic personnel, a Programmer/Analyst dedicated to developing digital Oral History collections, and a cadre of project-based temporary staff. The Digital Library Architect and two additional Programmer/Analysts from the Library Information Technology unit provide technical development support. In addition, several staff members in other units have regular working relationships with the Digital Library Program to provide expertise in usability, copyright, and descriptive metadata. DLP staff work with collection curators, faculty, organized research units, and other entities both on campus and across the nation to build digital collections of international significance; participate in the design of innovative digital library technologies for search, retrieval and use of digital content; and work with faculty and technologists to integrate digital content into research and instruction. Program staff are also involved with UC system-wide and national initiatives that further digital library standards, practices, and technologies. Position Duties The Librarian for Digital Collection Development is a key member of the Digital Library Program (DLP) team. Reporting to the Head of the DLP, the Librarian provides leadership and coordination of librarians, faculty, staff, and other partners participating in the creation of digital collections of text, images, audio, and video. The successful candidate will be knowledgeable about digital library issues and standards, will have a strong grasp of underlying digital library technologies, will be an effective advocate for the use of digital collections in support of the University=B9s research and instructional activities, and will participate= in the creation of innovative digital library services and tools. Specific duties include: -Participates in project teams with members of varying technical= skills, with diverse needs and priorities, from both UCLA and outside partners. -Works with DLP colleagues to recruit, hire, train, and supervise student assistant staff for DLP projects as needed. -Consults with and provides advice to Library staff, faculty, campus instructional and research units, and other partners in the development of digital library projects. -With Library Information Technology and DLP staff, participates in the design, development, implementation, testing, and assessment of digital library technologies. -Serves as project manager for selected digital library project teams, facilitating team planning, establishing timelines and task assignments, monitoring and communicating progress to participants, sponsors, and partners. -Creates appropriate project documentation as needed. -In conjunction with Library and other partners, develops grant proposals and pursues external funding in support of digital library projects and initiatives. -Works with Library usability experts to ensure effective public access to and use of digital library collections. -Promotes the use and integration of UCLA digital library collections with other library collections and services for research and instruction. -Maintains knowledge of current trends, developments, standards, best practices and technologies in the area of digital libraries through professional activities such as conference attendance and participation, and training. - Serves on university and library committees, task forces, and teams= as needed. -Represents UCLA in appropriate professional and technical forums relating to digital libraries and related areas. Required Qualifications -ALA-accredited master=B9s degree in Library or Information Science OR equivalent education and professional experience. -Experience in project planning and management. Demonstrated knowledge of current standards and practices of digital library development and management. -Working knowledge of metadata for indexing and retrieval, including Dublin Core and MODS. -Working knowledge of protocols for metadata harvesting and exchange. -Working knowledge of current digitization standards and issues appropriate for digital library collections in all formats, including text, images, audio, and video. -Working knowledge of Web technologies including HTML, XML, CSS, XSLT. -Experience defining and developing individual digital library projects and/or digital collections in a library, museum, or other research environment. -Demonstrated excellent communication skills, both oral and written. -Demonstrated ability to participate effectively in a team environment, working both independently and collaboratively as appropriate. Desired Qualifications -Significant recent experience building innovative digital library services. -Experience working with faculty and students in an academic setting. -Experience writing grant applications and managing funded projects. -Knowledge of rights managements issues relating to digital materials. -Experience creating database-driven websites. Application Procedures Anyone wishing to be considered for this position should apply to Jenifer Abramson, Assistant Director of Library Human Resources, UCLA Library, Library Human Resources, 11617 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575. E-mail applications encouraged =AD send to jobs-hr_at_library.ucla.edu. Applications should include: a cover letter describing qualifications and experience; a current resume/vita detailing education and relevant experience; and the names and addresses for at least 3 professional references, including= a current or previous supervisor. Candidates applying by June 19, 2006 will be given first consideration. UCLA welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks applications and nominations from women and minorities. UCLA seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of California, to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning. UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/ADA compliant employer. Under Federal Law, the University of California may employ only individuals who are legally authorized to work in the United States as established by providing documents specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Employment is contingent upon completion of satisfactory background investigation. Visit the UCLA Library Employment Opportunities website: www2.library.ucla.edu/about/employment.cfm From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Exemplum - Danto on Beautiful Science and Future of Criticism Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:29:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 98 (98) Willard, You and your students might be fruitfully provoked in your investigations by Arthur C. Danto's "Beautiful Science and the Future of Criticism" in _The Future of Literary Theory_ edited by Ralph Cohen. It is an accessible piece of philosophical writing that rehearses a number of themes from the history of science and situates analytical philosophy vis-a-vis continental practices -- all with a minimum of name dropping. A key turn in the essay pivots upon the capability of imagining "a constructable text" and leads to a fortifying conclusion: Criticism is then the paradigm human science, and I find it surprising, even exhilarating, that the matrix for understanding the physiology and ultimately the molecular biology of human cognition should be those strategies applied to analyzing the poems of Donne and the plays of Shakespeare; and that the humanists with all their touching inadequacies, should be in the forefront of science. This paean to the humble is set up by a consideration of the relation of science and folk psychology reminiscent of Jerome Bruner: If Beautiful Science is an extension and refinement of the fundamental practices covered by Folk Psychology, texts, as literary artifacts, are projections and extensions of the unifying structures of a self or of a life. The principles, whatever they are, that enable us to tell and follow stories, to construct and read poetry, are the principles that bind lives into unities, that give us the sense of chapters ending and of new ones beginning. The future of criticism lies in making these principles explicit. It is also perhaps fortuitous that Danto's appeal to Lebensformen is echoed in the opening words of the next article in the collection ("Computing has become a form of life [...]") by Gregory G. Colomb and Mark Turner "Computers, Literary Theory, and Theory of Meaning". It is also a fine article. Worth considering. All the best to you and your students as you collectively explore words, practices and consequences. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Willard McCarty Subject: AI & Society 20.3 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:50:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 99 (99) Volume 20 Number 3 of AI & Society is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Editorial Preliminary comments on the amalgamation of togetherness and distance p. 243 Colin T. Schmidt DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0030-5 Original Article Computers and knowledge: a dialogical approach p. 249 Christian Brassac DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0019-0 Development of a knowledge base as a tool for contextualized learning p. 271 F. Henri, P. Gagné, M. Maina, Y. Gargouri, J. Bourdeau, G. Paquette DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0021-6 Original Paper The nature of virtual communities p. 288 Daniel Memmi DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0020-7 Context enhancement for co-intentionality and co-reference in asynchronous CMC p. 301 J. van der Pol, W. Admiraal, P. R. J. Simons DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0022-5 Original Paper Dialogue in context, towards a referential approach in collective learning p. 314 Marie-Laure Betbeder, Philippe Cottier, Colin Schmidt, Pierre Tchounikine DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0023-4 Original Article Should remote collaborators be represented by avatars? A matter of common ground for collective medical decision-making p. 331 J. Tapie, P. Terrier, L. Perron, J.-M. Cellier DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0028-z Original Article How to address group dynamics in virtual worlds p. 351 Katerina Nicolopoulou, Mitja Koštomaj, Andre Campos DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0027-0 OPEN FORUM PAPER Togetherness and respect: ethical concerns of privacy in Global Web Societies p. 372 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Virginia Horniak DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0024-3 Combining ergonomics, culture and scenario for the design of a cooperation platform p. 384 Nicolas Grégori, Jean-Charles Hautecouverture, François Charoy, Claude Godart DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0025-2 The Electronic Schoolbag, a CSCW workspace: presentation and evaluation p. 403 G. Chabert, J. Ch. Marty, B. Caron, T. Carron, L. Vignollet, C. Ferraris DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0026-1 Open Forum Relating research to practice: imperative or circumstance? p. 420 Dixi Louise Strand DOI: 10.1007/s00146-006-0047-4 From: "Alan Burk" Subject: call for posters, CaSTA 2006 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:48:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 100 (100) This year's Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis conference is being held at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, October 11 to 14, 2006. Posters are being accepted until June 30, 2006. Notification of the decision regarding acceptance will be sent by July 31, 2006. The final version of accepted posters is due by August 15, 2006. A poster submission consists of a maximum of 750 words. The CaSTA Program Committee invites submissions that focus on the ways in which researchers mine, manipulate and use electronic texts, where "texts" are understood in a broad sense to extend to and include multimedia. Poster presenters will be provided with two square meters of board space to display their work. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference and there will be a designated session for presenters to discuss their work. Interactive posters making use of wireless Internet access are welcome. Graduate students are encouraged to make a submission and some financial support is available (on a competitive basis) for graduate students to attend. The organizing committee will award a prize of $250 to the CaSTA 2006 best poster. Accepted posters will be published in the conference proceedings. Abstracts will be posted on the web site prior to the start of the conference. Paper copies of the proceedings will be distributed to conference participants at registration. The complete call for posters and submission guidelines are at http://www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006/ Co-sponsors include the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Society for Digital Humanities and the Association for Computing Machinery and Sun Microsystems. It would be much appreciated if you could forward this message on to others you think might be interested in submitting a poster to CaSTA 2006. Regards, Alan Burk CaSTA 2006 Co-Chair _______________________________________________ Members mailing list Members_at_lists.sdh-semi.org http://lists.sdh-semi.org/mailman/listinfo/members From: "Aurelio Berardi" Subject: question Re: 20.064 call for posters, CaSTA 2006 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:39:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 101 (101) Dear Colleague, Reacting to the call for posters, "CaSTA 2006", I would like to ask you if we are welcome to send you an abstract in French (?). Many thanks for your help, Aurelio Berardi From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.23 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:37:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 102 (102) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 23 June 20, 2006 - June 26, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: Coping with Innovative Technology Arun-Kumar Tripathi writes: "The flood of information today threatens to overflow, suffocate and even obliterate actual reality, says the University of Montana philosophy professor Albert Borgmann. The 'lightness' of technological information seems bent on overcoming the 'moral gravity' and 'material density' that real things naturally possess and that demand our mindful engagement. Albert Borgmann is not asking us to abandon technological information. But he is calling us to link it effectively to 'things and practices' that provide for our material and spiritual well-being." Go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i23_coping.html. For this week's Ubiquity go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 23 (June 20, 2006 - June 26, 2006) From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Forbidden City: Extra Muros Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:38:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 103 (103) Willard, An announcement and its blog remix may be of interest for various reasons to subscribers of Humanist. John Tolva at Ascent Stage offers a personal view of an IBM project he is involveed with -- The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time. Some enticing tidbits ... the sidewalk approach to cultural heritage [...] a community space that exists on different timelines [...] we propose to open the modelling effort to the global community of developers [...] a team at the Palace Museum who are as technically-savvy as they are informed about the history and culture inside the Forbidden City walls. http://www.ascentstage.com/archives/2006/06/the_forbidden_c.html Watch that spot for further developments. From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The June 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:17:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 104 (104) Greetings: The June 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, a commentary, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month D-Lib features the Smithsonian Institution collection: Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The articles include: Distributed Preservation in a National Context: NDIIPP at Mid-point Abby Smith, Independent Consultant Metadata Authentication and Access Management Michael Teets, OCLC Online Computer Library Center; and Peter Murray, OhioLINK Metadata Interoperability and Standardization - A Study of Methodology, Part I: Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level Lois Mai Chan, University of Kentucky; and Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University Metadata Interoperability and Standardization - A Study of Methodology, Part II: Achieving Interoperability at the Record and Repository Levels Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University; and Lois Mai Chan, University of Kentucky The commentary is: The Digital Road to Scientific Knowledge Diffusion: A Faster, Better Way to Scientific Progress? David E. Wojick, Innovations in Scientific Knowledge and Advancement; Walter L. Warnick, U.S. Department of Energy; Bonnie C. Carroll and June Crowe, Information International Associates, Inc. From: Karin Armstrong Subject: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:20:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 105 (105) On November 5th and 6th, 2006 What to Do with a Million Books: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science http://dhcs.uchicago.edu/call_for_papers The goal of this colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. In the wake of recent large-scale digitization projects aimed at providing universal access to the world's vast textual repositories, humanities scholars, librarians and computer scientists find themselves newly challenged to make such resources functional and meaningful. As Gregory Crane recently pointed out (1), digital access to "a million books" confronts us with the need to provide viable solutions to a range of difficult problems: analog to digital conversion, machine translation, information retrieval and data mining, to name a few. Moreover, mass digitization leads not just to problems of scale: new goals can also be envisioned, for example, catalyzing the development of new computational tools for context-sensitive analysis. If we are to build systems to interrogate usefully massive text collections for meaning, we will need to draw not only on the technical expertise of computer scientists but also learn from the traditions of self-reflective, inter-disciplinary inquiry practiced by humanist scholars. The book as the locus of much of our knowledge has long been at the center of discussions in digital humanities. But as mass digitization efforts accelerate a change in focus from a print-culture to a networked, digital-culture, it will become necessary to pay more attention to how the notion of a text itself is being re-constituted. We are increasingly able to interact with texts in novel ways, as linguistic, visual, and statistical processing provide us with new modes of reading, representation, and understanding. This shift makes evident the necessity for humanities scholars to enter into a dialogue with librarians and computer scientists to understand the new language of open standards, search queries, visualization and social networks. Digitizing "a million books" thus poses far more than just technical challenges. Tomorrow, a million scholars will have to re-evaluate their notions of archive, textuality and materiality in the wake of these developments. How will humanities scholars, librarians and computer scientists find ways to collaborate in the "Age of Google?" (1) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/crane/03crane.html _______________________________________________ Institute mailing list Institute_at_lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/institute From: Willard McCarty Subject: Workshop on Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:22:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 106 (106) ****Deadline Extended: Abstract 30 June, Paper July 10 ******* - OnToContent 2006 - Workshop on Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise -With two tracks on eHealth and Human Resources- ******************************************************************** *** Proceedings published by Springer LNCS *** *** Invited Speaker: To be announced *** *** Topics: Ontology Content, Evaluation, standardization *** *** Enterprise, eHealth, Human Resources *** *** http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/OnToContent06 *** ******************************************************************** In conjunction of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '06) 3-4 Nov 2006, Montpellier, France [...] ============================================ Dr. Mustafa Jarrar STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel mjarrar_at_vub.ac.be | mustafa_at_jarrar.info http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa Tel: +32 2 6293487 , Fax :+32 2 6293819 Mobile: +32 495 687077 Skype: mjarrar ============================================ Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: LNCS 4060/2006: Algebra, Meaning and Computation Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:19:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 107 (107) Volume 4060/2006 (Algebra, Meaning and Computation) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at <http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?genre=issue&issn=0302-9743&volume=4060&issue=-1>http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: <http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0302-9743&volume=4060&spage=1>Sync or Swarm: Musical Improvisation and the Complex Dynamics of Group Creativity p. 1 David Borgo DOI: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11780274_1>10.1007/11780274_1 <http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0302-9743&volume=4060&spage=25>My Friend Joseph Goguen p. 25 Rod Burstall DOI: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11780274_2>10.1007/11780274_2 <http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0302-9743&volume=4060&spage=31>Metalogic, Qualia, and Identity on Neptune’s Great Moon: Meaning and Mathematics in the Works of Joseph A. Goguen and Samuel R. Delany p. 31 D. 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Recently I've been using the image of a cornucopia to express the fruitfulness thus opened up to us, but earlier this week I discovered the following delightful image in Catherine Liu's fascinating book, Copying Machines: taking notes for the automaton (Minnesota, 2000, p. 138): "One of the reading machine's finest skills is its ability to find and peel away with myopic intensity the dehiscence already at work between grammar and rhetoric." (p. 138). 'Dehiscence' is defined in the OED as "Gaping, opening by divergence of parts, esp. as a natural process: a. Bot. The bursting open of capsules, fruits, anthers, etc. in order to discharge their mature contents." (Etymologically the word is from modern Latin, specifically Linnaeus, who is quoted as writing, "quum fructus maturus semina dispergat".) So from the gap bursts forth thought-seeds rather than fruit ready to eat. Better, I think, for the results we get and what we do with them. In classical Latin, however, we find the root verb 'dehisco' with very different but equally useful imagery. In Met 13.882ff, for example, Ovid describes the rage of Polyphemus, who smitten by Galatea attempts to kill her lover Acis with a huge piece of rock wrenched from the side of a mountain. Only a small fragment of the rock reaches Acis, but even that is sufficient to crush and bury him. Galatea intervenes, causing Acis to assume his ancestral powers as a river-god. The blood trickling out from beneath the rock becomes water, ...tum moles iacta dehiscit, vivaque per rimas proceraque surgit harundo, osque cavum saxi sonat exsultantibus undis, miraque res, subito media tenus exstitit alvo incinctus iuvenis flexis nova cornua cannis, qui, nisi quod maior, quod toto caerulus ore, Acis erat... "Then the mass that had been thrown cracked wide open and a tall green reed sprang up through the crack, and the hollow opening in the rock resounded with leaping waters, and, wonderful! suddenly, his new-sprung horns wreathed with bending rushes. It was Acis...." (Loeb transl.; my thanks to John Burrows for pointing me to this passage.) And so the forceful attempt by jealous monstrosity to crush the lover fails in a great eruption of erotic energy. Or, one could say, we need a Polyphemus in order to effect the transformation of rather ordinary stuff into miraculous being. Ah, the play of metaphor. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: theory and practice Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:01:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 109 (109) In her book Copying Machines: taking notes for the automaton (Minnesota, 2000), Catherine Liu makes the following remark about literary critical and psychoanalytic theory: [deleted quotation]In humanities computing we encounter the opposite situation: we have many excuses for what we are doing, because the practice as is it usually instantiated is precisely for the advancement of projects elsewhere. One way of reading the situation is that humanities computing offers rescue to the useless disciplines, provides these unexcused ones with whatever excuses may be required. In the short-term this seems a good pitch to make (though, of course, not in those terms, not out loud), since it secures friends in middle and high places. But as a long-term strategy it smells of High Moral Seriousness, and one starts to wonder where our Wilde will come from. If theory -- or Theory, as I prefer -- needs to engage with artefacts, not only to obtain its get-out-of-jail-free card but also to be liberated from solipsism, then humanities computing requires the opposite engagement with its own sense of theory. It has to be for itself if it's going to be good for the other humanities when, as some claim, the woodwork computes. So, I have a proposal to make: that we call what happens in the disciplines the "digital humanities" but that we call the techno-scholarly practice that thus informs these disciplines "humanities computing". In other words, I think that we're witnessing not just another evolutionary step (as in the steps from "computers and the humanities" to "computing in the humanities" to "humanities computing") but now the separation of this evolving entity into two distinct though intimately related things. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: designing mind Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:44:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 110 (110) Consider the following passage from Thomas K Landauer, "Cognitive Psychology and Computer System Design", in John M Carroll, ed., Interfacing Thought: Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction (MIT Press, 1987): 1-25: [deleted quotation]The idea of mind as an artefact of culture is appealing -- i.e., that we, as a culture, make up our mind. But there is, I think, a problem lurking in the imagery of this passage -- a problem one finds rampant in writings from those you would expect to be quite philosophically and philologically self-aware. It is the problem of an assumed model which has become, as Charles Taylor remarks in Philosophy and the Human Sciences, cosmological -- i.e. has been taken on silently as the way things are. (Taylor does a fine job with behaviourism, a now defunct cosmology, comparing it to AI, which isn't.) One finds the same thing happening in Jerry Fodor's Modularity of Mind, where mind computes, full stop, and does so without him for one moment reflecting on the fact that he's naturalized an artificial vocabulary and way of talking. In the above passage, note "system", "programmed", "knowledge base", "general purpose device". Us literary critics have much work to do. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: oupjournals-mailer_at_liontamer.stanford.edu Subject: Literary & Linguistic Computing (June 2006): Vol. 21, No. 2 Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:35:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 111 (111) Lit Linguist Computing -- Table of Contents Alert June 2006; Vol. 21, No. 2 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol21/issue2/index.dtl?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction Alejandro G. Bia and Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:139-140. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/21/2/139?etoc Human Computing--Modelling with Meaning Meurig Beynon, Steve Russ, and Willard McCarty Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:141-157. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/141?etoc In the Philosophy Room: Australian Realism and Digital Content Development Creagh Cole and Paul Scifleet Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:159-167. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/159?etoc A Prototype for Authorship Attribution Studies Patrick Juola, John Sofko, and Patrick Brennan Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:169-178. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/169?etoc Rule-based Search in Text Databases with Nonstandard Orthography Thomas Pilz, Wolfram Luther, Norbert Fuhr, and Ulrich Ammon Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:179-186. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/179?etoc Functional Disambiguation Based on Syntactic Structures Octavio Santana Suarez, Jose Rafael Perez Aguiar, Luis Losada Garcia, and Francisco Javier Carreras Riudavets Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:187-197. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/187?etoc Callimachus--Avoiding the Pitfalls of XML for Collaborative Text Analysis Jeff Smith, Joel Deshaye, and Peter Stoicheff Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:199-218. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/199?etoc Using Ancillary Text to Index Web-based Multimedia Objects Lyne Da Sylva and James M. Turner Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:219-228. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/219?etoc Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse 'Humanities Computing' Melissa Terras Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:229-246. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/229?etoc Visual Knowledge: Textual Iconography of the Quixote, a Hypertextual Archive Eduardo Urbina, Richard Furuta, Steven Escar Smith, Neal Audenaert, Jie Deng, and Carlos Monroy Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:247-258. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/247?etoc From: Willard McCarty Subject: theory and practice Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:01:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 112 (112) In her book Copying Machines: taking notes for the automaton (Minnesota, 2000), Catherine Liu makes the following remark about literary critical and psychoanalytic theory: [deleted quotation]In humanities computing we encounter the opposite situation: we have many excuses for what we are doing, because the practice as is it usually instantiated is precisely for the advancement of projects elsewhere. One way of reading the situation is that humanities computing offers rescue to the useless disciplines, provides these unexcused ones with whatever excuses may be required. In the short-term this seems a good pitch to make (though, of course, not in those terms, not out loud), since it secures friends in middle and high places. But as a long-term strategy it smells of High Moral Seriousness, and one starts to wonder where our Wilde will come from. If theory -- or Theory, as I prefer -- needs to engage with artefacts, not only to obtain its get-out-of-jail-free card but also to be liberated from solipsism, then humanities computing requires the opposite engagement with its own sense of theory. It has to be for itself if it's going to be good for the other humanities when, as some claim, the woodwork computes. So, I have a proposal to make: that we call what happens in the disciplines the "digital humanities" but that we call the techno-scholarly practice that thus informs these disciplines "humanities computing". In other words, I think that we're witnessing not just another evolutionary step (as in the steps from "computers and the humanities" to "computing in the humanities" to "humanities computing") but now the separation of this evolving entity into two distinct though intimately related things. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Zoe Borovsky Subject: Re: 20.073 excuses for theory, ideas from practice Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:33:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 113 (113) Dear Willard, This strikes me as a good solution to what I have been grappling with...how to create an organization that encompasses both new media theorists as well as the hard-crunching morphological analyzing tools. I realized that it was the perfect answer to a question I did not answer very well the other day. I was asked to present an overview of the new text analysis tools, Juxta, Xaira, WordHoard, TAPoR, etc., and was asked what the demand was for such tools. I had tried to impress the audience with the ability to perform sophisticated analyses with these new tools, but had to admit that very few humanities faculty were asking for help using these types of tools. However, upon reflection, what does interest them are the more utilitarian tools such as RefVis, and citation indexes that incorporate textual analysis tools into what is essentially a bibliographical application. I was especially intrigued by this description on Thomson.com website: http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/useofcitationdatabases/linking/ Subheadings, such as those in Medline=AE, serve as intermediate= topics that bridge the two noninteractive literatures (see Figure 1). For instance, a researcher might notice that the topic of emaciating or degenerative diseases is frequently accompanied by the subheading of growth hormones in the index. The subheading of growth hormones could then be considered as an intermediate topic. The next step in the exploratory process is to find titles that relate directly to factors that influence the intermediate topic. In the case of growth hormones, such a factor is arginine. Once a relationship is established indirectly between two primary topics--such as degenerative disease and the use of arginine--through an intermediate topic--such as growth hormones--a hypothesis can be formed. Swanson's method of linking two "noninteractive literatures" using a citation index to explore indirect relationships between topics strikes me as a typical method used in text analysis--now integrated into bibliographic tools. The Swanson example may also be a way of introducing how "techno-scholarly practice" might inform the "digital humanitists" and lead to discussions, indeed a discipline, that envisions a future of tools and theories that address the needs of both. I will revamp the presentation and let you know how it goes. Suggestions, comments are most welcome! --zoe Zoe Borovsky UCLA-Digital Humanities Incubator Group On 6/24/06 2:45 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation] www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html [deleted quotation] From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: 20.072 minding the gap Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:21:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 114 (114) Willard, Your post-solstice message "mind the dehiscence" offers an abundance of entry points and a reader who takes the exhoration to heart just might parse the subject line as not only a call to pay attention but also to describe or model mind itself as "the dehiscence". If the mind is ever restless it does from time to time focus. White space assists in the focusing of mind. White space in verbal artefacts is akin to what art critics call negative space in graphic representations. You began with reference to Jerome McGann. Which if I read the unpacking of the cornucopia metaphor correctly was the last item to be gathered in the horn basket. I know you offered the cornucopia as an image and I know that my literalizing it in this instance is taking the tumbling togetherness of the cornucopic image and opening it up to temporality. Cornucopia do not fill themselves. There is labour involved. Whether the cornucopia functions by by the first in last out principle of stack management, the reference to _Radiant Textuality_ opens, closes, or focuses the other elements filling the basket. I will return to the fungibility of first, last and centre. I want to linger an instant on the question of the gap. Your summary of the question that McGann asks situates the gap in the field of a pairing. Jerome McGann asks if our purpose as scholars is not better served by questioning the gap between a cultural artefact and its digital representation rather than concentrating on its closing: "What if the point were not trying to bridge that gap but to feed off and develop it?" I wonder if referent for "that gap" as pointed to by McGann is indeed reducible to a space between "cultural artefact" and "its digital representation". I am not implying that you are miscontruing the local intent of the intervention offered by _Radiant Textuality_. I am simply suggesting in a move to proffer a universal savouring of this cornucopic element might want to take into account those who have tasted (and continue to taste) the digitally-created culturual artefacts. Furthermore, there are those that consider any artefact as a representation. Any gap for them is not between an artefact as representation but between modes of approaching either as the other. That is, a representation can be considered in its artefactual aspects and an artefact can be taken as a representation. Such an approach is mindful of avoiding the reduction of representation to reproduction, especially a notion of reproduction freighted with a _grand recit_ of the fall. I suggest that the gap to be mindful of lies not between objects but within the observer's orientations (or intersubjectively between the orientations of observers). Indeed much is opened up by questions. It is here that I want to suggest that depending upon the referent of "that gap" bridging may very well be the intent and outcome of the drive to analysis, a bridge between people, a conduit for intersubjectivity. Is not a cornucopia a sort of bridge between the gathering and the sharing? I now want to turn to the parrallel you suggest between the cornucopia image and that of dehiscence. You do not explicity make the images equivalent. Your narrative of discovery does however inivite comparisons of the two. The horn basket is emptied and usually in its emptying it does not suffer damage. The container subject to dehiscence loses its capacity to act as a container in the same fashion. From the cornucopia I can take the bean pods, once the beans are shelled, the material from the pods only becomes pod-like again after a long detour process involving a route that may travel through animal feed on its way to compost. Recently I've been using the image of a cornucopia to express the fruitfulness thus opened up to us, but earlier this week I discovered the following delightful image in Catherine Liu's fascinating book, Copying Machines: taking notes for the automaton (Minnesota, 2000, p. 138): "One of the reading machine's finest skills is its ability to find and peel away with myopic intensity the dehiscence already at work between grammar and rhetoric." (p. 138). 'Dehiscence' is defined in the OED as "Gaping, opening by divergence of parts, esp. as a natural process: a. Bot. The bursting open of capsules, fruits, anthers, etc. in order to discharge their mature contents." (Etymologically the word is from modern Latin, specifically Linnaeus, who is quoted as writing, "quum fructus maturus semina dispergat".) "[B]etween grammar and rhetoric" is this code for "dialectic"? It is this appeal to the trivium, that helps me salvage the for me rather odd claim that a reading machine can peel away a process even one already at work. I am not so much troubled by the attribution of agency to the machine as by trying to gather a machinic-sense of "peeling". Now if the word "away" was not there I would gleefully embrace the image of a chiming machine. At a stretch I could even imagine a machine peeling away with abandon like so many church bells tolling. But the "myopic intensity" reference calls to mind the anglo-expression about keeping one's eyes peeled. The visual mode is at the fore here. My eyes being what they are (attached to my ears) I am uneasy. I am distinctly hearing "dehiscence" as a thing and not a process but I keep seeing process. Ah the shadow of the OED! I consult another dictionary. "A gape or gaping." A "gape" not "gap". Gape --- yes, a verb. But also a very zoological marvel. "The expanse of the open mouth, as in birds; also, the opening between the shells of a bivalve the edges of which do not naturally shut tight together." [Note the consulted dictionary indicates that "gape" has two alternative pronounciations one of which makes the word homophonic with "gap".] A cornucopia by the shore. Still that already-at-work-between nags. Is the space arrived at in going from grammar to rhetoric the same as going from rhetoric to grammar? For example, from the realm of rhetoric take personification and pronouns from the domain of grammar, are we not in the delirious nomad's land of dialectic? [Sweet sweet white space got me from "noman's" to "nomad's"] I merely want to signal that in a properly horny cornucopia "dehiscence" concerns itself just as much with attachement as with parting. And so with a mind to connectedness, I am puzzled by what divergence you seek to capture in the seed/fruit image that bridges your move from Liu & the OED to Ovid. So from the gap bursts forth thought-seeds rather than fruit ready to eat. Better, I think, for the results we get and what we do with them. The image reminds me of the summer play of spitting watermelon seeds. But the horny basket is promiscuous: sunflower, almond, pumpkin, poppy, crowd in. Of course the image is not operating solely on the difference between seed/fruit; that difference is accompanied by the implicit comparison between ready-to-eat and needing-preparation. Allow me a diverting digression. How one eats and how one thinks are linked by how one classifies. Consider the poem "Strawberries" by Souvankham Thammavongsa [to which I do a grave diservice by not replicating its disposition on the page] "STRAWBERRIES / do not / hide their seeds / They scatter / into their own bodies / before / they find ground /" as an apt metaphor for the humanist scholar. But before you do ponder the next and concluding lines of the poem "You suppose / they are like others / and slice one / Now, you know / there is no need" I do so much want to leave you digesting that digression but you offered more from the cornucopia. In classical Latin, however, we find the root verb 'dehisco' with very different but equally useful imagery. In Met 13.882ff, for example, Ovid describes the rage of Polyphemus, who smitten by Galatea attempts to kill her lover Acis with a huge piece of rock wrenched from the side of a mountain. Only a small fragment of the rock reaches Acis, but even that is sufficient to crush and bury him. Galatea intervenes, causing Acis to assume his ancestral powers as a river-god. The blood trickling out from beneath the rock becomes water, ...tum moles iacta dehiscit, vivaque per rimas proceraque surgit harundo, osque cavum saxi sonat exsultantibus undis, miraque res, subito media tenus exstitit alvo incinctus iuvenis flexis nova cornua cannis, qui, nisi quod maior, quod toto caerulus ore, Acis erat... "Then the mass that had been thrown cracked wide open and a tall green reed sprang up through the crack, and the hollow opening in the rock resounded with leaping waters, and, wonderful! suddenly, his new-sprung horns wreathed with bending rushes. It was Acis...." (Loeb transl.; my thanks to John Burrows for pointing me to this passage.) [deleted quotation]aggregates. A small part of the rock reaches vs being struck by a small part of the rock. "Only a small fragment of the rock reaches Acis" The question is is that small fragment still connected to the rock? Such grueling granularity is going on to graceful degradation. But before, let us, inspired by your attempt to recuperate the figure of Polyphemus, ask if the one-eyed cyclop's tearing away is not the first act of dehiscence? And so the forceful attempt by jealous monstrosity to crush the lover fails in a great eruption of erotic energy. Or, one could say, we need a Polyphemus in order to effect the transformation of rather ordinary stuff into miraculous being. Do we need rage or a daemon? Recall that Ovid through the mouth of Polyphemus compares Galatea to a violent mountain torrent and proclaims her harder to move than rocks and her anger deadlier than lightning. Recall as well that his cornucopian song lists among its catalogue of produce strawberries which the Giant proffers to the Neriede to pick by her own hand. Notice too the frame: Galatea is telling the tale while Charybdis combs her hair. Would the tale be different if the interlocutor were another? Habits of reading the hilum. Minding less the gap and anatomizing more the entrances and exits. Splicing the metaphor. Ah, the play of metaphor. Delicately skipping between the performed and the preformed, I quote Kenji Ueda and note a different living tradition. In Shinto there is not a single existence which serves no purpose. Shinto considers the work of all things in a spiritual manner. It categories all things by using the words _tama_, _mono_ and _mi_. _Mi_ may also be written as the character for body or fruit. It is believed that _mi_ comes to an end after fulfilling its purpose. _Mono_ refers to objects or bodies other than man such as animals. These spirits often bring harm to man or disrupt his activities. Although it is believed that _mono_ may at times lend to him a helping hand. _Mono-no-ke_ (a un-natural being) expresses this spiritual aspect of _mono_. This form of belief is reflected in tales of the supernatural beings that have been conveyed to us from olden times. The purification ceremonies held today even for computer equipment, factories and ships is done so with the prayer that the spirits of _mi_ may work properly and that there be no interference from _mono_. These ceremonies are even performed to console the spirits of animals used in medical experiments--something unimaginable in the West. [...] Whether the departed souls actually die or not is dependent upon our celebration. It is the same with the Kami--their presence depends on our celebration for them. http://www.yasukuni.or.jp/english/ To category as different from to categorize. It's a catachrestic nuance worth exploring. Proforma, at least, to recall that the cultured artefact is a product of group process and that the group's process involves individual and aggregate products. A concluding treat: Ovid's Metamorphoses, 1567 The first translation into English - credited to Arthur Golding The roundeyd devill made pursewt: and rending up a fleece Of Aetna Rocke, threw after him: of which a little peece Did Acis overtake. And yit as little as it was, It overwhelmed Acis whole. I wretched wyght (alas) By the play of pronouns the reader is brought to identify (or resist identification with) the cross-gendered speaking voice (male poet through female character), to stand in a sense between the destroying and the destroyed. Totem poles are meant to decay in the raincoast forests of the Pacific Northwest which is actually northeast in relation to Japan. Ruin is ritualized. And so I return to centre, last and first. How is one to match the "outer" subject line of the message to Humanist "minding the gap" with the message quoted within with the subject line "mind the dehiscence"? Are we to string them along? minding the gap mind the dehiscence and reparse with a view to watching the activity act: minding / the gap mind / the dehiscence / minding / the gap / Thank you for offering such loopy lunacy at solstice time, a time where the moon and its phases are not always foremost in our thoughts. From: Arno Bosse Subject: 2nd CFP: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:22:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 115 (115) and Computer Science Dear colleagues, Below is the (updated) full text of our second call for participation: "What to Do with a Million Books: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science". From the abstract: "The goal of this colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research." We are striving, above all, to organize an intellectually engaging, informal event, where faculty and students from the Humanities and from Computer Science, Library and Digital Humanities staff will have ample time to meet to share their perspectives on issues that should be of common interest to us all. Greg Crane, Ben Shneiderman and John Unsworth have agreed to be speakers and we hope to encourage a strong turnout in particular from local institutions in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. If you have any questions about the Colloquium, please consult our website, http://dhcs.uchicago.edu or email the organizing committee at dhcs-conference_at_listhost.uchicago.edu best regards, Arno Bosse Director of Technology Division of the Humanities University of Chicago 1115 E. 58th St., Walker Room 001B Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: 773-702-6177 Fax: 773-834-5867 ------------------------------------------------- What to Do with a Million Books: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science Sponsored by the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago, November 5th & 6th, 2006 Submission Deadline: August 15, 2006 The goal of this colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. In the wake of recent large-scale digitization projects aimed at providing universal access to the world's vast textual repositories, humanities scholars, librarians and computer scientists find themselves newly challenged to make such resources functional and meaningful. As Gregory Crane recently pointed out (1), digital access to "a million books" confronts us with the need to provide viable solutions to a range of difficult problems: analog to digital conversion, machine translation, information retrieval and data mining, to name a few. Moreover, mass digitization leads not just to problems of scale: new goals can also be envisioned, for example, catalyzing the development of new computational tools for context-sensitive analysis. If we are to build systems to interrogate usefully massive text collections for meaning, we will need to draw not only on the technical expertise of computer scientists but also learn from the traditions of self-reflective, inter-disciplinary inquiry practiced by humanist scholars. The book as the locus of much of our knowledge has long been at the center of discussions in digital humanities. But as mass digitization efforts accelerate a change in focus from a print-culture to a networked, digital-culture, it will become necessary to pay more attention to how the notion of a text itself is being re-constituted. We are increasingly able to interact with texts in novel ways, as linguistic, visual, and statistical processing provide us with new modes of reading, representation, and understanding. This shift makes evident the necessity for humanities scholars to enter into a dialogue with librarians and computer scientists to understand the new language of open standards, search queries, visualization and social networks. Digitizing "a million books" thus poses far more than just technical challenges. Tomorrow, a million scholars will have to re-evaluate their notions of archive, textuality and materiality in the wake of these developments. How will humanities scholars, librarians and computer scientists find ways to collaborate in the "Age of Google?" (1) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/crane/03crane.html Colloquium Website: http://dhcs.uchicago.edu/announcement/ Date: November 5th & 6th, 2006 Location: The University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Keynote Speakers Greg Crane (Professor of Classics, Tufts University) has been engaged since 1985 in planning and development of the Perseus Project, which he directs as the Editor-in-Chief. Besides supervising the Perseus Project as a whole, he has been primarily responsible for the development of the morphological analysis system which provides many of the links within the Perseus database. Ben Shneiderman is Professor in the Department of Computer Science, founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland. He is a leading expert in human-computer interaction and information visualization and has published extensively in these and related fields. John Unsworth is Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, he was on the faculty at the University of Virginia where he also led the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. He has published widely in the field of Digital Humanities and was the recipient last year of the Lyman Award for scholarship in technology and humanities. Program Committee Prof. Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago Dr. Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Prof. Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University Dr. Mark Olsen, Associate Director, The ARTFL Project, University of Chicago Prof. Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology Prof. Wai Gen Yee, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology Call for Participation: Participation in the colloquium is open to all. We welcome submissions for: 1. Paper presentations (20 minute maximum) 2. Poster sessions 3. Software demonstrations Suggested submission topics * Representing text genealogies and variance * Automatic extraction and analysis of natural language style elements * Visualization of large corpus search results * The materiality of the digital text * Interpreting symbols: textual exegesis and game playing * Mashup: APIs for integrating discrete information resources * Intelligent Documents * Community based tagging / folksonomies * Massively scalable text search and summaries * Distributed editing & annotation tools * Polyglot Machines: Computerized translation * Seeing not reading: visual representations of literary texts * Schemas for scholars: field and period specific ontologies for the humanities * Context sensitive text search * Towards a digital hermeneutics: data mining and pattern finding Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page maximum) abstract in either PDF or MS Word format to dhcs-submissions_at_listhost.uchicago.edu. Important Dates Deadline for Submissions: August 15th Notification of Acceptance: September 15th Full Program Announcement: September 15th Contact Info: General Inquiries: dhcs-conference_at_listhost.uchicago.edu Organizational Committee: Mark Olsen, mark_at_gide.uchicago.edu, Associate Director, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago. Catherine Mardikes, mardikes_at_uchicago.edu, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago. Arno Bosse, abosse_at_uchicago.edu, Director of Technology, Humanities Division, University of Chicago. Shlomo Argamon, argamon_at_iit.edu, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology. From: Antonella D'Ascoli Subject: JIIA Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:20:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 116 (116) 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' http://www.jiia.it JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository) http://eprints.jiia.it/ __________________ Latest Additions: Autore: Giovanni Mastronuzzi Titolo:Repertorio dei contesti cultuali indigeni in Italia meridionale:1.Etŕ arcaica Presentazione: Francesco D'Andria Capitolo 1: I culti delle genti indigene dell'Italia Meridionale. Storia degli Studi http://eprints.jiia.it/32/ Abstract:Gli strumenti informatici e topografici di recente acquisizione, quale ad esempio il G.I.S., si rivelano sempre piů utili ai fini di una lettura complessiva della documentazione archeologica. Questo lavoro, che costituisce parte della tesi di dottorato discussa nel 1998, intende collocarsi in questo quadro. Nello specifico di questa ricerca, la documentazione relativa ai contesti cultuali non č stata raccolta solo in funzione di un tentativo, forse vano, di individuazione delle divinitŕ cui erano rivolti i culti delle genti indigene dell'Italia meridionale. Al contrario, si č posto l'obiettivo di una analisi complessiva, che tenesse conto degli elementi riferibili alle manifestazioni del culto, ed anche della connessione delle aree sacre con le forme di occupazione del territorio. ...Insieme alla raccolta bibliografica si č ritenuto indispensabile assumere una base cartografica su cui ubicare i vari complessi.(Mastronuzzi G., Introduzione) Si pubblica per gentile concessione di Edipuglia s.r.l. Cordiali saluti A. D'Ascoli ______________ Antonella D'Ascoli Direttore Responsabile di JIIA & ADR 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' URL: http://www.jiia.it & 'Archaeological Disciplinary Repository' JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository) URL: http://eprints.jiia.it/ Address: Via Giacomo Leopardi n.56 80044 - Ottaviano (NA) - Italy tel. +39 (0)81 8278203 tel. fax +39 (0)81 8280384 cell. 333 2899783 Skype: dascoli1957 e-mail: dascolia_at_tiscalinet.it e-mail: dascoli1957_at_gmail.com From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.24 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:52:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 117 (117) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 24 June 27, 2006 - July 4, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: GEORGE MANEY AND RANDALL HYDE In "The Ultimate Technology," George Maney shows us why genies are considered clever. See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i24_theultimatetechnology.html In "The Fallacy of Premature Optimization," Randall Hyde shows us why programmers need to be as clever as genies. See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i24_fallacy.html. For this week's Ubiquity go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 24 (June 27, 2006 - July 4, 2006) From: "Alan Liu" Subject: Request for Comment: draft policy statement on Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:53:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 118 (118) student use of Wikipedia Dear Willard, This message is a request for comment (the humanities version of a RFC). 2006 appears to be the year that undergraduate students discovered Wikipedia in a big way. My colleagues and I have been seeing an increasing number of papers that use Wikipedia inappropriately as the sole or primary reference. For example, I just read a paper about the relation between Structuralism, Deconstruction, and Postmodernism in which every reference was to the Wikipedia articles on those topics with no awareness that there was any need to read a primary work or even a critical work. After writing comments to a number of students on this topic, I set to work on a general policy statement addressed to the student that might be shared among my local community of scholars (see draft below). I thought such a statement might be of general use. I welcome any suggestions from, or discussion by, the Humanist community as well as pointers to any similar statements that may exist. (Still to do is a one-paragraph version of such a statement suitable for inclusion in a course syllabus.) --Alan Liu, UC Santa Barbara TO THE STUDENT: APPROPRIATE USE OF WIKIPEDIA In recent years, Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org) has become one of the most important and useful resources on the Internet. Created by an open community of authors (anyone can contribute, edit, or correct articles), it has become a powerful resource for researchers to consult alongside other established library and online resources. As in the case of all tools, however, its value is a function of appropriateness. In the case of college-level essays or research papers, students should keep in mind the following two limitations, one applying to all encyclopedias, and the other specifically to Wikipedia: (1) As in the case of any encyclopedia, Wikipedia is not appropriate as the primary or sole reference for anything that is central to an argument, complex, or controversial. "Central to an argument" means that the topic in question is crucial for the paper. (For example, a paper _about_ Shakespeare or postmodernism cannot rely on an encyclopedia article on those topics.) "Complex" means anything requiring analysis, critical thought, or evaluation. (For example, it is not persuasive to cite an encyclopedia on "spirituality.") "Controversial" means anything that requires listening to the original voices in a debate because no consensus or conventional view has yet emerged. (For example, cite an encyclopedia on the historical facts underlying a recent political election, but not on the meaning or trends indicated by that election.) These limitations are due to the fact that encyclopedia articles are second- or third-hand summaries. They are excellent starting points for learning about something. But a college-level research paper or critical essay needs to consult directly the articles, books, or other sources mentioned by an encyclopedia article and use those as the reference. The best such sources are those that have been refereed ("peer-reviewed" by other scholars before acceptance for publication, which is the case for most scholarly journals and books) or, in the case of current events, journalistic or other resources that are relatively authoritative in their field. However, a Wikipedia citation can be an appropriate convenience when the point being supported is minor, non-controversial, or also supported by other evidence. In addition, Wikipedia is an appropriate source for some extremely recent topics (especially in popular culture or technology) for which it provides the sole or best available synthetic, analytical, or historical discussion. (2) Wikipedia has special limitations because it is an online encyclopedia written by a largely unregulated, worldwide, and often anonymous community of contributors. The principle of "many-eyes" policing upon which Wikipedia depends for quality-control (that is, many people looking at and correcting articles) works impressively well in many cases. However: (a) Wikipedia is currently an uneven resource. For example, articles on technological or popular culture topics can sometimes be more reliable, vetted (corrected by a community experts), or current than articles on humanistic issues of the sort that students in literature, history, and other humanities majors often need to research. (b) Some articles in Wikipedia are unreliable because they are the contested terrain of "edit wars," political protest, or vandalism. Such articles include both those on obviously controversial topics and on unexpected topics. For a sobering sense of the limitations of Wikipedia, consult the long list of "protected" Wikipedia articles (articles that Wikipedia no longer, or at least not for now, allows users to edit in the normal way in order to protect them from edit wars or other mischief): <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protected_page>. (See also the bibliography appended below on recent controversies about the reliability of Wikipedia.) Students should also keep in mind that Wikipedia--like the Internet as a whole--is edited globally. This means that topics related to "United States," "China," "Tony Blair," or "World Cup soccer," for example (and many others), are contested terrain. (c) Students should be aware that Wikipedia is a dynamic, constantly mutating resource. Even if it is appropriate to cite it as a reference, the citation is meaningless unless it includes the date on which the page was accessed (which would allow a reader to use the Wikipedia "history" feature to look up the specific version of the article being referenced). Indeed, Wikipedia articles on some topics change so frequently (even to the extent of vandals "reverting" to earlier scandalous misinformation) that a citation should include the exact hour of access. Students should feel free to consult Wikipedia as one of the most powerful instruments for opening knowledge that the Internet has yet produced. But it is not a one-stop-shop for reliable knowledge. Indeed, the term "encyclopedia" is somewhat to blame. Because it is communal, dynamic, and unrefereed, Wikipedia is not really (or not just) an encyclopedia of knowledge. It is better thought of as a combination of encyclopedia and "blog." It is the world's blog. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bibliography of Articles on the Controversy Regarding Wikipedia's Reliability: * Steven Musil, "Wikipedia's Woes," C/NET News.com, 9 December 2005 <http://news.com.com/Week+in+review+Wikipedias+woes/2100-1083_3-5988388.html> * John Seigenthaler, "A False Wikipedia 'Biography'," USA Today.com, 29 November 2005 <http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x .htm> * Daniel Terdiman, "Study: Wikipedia as Accurate as Britannica," C/Net News.com, 15 December 2005 < http://news.com.com/2102-1038_3-5997332.html> * Ray Cha, "Another Round: Britannica versus Wikipedia," if:book, 31 March 2006 <http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2006/03/another_round_britanni ca_versu.html> * Lisa Vaas, "Wikipedia Erects Accuracy Firewall," 19 December 2005 <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1903728,00.asp> * Katie Hafner, "Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy," New York Times, 17 June 2006 <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/technology/17wiki.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref =slogin&adxnnlx=1150630485-m7D+jesnoKz+kAAD8almhw> (alternative site: http://news.com.com/Growing+Wikipedia+revises+its+anyone+can+edit+policy/210 0-1040_3-6085077.html?tag=nefd.top) From: Willard McCarty Subject: Tonkawa texts? Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:55:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 119 (119) [from Yuri Tambovtsev, yutamb_at_mail.ru] Dear HunanistList colleagues, actually. we have computed the 168th world language. I have found the book by Harry Hoijer "Tonkawa Texts". University of California, 1972. I wonder if these Tonkawa texts were computed to receive the frequency of occurrence of phonemes. Where can I get the data on the frequency of occurrence of Tonkawa phonemes? Were the data published? Who studies Tonkawa now? To what subgroup, group and family does Tonkawa of Texas belong? It has only 3 labial phonemes according to Harry Hoijer. I wonder if the frequency of Tonkawa labials in the text is very low because of that? Anyway, I wonder if I should compute the Tonkawa texts in order to measure the sound picture of the Tonkawa language. After receiving the sound picture of Tonkawa it is possible to compare it to the sound picture of Siberian languages to find out if Tonkawa sound typology is similar. Since the American Indian peoples came to Americas through the former Bering ice bridge, it is quite possible to find out the remaining typological characteristics in the sound pictures of some AmerIndian languages and those of Siberia. This is our goal. Looking forward to your comments to yutamb_at_mail.ru Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev 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_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: 20.074 designing mind Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:52:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 120 (120) Willard You are perhaps not being fair to Landauer. You may be reading to suit your polemical needs. You did get me to consult a thesaurus and reflect upon the following chain : artefact -- relic -- historical object which led me to ponder the mind as a site of inscription, as both inscribed and inscribing. So I then revisit the first sentence in the excerpt you quote: The human mind is an artifact of human culture. So in my machine translation way and inspired by the theme of inscription, I substitue the copula for an equation sign. The human mind = an artifact of human culture And as I recall from the procedures for solving equations, I cancel out the equivalent terms on both sides: The mind = an artifact of culture Apply a bit of grammatical parsing: "The mind" [note the definite article] may be more than "an artifact of culture" [note the indefinite article]. Algebrize: The "x" = a "y" of "z" Generate examples from the paradigm: The "x" = a "w" of "b" The mind is a world of toy-building. Observe that putting pressure on the copula to be picked up in some modal logic leads one to read: "is a" = "acts like" Conclude that ontological commitment varies locally Leads me to a statement-and-question echoing the subject lines of the message and pondering how "function" meets "granularity" A designing mind is a designed mind. But is every designed mind a desiging mind? [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Weber's metaphor for modernity Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:14:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 121 (121) Alan Scott, in "Modernity's Machine Metaphor", British Journal of Sociology 48.4 (1997): 561-75, quotes an eery passage from Max Weber's "Parliament und Regierung in neugeordneten Deutschland": [deleted quotation]The way in which the bureaucratic mind has informed the design of computing systems and vice versa is well known, or at least often asserted. What's seems eery about this passage now, to some of us in higher education, is the degree to which a mechanical bureaucracy, with its procedures and transparencies, has assumed control. But I quote this passage for different reasons. One is that, as Scott argues, even the most highly bureaucratic organizations do not in fact work like a machine. He cites Peter Winch's point that rules and the ability to apply them are coeval but quite different. Rules are rules, but curiously we talk about when to apply which rule, and we have no rule for that. So why, Scott asks, do we think in terms of machines in given circumstances? What is the machine metaphor doing for us, esp now that we are mind-deep in Turing's machine? What is it a foil for? Another reason for quoting Weber is that Weber's brilliant phrase, "congealed spirit", can be turned around and used for what we do. Our machines bear our imprint. In what sense do they become our congealed spirit (of enquiry)? 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_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: 19.531 (critical) thinking and button-pushing Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:51:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 122 (122) Willard, A few (perhaps self-evident) observations about your posting to Humanist from December 2005. You regale subscribers to an excerpt from Ian Hacking's 1995 book. I have a silly question. Are the observations that Hacking makes still valid a decade or so later? Also it is not clear to me from the excerpt whether Hacking is commenting about the asking of questions to oneself or to others or to both. I find myself at times praising at times blaming reporters for not asking the evident questions. I wonder if there has been a shift in the quality of the media's handling of the reporting of research results. I know that Hacking and yourself tie assessment with access. I'm not entirely sure that these two activities (assessing and accessing) are strongly connected. There seems to be at least for me the mediating instance of reporting. I bring attention to this possible triangualtion between reporting, assessing, and accessing, in order to suggest that ease of tool use is not necessarily inversely proportional to the exercise of thought. Does the artist while sketching think? Does the computer user's ease in reiterating computations count as a type of sketching? Are we not more likely to see evidence of thinking in the reporting of results rather than in the play at work in repeated computations which are not easily open to intersubjective review? At what point is play thinking? The storyline of scarce resources leading to better thinking may be compelling. It is also dangerously inaccurate to forget the wasted moments of the past. The quality of thinking does not always calibrated in a postive relationship to the time spent in the activity. The old days weren't always good ... 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Conceived as an outlet for cutting-edge philosophical and scientific research, AIAP is geared toward the academic world in general and the sciences and humanities in particular. AIAP is particularly interested in publishing the work of young researchers and scientists and making it available to an audience of international readers. ASSOCIATED INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS employs a wide range of state-of-the-art media technology to produce university books, textbooks, journals, media tools, E-books, and CD-ROMs. In the interest of building community among interested scholars, AIAP will also coordinate and promote cultural events, conferences, and seminars linked to international publishing and research activity. ASSOCIATED INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS is headed by Professor Lorenzo MAGNANI, who, as scientific director, coordinates a knowledgeable team of editors and managers that has worked extensively with important academic international publishers on a variety of books, textbooks, and journals. ASSOCIATED INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS' goal is to produce publications priced lower than those offered by traditional publishers, thus rendering knowledge more affordable to everyone. -- Associated International Academic Publishing Co., Via Torretta 7, 27100 Pavia, Italy, tel. +39-333-9222190, fax +39-0382-301811 (local office: Via XXV Aprile 1, 27053 Lungavilla, Italy) From: Willard McCarty Subject: Language Processing with Perl and Prolog Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:00:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 124 (124) Members of this group may be interested in the following publication: Pierre M Nugues, An Introduction to Language Processing with Perl and Prolog: An Outline of Theories, Implementation, and Application with Special Consideration of English, French, and German. Cognitive Technologies. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2006. 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: fomi Subject: CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - Second Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:45:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 125 (125) International Workshop CALL FOR PAPERS Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Second International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi December 14-15, 2006 University of Trento ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized by: - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento - University of Trento - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi ******************************************************** Following the great success of the previous edition, we are glad to invite you to attend the second Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop (FOMI 2006). Description =========== FOMI aims to become an international forum where researchers in different disciplines and practitioners of various industry sectors meet to analyze and discuss issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. It is nowadays widely understood that the semantic dimension and model driven approaches play an important role not only in research fields but also in networked economy. In particular, it has emerged that semantic based applications are relevant in distributed systems such as networked organizations, organizational networks, and in distributed knowledge management. Namely, these knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same worldwide organization. The business world also considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. In all these fields, a new emerging trend is to evaluate the interdependencies between theories and methods of formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs of enterprise organizations. A typical example of this is the evaluation of the benefits that huge organizations can obtain by implementing ontology based systems. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. ******************************************************** Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprize modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology effectiveness; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance; - ontologies and e-government. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. [...] From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- June 2006 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:45:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 126 (126) CIT INFOBITS June 2006 No. 94 ISSN 1521-9275 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL'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. ...................................................................... Infobits Title Change Coming in July Tablet PCs and Faculty Users A Report on the Success of Online Education Open Access/Source Conference Papers Fair Use Network Virtual Reality-Based Learning Environments Teachers Sell Lesson Plans Online Google vs. Libraries Recommended Reading ...................................................................... INFOBITS TITLE CHANGE COMING IN JULY From July 1993 to June 1998, the title of this newsletter was "IAT Infobits," reflecting its affiliation with the former UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for Academic Technology. The CIT in "CIT Infobits" refers to the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Instructional Technology. However, due to reorganization and realignment of our staff, once again, a title change is in order. With the July 2006 issue, the newsletter will be re-titled "TL Infobits" to reflect its association with UNC-Chapel Hill's Information Technology Services Teaching and Learning division (ITS-TL). Other related changes: the newsletter's ISSN the URL where back issues will be kept (Pointers will be put in place to direct users from the old URL to the new one so that subscribers' will have time to update their bookmarks.) What won't change: the newsletter's focus intended audience editor frequency of publication UNC-Chapel Hill's commitment to the continuation of this publication ...................................................................... TABLET PCS AND FACULTY USERS Many recent studies on tablet PCs in higher education have focused on student users. The purpose of the Seton Hall University project described in "The Tablet PC For Faculty: A Pilot Project" (by Rob R. Weitz, Bert Wachsmuth, and Danielle Mirliss in JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY, vol. 9, issue. 2, 2006, pp. 68-83) "was to test and evaluate faculty applications of tablet PCs apropos their contribution to teaching and learning. Put another way, how would real faculty teaching actual classes use tablets, and how would they evaluate the utility of doing so?" Some of the study's findings: -- "only a fraction of faculty are motivated to use tablet technology: roughly a third of faculty expressed an interest in replacing their notebook computer with a tablet computer" -- "generally, participating faculty did indeed use tablet functionality in their classes and were convinced that this use resulted in a meaningful impact on teaching and learning." The paper is available online at http://www.ifets.info/journals/9_2/6.pdf. The Journal of Educational Technology & Society [ISSN 1436-4522 (online), ISSN 1176-3647 (print)] is a peer-reviewed quarterly online journal published by the International Forum of Educational Technology & Society (IFETS). Current and past issues are available in HTML and PDF formats at no cost at http://www.ifets.info/. ...................................................................... A REPORT ON THE SUCCESS OF ONLINE EDUCATION Each year the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) conducts an annual survey on the state of U.S. higher education online learning. This year, the Consortium published its first annual special edition, "Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States, 2005 - Southern Edition." Some of the findings reported include: "Online learning is thriving in the southern states. The patterns of growth and acceptance of online education among the 16 southern states in this report are very similar to that observed for the national sample, with one clear difference: online learning has made greater inroads in the southern states than in the nation as a whole." "[S]chools are offering a large number of online courses, and there is great diversity in the courses and programs being offered: -- Sixty-two percent of southern schools offering graduate face-to-face courses also offer graduate courses online. -- Sixty-eight percent of southern schools offering undergraduate face-to-face courses also offer undergraduate courses online." "Staffing for online courses does not come at the expense of core faculty. Institutions use about the same mixture of core and adjunct faculty to staff their online courses as they do for their face-to-face courses. Instead of more adjunct faculty teaching online courses, the opposite is found; overall, there is a slightly greater use of core faculty for teaching online than for face-to-face." You can download the complete report at 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. For more information go to http://www.aln.org/. ...................................................................... OPEN ACCESS/SOURCE CONFERENCE PAPERS The June 2006 issue of FIRST MONDAY features selected papers from "FM10 Openness: Code, Science, and Content," a conference held in May and sponsored by First Monday journal, the University of Illinois at Chicago University Library, and the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT). The theme of the conference was open access (in journals, communities, and science) and open source. Links to the online papers, along with citations to those not available online, are available at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_6/. 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/. ...................................................................... FAIR USE NETWORK The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law has created the Fair Use Network website "to support fair use and other free expression safeguards within the law, because free expression is essential to creativity, culture, and a healthy democracy." The site does not provide legal advice or act in place of an attorney. It does, however, provide answers to questions regarding intellectual property rights, such as -- "How much can you borrow, quote, or copy from someone else's work?" -- "What happens if you get a 'cease and desist' letter from a copyright owner?" The site also contains basic legal guides and a selection of legal reference resources. The Fair Use Network is at http://fairusenetwork.org/. ...................................................................... VIRTUAL REALITY-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS "As with any other technological advancement, the introduction of this technology [virtual reality] brings about excitement and high expectation among educators of its capabilities. However, it is important to note that this technology is merely a tool, as is a chalkboard, television, overhead projector, or an Internet connection. Tools by themselves do not teach. They have to be carefully and effectively implemented to assist in the learning process." In "The Design, Development and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Based Learning Environment" (AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, vol. 22, no. 1, 2006, pp. 39-63), Chwen Jen Chen used a virtual reality project to construct an "instructional development framework for VR based learning environments. . . [and to develop an] understanding of the educational effectiveness of such a learning environment and its effect on learners with different aptitude." The paper is available online at http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet22/chen.html. The Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) [ISSN 1449-3098 (print), ISSN 1449-5554 (online)], published three times a year, is a refereed journal publishing research and review articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications, and related areas. Back issues are available on the Web at no cost. For more information and back issues go to http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/. ...................................................................... TEACHERS SELL LESSON PLANS ONLINE Entrepreneur and former public school teacher Paul Edelman has created Teacherspayteachers.com, an website where teachers can sell lesson plans that they have created. Sellers pay an annual fee, set their own prices, and 15% of each sale goes to Edelman. Currently, almost all of the lesson plans cover K-12-level subjects, but the site already includes some university-level materials covering math, history, and criminology. To view the site's lesson plan collection, go to http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/. For more information, read "High-School Teachers Can Buy and Sell Lessons at an eBay-Like Website." http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17043. For critical comment on the service, see TeachBay. http://dhawhee.blogs.com/d_hawhee/2006/02/teachbay.html ...................................................................... GOOGLE VS. LIBRARIES In "Libraries and Google/Google Book Search: No Competition!" (GOOGLE LIBRARIAN NEWSLETTER, issue 4, June 21, 2006), Walt Crawford, provides four reasons that Google services can complement, but not replace, traditional libraries: -- Locality Good libraries -- even large university libraries -- reflect the interests and needs of their communities. -- Expertise The professional education of librarians enables them to pick up where web searching leaves off. -- Community "'Cybercommunities' can be fascinating -- but the physical community continues to be vital." -- Resources "Google Book Search helps people DISCOVER books. Libraries help them READ books." You can read the article online at http://www.google.com/librariancenter/articles/0606_03.html. Google Librarian Newsletter is a free online newsletter published by the Google Librarian Center. For more information, to read current and past newsletters, or to receive newsletters by email, go to http://www.google.com/librariancenter/. Walt Crawford, a senior analyst at the Research Libraries Group, Inc., is publisher of CITES & INSIGHTS: CRAWFORD AT LARGE [ISSN 1534-0937], a free monthly online journal of libraries, policy, technology, and media. Current and back issues are at available on the Web at http://cites.boisestate.edu/. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "The State of America's Libraries: A Report from the American Library Association" April 2006 http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2006/march2006/stateoflibraries.htm "This [first ALA] report on the State of America's Libraries is not meant to be exhaustive but simply to show the many ways in which America's libraries and librarians are not only adapting in the Age of Google but continuing to play a vital role as information providers, information advisers and community centers." From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 20.084 student use of Wikipedia? Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:46:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 127 (127) Greetings. In Humanist 20.084, Alan Liu wrote: [deleted quotation]Excellent advice. [deleted quotation]There's a more concrete alternative. Every Wikipedia page includes a `Cite this article' link in the `toolbox' on the left. That page gives advice for citing Wikipedia articles in a variety of citation styles, and including mentioning the date and time of the citation, but more importantly it includes a link to a _specific version_ of a Wikipedia page. Thus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities> is the URL for (the current version of) the article on the humanities, but is and will remain a link to the version of that page that was current when I looked at it five minutes ago, irrespective of any edits, reversions, or wars that subsequently take place over its contents. Incidentally, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Humanist_Internet_Discussion_Group> exists, but redirects to a page about the `Council of Australian Humanist Societies', which in passing refers to a Humanist list which is not _the_ Humanist list. It might be worth adjusting (no: fixing) that, and if so, editing the page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanist> to be a `disambiguation page', rather than a redirect to `Humanism', as it is now [I'll volunteer to do the editing if a volunteer is needed]. Best wishes, Norman -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Norman Gray / http://nxg.me.uk eurovotech.org / University of Leicester, UK From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 20.084 student use of Wikipedia? Tonkawa texts? Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:47:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 128 (128) I think this advise is quite useful. However, while the main focus here is Wikipedia, the instructions really do apply for most online sources of information. For instance, On Point #1 "Boing Boing" is also not appropriate as a primary or sole reference. For that matter, _Humanist_ might not be as well. ( technical point: I wonder if the word "primary" could result in confusion about "primary" vs "secondary" sources. It seems to makes sense through context, but I have never ceased to be amazed at how communications can break down on the tiniest issues.) On Point #2 Any website is a mutating source. The only difference is that the mutation for wikipedia (and other trackback/archive-based sources) is transparent and profs are more empowered to nab students on them. Ok. The mutations are also more rapid and more vast. And they may fluctuate from the authoritative to the absolutely ridiculous. And the lines of accountability are less obvious. BUt dates are standard for most citations though. But I assume you mean that overlooking dates in a citation for most sources is a technical error while losing the date for a wikipedia argument is a critical error/oversight? Additional remark: I guess my big thing is that evaluating any source of information is important. I can understand that wikipedia is a particular issue for universities right now, but it is equally possible that 10 years down the line, students will have some new confounded thing to make a mess of their (or the appearance of their) critical thinking. And the biggest issue is to tell students to listen to that voice in their head that's saying "you should probably spend another half-an-hour to check on the quality of your research (and writing and data collecting and citation and grammar and paper organization etc.). The challenge for many of them are 1) how do they check those sources 2) and how do they not take 6 hours to do the 1/2 hour job. Libraries should be helping here. Ryan. . . [deleted quotation]appropriate [deleted quotation]encyclopedia written by a largely unregulated, worldwide, and often anonymous community of contributors. The principle of "many-eyes" policing upon which Wikipedia depends for quality-control (that is, many people looking at and correcting articles) works impressively well in many cases. Ryan Deschamps From: "Bleck, Brad" Subject: RE: 20.084 student use of Wikipedia? Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:47:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 129 (129) I don't have my statement about student use of wikipedia on hand, but what it amounts to is that students may cite wikipedia if they desire, but that citation does not count toward the minimum number of sources required for a particular writing assignment. I also require a minimum of traditional sources (meaning print-based journal sources, though they may come from a library database; I'm at a community college and we don't have the resources in hard copy that students have at larger, better financed institutuions) and a maximum number of web-based sources, and also distinguish between authoritative web-based sources and junk (same with hard-copy sources). Such distinctions seem central to the teaching of writing and research today. Bradley Bleck Spokane Falls CC bleckblog.org From: Robert Cummings Subject: draft policy statement on student use of Wikipedia Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:48:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 130 (130) Dear Willard and List: I sent the following repsonse to Alan Liu, and he sent the attached reply, and so I send both on to the list herewith. Dear Alan Liu: My name is Bob Cummings, and I am currrently researching Wikipedia and its use in the college classroom as part of my dissertation research at the University of Georgia. I just read your Humanist post. I have several thoughts which I hope to post to the broader discussion in Humanist. The first is that my research with students writing in Wikipedia as a part of English Composition has demonstrated that students who have a developed appreciation for Wikipedia's strengths and weaknesses, similar to the very ones you list in your statement, enjoy more success in writing for Wikipedia. Secondly, I would offer that your statement doesn't -- in this iteration, at least -- seem to have much appreciation for Wikipedia as a writing and researching opportunity for our students. In many ways, Wikipedia creates knowledge in the same tradition as the academy: contested truth claims are debated with the hope of either finding consensus, or at least mapping out irreconcilable positions. My experience asking student writers to participate in Wikipedia's knowledge creation process requires them to develop topical expertise and a healthy sense of ethos. But results are often mixed, due in large part to the very misconceptions of authority that you outline in your statement. Thus, once students develop this appropriate sense of Wikipedia's epistemological strengths and weaknesses they not only have an improved sense of the value of peer-reviewed knowledge, but also contribute to Wikipedia more effectively, becoming active scholars as a part of their scholarly training. Yours, Bob Cummings Dear Bob, Thanks for your thoughtful response, which in large part I agree with. (I just finished teaching a course in which the class built a site together using the MediaWiki software, and in which they also studied Wikipedia. See http://liu.english.ucsb.edu/wiki1/) However, I don't think that the topic of your message (which you should really post to Humanist, since the issues you raise are excellent) is exactly the same as the topic of my draft statement on Wikipedia. My statement has the more limited goal of addressing students simply using Wikipedia for other work as if it were a stable print resource, not students who might be taught to be critical readers and co-producers of knowledge by participating in Wikipedia. You may be right, though, that my statement on Wikipedia in the classroom should really be accompanied by a supplementary statement that interprets "Wikipedia in the classroom" in your way (where Wikipedia in essence becomes the classroom). Perhaps you might post on Humanist a kind of RFC 2 statement (which I suppose would be addressed not to the student but to the instructor, encouraging constructive and experimental use of Wikipedia in education)? P. S. Feel free to include my response if you repost your message to Humanist. --Alan From: "Alan Liu" Subject: Re: 20.084 student use of Wikipedia? Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:53:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 131 (131) student use of Wikipedia ********************************************************************** Statement from draft policy: The best such sources are those that have been refereed ("peer-reviewed" by other scholars before acceptance for publication, which is the case for most scholarly journals and books) or, in the case of current events, journalistic or other resources that are relatively authoritative in their field. Comment: Qualify this absolute statement. Perhaps insert the word "often"? (The best such sources are often those that have been refereed... ) Think only of that famous groundshattering article published a while back in Social Text. ********************************************************************** Statement from draft policy: (a) Wikipedia is currently an uneven resource. Comment: All encyclopedias are uneven resources, some more uneven than others. Even one single-author academic article is an uneven resource. No aura of authority can substitute for critical use of any source whatsoever. ********************************************************************** Joseph Jones http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Job Opening: Assistant Director of MITH Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:30:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 132 (132) MARYLAND INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park announces an immediate search for the position of Assistant Director. EXEMPT/12 MONTH FULLTIME (POSITION # 112159) Made possible by a major Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a collaboration among the University of Maryland's College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. Since its founding in 1999, MITH has become internationally recognized as one of the leading centers of its kind, distinguished by the cultural diversity so central to its identity. Located in McKeldin Library at the heart of the campus, MITH is the University's primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of digital humanities, new media, and cyberculture, as well as new home of the Electronic Literature Organization, the most prominent international group devoted to the writing, publishing and reading of electronic literature. Projects have typically taken the form of electronic editions, scholarly databases, or high-end teaching materials (examples here: <http://www.mith2.umd.edu/research/index.php>). MITH is also increasingly supporting research in creative new media. MITH's house research includes projects in text mining, visualization, digital libraries, electronic publishing, and digital preservation. We collaborate actively with allied campus units, including the University Libraries, the College of Information Science, and the Human Computer Interaction Lab. Situated just outside of Washington DC, MITH also offers all of the opportunities that come from the libraries, museums, and cultural institutions of the area. In addition to participating in MITH's house research, the Assistant Director will bear primary responsibility for the conceptualization and development of MITH's Fellows' projects and the supervision of a staff that includes a full-time Web designer, graduate assistants, and interns. We are therefore seeking a data architecture specialist experienced with both relational database and XML data representation. Ability to work at the command-line level with Unix/Linux based applications such as mySql is required, and preference will be given to candidates with scripting and programming expertise. Strong organizational and project management skills are also mandatory, as are excellent communication skills. A humanities background is welcome and desirable. MA, MLS, or Ph.D. preferred. The Assistant Director is a full-time staff position at the University, with benefits. Salary commensurate with experience, ranging from $50,000-$63,000. To apply, please send a letter of application, CV, and contact information for three references. Best consideration by August 1, 2006. Application materials may be sent electronically to mith_at_umd.edu or to Neil Fraistat, Director, MITH, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Consideration of applications to begin immediately. Applications from women and minorities, as well as faculty at HBCU's is encouraged. Neil Fraistat, Director Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Director -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: "Rayson, Paul" Subject: Call for participation: Workshop on Historical Text Mining Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:30:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 133 (133) Workshop on Historical Text Mining Thursday 20th and Friday 21st July 2006, Lancaster University, UK. http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/events/htm06/ Organisers: Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) and Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire) This is one of a series of workshops sponsored by the AHRC ICT Methods Network. We want to develop a network of scholars interested in 'Historical Text Mining' via a workshop for experts from the various fields: text mining and E-Science, corpus development and annotation, historical linguistics, dialectology and computational linguistics. We believe that a discussion relating to the effective text mining of historical data is particularly overdue and much needed, because of the growth in (historical) digital resources (e.g. Open Content Alliance, Google Print, Early English Books Online). We particularly want to better define the relationship between the text mining/E-Science community, who are often involved in applying basic techniques to large scale datasets, and the corpus linguistic community, who tend to apply data-driven linguistic analysis and annotation techniques to relatively small datasets. The 'Historical Text Mining' workshop will seek: * to raise awareness of the various techniques utilised and/or tools developed by researchers working within the various fields. * to make scholars who work with historical data aware of existing text mining techniques that are applicable to their research needs, * to familiarise such scholars with the use of these techniques and tools, by means of a series of tutorial sessions (e.g. GATE, WordSmith, VARD, VIEW, Wmatrix), * to investigate the problems of applying some "modern" large-scale corpus annotation and analysis techniques to historical data, and * to encourage/enable a roundtable discussion, with the ultimate aim of determining what needs to be done to improve historical text mining and (importantly) identify possible future workshops and collaborative projects. Participation is free but, since places are limited, we request that potential participants apply in advance, and explain why they wish to attend and what they expect from the workshop. For further details on the application procedure and the workshop programme, please see the website: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/events/htm06/ Dr Paul Rayson Computing Department, Infolab21, South Drive, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1524 510357 Fax: +44 (0)1524 510492 Email: paul_at_comp.lancs.ac.uk Dr Dawn Archer Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2HE Tel: +44 (0)1772 893032 Email: dearcher_at_uclan.ac.uk From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CIC-2006)" Subject: CFP: CIC-2006, 15th International Conference on Computing Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:28:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 134 (134) 15th International Conference on Computing CIC 2006 November 21 to 24, 2006 Mexico City, Mexico http://magno-congreso.cic.ipn.mx/CIC-2006 Proceedings: IEEE CS Press. Deadline: Now: expression of interest (recommended), July 7 full papers. CALL FOR PAPERS *** PUBLICATION *** Papers accepted for oral session will be published by IEEE CS Press. Papers accepted for poster session will be published in a journal "Research in Computing Science," ISSN 1665-9899. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in the journal "Computacion y Sistemas," ISSN 1405-5546. Submissions are received via the webpage, see guidelines there. Direct submission page is www.easychair.org/CIC2006. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Now: expression of interest (abstract). July 7: submission (full text). *** TOPICS *** All areas of Computer Science and Engineering, see webpage. PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your students and colleagues. We apologize if you receive this CFP more than once. It is sent in good faith of its interest for you as a CS expert or student. From: Willard McCarty Subject: problematic metaphors Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:41:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 135 (135) I wish to draw your attention to an essay by Michael J Reddy, "The conduit metaphor: A case of frame conflict in our language about language", in Metaphor and Thought, ed. Andrew Ortony, 2nd edn (Cambridge, 1993): 164-201. For those familiar with the work by Lakoff and Johnson on metaphors, this is required reading, since as Lakoff points out in his contribution to the same volume, it was the inspiration for his research. Reddy describes a set of common metaphors we use to talk about human communication, which he names under the collective term in his title. These metaphors, he argues, have us talking as if words were containers for meaning, and communication happened by sending and receiving ideas. Borrowing from Donald Schön (author of The Reflective Practitioner) the idea of the metaphorical "frames" within which we reason and communicate, and so of the "frame conflicts" that render communication difficult to impossible, Reddy documents the profound extent to which the logic of the conduit metaphor runs like threads in many directions through the fabric of our speech habits. In opposition to the conduit metaphor, Reddy proposes a "radical subjectivist" model of communication he calls the "toolmaker's paradigm", in which meaning is constructed, not simply received, in communicative acts. This paradigm depends crucially on highly conversational communication, with much interaction to and fro, so that a common meaning may be established. Among the many problematic consequences of the conduit metaphor is the passivity it attributes to those who communicate. Reddy cites numerous examples of its variants in common use to demonstrate its pervasive influence, which he argues structures how we think about what we do. In the concluding section of his essay, on the social consequences of the conduit metaphor, he observes the following. I quote at length (from pp 186-8) to give you enough to see why I bother. [deleted quotation]He then goes on to explicate an example of an utterance using the conduit metaphor: [deleted quotation]Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 20.092 problematic metaphors Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:18:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 136 (136) Willard, I remember complaining early on in my life how particular philosophers are used also as metaphors. As some intone Sartre to represent an existentialist view, even though most who do this have never read _Being and Nothingness_ cover-to-cover. And certainly, now, we can only access Sartre as a metaphor, since we cannot ask the human being himself. I'll have to read Reddy, but I wonder if he allows that our psychology does weird things to us, often for good reasons (related to survival of the species, and/or eventually for happiness). Of course, happiness never really stopped your average humanist from questioning the fray. :) I think the reason we prefer the flawed metaphors is that they are more stable than humanists. I can keep track of Sartre via his books, whereas I have the feeling that the real Sartre would have me confused because he would be full of contradictions, extra desires. Also, while I have always contended that librarians are messing with the minds of scholars (via disciplines), we are quickly losing our hypnotic powers. Is the _Humanist_ archive a metaphor in the same way as is idea/book/library? Is it less or more valid because of it? Can a reader trust my views expressed here, considering that they may be edited, drafted, re-drafted, infused with rhetoric, inspired by a desire to be noticed online, composed only when sober (for fear of an unfavorable public eye) etc.? And does the idea that real-life "Ryanistic humanism" amounts to recitations of Monty Python, Joan Rivers and eclectic toilet humor, change any of this? Personally, I think metaphors are more natural than Reddy suggests. Even in the radical constructivist view, perception is an association of self to environment, and an association of "Humanist-to-self" or "Humanist-to-other" is just as dangerous as "humanist-to-idea-to-book" or otherwise. Just ask other humanists from Dostoevski to Thomas Mann to Oscar Wilde. For me, I like to revel in my illusions, keeping a ratty old library of paperbacks on my shelves just to show my company how well-read I am. Or at least how respectful I am of the well-read. Ryan. . . From: Michael Fraser Subject: User Requirements Gathering for the Humanities - Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:25:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 137 (137) Workshop, 20 July Apologies for the multiple postings but the following workshop may be of interest to list members (please feel free to forward to colleagues). Please note that the deadline for registration is 10 July 2006 (by email to ruth.kirkham_at_humanities.ox.ac.uk). ---- User Requirements Gathering for the Humanities - Workshop Following a successful application to the AHRC, the 'Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities' (http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk) project is holding a series of workshops to highlight the necessity of user requirements gathering for the humanities community. Thursday 20th July, 10.30 a.m. to 4 p.m., The Classics Centre, The Old Boys School, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL. (http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/faculty/index.html) The JISC funded 'Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities' (BVREH) project has recently been carrying out an extensive user requirements survey of humanities researchers at Oxford University. This is one of a number of ICT projects based in the humanities which have begun to focus on user requirements gathering prior to developing technology. The project feels that this is an important time to bring together these initiatives and work towards building a requirements capturing community for the humanities sector. The workshops will be of particular importance in identifying the needs of humanities researchers in a broad range of subject areas and disciplines. Building on the existing expertise in e-Science they will attempt to identify ways in which humanities research can develop equivalent and inter-disciplinary structures and methodologies which will serve the needs of the research community and link it more firmly to ICT research structures on a national scale. The three workshops are designed to build a community in which the methodologies for humanities requirements gathering will continue to grow and evolve. The programme is structured to provide an understanding of where the current issues and gaps in humanities user requirements are, what methodologies and practices currently exist, including which would be useful to adopt and which might be created. Finally the programme will define how the community will use the knowledge gained to develop coherent methodologies for future projects. Workshop One - User Requirements in ICT Projects in Humanities The focus of the first workshop will be to define and discuss the methods that projects are currently utilising in gathering requirements, to initiate discussion around current issues and concerns and to encourage participants to think collectively about improving and advancing these methodologies. Case studies of the BVREH project and other AHRC and JISC funded projects with a considerable user requirements focus will be presented to help initiate group discussion. The workshop will then split into groups to develop the themes identified and feed back outcomes to the group at the end of the session. Speakers at the workshop will include: - Sheila Anderson, Arts and Humanities Data Service - 'The AHRC's e-Science Scoping Survey' - Dr Melissa Terras, University College London - 'Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities' (LARIAH) - Professor Michael Fulford, University of Reading - 'Silchester Roman Town: A VRE for Archaeology' - Ruth Kirkham and John Pybus, Oxford University - 'Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities' (BVREH) In order to gain a good sense of those wishing to attend, individuals are asked to submit a paragraph describing their interest is the workshop, together with a short summary of their background. Please confirm if you would like to attend by emailing ruth.kirkham_at_humanities.ox.ac.uk by Monday 10th July 2006. There are a limited number of places available; notification of a place will be sent by Wednesday 12th July. Lunch and light refreshments will be served during the day. Kind regards, Ruth Kirkham From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: post-graduate program Topology of Technology Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:14:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 138 (138) Topology of Technology announcing 18 doctoral fellowships The newly founded interdisciplinary post-graduate college / graduate school "Topology of Technology" at the University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany, announces 18 doctoral fellowships, starting Oct. 1, 2006, and running for 2 years with an option of a third year. The program is organized by teachers from the subjects of history, sociology, philosophy, literature and language, mechanical engineering, informatics, and civil/construction engineering. It focuses on the relationship between technology and space - at present, in history, and in a possible future. It has five thematic foci: - Information Technology and the Topology of the Network Society - Technological Spaces of the Body and the Perception of Space - The Circulation of Materials - Mobility - Tourism - Topologies of Technology and Forms of Representation - Fields of Power and the Role of Technology The program is primarily financed by the German Research Council (DFG); see www.dfg.de. According to its rules, applicants should generally not exceed 28 years of age, but exceptions may be granted. Monthly stipends range between 1,000 and 1,365 euros. All applicants need to have a Master degree or the equivalent thereof. Since course work and seminars are carried out in both German and English, it is expected that applicants are willing to learn to read and understand spoken German. Fellows need to take up their residence in Darmstadt or the vicinity. Applications are only accepted in electronic form. They should include (1) a CV, (2) copies of academic diplomas, (3) a short description (max. 5 pages) of the planned doctoral dissertation, and (4) the names and addresses of two university professors who are willing to act as reference persons. Please send your application no later than July 28, 2006 to topologie_at_ifs.tu-darmstadt.de. Please make sure that it includes a personally formulated explanation why you are particularly interested in the topic of the post-graduate college / graduate school. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact one of the directors: Petra Gehring (gehring_at_phil.tu-darmstadt.de) or Mikael H=E5rd (hard_at_ifs.tu-darmstadt.de). More information about the research and teaching program of the post-graduate college / graduate school may be found under www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/gradkoll-tdt From: "Jerome J. McGann" Subject: postdoc at Virginia Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:15:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 139 (139) A POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION, up to one year, for a scholar to work in developing software that maps the phonetic structure of English language texts, especially poetical texts. The software (called "Juxta": http://nines.org/tools/juxta.html ) is already well developed as a tool for comparing and collating equivalent texts. The project is to move in a further direction using the phonetic resources of either the online OED or Wordnet, or possibly some similar resource. The work is being developed by University of Virginia's Applied Research in Patacriticism tools development group. The research stipend will be keyed to the scholar's experience and expertise. The position can be taken up at any time from January 2007. For further information contact: Jerome McGann (jjm2f_at_virginia.edu) From: Barry Smith Subject: DRHA2006 - PRESS RELEASE (fwd) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 15:56:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 140 (140) Please forward as appropriate. Press Release: DRHA2006 DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS UK CONFERENCE 2006 DARTINGTON COLLEGE OF ARTS, DEVON, UK Sunday September 3rd to Wednesday September 6th, 2006 http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/index.asp REGISTRATION: http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/registration/index.asp DRHA2006 will feature: a.. Keynote by Katherine Hayles, author of "Now We Are Posthuman", "Writing Machines" and "My Mother Was A Computer", Professor of Literature and Design/Media Arts, UCLA, USA b.. Keynote by Roy Ascott, President of the Planetary Collegium, Director of CAiiA-Hub, and Professor of Technoetic Art c.. An Introductory Talk by Richard Beacham, Director of the Visualisation Lab, King's College London d.. A presentation by performance artist Stelarc via video-conference from Melbourne Australia, "the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts" (Amazon 2006) e.. Performances and "in-process" inputs by 'body>data>space' (UK) and SWAP (Portugal), an electronic concert, book and organisation Launches and Receptions, Conference Dinner, Debates, Panels and over 100 Papers, Posters, Exhibitions and Installations across a wide range of Humanities disciplines (Archaeology, History, Languages, Linguistics, Literature) and the Visual and Performing Arts, outlined at http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/papers/index.asp f.. The Conference takes place in the beautiful environment of Dartington Hall, South Devon: the C14th Great Hall, the Courtyard Rooms, modern studios/seminar rooms: keynotes, papers, performances, panels, exhibitions, posters, installations, events... REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: places limited to 250 http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/registration/index.asp Further details and enquiries: http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/index.asp From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: Digital Media lectures by Alan Sondheim at WVU Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:13:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 141 (141) West Virginia University to host digital media lectures Alan Sondheim, a leading digital media artist and theorist, will give public lectures July 13 and Aug. 3 at the WVU the Mountainlair Rhododendron Room. Both talks begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public. During the first talk, he will offer an introduction to his work, which emphasizes writing, theory and digital performance. During the second presentation, he will showcase some of the results of his WVU residency. He also plans to give a multimedia performance at the Creative Arts Center, with the date to be determined. The Department of English, Center for Literary Computing and Department of Computer Science are hosting Sondheim's lectures. Questions to clc_at_mail.wvu.edu From: ICARA2006_at_massey.ac.nz Subject: CFP ICARA 2006 - Submission deadline 15th JULY 2006 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:13:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 142 (142) CALL FOR PAPERS - Submission deadline 15th JULY 2006 ***************************************************************************************************** * The 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2006) * * Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand * * * * 11th December 2006 (Tutorials) * * 12th-14th December 2006 (Paper Sessions) * * http://icara.massey.ac.nz/ * * * * ICARA 2006 is intended to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, * * engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research * * findings, ideas, developments and applications in the area of autonomous robotics * * and agents. ICARA 2006 will include keynote addresses by eminent scientists as * * well as special, regular and poster sessions. * * * * Keynote addresses and tutorials by- * * Prof. Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada and * * Prof. Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan * ***************************************************************************************************** From: L V Subramaniam Subject: CFP: IJCAI 2007 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:14:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 143 (143) Unstructured Text Data CALL FOR PAPERS AND 2007 IJCAI 2007 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data 8 January, 2007, Hyderabad, India http://research.ihost.com/and2007 held at 20th Int. Jt. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007) http://www.ijcai-07.org/ Deadline for Papers is September 25th 2006 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Noisy unstructured text data is found in informal settings such as online chat, SMS, emails, message boards, newsgroups, blogs, wikis and web pages. Also, text produced by processing spontaneous speech, printed text, handwritten text contains processing noise. Text produced under such circumstances is typically highly noisy containing spelling errors, abbreviations, non-standard words, false starts, repetitions, missing punctuations, missing case information, pause filling words such as "um" and "uh." Such text can be seen in large amounts in contact centers, on-line chat rooms, OCRed text documents, SMS corpus etc. The theme of the IJCAI 2007 Conference is "AI and its benefits to society." In keeping with this theme, this workshop proposes to look at text analytics of highly noisy text that is produced in such everyday applications in society. The goal of the workshop is to focus on the problems encountered in analyzing such noisy documents coming from various sources. The nature of the text warrants moving beyond traditional text analytics techniques. We hope that the workshop will allow researchers to present current research and development in addressing this challenge. We also believe that as a result of this workshop there will be sharing of real life noisy data sets and will result in their becoming available to a wider research community. TOPICS We welcome original research papers that identify key problems related to noisy text analytics and offer solutions. We particularly encourage contributions that look at solving real life problems in the different settings where such data is produced in huge amounts. Potential topics include (but not limited to): * NLP techniques for handling noisy unstructured data * Characterization of the types of noise in documents * Genre recognition based on the type of noise * Robust parsing * Characterizing, modeling and accounting for historical language change * Methods for detecting and correcting spelling and grammatical errors in noisy text * Information Extraction and Retrieval from noisy text * Automatic classification and clustering of imprecise documents * Noise-invariant document summarization techniques * Issues in keyword search in presence of noise in unstructured data * Machine Translation for noisy text * Text analysis techniques for analysis and mining of call-logs, transcribed calls, web logs, chat logs, email exchanges * Business Intelligence(BI) applications for contact centers that deal with noisy data * Surveys on aspects of text analytics for noisy unstructured data PARTICIPATION We hope that the workshop will allow researchers working in areas related to unstructured data analytics, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, etc., to focus on the needs of users extracting useful information from noisy text. The target audience is a mixture of academia and industry researchers working with noisy text. We believe this work is of direct relevance to domains such as call centers, the world-wide web, and government organizations that need to analyze huge amounts of noisy data. [...] From: Kara Malenfant Subject: seeking applicants for joint Institute on Scholarly Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:15:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 144 (144) Communication; scholarships available Due to strong interest, the Association of=20 College and Research Libraries (ACRL) along with=20 the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) will=20 offer a second Institute on Scholarly=20 Communication December 6-8, 2006, at Duke=20 University, Durham, NC. The inaugural institute,=20 being held at UCLA in July, had far more=20 applicants than could be accommodated. The=20 deadline for application is August 15, 2006.=20 Acceptance to the Scholarly Communication program=20 is competitive and limited to 100 individuals. The Friends of the ACRL are supporting 4=20 scholarships to cover the $600 registration fee=20 for the institute. Scholarships will be awarded=20 to team member(s) from diverse backgrounds and=20 those employed at smaller institutions or serving=20 professionally underrepresented minorities.=20 Awards will be determined during the application=20 review and announced to recipients along with=20 acceptance to the Institute. Details on applying=20 for a scholarship are noted in the application. During the institute, participants will expand=20 their knowledge of scholarly communication issues by: =B7 Building expertise for their libraries and campuses =B7 Designing a collaborative program for their institutions =B7 Exploring strategies for creating systemic change =B7 Discovering new approaches for engaging faculty This jointly sponsored institute offers tools and=20 techniques to build a scholarly communication=20 program or move an existing one to the next=20 level. Participants will assess their campus=20 environment before the institute and engage in 2=20 =BD intensive days of active learning. During the=20 institute, participants will develop customized=20 program plan components to implement at their home institutions. The Institute sponsors are seeking participation=20 from a wide range of academic libraries from=20 community colleges to large research=20 institutions. A competitive application process=20 will be used to assemble a cohort for the=20 December Institute. Team applications are=20 encouraged (up to three participants from a=20 campus), although individual applications will be=20 considered. Larger institutions, especially, are=20 encouraged to propose teams that reflect various=20 institutional perspectives, such as librarians,=20 library administrators, faculty, campus=20 administrators, etc. Applicants should articulate=20 realistic goals for a campus plan and demonstrate=20 institutional support for, or readiness to=20 support, a plan. Recognizing the challenges=20 smaller institutions face in participating in the=20 Institute and the value of their contributions to=20 outreach efforts, small institutions will not be=20 penalized in the selection process if they are=20 only able to fund individual participants rather than teams. Complete details about the program as well as the=20 online application form and instructions can be=20 found at www.ala.org/acrl/events (Click =93ACRL/ARL=20 Institute on Scholarly Communication=94). Applicants can direct questions concerning the=20 program or application process to Kara Malenfant=20 at 312-280-2510; kmalenfant_at_ala.org or Karla Hahn=20 at 202-296-2296; karla_at_arl.org. ACRL is a division of the American Library=20 Association (ALA), representing more than 13,000=20 academic and research librarians and interested=20 individuals. ACRL is the only individual=20 membership organization in North America that=20 develops programs, products and services to meet=20 the unique needs of academic and research=20 librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher=20 education community to understand the role that=20 academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments. ARL is an association of over 120 of the largest=20 research libraries in North America. The member=20 institutions serve over 160,000 faculty=20 researchers and scholars and more than 4 million=20 students in the U.S. and Canada. ARL's mission is=20 to influence the changing environment of=20 scholarly communication and the public policies=20 that affect research libraries and the=20 communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission=20 by advancing the goals of its member research=20 libraries, providing leadership in public and=20 information policy to the scholarly and higher=20 education communities, fostering the exchange of=20 ideas and expertise, and shaping a future=20 environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations.= =20 From: "Vivian Wei Liang" Subject: ICTguides for Arts and Humanities Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:27:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 145 (145) The JISC-funded ARIA project would like to invite researchers from all Arts and Humanities communities to try out the new pilot ICTguides service at <http://www.ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/>. The online database is designed to help Arts and Humanities researchers' use of Information and Communication Technology more effectively. We would be very grateful if you could spare 10 minutes to take part in our short online survey at <http://aria.dmu.ac.uk/>. The main purpose of this survey is to assess the performance of the ICTGuides service, and identify any issues that users may face when using the system. Your help with this will assist us to enhance the service for the benefit of researchers across the Arts and Humanities. Vivian W Liang Research Assistant Research School of Art and Design Centenary Building The University of Salford M3 6EQ Tel: 0161 295 6079 From: TSD 2006 Subject: TSD 2006 - Call for Demonstrations and Participation Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:20:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 146 (146) ********************************************************* TSD 2006 - CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND PARTICIPATION ********************************************************* Ninth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2006) Brno, Czech Republic, 11-15 September 2006 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. VENUE: Brno, Czech Republic SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS Authors are invited to present actual projects, developed software and hardware or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The authors of the demonstrations should provide the abstract not exceeding one page as plain text. The submission must be made using an online form available at the conference www pages. The accepted demonstrations will be presented during a special Demonstration Session (see the Demo Instructions at www.tsdconference.org). Demonstrators can present their contribution with their own notebook with an Internet connection provided by the organisers or the organisers can prepare a PC computer with multimedia support for demonstrators. Faculty of Informatics has at its disposal a fast internet connection allowing internet-based projects to be demonstrated. The faculty network provides a wireless (IEEE 802.11b - WiFi) connection to the internet as well. IMPORTANT DATES July 23 2006 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts July 30 2006 ............. Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 11-15 2006 ..... Conference date The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the Proceedings of TSD 2006 but they will be published electronically at the conference website. TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging transcription problems in spoken corpora sense disambiguation links between text and speech oriented systems parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems information retrieval and information extraction text/topic summarization machine translation semantic networks and ontologies semantic web speech modeling speech segmentation speech recognition search in speech for IR and IE text-to-speech synthesis dialogue systems development of dialogue strategies prosody in dialogues emotions and personality modeling user modeling knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue applied systems and software facial animation visual speech synthesis Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [...] From: "Kiril Simov" Subject: HPSG 2006 - program and participation Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:19:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 147 (147) HPSG 2006 The 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 24 -27 July, 2006, Varna, Bulgaria The registration is open. Please, register if you plan to attend the event! http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/HPSG06Registration.htm http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/ http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/HPSG06Program.html The 13th International Conference on HPSG will take place in Varna on July 24 -27, 2006, hosted by the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The conference will include a tutorial day (July 24): Semantics within and beyond HPSG: LRS and LTAG (Frank Richter and Laura Kallmeyer) Construction-Based Grammar (Ivan Sag) HPSG meets Categorial Grammar (Carl Pollard) Implementation: Recent developments in LKB and TRALE (Berthold Crysmann and Gerald Penn) and a workshop on "Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language" (July 25). Main Conference July 26 - 27 Invited Speakers Workshop: Frank van Eynde (Leuven) Main conference: Stefan Mueller (Bremen) Shravan Vasishth (Potsdam) I am looking forward to seeing you in Varna! With best regards, Kiril From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.25 Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:21:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 148 (148) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 25 July 5, 2006 - July 10, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: SOFTWARE BASED FAULT TOLERANCE -- A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE This issue of Ubiquity offers a survey by Goutam Saha of the literature on software based fault tolerance. See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i25_survey.html. For this week's Ubiquity go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 25 July 5, 2006 - July 10, 2006 From: Antonella D'Ascoli Subject: JIIA Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:21:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 149 (149) 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' <http://www.jiia.it>http://www.jiia.it JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository) <http://eprints.jiia.it>http://eprints.jiia.it/ __________________ Latest Additions: Author: Porraz Guillaume Title: En marge du milieu alpin: Dynamiques de formation des ensembles lithiques et modes d'occupation des territoires au Paléolithique moyen <http://eprints.jiia.it/33/>http://eprints.jiia.it/33/ Abstract:The lithic assemblages variability remains a major topic in Prehistory. Tackle this variability and interpreting it, amounts to examining the dynamic of assemblages formation, in a quantitative and qualitative way. The individualization of the different mecanisms implied, contributes to characterizing the functioning of a site, i.e. the techno-economic modalities of its occupation. These problematics are related to those of the hunter-gatherer settlement patterns. The chronological context is the Middle Palaeolithic one at the beginning of the upper Pleistocene and the geographical context is the margin of the Alp's environment. Within this contrasted physical entity, two distinct sectors have been privileged (Venety region, Liguro-Provençal region). Finally, parallel to the study of more classical sites, have also been observed sites with low density of lithic artefacts, regularly left aside these perspectives until today. The observation of usually discrete elements reveals a variability in the techno-economic norms that hadn't yet been demonstrated (type of products in circulation, model of chaîne opératoire sequencing, maximal distances of raw material circulation). About the modes of occupation of the territories, the complementarity suggested between the different sites attests indisputably the existence of structured organisations. The results of this study, in respect with the methodological choices, underline finally the importance of observation, interpretation and validation modalities on our perception of chrono-cultural assemblages in Prehistory. Author: Sauren Herbert Title: Letter of Friendship: An invitation to visit the sheikh for a last time <http://eprints.jiia.it/34/>http://eprints.jiia.it/34/ Abstract: A short letter has been written upon a potsherd at Tossal de Mannises, Albufereta, Alicante. The text of three lines, written boustrophedon, combines South-west Semitic and Latin languages, the document proves Semitization before Romanization. The message speaks about friendship. Author: Sauren Herbert Title:La votation des Juges dans un cas du droit civil <http://eprints.jiia.it/35/>http://eprints.jiia.it/35/ Abstract:La plaque de plomb inscrite a été trouvée dans la Sierra de Gador vers 1860. La Sierra de Gador est una vaste montagne au Nord entre Almeira et Adra, ou il y avait plusieurs mines de plomb. La mine n'a pas été retrouvé jusqu'ŕ présent ni une autre endroit dans la Sierra de Gador, qui fournissait des objets inscrits avec l'écriture ibérique. Une mine de métaux n'est pas l'endroit d'un tribunal ŕ l'exception qu'il puisse s'agir d'un cas litigieux d'un ouvrier contre un autre. Le texte note la procédure aprčs que la plainte avait été déclrée recevable. Best regards A. D'Ascoli ______________ Antonella D'Ascoli Direttore Responsabile di JIIA & ADR 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' URL: <http://www.jiia.it>http://www.jiia.it & 'Archaeological Disciplinary Repository' JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository) URL: <http://eprints.jiia.it>http://eprints.jiia.it/ Address: Via Giacomo Leopardi n.56 80044 - Ottaviano (NA) - Italy tel. +39 (0)81 8278203 tel. fax +39 (0)81 8280384 cell. 333 2899783 Skype: dascoli1957 e-mail: dascolia_at_tiscalinet.it e-mail: dascoli1957_at_gmail.com From: Carlos Areces Subject: E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: call for submissions Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:19:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 150 (150) E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: call for submissions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since 2002, FoLLI (the European Association for Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Submissions are invited for 2005. The prize will be awarded to the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. in the year 2005. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of the three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Who qualifies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2005 and December 31st, 2005. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2005 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for 2006). Prize ~~~~~ The prize consists of * a certificate * a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. * an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further information on this series is available on the FoLLI site) How to submit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: 1. the thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted); 2. a ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format; 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded; 4. two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to beth_award_at_dimi.uniud.it Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days after submission, nominators should write to policriti_at_dimi.uniud.it or areces_at_loria.fr Important dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deadline for Submissions: July 31, 2006. Notification of Decision: November 15, 2006. Committee ~~~~~~~~~ * Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7) * Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) * Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) * Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) * Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) * Ewa Orlowska (Institute of Telecommunications, Poland) * Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) * Alberto Policriti (chair) (Universitŕ di Udine) * Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) * Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) From: Willard McCarty Subject: tools beyond the grasp of those who need them Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:22:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 151 (151) In his book The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap between Science and the Humanities (Vintage, 2004), Stephen Jay Gould remarks that, [deleted quotation]As the subtitle indicates, his concern throughout is with the damage done by the gap between the sciences and the humanities. Gould's historical treatment of this gap should be required reading, but is not my immediate reason for drawing your attention to the words quoted above. Rather, the pathology of disciplinary gapping and our healing role in addressing this pathology is. Throughout the book, Gould argues against E O Wilson's interpretation of "consilience" (lit. "leaping together"), an idea first proposed by the great 19C philosopher of science, William Whewell, who inter alia coined the word "scientist", and whose richly deserved reputation is on the rise. Whewell argued for the "leaping together" of disparate phenomena in scientific research -- but, more careful than Wilson, only in the domain of the natural sciences; Wilson, in his book Consilience (1998), extends the term in an effort to bring the humanities under the reductive umbrella of the sciences, "a single chain of reductionist explanation rooted in the empirical procedures of science" (Gould, p. 256). Gould's argument is for unity in difference: not a single way of knowing for all the disciplines, but many ways. [deleted quotation]Those here who are listening in on the talk about what computer science may have to do with the humanities will hear a disturbing echo, and will, perhaps, be somewhat less happy to be known in CS circles as having all those tough problems for computer science to "solve". But to my point. Does it not seem to you that sitting (or standing, or dancing) in a methodological common ground of the humanities, we offer its disciplines the kind of unity that Gould is talking about, and that one of our central roles is to make sure that conceptual tools needed for addressing key problems are developed and put within reach of all? Comment? 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: cfp: Exploring the limits of global models for Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:29:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 152 (152) integration and use of historical and scientific information HUMANISTs may be interested in this workshop. It will focus on theoretical aspects of integration issues for ontologies and conceptual models (such as the CIDOC CRM, http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/) for cultural content. Still time to submit -- and I hear the location is nice. -- Allen H Renear Call for Papers Workshop on Exploring the limits of global models for integration and use of historical and scientific information October 23-24 2006 ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Effective large scale information integration requires an agreement on the common semantics of the data structure elements and other categories employed. Recently, there has been increasing doubt about the possibility of global ontological models. However, knowledge integration based on mere similarity of categories, such as "inexact equivalence" does not allow for precise, global querying advanced reasoning, or interoperability. On the other hand, practical core ontologies such as CIDOC/CRM (ISO/PRF 21127) demonstrate a surprisingly wide validity over multiple domains. This workshop explores the limits of such global models for integrating and making use of historical and scientific information, in order to enhance both, our theoretical understanding of the limits of ontological agreement in a specific application setting, and our practical understanding of how to implement effective large scale knowledge integration services and exploit the power of global models. The application of formal ontologies in cultural domains such as museums, libraries, and archives, the semantic web, and other related areas, inevitably raises difficult theoretical problems which appear to complicate the development of practical ontologies. For instance, these problems affect directly the performance of information systems, when there is no agreement on the identity and unity of referred items, such as: * Does Tut-Ankh Amun still exist (i.e. as a mummy)? * Is Luther's translation an expression of the Holy Bible or another work? * Is Caesar's coming to the Curia a part of the event of his murder? How can the respective ontological choices be objectified, and how can they be reconciled in practical applications? To which degree compatible generalizations of a model can compensate inconsistencies following the widening of the scope of a model? What are the limits of ontology harmonization? Which kinds of concepts tend to be globally compatible and which not, and in which sense? This workshop elicits contributions related to studies, experiences and practical and theoretical solutions around the above problems. As well as formal information systems approaches to these problems we welcome contributions based on perspectives from philosophy, from cognitive science, and from the social sciences. On the other side, this workshop elicits contributions about the application and prospects and limits of domain overarching information integration, in particular with respect to cultural heritage and scientific information. Issues in this area include... * Models for the semantic interoperability and integration of scientific and cultural information and possibly other disciplines. * The long-term preservation and future interoperability of data structure semantics. * Scalable information architectures, linking and reasoning services under semantic models, in particular scalable solutions. The following topics are of particular interest: * Philosophical implications or controversies with respect ontological choices of the CIDOC CRM, FRBR and other core ontologies for information in libraries, archives, museum and scientific data repositories. * Identity and temporal existence of conceptual items. Identity of Works. Can works or texts gain or lose non-relational properties? Is identity based on the continuity of tradition or essential properties? * Work as continuant versus Work as occurrent. * Identity and substance of events, parts of events, spatiotemporal limits of events in non-discrete models compatible with the nature of historical records. Methods for managing the practical needs of information systems... * Objective criteria for selecting and justifying ontological choices in information systems * Harmonization of ontologies. Can Digital Libraries be based on one global information model, or why not? * Integrating cultural and scientific heritage: Scientific records as historical data. Integrated access and (re)use. E-science metadata. The relevance of factual knowledge for e-science. * Preservation of data structure semantics -- interoperability with the future. * Knowledge extraction and core ontologies. * Document linking and semantic relationships. Organizers: CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group, ICS-FORTH, DELOS Network of Excellence. Workshop Chairs: Martin Doerr and Allen Renear Submission Information: Proposals 1000-1750 word extended abstraact (excluding bibliography and a 100-300 word short abstract) Due August 1st 2006. Notification of Acceptance: August 25th. Format: PDF. With author's contact information (including phone numbers and email addresses) clearly evident near the top of the proposal. Email proposal as an attachment to Allen Renear (renear_at_uiuc.edu) cc to Martin Doerr, martin_at_ics.forth.gr. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged. The authors of the best contributions will be invited to submit full papers for a special issue in the Journal for Applied Ontologies. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Maurizio Lana Subject: new methods for authorship attribution? Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:01:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 153 (153) dear humanists, some of you remember, i think, the "ad-hoc authorship attribution competition" (patrick juola, 2003-04). the detailed results were published in the personal space of p. juola on the duquesne university site. now those data seem to be no more accessibile. i need them because with two friends we possibly defined some more efficient methods for text attribution and so we would like to check our score with those obtained in june 2004. is anyone of you able to point me to some location for those data, or to send the data themselves to my email address? i hope greatly in your help... maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Universitŕ del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 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_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: 20.092 problematic metaphors Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:01:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 154 (154) Willard, The problem may not be in the metaphors but their explication. "Conduit metaphor" is constructed by Reddy as a foil to the radical subjectivist position. A conduit is not a container. Let us re-examine the example: You'll find better ideas than that in the library A radical subjectivist parsing of the phrase could construct a reading where the segment "in the library" modifies the pronoun "you". It is not necessary to suppose that it is "ideas" that are found "in the library". One could suppose that a conditional is at work: if you go to the library, you will find better ideas than that. The diectics in the example are ideal representations of "conduit" words. Words that do not contain meaning in and of themselves; words that do bring subjects to position themselves vis-a-vis the discourse. "[T]hat" and "[y]ou" are empty until filled by a discursive situation. A conduit is very much a pipeline, empty until something begins to flow through it. I can very well understand wanting to challenge the information model of communication (the sending and receiving of messages between discrete points) reducing language use to decoding, if you will. However the conduit metaphor offers a richness in its application. The conduit offered by language is not just a line of message transmission between the partners of a communication situation. It is also a route to access cognitive objects. Words whether or not they act as containers are very much a means by which the imagination accesses the imagined. What is imagined is often at the juncture of what has been experienced and what can be projected. Words can be imagined as the intake pipe for conduits. They suck us in. Lucky there are other words that repulse and warn of misplaced agency. From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2007 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:15:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 155 (155) [The following is relevant to Humanist in a number of different respects. MGK] CC2007 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************** CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2007 Seeding Creativity: Tools, Media, and Environments June 13-15, 2007 Washington DC, USA http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/ Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI Industry Sponsors include IBM, Microsoft, SAP and Google *********************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: December 15, 2006 Author notification: February 19, 2007 Final formatted papers due: March 19, 2007 We cordially invite submissions to the 6th Creativity and Cognition Conference (CC2007), sponsored by ACM SIGCHI. Following the success of the previous conferences, this meeting will serve as a forum for focusing on creativity support tools for individual and group creativity, bridging among technology, science and arts to find common themes for user interface and new media design, and producing rigorous research with innovative designs and carefully conceived evaluations. We welcome contributions from researchers, developers, practitioners, and policy-makers in many fields, including: computer and information scientists; diverse scientists, engineers, and architects; product, graphic, and interaction designers; writers, musicians, and new media artists; creative practitioners, corporate leaders, and educators; social scientists, ethnographers, and anthropologists. The conference will feature two elegant evening receptions at the National Academy of Sciences and Corcoran Gallery of Art to celebrate the dialogue among technology, science, and arts. CONFERENCE THEMES The general focus of the conference is about cultivating and sustaining creativity: understanding how to design and evaluate computational support tools, digital media, and sociotechnical environments that not only empower our creative process and abilities, but also encourage and nurture creative mindsets and lifestyles. Topics appropriate for submissions include, but are not limited to: - Principles for interface, interaction & software design - Empirical evaluations by quantitative and qualitative methods - In-depth case studies and ethnographic analyses - Reflective accounts of individual and collaborative practice - Educational and training methods to encourage creativity with novel interfaces - Social mechanisms in support of creative communities and collaboratories - Emerging technologies, media, and approaches in the arts and creative practices - Transdisciplinary methods and collaboration models [...] -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity -- New Issue Alert! Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:13:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 156 (156) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 26 July 11, 2006 - July 17, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: ELUSIVE PROMISE OF AI In this article, Jeff Riley writes: "With the ever-increasing speed and computing power of modern computers we may be able to construct smart machines for specific problems (e.g. autonomous vehicle control, credit card fraud detection, etc.), and to be sure the complexity of the problems for which smart machines are deployed is increasing as we progress, but will we ever construct machines that can learn for themselves from scratch machines that can truly reason?" A technical program manager with Hewlett-Packard, he holds a Master's Degree in Applied Science (IT) and a PhD in Computer Science (AI). His main interests in the field of artificial intelligence are in evolutionary computation and machine learning techniques. More information on his research can be found at http://www.rileys.id.au/JeffsResearch.html For "The Elusive Promise of AI" to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i26_riley.html From: "Beagrie, Neil" Subject: C21st curation 2006 public lectures -podcasts and Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 157 (157) presentations now available [The following concerns events put on by the School of Library and Information Science, University College London. --WM] Following the highly successful inaugural series of C21st Curation public lectures last year, SLAIS organised a second series of public lectures by eight leading speakers, open to students, professionals and general public during April and May 2006. Podcasts and presentations from the series are now available online (<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/>www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/). The four evening sessions each attracted an audience of professional librarians, archivists, records managers, museum curators, publishers, and students. Each session provoked lively discussion and debate. Details of the key themes and speakers are given below. Scholarly Communications Astrid Wissenburg, Director of Communications at the Economic and Social Research Council "Scholarly communications and the role of researcher funders" The presentation for this lecture is available on the SLAIS Web site (<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/>www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/). David Brown, Head of Scholarly Communications at The British Library "Scholarly communication: trends and developments" The presentation for this lecture is available on the SLAIS Web site (<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/>www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/). Digital Resources in the Humanities Professor Susan Hockey, UCL "Digital resources in the humanities: why is digital information different?" The podcast and presentation for this lecture are available on the SLAIS Web site (<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/>www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/). Suzanne Keene, UCL "Disruptive technologies: are museums immune?" The presentation for this lecture is available on the SLAIS Web site (<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/>www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/). Service Delivery in National Institutions Natalie Ceeney, Chief Executive of The National Archives "The digital revolution and service delivery in The National Archives" The podcast and presentation for this lecture are available on the SLAIS Web site (<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/>www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/). Jemima Rellie, Head of Digital Programmes at the Tate "Digitising delivery at Tate Online" The podcast and presentation for this lecture are available on the SLAIS Web site (<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/>www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/). Curation and Access for Scientific Data Neil Beagrie, The British Library and JISC "Curation and access for scientific research" The podcast and presentation for this lecture are available on the SLAIS Web site (<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/>www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/). Prof. Michael Wadsworth, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL "Data curation in the Medical Research Council: The National Survey of Health and Development" The podcast and presentation for this lecture are available on the SLAIS Web site (<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/>www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/c21/). Feedback from those attending the lecture series has been overwhelmingly positive. We are extremely grateful to all the speakers who gave their time to make the second series of public lectures so enjoyable and stimulating intellectually and professionally for the audience. We hope making podcasts and presentations from the lectures available online this year will be welcomed by those who were unable to attend some of the lectures and the many individuals from overseas who asked if this would be possible. We would welcome further feedback from those who attended or download the lectures and any suggestions on topics for future public lecture series. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: human uses for humble tools Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:14:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 158 (158) Willard, you asked: [deleted quotation]"put within reach" yes! "conceptual tool" what's that? Your recent call, Willard, for reflection on a quotation from Stephen Jay Gould on consiliation lead me to relay these three beads (in lieu of conceptual tools): Edward Dorn The Poet, the People, the Spirit (Talonbooks, 1976 ISBN 0-88922-101-4) p. 28 [from a transcript of a lecture given July 21 in 1965 at the Berkeley Poetry Conference] Now let me finish it off by talking about one more thing. I've got a note: the world and the uselessness of national boundaries. With the provision that any kind of one world idea is usually a trick of misunderstanding of what to be a whole world is. One world is not necessarily a whole world. If one reads "discipline" for "national", how does the notion of a partial world align with that of whole world and one world? For a humanist, the answer lies in some sense in the nature of data structures, i.e. representations and their relations. Manfred Thaller "Texts, Databases, [...]: A Note on the Architecture of Computer Systems for the Humanities" July 2002 Reminds readers that "objects intentionally hiding which of the information they hand out to the world at large are 'data', and which are 'derived from data' - providing 'methods' to access both types of information." I find this the metaphor of withholding very telling. I would like to apply it, the metaphor, to another distinction Thaller raises: "While uncommon more recently in older DBMS literature we find the observation that all data models can in principle be described in such a way that they can either be represented as a set of connected tables, or as graph in the mathematical sense (a network, for non IT readers)." You guessed it, by means of analogy, I would like to suggest that tables are withholding in their operations; graphs, presenting. It is a simple characterization. Regardless of its correctness, I introduce it here by way of mere example to indicate the possibility that certain representations are withholding and others not. Pardon the following table: A whole world contains both types of representation. A one world is the dream of a grand relational data base. A partial world would be constructed from the wakeful behaviour of graphs. Clancy Ratliff "Literature Review Spreadsheet" June 6, 2006 http://culturecat.net/node/1091#comment The author of the Culture Cat blog published an entry about the use of spreadsheet software for categorizing elements of a literature review. Evidently useful for sorting information arranged as a table, spreadsheets also allow for graph making -- tabulation also involves counting. Such a humble tool as the spreadsheet reminds me that disposition is key. If in the e.o. wilson world of genes and genomes, the occult object on the route to the oracular array, in the worlds of other artisans, there is a readiness to experience the network "in" the node. The ever expansive node. Ratliff adds an addendum: "Immediately after hitting 'Submit,' I thought of another column: Technology. I realized I wanted to keep track of whether the technology being studied was email, a bulletin board, a MOO, what have you." These three little beads were here presented in this ordering to suggest that 1) a tool may not be the same as a disposition (use of a tool) 2) hide and seek is a valuable language game (intrinsically valued) 3) there is a place for one-worlders in a universe of interchange (the value of that place is sometimes hidden) and finally 4) a conceptual tool is a "reading" and as such is open and within reach perhaps not within the reach of all but certainly within the reach of many and so by relay every close by -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: "hinton_at_springnet1.com" Subject: Re: 20.102 tools beyond the grasp of those who need them Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:18:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 159 (159) Just being pedantic, Willard -- Whewell did indeed successfully urge the use of the word "scientist". However, the OED lists this unattributed citation 6 years earlier, from an unsigned piece in The Quarterly Review -- a sort of negative creation for which, apparently, the world was not yet ready: [deleted quotation] From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Re: 20.087 student use of Wikipedia Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:17:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 160 (160) I included the following note in a recent manuscript in which I cited Wikipedia: "A note on Wikipedia as a scholarly source of record: while its open knowledge environment has become notorious for its potential for abuse, technical information is among the most reliable of content domains on Wikipedia, given the high interest of such entries among Wikiepdia's readership and the consequent editorial attention (and expertise) they attract. The substance of the material quoted above has been stable since 23 November 2004 01:28, information which Wikipedia's own intricate version control system allowed me to determine." Wikipedia's revision history and versioning functions offer those users who so avail themselves far more transparency than a printed source ever could. The cut and thrust of every slash and parry in the "edit wars" is thus pitilessly exposed. The larger context for this point is one that will be familiar to readers of Humanist: it is very difficult to ascribe "essential" features to electronic documents. Rather, the behaviors and characteristics of a particular electronic environment are a function of how the designers of that environment choose to model experience. In the specific case of Wikipedia, textual experience has been modeled in such a way as to encourage attention to a document's revision and editing cycle. Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 20.107 student use of Wikipedia Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:13:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 161 (161) Somewhat related to the idea of "modelling experience" and electronic documents is Shelagh Rogers discussion of podcasting (in a podcast): http://www.cbc.ca/soundslikecanada/podcast.html Shelagh Rogers is a broadcaster for the CBC. I found it very interesting how she criticises the speaker's assumption that a broadcast is to a group of people (indicated by the many who begin their podcast with the phrase, "Hello everyone)." The technology on one hand creates a reality that a broad/podcast is to large, even huge groups of people. A skilled communicator like Shelagh Rogers would attempt to suspend the technological reality into an experience that the communication is one-to-one, personal, intimate, local etc. Blogs and wikis must work similarly I suppose. I do get the perception from a blog like Boing Boing www.boingboing.net or Kevin Smith http://www.silentbobspeaks.com/, that I have inside knowledge from a knowledgable, high-status, high-cool-factor personal friend, when the reality is that there are millions of people who a) feel the same way and b) would not be acknowledged in quite the same way should they meet the writers in person. But is this really different from a book? Books can have this element of intimacy -- but somehow the speed and regularity of response from the blog/podcast enhances that intimacy in the online world. Ryan. . . Quoting "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" : [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation]Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Expected 2005 From: Willard McCarty Subject: visualisation Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:38:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 162 (162) In his lecture "The Command of Metaphor", published in The Philosophy of Rhetoric (Oxford, 1964/1936), I A Richards takes up a particular statement of the critic T E Hulme on the operation of metaphor. Here he is quoting Hulme: [deleted quotation]Among the three bones Richards has to pick with this account is the ill-considered emphasis on visualisation. He comments, [deleted quotation]Technologically we may well be at the point at which digital visualisation techniques have become sufficiently successful and accessible that we are tempted to go whole hog into the visual rendering of our models and results. As far as I know, we do not yet have a persuasive theoretical means of rendering e.g. text-analytic results visually -- of making the primitive "Rossetti spaghetti" we can entertainingly produce actually say something theoretically consequential. (Corrections welcome.) But, I would guess, it's only a matter of time. Indeed, that time may be now, in some lab somewhere. The crabbed old rejection of the visual (and indeed more broadly material) by those who relegate the non-verbal to a decorative periphery obviously won't do. But, as Edward Tufte and others have insisted, pictures don't speak for themselves. Nor, as Northrop Frye argued, do verbal works of art, which are "dumb as statues". Criticism is required. What criticism do we have ready for the coming tide of digital visualisations? How well does it take into account the specifically digital means of production *and manipulation*? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Subject: LATA 2007 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:39:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 163 (163) ******************************************************************************* Call for papers 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2007) Tarragona, Spain, March 29 - April 4, 2007 http://www.grlmc.com ******************************************************************************* AIMS: LATA 2007 intends to become a major yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications that is being developed at the host institute since 2001, it will reserve significant room for young computer scientists at the beginning of their career. LATA 2007 will aim at attracting scholars from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: - words, languages and automata - grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.) - grammars and automata architectures - combinatorics on words - language varieties and semigroups - algebraic language theory - computability - computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized complexity - patterns and codes - regulated rewriting - trees, tree languages and tree machines - term rewriting - graphs and graph transformation - power series - fuzzy and rough languages - cellular automata - DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing - quantum, chemical and optical computing - biomolecular nanotechnology - automata and logic - automata for verification - automata, concurrency and Petri nets - parsing - weighted machines - foundations of finite state technology - grammatical inference and learning - symbolic neural networks - text retrieval and pattern recognition - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics - mathematical evolutionary genomics - language-based cryptography - compression - circuit theory and applications - language theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life STRUCTURE: LATA 2007 will consist of: - 3 invited talks (to be announced in the second call for papers) - 2 tutorials (to be announced in the second call for papers) - refereed contributions - open sessions for discussion in specific subfields - young sessions on professional issues [...] From: Michael Fraser Subject: Humbul: The final regeneration Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:40:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 164 (164) Dear Humanist, After over 20 years of operation Humbul has regenerated itself once more and, together with Artifact, is now fully assimilated into Intute: Arts and Humanities. Yesterday, 13 July 2006, Intute, a new free online service, was launched in London. Intute reflects a complete overhaul and reorganisation of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), of which Humbul was a part. The core business of Intute, like the RDN, is to faciliate access to the best of the Web for education and research. Intute: Arts and Humanities is one of four subject groups in the new Intute and results from a merging of the Humbul Humanities Hub and Artifact. Intute: Arts and Humanities is led by Oxford University in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University. Intute is funded by the JISC and Intute: Arts and Humanities also receives funding from the AHRC. In summary, Intute: Arts and Humanities provides: * A single point of service with clear search and browse interfaces, supporting interdisciplinary use across the arts and humanities (and beyond); * The development of additional services which add value to the database of arts and humanities resource descriptions. These currently comprise: AHRC projects with websites; an index of notable people; freely available peer-reviewed electronic journals; topical presentations of online resources ('Limelight', 'On this Date' and 'Timelines'); and the North-West Film Archive database. Functionality currently available to other subject groups will become available to the Arts and Humanities Subject Group. * The availability of personalisation functionality ('MyIntute' -- developed by Chris Stephens and based on the My Humbul service) which encourages the reuse of resource descriptions from subjects within the arts and humanities (and beyond) together with an email alerting service; * Implementation within the arts and humanities of other Intute-wide activities. These include: recommendations arising from the recent report on requirements for better supporting researchers (an activity led by Oxford); training and support (e.g. new online tutorials and 'Best of the Web' booklets for archaeology and the visual arts). The Web address for Intute: Arts and Humanities is http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/. If you maintain a website which links to Humbul, Artifact or the Resource Discovery Network then we would be grateful if you could update the links to point to the new Intute Website. The Humbul and Artifact websites still remain but will no longer be updated. As part of this reorganisation we have also merged together the humbul_at_jiscmail.ac.uk and artifact_at_jiscmail.ac.uk lists into a single email list for announcements, intute-artsandhumanities_at_jiscmail.ac.uk. The archives for both lists are available, together with instructions for leaving or joining the new list, at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/intute-artsandhumanities We would be very pleased to receive your comments and suggestions about Intute: Arts and Humanities. Please feel free to send feedback via the website at http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/feedback.html. Please feel free to circulate this email within your institution and subject associations. Best wishes, Michael Fraser Director, Intute: Arts and Humanities --- For your amusement, here are some links to messages announcing previous regenerations of Humbul: Nov 1985, Lou Burnard plays with Humbul (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou/reports/1985.htm) Feb 1989, May Katzen summarises how to access Humbul for Humanist readers (http://dmmc.lib.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v02/0077.html) Oct 1991, Stuart Lee announces move of Humbul from Leicester to Oxford (http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v05/0389.html) Jul 1994, Stuart Lee anounces move and relaunch of Humbul from a bulletin board to a Web site (http://dmmc.lib.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v08/0101.html) Oct 1997, Chris Stephens relaunches Humbul as a database-driven gateway (http://dmmc.lib.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v11/0306.html) Oct 1999, Humbul urgently seeking Systems Developer having successfully bid to host the humanities hub of the RDN (http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v13/0237.html) Feb 2001, Humbul has a complete redesign, as reported in news from the HCU (http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0589.html) From: Subject: Re: 20.111 visualisation criticism? Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:08:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 165 (165) On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 12:44:36PM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]I have long had an intuition that there is such a thing as "humanities visualization" on analogy with "scientific visualization" (the latter being a frequently asserted category in visualization circles), and that such visualizations would lie somewhere between the scatter plot (which Tufte describes as the greatest of all quantitative visualizations) and "Rossetti spaghetti" (described aptly above as "entertainingly produced"). Such visualizations, it seems to me, would have to be insistent examples of "criticism required" -- that is, artifacts that are less concerned with demonstrating "the results," and far more concerned with leading us into results that lie beyond the apparent dimensionality of the data. Perhaps that is going on in a lab somewhere, but I think the acceptance of such modes of "seeing" (and Richards is too hot on this point) will require an epistemological revolution. We are conditioned to expect demonstration from, for example, text analytic visualizations. We are not yet prepared to deal, in my opinion, with metaphor, provocation, and interruption in the realm of visualization -- with visualizations that have the same critical status as the objects they purport to illuminate. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 From: Willard McCarty Subject: brief hiatus Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:07:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 166 (166) Dear colleagues: Humanist will be dormant for the week of 17 July, during which I will be out of the reach of the Internet. Submissions during this time will be kept safe by software, but as usual you should keep a careful eye out for any you post. If a posting does not emerge early in the week of 24 July, please let me know -- it will have been swallowed by my spam filters. 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: St Thomas Aquinas online Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:22:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 167 (167) Those who need the words and works of St Thomas Aquinas will rejoice in the online Corpus Thomisticum, http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/. As the Brevis Introductio explains (in 9 languages), it offers a full edition of the complete works, a bibliography of scholarship from 13C to the present, an index of the main tools for study, a concordance generator sensitive to inflectional variation and other digital tools, a digital edition of the main manuscripts. As one would suspect, the hand of Fr Busa is evident throughout. 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: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: job at Maryland Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:20:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 168 (168) MARYLAND INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park announces an immediate search for the position of Assistant Director. EXEMPT/12 MONTH FULLTIME (POSITION # 112159) Made possible by a major Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a collaboration among the University of Maryland's College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. Since its founding in 1999, MITH has become internationally recognized as one of the leading centers of its kind, distinguished by the cultural diversity so central to its identity. Located in McKeldin Library at the heart of the campus, MITH is the University's primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of digital humanities, new media, and cyberculture, as well as new home of the Electronic Literature Organization, the most prominent international group devoted to the writing, publishing and reading of electronic literature. Projects have typically taken the form of electronic editions, scholarly databases, or high-end teaching materials (examples here: <http://www.mith2.umd.edu/research/index.php>). MITH is also increasingly supporting research in creative new media. MITH's house research includes projects in text mining, visualization, digital libraries, electronic publishing, and digital preservation. We collaborate actively with allied campus units, including the University Libraries, the College of Information Science, and the Human Computer Interaction Lab. Situated just outside of Washington DC, MITH also offers all of the opportunities that come from the libraries, museums, and cultural institutions of the area. In addition to participating in MITH's house research, the Assistant Director will bear primary responsibility for the conceptualization and development of MITH's Fellows' projects and the supervision of a staff that includes a full-time Web designer, graduate assistants, and interns. We are therefore seeking a data architecture specialist experienced with both relational database and XML data representation. Ability to work at the command-line level with Unix/Linux based applications such as mySql is required, and preference will be given to candidates with scripting and programming expertise. Strong organizational and project management skills are also mandatory, as are excellent communication skills. A humanities background is welcome and desirable. MA, MLS, or Ph.D. preferred. The Assistant Director is a full-time staff position at the University, with benefits. Salary commensurate with experience, ranging from $50,000-$63,000. To apply, please send a letter of application, CV, and contact information for three references. Best consideration by August 1, 2006. Application materials may be sent electronically to mith_at_umd.edu or to Neil Fraistat, Director, MITH, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Consideration of applications to begin immediately. Applications from women and minorities, as well as faculty at HBCU's is encouraged. Neil Fraistat, Director Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Director -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.27 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:18:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 169 (169) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 27 July 18, 2006 - July 24, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: AN INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN COBB Stephen Cobb is a literature scholar, a prolific author, and a data security expert. Speaking of the bad guys he says, "I think the most significant aspect of bad guys today is that they are much badder than bad guys 10 or 15 years ago, when the primary motive for messing with computers was first of all curiosity, then some malice, whereas now a lot of it is the underground market in personal information for identity theft. I think the big problem now is that whatever interests are backing this activity are increasingly moneyed interests." Read the interview at http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i27_cobb.html. For this week's Ubiquity go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 27 (July 18, 2006 - July 24, 2006) Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Christoph Flüeler (by Subject: Abbey Library of St. Gall, Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:23:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 170 (170) Switzerland: 100 manuscripts online *Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland /online Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland online <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en> /*- free access: www.cesg.unifr.ch <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en> - high resolution digital images: over 40'000 facsimile pages - regularly updated: *now 100 complete manuscripts* - manuscript descriptions and many search options - accessible in German=20 <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/de>, French <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/fr>, English <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en> and Italian <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/it> Please recommend it to your colleagues and put a link to CESG on your= homepage. - Codices Electronici Sangallenses- From: Willard McCarty Subject: Medieval Forum Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:26:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 171 (171) [Submitted by Medlit ] Medieval Forum, an electronic journal for the promotion of scholarship in Medieval English Literature, invites submissions for its sixth volume. MF is dedicated to providing a venue for the free exchange of ideas in a collegial, public forum environment. Critical essays on works from any genre or period of the medieval corpus are invited, and a humanistic orientation is encouraged. Although the focus of MF is on literature, articles from other disciplines, particularly cultural and historical, that will contribute to the study of literature are welcome. Book reviews are also invited. Volume 6 is anticipated in December 2006. Submissions are accepted and reviewed on an ongoing basis, with the deadline of 15 September. Visit our website for guidelines: http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/. Please share this announcement with your colleagues. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: Alan Sondheim performance at WVU Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:18:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 172 (172) Digital media artist and writer Alan Sondheim will give give a public performance on July 27th at 730pm in the CAC's Bloch Hall Theater at West Viginia University, in Morgantown, WV. The multimedia performance will showcase work emerging from Sondheim's six week residency at WVU, hosted by the Center for Literary Computing and the Virtual Environments Lab. Sondheim is also offering a public lecture on Aug. 3 in the Mountainlair Rhododendron Room at WVU. 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: simon mahony Subject: Only Connect? Text, Hypertext and the Commentary Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:19:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 173 (173) Tradition, seminar Seminar announcement (with apologies for cross-posting) Tim Hill (Cambridge) Only Connect? Text, Hypertext and the Commentary Tradition All interested students and staff are cordially invited to this seminar in the Digital Classicist series in Senate House (see http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/) Friday 21st July, 16:30 Room NG 16, Senate House, Malet St, London (North wing, ground floor, down the ramp behind the coffee bar and follow the passage) Twenty-first century scholars are the heirs of a millenia-long tradition of textual scholia and commentaries - arguably the world's first inherently hypertextual documents. This paper explores the considerable potential current hypertext technologies such as HTML and XLink hold for the classical commentary - and the possibly insurmountable obstacles that prevent this potential from being realized. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. All welcome. For more information on the Digital Classicist seminars please contact both Simon.Mahony_at_kcl.ac.uk and Gabriel.Bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/ ---------------------- Simon Mahony Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7 Arundel St London WC2R 3DX Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony_at_kcl.ac.uk From: "Shawn Martin" Subject: TCP Conference: Bringing Text Alive The Future of Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:20:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 174 (174) Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication The Conference: Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication Announces that registration is now available at http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tcp.conference. This exciting conference will be addressing many issues relating to the future of electronic resources in the humanities. With the help of the Delmas Foundation, Newsbank-Readex, ProQuest Information and Learning, and Thomson-Gale, the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project at the University of Michigan has put together an exciting program of over 30 speakers in Ann Arbor on September 15 & 16, 2006. The conference will cover a wide array of issues relating to both scholars and librarians including: 1. New paradigms in scholarship: How do scholars create new electronic environments in which to do their research and teaching? Do e-texts necessitate the creation of virtual research/learning environments? How do such environments change "traditional" practices? How should scholars harness these changes to best fulfill their needs? 2. Collaboration between libraries and academic departments What opportunities are available with electronic technology? What kinds of collaborations exist currently? How have these enhanced research and pedagogical opportunities? 3. Practical changes in scholarship and teaching What have other scholars done in their classes and scholarship? How is it easier to teach undergraduates with e-resources? Is it easier to do research with e-resources? Please join us for this exciting discussion. More information about the conference is available at http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/conference and please contact tcpconf_at_umich.edu for further questions. Thanks, Shawn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: James Cummings Subject: OTA at 30 Celebration Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:21:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 175 (175) Dear Humanist readers, You are all cordially invited to the Oxford Text Archive's 30th Birthday Celebration! This is a one day conference on electronic text archives and humanities computing, to be held Thursday 21st September 2006, at the Oxford University Computing Services, University of Oxford, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN. Although the event is free, registration through an email to OTA30_at_ota.ox.ac.uk is required to limit numbers. Speakers include: * Lou Burnard on "Autolycus wired: three decades of snapping up unconsidered trifles" * Alan Morrison on "From dustbin policy to data service" * Julia Flanders on "Historicizing humanities computing" * Edward Vanhoutte on "Electronic scholarly editing" * Claire Warwick on "A Dubious Legacy: Problems of the re-use of data for digital humanities research" * Willard McCarty on "Smell of food on the wind, then and now" In addition there will be a discussion led by a panel of experts on the future of electronic text archives. Those who register via email will eventually be sent a more detailed programme once all the details are set in stone. Abstracts for the above papers are available from: http://ota.ox.ac.uk/OTA30/index.html There will be cake. For more information or to register email OTA30_at_ota.ox.ac.uk -James -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford From: Willard McCarty Subject: silence from Humanist Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:29:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 176 (176) Dear colleagues: The continuing silence from Humanist is not due to my absence, as this message attests, rather to a defective College server or some other such cause. Presumably messages are accumulating and will see the light of day soon. When normal service resumes, so will Humanist. Watch out then for any messages you have posted. 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: On the Uses of the Humanities Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:28:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 177 (177) Many here have been involved at one time or another in worrying the intersection of the humanities, computing and the world. Humanities computing has been promoted to students as a way of getting ahead in life, and part of that promotion has involved the (proto)argument that computing connects the humanities to the world at large. We've claimed that if you learn how to tackle the hardest problems known -- those of the humanities -- empirically, you'll have a leg up on the simpler task of applying the computer to the problems one encounters, say, on the job. The question from students, "Why should I be interested in that, whatever it is?", is as urgent as ever. We are in need of genuine, straightforward arguments (as mutatis mutandis are our colleagues in all the other disciplines of the humanities). Some help may be found in a report by the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, Hastings Center (US), On the Uses of the Humanities: Vision and Application (1984), http://www.thehastingscenter.org/, Publications / Books and Monographs / Download list of books and monographs. It's not a go-read-this-and-you'll-know book, but it should prove useful. 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: Jerome McGann Subject: research associate position Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:24:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 178 (178) Research Associate The Media Studies Program at the University of Virginia seeks a research associate (post-doctorate position) for its Applied Research in Patacriticism tools development group. The project is engaged in developing software that maps the phonetic structure of English language texts, especially poetical texts. The software (called "JuXta": <http://nines.org/tools/juxta.html>http://nines.org/tools/juxta.html ) is already well developed as a tool for comparing and collating equivalent texts. The project is to move in a further direction using the phonetic resources of either the online OED or Wordnet, or possibly some similar resource. A Ph.D., preferably in linguistics and/or computer science, is required. The ideal candidate will have a familiarity with English language and literature. The Research Associate will be working with java programmers and visual design specialists. Together they will design and build the software that will define the phonetic units of a text, distinguish significant phonetic patterns, and map the relations between the patterns that are exposed. Desirable start date is January 10, 2007. Send application letter, resume, and the names (and contact information) of three references to: Jerome McGann, University of Virginia, PO Box 400121, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121 (or by e-mail to: jjm2f_at_virginia.edu). Review of applications will begin on August 15, 2006 and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. A demonstrated commitment to issues of diversity in pedagogy and scholarship is integral to the vision of the Media Studies Program. Therefore the search committee particularly welcomes applications from women, ethnic minorities, and other underrepresented groups. From: Allen H Renear Subject: CFP Deadline Extended: Workshop on limits of global Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:22:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 179 (179) models for integration of historical and scientific information The abstract deadline for the ICS-FORTH workshop on global ontologies for cultural information has been extended. -- allen * * * ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO AUGUST 20th * * * Workshop on Exploring the limits of global models for integration and use of historical and scientific information October 23-24 2006 ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece NB: The abstract deadline has been extended to August 20th. Please see "Submission Information" below. Invited Speaker: Nicola Guarino ISTC-CNR, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Trento Effective large scale information integration requires an agreement on the common semantics of the data structure elements and other categories employed. Recently, there has been increasing doubt about the possibility of global ontological models. However, knowledge integration based on mere similarity of categories, such as "inexact equivalence" does not allow for precise, global querying advanced reasoning, or interoperability. On the other hand, practical core ontologies such as CIDOC/CRM (ISO/PRF 21127) demonstrate a surprisingly wide validity over multiple domains. This workshop explores the limits of such global models for integrating and making use of historical and scientific information, in order to enhance both, our theoretical understanding of the limits of ontological agreement in a specific application setting, and our practical understanding of how to implement effective large scale knowledge integration services and exploit the power of global models. The application of formal ontologies in cultural domains such as museums, libraries, and archives, the semantic web, and other related areas, inevitably raises difficult theoretical problems which appear to complicate the development of practical ontologies. For instance,these problems affect directly the performance of information systems, when there is no agreement on the identity and unity of referred items, such as: * Does Tut-Ankh Amun still exist (i.e. as a mummy)? * Is Luther's translation an expression of the Holy Bible or another work? * Is Caesar's coming to the Curia a part of the event of his murder? * How can the respective ontological choices be objectified, and how can they be reconciled in practical applications? * To which degree compatible generalizations of a model can compensate inconsistencies following the widening of the scope of a model? What are the limits of ontology harmonization? * Which kinds of concepts tend to be globally compatible and which not, and in which sense? This workshop elicits contributions related to studies, experiences and practical and theoretical solutions around the above problems. As well as formal information systems approaches to these problems we welcome contributions based on perspectives from philosophy, from cognitive science, and from the social sciences. On the other side, this workshop elicits contributions about the application and prospects and limits of domain overarching information integration, in particular with respect to cultural heritage and scientific information. Issues in this area include... * Models for the semantic interoperability and integration of scientific and cultural information and possibly other disciplines. * The long-term preservation and future interoperability of data structure semantics. * Scalable information architectures, linking and reasoning services under semantic models, in particular scalable solutions. The following topics are of particular interest: * Philosophical implications or controversies with respect ontological choices of the CIDOC CRM, FRBR and other core ontologies for information in libraries, archives, museum and scientific data repositories. * Identity and temporal existence of conceptual items. Identity ofWorks. Can works or texts gain or lose non-relational properties? Is identity based on the continuity of tradition or essential properties? * Work as continuant versus Work as occurrent. * Identity and substance of events, parts of events, spatiotemporal limits of events in non-discrete models compatible with the nature of historical records. Methods for managing the practical needs of information systems... * Objective criteria for selecting and justifying ontological choices in information systems * Harmonization of ontologies. Can Digital Libraries be based on one global information model, or why not? * Integrating cultural and scientific heritage: Scientific records as historical data. Integrated access and (re)use. E-science metadata. The relevance of factual knowledge for e-science. * Preservation of data structure semantics -- interoperability with the future. * Knowledge extraction and core ontologies. * Document linking and semantic relationships. Organizers: CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group, ICS-FORTH, DELOS Network of Excellence. Workshop Chairs: Martin Doerr and Allen Renear Invited Speaker: Nicola Guarino, Program Committee: Martin Doer, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece Allen Renear, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Dolores Iorizzo, London e-Science Center, Imperial College London Siegfried Krause, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Liz Lyon, UKOLN, University of Bath Laure Vieu, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Trento Invited Speaker: Nicola Guarino Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Trento Submission Information: Proposals 1000-1750 word extended abstraact (excluding bibliography and a 100-300 word short abstract) Due August 20th 2006. Notification of Acceptance: August 30th. Format: PDF. With author's contact information (including phone numbers and email addresses) clearly evident near the top of the proposal. Email proposal as an attachment to Allen Renear (renear_at_uiuc.edu) cc to Martin Doerr, martin_at_ics.forth.gr. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged. The authors of the best contributions will be invited to submit full papers for a special issue in the Journal for Applied Ontologies. Web version of CFP: http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/workshops/octocer_23_2006.htm From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: MIREX 2006: Music Retrieval Evaluation Submissions Open Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:24:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 180 (180) Hello all - We at the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) are pleased to announce that the 2006 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2006) is now accepting submissions of algorithms and abstracts for the 2006 evaluation runs. You can find the online submission system on the MIREX 2006 wiki: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex2006/index.php/MIREX_2006_Submission_Instructions More information about MIREX 2006 can be found at: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex2006/index.php/Main_Page As of 24 July 2006, these are the tasks that we plan to run as part of MIREX 2006 * Audio Beat Tracking * Audio Melody Extraction * Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval * Audio Cover Song * Audio Onset Detection * Audio Tempo Extraction * QBSH: Query-by-Singing/Humming * Score Following * Symbolic Melodic Similarity Special Pairings of MIREX 2006 Tasks This year, we seem to have arrived at some sets of evaluation tasks that are closely related to each other in some way (i.e., similar data, similar evaluations, and/or similar algorithms that can perform both tasks, etc.). Given these pairings, do be should sure to check out the related task to see if you might want to participate. These pairings are below. * Audio Beat Tracking and Audio Tempo Extraction * Audio Music Similarity & Retrieval and Audio Cover Song * Symbolic Melodic Similarity and QBSH: Query-by-Singing/Humming If you have any questions or concerns regarding the rules of the MIREX 2006 evaluation runs, your submission and/or the online submission system, or if you have any unique circumstances and/or requests, please contact the IMIRSEL Group at mrx-com09_at_lists.lis.uiuc.edu. And a hearty thanks to the IMIRSEL/MIREX project sponsors: The National Science Foundation (IIS 0327371) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Also, a special thanks to the Task Leaders for helping define and run each of this year's tasks. Cheers, Stephen -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Center Affliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Voicemail] (217) 265-5018 M2K Project Home: http://music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k From: Willard McCarty Subject: what is it that passes? Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:27:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 181 (181) In her brilliant essay, "Metaphor and Invention", Diogenes 69 (1970): 12-27, Judith Schlanger observes that, "It often happens within the same language and sometimes within the same mind, that a concept changes its place and use, a method moves to another field, intellectual perspectives and demands transfer from one area to another..." (22). From such movements she observes "between the various branches of learning, to a greater or lesser degree, a real circulation of concepts...." But -- here is the first point for us -- noting that "in these phenomena of intercommunicating fields, something passes from one area to another", she asks, "but what is it in fact that passes? Is it the living kernel of the questions and methods, or their purely verbal shell, their most dogmatic and ephemeral part?" (22f). What is the status of that which we are actively passing from one discipline to another, on a daily basis, in humanities computing? Schlanger doesn't stop there, however. Considering the interchange of metaphors among scientific fields, she observes that, "From the idea of the circulation of concepts it follows that metaphorical activity becomes integrated into what might be called the nature of the thought. Between metaphorical conventions and conceptual borrowings, there is hardly a productive area of thought which does not crumble and reveal that it contains something which it is not. The circulation of concepts is also cyclical. If one looks back far enough, one can see the outline of a perpetual interchange of models between the various fields of knowledge, a sort of odyssey of ideas." (23). But, again, what is it that circulates? "The function of an analogical borrowing from one field to another, whether a metaphorical borrowing of terminology, or on a deeper level, the methodological borrowing of an intellectual method or the epistemological borrowing of an ideal requirement of learning, the function of the borrowing cannot be understood in etiological terms, like production or origin. Borrowing only takes place where a problem already exists: where a powerful but open intellectual elaboration uses what it needs selectively. Analogy provides expressions, arguments, representations, models: it gives the thought imaginative and expressive support; but it does not produce the concept." Borrowing provides imaginative support. We're accustomed to a support-role, from the help-desk to the management and implementation of methodological borrowing. But, again, there's more. Looking at all this borrowing among fields, Schlanger asks rhetorically, "Would it be possible to distinguish one area of knowledge which would be the ultimate basis to which the circulation of concepts refers? Could one locate the final analogue of invention?" (25). The answer is, of course, no -- short of theology or metaphysics. Fields come and go as our exemplars of fundamental thought, "the analogue is a variable; thought has known several of them in succession; and when one believes one has found a model that was used several centuries ago, the representational contents and associated values will have changed." For her, writing more than 30 years ago, cybernetics is the new popular kid on the block, whom we must all get to know and imitate. But it too is an historical creature: "The temporarily productive and overestimated field plays an undoubtedly remarkable epistemological and logical role. But the various types of knowledge use each other in turn as points of reference and none of them enjoys more than a brief position of privilege in this respect." (26f). The flux we deal with is much more rapid, but we share the historian's ironical view. In a sense, perhaps, our most central question is innovation itself. "Pure innovatory knowledge has as its basis the impurity and complexity of the established bounds of culture. In a way knowledge is acquired against culture; but in what sense? By an epistemological leap which opens up a new dimension, and not by preliminary all-embracing discipline" (27) -- or by a privileged group of institutionalised disciplines, or by the never quite definable notion of disciplinarity. Our core subject of study is that epistemological leaping, our core activity the liberating of imaginations, our core service the training of intellectual athletes (in a world where doping is inconceivable, and sport is done for the joy of it)? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: WRYTING-L email list for theory and writing Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:20:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 182 (182) WRYTING-L As the open spaces of the internet narrow between bureaucracy and greed, email lists become ever more important. The aim of WRYTING-L is to maintain a balance between dissemination and conversation, to offer the possibility of a space of writing not overdetermined by academic rule, party line or limit of genre. All kinds of writing and discussion are welcome. The list is run with a minimum of management by Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin, and is open to all. WRYTING-L is an email list for theory and writing, focusing on texts and comments presented by the participants. The list is managed out of the Center for Literary Computing at the West Virginia University. It is open to anyone, in or outside the University. The object is to provide a forum for writing and theory that may not fit within the confines of a particular discipline, in recognition of the recent interest in operating between and across theories and genres in the humanities and beyond. We're interested in all sorts of issues - 'avant-garde' pieces, psychoanalytical, phenomenological, or deconstructive approaches, etc. Wryting is cross-platform, cross-gender, cross-reason; it may involve embodiments of reader and writer, codework and sestinas, abstract language, the collapse of genre. If you are working with images, please give a URL; they won't come through the list. If you are working on an extremely long piece, you might want to give a URL as well (there is a 500-line limit on every post). WRYTING-L stems from the older fiction-of-philosophy list, which presented work between literature and theory, fiction and poetry, philosophy and lyric, and so forth. Any discussion and original work is welcome. To join send the message "subscribe wryting-l [your email address] [your name]" without the quotation marks and square brackets to listserv_at_listserv.wvu.edu Alternatively, you can go to the following online subscription screen: http://listserv.wvu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=wryting-l&A=1 A digest option is available. From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The July/August 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:22:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 183 (183) Greetings: The July/August 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, seven reports from the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006), the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month D-Lib features ushistory.org, courtesy of the Independence Hall Association, Philadelphia, PA. The articles include: Building a Distributed, Standards-based Repository Federation: The China Digital Museum Project Robert Tansley, Hewlett Packard A Service Framework for Libraries Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; and Geneva Henry, Rice University WikiD: An OpenURL 1.0 Application Jeffrey A. Young and Thomas B. Hickey, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Role of Evidence in Establishing Trust in Repositories Seamus Ross and Andrew McHugh, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at University of Glasgow The reports from JCDL include: Report on the Sixth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006) - Opening Information Horizons: Held June 11-15, 2006, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Michael Khoo, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Thomas Severiens, Universitat Osnabruck, Germany Digital Libraries in the Context of Users' Broader Activities: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report Ann Blandford and Jeremy Gow, University College London Interaction Centre METS Implementation Meeting: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Stanford University Digital Curation and Trusted Repositories, Seeking Success: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report Carolyn Hank, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Developing a Digital Libraries Education Program: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report Kristine R. Brancolini and Javed Mostafa, Indiana University Report on the JCDL 2006 Doctoral Consortium Geneva Henry, Rice University From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.28 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:23:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 184 (184) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 28 July 25, 2006 - July 31, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: TRIPATHI, GAGLIANO, and LALITH Arun Kumar Tripathi examines technological=20 and cultural values through the mediation of=20 science and technology in contemporary=20 philosophy, and employs the perspectives of=20 Albert Borgmann, Don Ihde, Carl Mitcham, Hans=20 Poser, Larry Hickman and Bernhard Irrgang within=20 the philosophy of technology and of technological and cultural hermeneutics. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i28_tripathi.html. Ubiquity Associate Editor Ross Gagliano=20 reviews the new "Guide to MATLAB for Beginners=20 and Experienced Users," by Brian R. Hunt, Ronald=20 L. Lipsman, and Jonathan M. 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Security, in my experience, tends to punish the innocent along with the guilty. Another list member assured me that you do want list members to respond to the list, not off list. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING 2006 Guide to the Okal Rel Universe - Fandom Press From: "Alan Altany" Subject: New International Journal for Pedagogical Research Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:53:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 187 (187) A new, international, peer-reviewed, open access eJournal, entitled International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IJ-SoTL) at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/ will be published by the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, Georgia, USA) with the inaugural issue scheduled for January 2007. The deadline for submissions for the first issue is November 1, 2006. IJ-SoTL focuses upon higher/tertiary education and emphasizes that effective teaching is measured by the qualilty and depth of student learning, that it is serious intellectual work that requires sustained and complex work, that it can be opened for conversations and collaborations among colleagues, and that it can be evidence-based through pedagogical research. IJ-SoTL has the vision of being the premier international SoTL journal by being an advocate, agent and crucible for international conversations, contacts and work on SoTL. You can join our IJ-SoTL discussion list for any and all things connected with SoTL and the improvement of student learning at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/dl.htm. Thank you. Alan Altany, Ph.D. Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching Editor, International Journal for SoTL Georgia Southern University Statesboro, Georgia, USA 30460-8143 Email: aaltany_at_georgiasouthern.edu CET: http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/cet/ IJ-SoTL: http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/ From: ecoss_at_labe.felk.cvut.cz Subject: ECOLEAD Summer School on Collaborative Networks Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:54:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 188 (188) ECOLEAD Summer School on Collaborative Networks Helsinki, 28.-29.9.06 http://labe.felk.cvut.cz/eco-summerschool/ Conference, http://www.pro-ve.org/ "Collaborative networks of organizations provide a basis for competitiveness, world-excellence, and agility in turbulent market conditions. They can support SMEs to identify and exploit new business potential, boost innovation, and increase their knowledge. Networking of SMEs with large-scale enterprises also contributes to the success of the big companies in the global market. Reinforcing the effectiveness of collaborative networks, mostly based on SMEs, and creating the necessary conditions for making them endogenous reality in the European industrial landscape, are key survival factors." ECOLEAD (European Collaborative networked Organizations LEADership initiative), is an "Integrated Project" co-funded by the European Commission within 6th Framework Programme (2002-2006). ECOLEAD started in April 2004 and involves 27 partners from 15 countries across Europe, see http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/ecolead/. This project aims to create the necessary strong foundations and mechanisms for establishing the most advanced collaborative and network-based industry society where "most enterprises will be part of some sustainable collaborative networks that will act as breeding environment for the formation of dynamic virtual organizations in response to fast changing market conditions". Program committee: Hamideh Afsarmanesh (UvA, The Netherlands), Luis M. Camarinha-Matos (UNINOVA, Portugal), Mitja Jermol (JSI, Slovenia), Arturo Molina (ITESM, Mexico), Martin Ollus (VTT, Finland), Ricardo José Rabelo (UFSC, Brazil), Olga Stepankova (CTU, Czech Republic), Klaus Dieter Thoben (BIBA, Germany) Content. The Summer School will present the current state of the art in theoretical foundations of Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNO), Virtual Organizations Management, Professional Virtual Organizations, Virtual organisations Breeding Environment as well as demonstrate recent advances in design and development of corresponding ICT Infrastructures. The presentations of recognized experts in the field will highlight different aspects and viewpoints of this recently established and very active scientific domain with high promises for business world. Audience. The presented topics will be of specific interest both to attendees from academia (Computer Science, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Business and Economics or Industrial Sociology students, academics and researchers) as well as to engineering and technical professionals and managers. Irrespective of whether you are novice or experienced in the domain of Collaborative Networks the Summer School will be of benefit for you! For details and registration see http://labe.felk.cvut.cz/eco-summerschool/ From: Zoe Borovsky Subject: Programmer position at UCLA: Digital Humanities Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:52:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 189 (189) Incubator Group Dear all, Please let me know if there's someone you know who might be interested in applying for this position. It is posted as Req #7432 http://www.chr.ucla.edu/cjo/html/listings/job7432.html We begin reviewing applications on Aug 15th. Here is the version we'll place on Dice.com. Thanks! --zoe .............. Zoe Borovsky, PhD UCLA-Digital Humanities Incubator Group http://projects.cdh.ucla.edu/udhig/ .............. UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is seeking a programmer to serve as the Project Technical Lead of the Digital Humanities Incubator Group (UDHIG), a consortium of faculty members initiating and fund raising for research projects in disciplines such as archeology, art history, linguistics, philosophy, literature and new media . The Technical Lead provides leadership and coordination between several partners in the design and development of digital humanities research by consulting with and coordinating faculty, staff and students. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously, the communication and writing skills to provide consultation and support to Principal Investigators and associated staff / campus groups, and a broad technical background and project management skills to guide, coordinate, and supervise team members made up of designers and programmers from the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), faculty, and various other technical groups at UCLA. Qualifications Detailed knowledge of web-based systems particularly database-driven and web services architecture of system integration. Skill and expert knowledge in systems analysis, development methodologies, user needs analysis, interface design, and interactive design and development and the ability to communicate that knowledge by writing the technical sections of grant proposals including detailed work plans. Expert knowledge of web standards including meta search engines (e.g. Google and Yahoo), Web Services, Portals, Blogs, RSS, XML, XSLT, XHTML, CSS, Flash, and multi-lingual systems. Demonstrated skill in programming, using such tools, languages, and environments such as Java, PHP, J2EE and Linux. Ability to design and support enterprise-level software. Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, modern networking principles, XML, and SOAP sufficient to understand and develop web services. Working knowledge of sign-on and authentication systems, directory and access security design, and authorization systems. Working knowledge of relational database management systems and web servers such as Cold Fusion, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and Apache. Skill in evaluating and comparing off-the-shelf software solutions in order to make recommendations regarding purchasing or the necessity to produce in-house solutions. Proven track-record of project management skills, a broad technical background, and communication skills sufficient to lead technical teams with a variety of skills (design and programming) and skill levels. Ability to initiate and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers, supervisors, and managers and to work harmoniously as a team player. Interpersonal skills to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with faculty, students, and staff of various social, cultural, and educational backgrounds. Ability to make effective presentations to potential donors, deans, sponsors, partners and clients that communicate UDHIG's goals and role in digital humanities. Skill in analyzing current digital humanities projects, directions and needs, research and evaluate new and future options for improvement and recommend new technologies that establish UDHIG as a leader in the emerging field of digital humanities. See the complete job description at: http://www.chr.ucla.edu/cjo/html/listings/job7432.html. We will review resumes on August 15th. Submit resume and cover letter to cdhinfo_at_humnet.ucla.edu (subject heading, Req. 7432) or by mail: UCLA Center For Digital Humanities Attention: Req. No. 7432 1020 Public Policy Building Box 951499 Los Angeles, CA 90095 - 1499 From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 20.126 PhD students in the digital humanities Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:54:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 190 (190) Sounds like the degree I should have done instead of the M.Sc. Comp Sci. :-) And ain't it always the way, about the money. Plenty for plunder on the high seas, none for keeping home livable. Wonder if there might be a means to attract gaming profits. Although apt to come with strings. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING 2006 Guide to the Okal Rel Universe - Fandom Press On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:12:54 +0100, willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU wrote: [deleted quotation]the digital humanities [deleted quotation] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 63, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:36:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 191 (191) Version 63 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,730 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html The PDF version of SEPB is now produced annually. The 2005 PDF file is available (Version 60, published 12/9/2005). http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/60/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues 3.6 Research* 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Digital Rights Management 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics* Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preservation Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The 2005 annual PDF file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 210 pages long. The PDF file is over 560 KB. Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries E-Mail: cbailey_at_digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and other publications.) From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.29 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:35:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 192 (192) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 29 August 1, 2006 - August 7, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: LI & HONG; GAGLIANO; TRIPATHI Aiguo Li and Bingrong Hong: "A Low-Cost Correction Algorithm for Transient Data Errors" http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i29_li.html. Arun Kumar Tripathi: "Reflections on the Philosophy of Technology" http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i29_tripathi.html. Ross GaglianoBook Review of "Trust and Reputation for Service-Oriented Environments: Technologies For Building Business Intelligence And Consumer Confidence" by Elizabeth Chang, Tharam Dillon, and Farookh Hussain. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i29_trusted.html. For this week's Ubiquity go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 29 (August 1, 2006 - August 7, 2006) From: Willard McCarty Subject: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 10.5 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:39:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 193 (193) Volume 10 Number 5 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Original Article Can we do without GUIs? Gesture and speech interaction with a patient information system p. 269 Eamonn O’Neill, Manasawee Kaenampornpan, Vassilis Kostakos, Andrew Warr, Dawn Woodgate DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0048-1 Original Article Accelerometer-based gesture control for a design environment p. 285 Juha Kela, Panu Korpipää, Jani Mäntyjärvi, Sanna Kallio, Giuseppe Savino, Luca Jozzo, Sergio Di Marca DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0033-8 Original Article A mobile pet wearable computer and mixed reality system for human–poultry interaction through the internet p. 301 Shang Ping Lee, Adrian David Cheok, Teh Keng Soon James, Goh Pae Lyn Debra, Chio Wen Jie, Wang Chuang, Farzam Farbiz DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0051-6 Original Article Social functions of location in mobile telephony p. 319 Ilkka Arminen DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0052-5 Original Article An ethnography of communication approach to mobile product testing p. 325 Linda M. Gallant DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0053-4 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: Mark Olsen Subject: Proposal Submission Reminder: Chicago Colloquium on Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:23:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 194 (194) Digital Humanities and Computer Science Hi all, We have heard from a number of folks expressing interest in participating in the Chicago Colloquium this fall. I thought I would send out a reminder that paper proposals are due at the end of August, just in time for the beginning of classes at many schools. I trust all of you are having a great summer and, if you are in places like Chicago suffering from the current heat wave, staying cool. Best regards, Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- What to Do with a Million Books: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Call for Submissions Deadline: August 31, 2006 Sponsored by the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago, November 5th & 6th, 2006 The goal of this colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. In the wake of recent large-scale digitization projects aimed at providing universal access to the world's vast textual repositories, humanities scholars, librarians and computer scientists find themselves newly challenged to make these resources functional and meaningful. As Gregory Crane recently pointed out (1), digital access to "a million books" confronts us with the need to provide viable solutions to a range of difficult problems: analog to digital conversion, machine translation, information retrieval and data mining, to name a few. Moreover, mass digitization leads not just to problems of scale: new goals can also be envisioned, for example, catalyzing the development of new computational tools for context-sensitive analysis. If we are to build systems to interrogate usefully massive text collections for meaning, we will need to draw not only on the technical expertise of computer scientists but also learn from the traditions of self-reflective, inter-disciplinary inquiry practiced by humanist scholars. If we do not, we run the risk of having our interaction with these resources defined by technical and commercial interests alone. The book as the locus of much of our knowledge has long been at the center of discussions in digital humanities. But as mass digitization efforts accelerate a change in focus from a print-culture to a networked, digital-culture, it will become necessary to pay more attention to how the notion of a text itself is being re-constituted. We are increasingly able to interact with texts in novel ways, as linguistic, visual, and statistical processing provide us with new modes of reading, representation, and understanding. This shift makes evident the necessity for humanities scholars to enter into a dialogue with computer scientists to understand the new language of open standards, search queries, visualization and social networks. Digitizing "a million books" is thus not only a problem for computer scientists. Tomorrow, a million scholars will have to re-evaluate their notions of archive, textuality and materiality in the wake of these developments. How will the humanities scholar and the computer scientist find ways to collaborate in the "Age of Google?" Colloquium Website: http://dhcs.uchicago.edu Date: November 5th & 6th, 2006 Location: The University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Invited Speakers: Greg Crane (Professor of Classics, Tufts University) has been engaged since 1985 in planning and development of the Perseus Project, which he directs as the Editor-in-Chief. Besides supervising the Perseus Project as a whole, he has been primarily responsible for the development of the morphological analysis system which provides many of the links within the Perseus database. Ben Shneiderman is Professor in the Department of Computer Science, founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland. He is a leading expert in human-computer interaction and information visualization and has published extensively in these and related fields. John Unsworth is Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, he was on the faculty at the University of Virginia where he also led the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. He has published widely in the field of Digital Humanities and was the recipient last year of the Lyman Award for scholarship in technology and humanities. Program Committee: Prof. Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago Dr. Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Prof. Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University Dr. Mark Olsen, Associate Director, The ARTFL Project, University of Chicago Prof. Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology Prof. Wai Gen Yee, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology Call for Participation: Participation in the colloquium is open to all. We welcome submissions for: 1. Paper presentations (20 minute maximum) 2. Poster sessions 3. Software demonstrations Suggested submission topics: * Representing text genealogies and variance * Automatic extraction and analysis of natural language style elements * Visualization of large corpus search results * The materiality of the digital text * Interpreting symbols: textual exegesis and game playing * Mashup: APIs for integrating discrete information resources * Intelligent Documents * Community based tagging / folksonomies * Massively scalable text search and summaries * Distributed editing & annotation tools * Polyglot Machines: Computerized translation * Seeing not reading: visual representations of literary texts * Schemas for scholars: field and period specific ontologies for the humanities * Context sensitive text search * Towards a digital hermeneutics: data mining and pattern finding Submission Format: Please submit a (2 page maximum) abstract in either PDF or MS Word format to dhcs-submissions_at_listhost.uchicago.edu. Important Dates: Deadline for Submissions: August 31th Notification of Acceptance: September 15th Full Program Announcement: September 15th Contact Info: General Inquiries: dhcs-conference_at_listhost.uchicago.edu Organizational Committee: Mark Olsen, mark_at_gide.uchicago.edu, Associate Director, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago. Catherine Mardikes, mardikes_at_uchicago.edu, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago. Arno Bosse abosse_at_uchicago.edu, Director of Technology, Humanities Division, University of Chicago. Shlomo Argamon, argamon_at_iit.edu, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology. (1) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/03contents.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Willard McCarty Subject: which scissors & how to cut with them Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:15:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 195 (195) The French philosopher of aesthetics Etienne Souriau, in "A General Methodology for the Scientific Study of Aesthetic Appreciation" (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 14.1 (1955), begins his essay with an overall comment on method. "Scissors are always scissors", he comments. "But the tailor, the embroiderer, the gardener, and the surgeon must have different kinds. There is no scientific method good in itself. A good scientific method is one well adapted to the kind of facts to be studied. The experimental and quantitative procedures perfected by contemporary psychology and sociology may be ever so valuable, efficacious, and indispensable, but the worth of the results obtained with them depends upon the nicety of their application to the study of behavior or aptitude, to personality patterns, or to the structures of emotion or opinion. It may be said that certain supposedly scientific investigations of the aesthetic fact give at times somewhat the impression of a surgeon trying to operate on the heart with a gardener's clippers." (p. 1). There are two points here to be disentangled: first, that a good method must closely match that to which it is applied; second, and less obviously, that its manner of application must hug its object even more so. The first point has to do with selection of the right tool. Souriau's surgeon is a butcher because he or she does not have the right sort of cutting instrument to hand. The second point has to do with the skill of the surgeon, which is not at all guaranteed by having the right sort of scissors. Between these two points lies the designing of this right sort, in which the experience and knowledge of many surgeons directs the shaping and articulation of the surgical steel. As tool-providers, we strive of course to satisfy the first point -- the right tool for the right job. Much fuss over design specifications and their translation into code is involved here. But computing would hardly be special if that were the whole story. The special quality of our tool-building, it seems to me, lies in the potential for putting into the hands of working scholars the means of designing, interactively, on the spot -- the scissors bend and twist so that the surgeon may reach around an obstruction to that which must be snipped, then bend and twist differently for the next task. Is there an asymptotic relationship between such flexibility of the tool and the skillful intentionality to which it gives reach? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Of indexes and wikilore Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:24:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 196 (196) Willard I recently came across the following bit of ephemera which reminded me of the recent Wikipedia thread on Humanist. Cutely illustrated with sketches of "Miss Findsit" (in own depiction with deerstalker cap, magnifying glass and flashlight), this how to guide to using the encyclopedia's index contains a testimonial letter which, given the recent wiki thread, I suspsect will amuse some readers of Humanist: "Recently I had to write an English research paper on Edgar Allan Poe ... and afer searching through a number of books without any good results, I turned to my American and found all I needed. I might add that it would be well to advise our sales friends to urge their customers to learn to use the index volume. In the case of my research on Poe -- I found what I need ony after I used the index." Sincerely, Cecil D. Harper Jr. Cookeville,Tenn. 1960 Americana Corporation A-907 1-60-100M And Stacy Schiff ("Wikipedia takes on the experts" The New Yorker (July 31, 2006) p. 43) writes: As was the Encyclopedie, Wikipedia is a combination manifesto and reference work. [...] Wikipedia offers endless opportunities for self-expression. It is the love child of reading groups and chat rooms, a second home for anyone who has written an Amazon review." FYI the discussion attached to the Wikipedia entry on "digital humanities" reveals the beginnings of an exchange on the position on the naming and overlap between the field of humanities computing and digital humanities [the talk centres on the merging of the entry on humanities computing with that on digital humanities]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Digital_Humanities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities_Computing From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: More on entropy, information and meanings Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:41:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 197 (197) Willard, More on Arnheim's confusing contrariness (follow up to Humanist 20.035). An off list comment by one of Humanist's readers to the effect that Arnheim got Shannon wrong led me to try and ascertain if Arnheim had indeed read Shannon. Looks like he is relying on Norbert Weiner and characterizes Weiner as contributing to confusion. I believe what Arnheim missed in his reading of Weiner is the relation between pattern and meaning. Reading Weiner from a less contrarian position, on understands that messages are used to convey information from one point to another, that is they are a specialized function of pattern. One could draw the following schema: pattern information message meaning The most likely reading off of this arrangement is that pattern is to meaning as information is to message. However there may be some value in considering a chiasmic relation: pattern is to message and information is to meaning. At some point in certain situations, more information doesn't increase meaning. I remain perplexed as to how to relate pattern and message. This may also have been the rub for Arnheim though of course he doesn't say so explicitly. In any event, here follows an excerpt from Arnheim followed by fuller sections of the Weiner he quotes. Arnheim, Rudolf Entropy and Art: An Essay on Order and Disorder (University of California Press, 1971; rpt. 1974 p. 20 note marked by (*) Is it sensible to call information and entropy inversely related measures, as Norbert Weiner does when he says that "the amount of information is a quantity which differs from entropy merely by its algebraic sign . . ." (p. 129)? The two measures could be reciprocal only if they referred to the same property of sets of items; but this they do not do, as I just pointed out. Entropy theory never leaves the world of pure chance, whereas information theory gets nowhere unless it does, because only then can it arrive at sequences varying in probability of occurence. Its business is to predict likelihood of occurence in a world in which sequences are not all equally likely to turn up. Ignoring these differences leads to much confusion. Wiener states, for example, that "a haphazard sequence of symbols can convey no information" (p. 6). This is by no means true, as any victim of lotteries or games of chance can testify. Information, as defined by the theory, is not "the measure of the regularity of pattern," but rather the contrary. Nore can it be said that "regularity is to a certain extent an abnormal thing." It can be normal or abnormal, that is likely or unlikely to turn up, depnding on wheerh one is trying to predict the next hundre objects produced by an automobile factory or the next hundred items in a white elephant auction. Helmar Frank ([Zur Mathematisierbarkeit des Ordnungsbegriffs. Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik and Geisteswissenschaft vol. 2, 1961] p.40), as cited by Manfred Kiemle ([Aesthetische Probleme der Architektur unter dem Aspekt der Informationsasthetik, 1967] p. 30), has drawn attention to the contradictions in Wiener's statements. I have not been able to consult the Frank or Kiemle. However, I did look up the relevant passage in Norbert Weiner's The Human Use of Human Beings [Only upon this re-reading did I notice the italicized term in the title]. P. 129 The full sentence plus some from Weiner reads: "The amount of information is a quantity which differs from entropy merely by its algebraic sign and a possile numerical factor. Just as entropy tends to increase spontaneously in a closed system, so information tends to decrease; just as entropy is a measure of disorder, so information is a measure of order. Information and entropy are not conserved, and are equally unsuited to being commodities." P. 6-7 The full sentence plus some from Weiner reads: "When this question was asked, it became clear that the problem of measuring the amount of information was of a piece with the related problem of the measurement of the regularity and irregularity of a pattern. It is quite clear that a haphazard sequence of symbols or a pattern which is purely haphazard can convey no information. Information thus must be in some way the measure of the regularity of a pattern, and in particular of the sort of pattern known as time series. By time series, I mean a pattern in whcih the parts are spread in tme. This regularity is to a certain extent an abnormal thing. The irregular is always commoner than the regular. Therefore, whatever definition of information and its measure we shall introduce must be something which grows when the a priori probability of a pattern or a time series diminishes." Wiener appears to be quite clear. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 20.121 applying the humanities to the world Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:41:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 198 (198) Willard, I am intrigued. Who is the audience for making the case that the Humanities are connected to the World? One of the uses of the humanities is world-making (and exploring). That is the humanities at their best provide a perspective from which to view the show. You seem in your missive to Humanist however to suggest that more than pointing to the achievement of distance and the practice contemplation is required to argue for the connection. Pragmatic response to a Why? question sometimes involve shifting the question to a How?. Sometimes those students are merely asking permission to be curious. And an invitation to ask "how should I be interested in that or whatever" can quickly morph into "how am I to be interested". Dropping the _should_ removes a barrier and allows students to develop style, their style for their life as they are living it. Now if you are talking to deans and the heads of industry, the argument from freedom may not be the most appropriate one to secure support. The argument takes a second step: freedom (based in discipline) can augments the chances for diversity to flourish and where diversity flourishes there are greater chances for inovation. It is the arguent for maintaining intellectual ecologies. The humanities in short are necessary for the reproduction of the world and the finding of a place for the self and its others in the reproduced world. Without potential there is no reproduction. The humanities preserve potential. [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: RE: 20.136 which scissors & how to cut with them Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:40:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 199 (199) [deleted quotation] From: "Edward Spence" Subject: Advertisement for two fully-funded PhD positions at Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:48:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 200 (200) University of Twente, Netherlands The Department of Philosophy of the University of Twente in the Netherlands is looking for Two Ph.D. Students (M/F, fulltime) Two PhD students for the international research project: Evaluating the Cultural Quality of New Media Towards a Philosophy of Human-Media Relations. Women are strongly encouraged to apply. The two PhD positions are part of a prestigious and exciting international research project in philosophy named "Evaluating the Cultural Quality of New Media". This five-year project, which will include five researchers and will involve collaboration with leading international scholars and research centres, has as its aim to develop a framework for better normative analyses of new media and new media culture, especially in relation to their contribution to the quality of life ("the good life"4) and the quality of society. Project leader is Dr. Philip Brey. Two postdocs have already been appointed to the project: dr. A. Briggle, PhD, University of Colorado and dr. E. Spence, PhD, Sydney University. The project will be part of a new international Centre of Excellence in Ethics and Technology of the departments of philosophy of Twente University, Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology. Applications are accepted for three different projects: Ph.D Project 1 - The Quality of Virtual Environments and Tools This subproject aims to perform a philosophical analysis of the implications of the ever increasing virtualization for the quality of life and of society. Virtualization is defined as the digital production of interactive structures, whether graphical or symbolic, that mirror things and events in the physical world. What are the implications of this process for moral and social identity, embodiment, and conceptions of reality, and how can these implications be normatively evaluated? Ph.D. Project 2: The Quality of Computer-Mediated Social Relations This subproject focuses on computer-mediated social relations and practices in friendships, love relationships, and community life. Increasingly, the social world is held together by electronic networks. More and more, communication, social relationships, and community formation take place over such networks. The aim of the project is to perform a philosophical analysis of the implications of this trend for the quality of life and of society. Ph.D. Project 3: Societal Appraisals of the Cultural Quality of New Media This subproject will perform a study of appraisals of new media that are made by representatives of major ideologies or worldviews, with the aim of assessing how they relate to conceptions of the good life and the good society held by these ideologies. It will study liberal, communitarian, conservative, religious and postmaterialist evaluations of new media, and will try to assess which ideologies see themselves as winners and losers in the development of a new media culture. It will also provide critiques of current ideological stances on new media. Only the two best candidates out of all applicants will be offered a position. Selection will only be based on the quality of the candidate, and not on his or her preference for a particular project, except that the two PhD appointments will be for different projects. You may apply for more than one project if you wish. Profile For all three projects: a Master's degree or equivalent degree in philosophy. Consideration will also be given to candidates with a multidisciplinary Master's degree on a topic relevant to the project and some background in philosophy, and to exceptional candidates with only a bachelor's degree in philosophy. Demonstrable interest in philosophical issues relating to information technology and new media. Good analytical skills. Good communication skills in English, in writing as well as orally. Creativity, open-mindedness, and an ability to develop new ideas. Offer A four-year full-time Ph.D. position starting November 1, 2006. The gross salary is Euro 1.933,- in the first year going up to 2.472,- in the fourth year (Euro 25.552,- and 32.677,- per annum, respectively, including vacation pay). Each Ph.D. position comes with a budget of up to 8,000,- for travel and conference attendance. Information and application A description of the overall project, the three subprojects and a FAQ can be retrieved from <http://www.ceptes.nl/vici>http://www.ceptes.nl/vici. Applicants are advised to read these texts carefully before applying. For questions not answered on the website you can contact the project leader, dr. Philip Brey (e-mail: p.a.e.brey_at_utwente.nl). Your application should contain the following documents: a letter of application which explains your interest in the position and explains your qualifications (this letter should contain some suggestions on how you would want to approach the project you apply for); a curriculum vitae which includes the name and e-mail address/telephone number of one of your professors, preferably the supervisor of your master's thesis; a copy of your master's thesis; copies of publications, if any; an academic transcript that contains a list of subjects taken and grades received (this may be an unofficial version or scanned copy; we can request the original later). Optionally, you can also include letters of recommendation from your professors. Your application can be sent by e-mail (preferred) or by normal post to dr. ir. J.F.C. Verberne (e-mail: pz-gw_at_gw.utwente.nl), managing director of the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands. Please mention the vacancy number: 06/072-1 (project 1), 06/072-2 (project 2), or 06/072-3 (project 3). Your application should be in by October 2, 2006. Job interviews will be held between October 9 and 13. From: Willard McCarty Subject: defining humanities computing Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:03:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 201 (201) The philosopher F. H. Bradley, in "Association and Thought", Mind 12.47 (1887): 354, arguing in a footnote with the editor of that journal about how to define "a psychical fact or event" in the empirical science of psychology, declares that [deleted quotation]Giving his definition, he then observes, [deleted quotation]-- not because this or any other empirical science is inherently inferior, but because in his view metaphysics has no place in it. But what then justifies such a field is its results, which in the case of psychology is a better understanding of how and why humans do what they do, and not only or primarily why we shop for particular products or any other such thing to which psychology might be applied. If humanities computing is an empirical field -- I won't say "science" for obvious reasons -- then by analogy its justification cannot be how and why it is that, say, historians do better history as a result, but how and why scholarly enquiry is different -- better, perhaps, but certainly different -- across all the humanities (by which the historians' improved performance may be explained). Not a metaphysical but a pragmatic philosophy? 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: Richard Cunningham Subject: Re: 20.138 defining humanities computing Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:31:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 202 (202) Willard, I've just re-read a few chapters of Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory: An Introduction in preparation for a class I'll teach this fall, and in it (I think it's in the final chapter) Eagleton argues for a strategic approach to literary criticism rather than an aesthetic or explicitly theoretical (e.g. deconstructive or Marxist) approach. Perhaps "strategic" is simply a synonym for pragmatic, but perhaps it is slightly more. It implies having a goal in mind from the outset (in the mind of the one who deploys the theory, practices the criticism, advocates the [huco] approach) whereas pragmatic implies causing some action, some change, in the world, but perhaps not so clearly focused an effect as is implied by "strategic." I'm not sure, but I know I've heard more intelligent people than me speak against pragmatism and wonder if this is (still?) a wide-spread attitude. In the event someone were to object to taking a pragmatic view of humanities computing, might we suggest a strategic view? A strategic view of humanities computing might include "historians do better history as a result" of using huco methods and asking huco questions, etc, without stopping there. It could also include, briefly I hope, justification of the field and its relationship to academic disciplines (scientific, social scientific, humanistic, professional), technology, humanity, and post-humanity. I would urge that the justificatory impulse be brief because I remember what a farce the "rhetoric of" move became in the US during the 1990s (it seems to have run its course, but I may just have mercifully fallen out of touch). There was a spate of conference sessions and papers and books on the rhetoric of science, the rhetoric of architecture, the rhetoric of technical documents, etc, as though rhetoric could systematically be reduced to form and separated from the content of science, architecture, technical communication, etc. Humanities computing is not, it seems to me, just a different way to do history (to continue with the same example), although it is that; rather, an historian who is also a computing humanist thinks as well as works differently; she asks different questions and seeks different information and synthesizes that different information differently. If we were to ponder the pragmatics of the huco historian's work, would we think about what she does and ask the same questions as we would if we were to ponder her strategy? If she were to approach her work strategically, the questions she asks and the approach(es) she takes might be determined by the goals she sets herself, whereas if she were to approach it pragmatically she might limit her concern to the possibility of completing her research within a specific time frame, or budget, or--and this strikes me as unsettling--she might simply satisfy herself with producing a (i.e. any) result. Or am I myself guilty of devaluing pragmatism, and simply splitting hairs as a result? Cheers, Richard At 04:54 AM 8/7/2006, you wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Computer Aided Verification (LNCS 4144/2006) Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:47:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 203 (203) [Many of the following seem from the titles to be rather specialized articles, but at least the invited talk by Tony Hoare should be of wide interest. --WM] Volume 4144/2006 (Computer Aided Verification) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Formal Specifications on Industrial-Strength Code -- From Myth to Reality: (Invited Talk) p. 1 Manuvir Das DOI: 10.1007/11817963_1 I Think I Voted: E-Voting vs. Democracy: (FLoC Plenary Talk) p. 2 David Dill DOI: 10.1007/11817963_2 Playing with Verification, Planning and Aspects: Unusual Methods for Running Scenario-Based Programs: (Abstract of FLoC Keynote Talk) p. 3 David Harel DOI: 10.1007/11817963_3 The Ideal of Verified Software: (Invited Talk) p. 5 Tony Hoare DOI: 10.1007/11817963_4 Antichains: A New Algorithm for Checking Universality of Finite Automata p. 17 M. De Wulf, L. Doyen, T. A. Henzinger, J. -F. Raskin DOI: 10.1007/11817963_5 Safraless Compositional Synthesis p. 31 Orna Kupferman, Nir Piterman, Moshe Y. Vardi DOI: 10.1007/11817963_6 Minimizing Generalized Büchi Automata p. 45 Sudeep Juvekar, Nir Piterman DOI: 10.1007/11817963_7 Ticc : A Tool for Interface Compatibility and Composition p. 59 B. Thomas Adler, Luca de Alfaro, Leandro Dias Da Silva, Marco Faella, Axel Legay, Vishwanath Raman, Pritam Roy DOI: 10.1007/11817963_8 FAST Extended Release: (Tool Paper) p. 63 Sébastien Bardin, Jérôme Leroux, Gérald Point DOI: 10.1007/11817963_9 Don’t Care Words with an Application to the Automata-Based Approach for Real Addition: (Extended Abstract) p. 67 Jochen Eisinger, Felix Klaedtke DOI: 10.1007/11817963_10 A Fast Linear-Arithmetic Solver for DPLL(T) p. 81 Bruno Dutertre, Leonardo de Moura DOI: 10.1007/11817963_11 Bounded Model Checking for Weak Alternating Büchi Automata p. 95 Keijo Heljanko, Tommi Junttila, Misa Keinänen, Martin Lange, Timo Latvala DOI: 10.1007/11817963_12 Deriving Small Unsatisfiable Cores with Dominators p. 109 Roman Gershman, Maya Koifman, Ofer Strichman DOI: 10.1007/11817963_13 Lazy Abstraction with Interpolants p. 123 Kenneth L. McMillan DOI: 10.1007/11817963_14 Using Statically Computed Invariants Inside the Predicate Abstraction and Refinement Loop p. 137 Himanshu Jain, Franjo Ivancic, Aarti Gupta, Ilya Shlyakhter, Chao Wang DOI: 10.1007/11817963_15 Counterexamples with Loops for Predicate Abstraction p. 152 Daniel Kroening, Georg Weissenbacher DOI: 10.1007/11817963_16 cascade: C Assertion Checker and Deductive Engine: (Tool Paper) p. 166 Nikhil Sethi, Clark Barrett DOI: 10.1007/11817963_17 Yasm : A Software Model-Checker for Verification and Refutation: (Tool Paper) p. 170 Arie Gurfinkel, Ou Wei, Marsha Chechik DOI: 10.1007/11817963_18 SAT-Based Assistance in Abstraction Refinement for Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation p. 175 Jan-Willem Roorda, Koen Claessen DOI: 10.1007/11817963_19 Automatic Refinement and Vacuity Detection for Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation p. 190 Rachel Tzoref, Orna Grumberg DOI: 10.1007/11817963_20 Some Complexity Results for SystemVerilog Assertions p. 205 Doron Bustan, John Havlicek DOI: 10.1007/11817963_21 Check It Out: On the Efficient Formal Verification of Live Sequence Charts p. 219 Jochen Klose, Tobe Toben, Bernd Westphal, Hartmut Wittke DOI: 10.1007/11817963_22 Symmetry Reduction for Probabilistic Model Checking p. 234 Marta Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker DOI: 10.1007/11817963_23 Communicating Timed Automata: The More Synchronous, the More Difficult to Verify p. 249 Pavel Krcal, Wang Yi DOI: 10.1007/11817963_24 Allen Linear (Interval) Temporal Logic – Translation to LTL and Monitor Synthesis p. 263 Grigore Rosu, Saddek Bensalem DOI: 10.1007/11817963_25 DiVinE – A Tool for Distributed Verification: (Tool Paper) p. 278 Jirí Barnat, Luboš Brim, Ivana Cerná, Pavel Moravec, Petr Rockai, Pavel Šimecek DOI: 10.1007/11817963_26 EverLost: A Flexible Platform for Industrial-Strength Abstraction-Guided Simulation: (Tool Paper) p. 282 Flavio M. de Paula, Alan J. Hu DOI: 10.1007/11817963_27 Symbolic Model Checking of Concurrent Programs Using Partial Orders and On-the-Fly Transactions p. 286 Vineet Kahlon, Aarti Gupta, Nishant Sinha DOI: 10.1007/11817963_28 Model Checking Multithreaded Programs with Asynchronous Atomic Methods p. 300 Koushik Sen, Mahesh Viswanathan DOI: 10.1007/11817963_29 Causal Atomicity p. 315 Azadeh Farzan, P. Madhusudan DOI: 10.1007/11817963_30 Languages of Nested Trees p. 329 Rajeev Alur, Swarat Chaudhuri, P. Madhusudan DOI: 10.1007/11817963_31 Improving Pushdown System Model Checking p. 343 Akash Lal, Thomas Reps DOI: 10.1007/11817963_32 Repair of Boolean Programs with an Application to C p. 358 Andreas Griesmayer, Roderick Bloem, Byron Cook DOI: 10.1007/11817963_33 Termination of Integer Linear Programs p. 372 Mark Braverman DOI: 10.1007/11817963_34 Automatic Termination Proofs for Programs with Shape-Shifting Heaps p. 386 Josh Berdine, Byron Cook, Dino Distefano, Peter W. O’Hearn DOI: 10.1007/11817963_35 Termination Analysis with Calling Context Graphs p. 401 Panagiotis Manolios, Daron Vroon DOI: 10.1007/11817963_36 Terminator : Beyond Safety: (Tool Paper) p. 415 Byron Cook, Andreas Podelski, Andrey Rybalchenko DOI: 10.1007/11817963_37 CUTE and jCUTE: Concolic Unit Testing and Explicit Path Model-Checking Tools: (Tool Paper) p. 419 Koushik Sen, Gul Agha DOI: 10.1007/11817963_38 SMT Techniques for Fast Predicate Abstraction p. 424 Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Robert Nieuwenhuis, Albert Oliveras DOI: 10.1007/11817963_39 The Power of Hybrid Acceleration p. 438 Bernard Boigelot, Frédéric Herbreteau DOI: 10.1007/11817963_40 Lookahead Widening p. 452 Denis Gopan, Thomas Reps DOI: 10.1007/11817963_41 The Heuristic Theorem Prover: Yet Another SMT Modulo Theorem Prover: (Tool Paper) p. 467 Kenneth Roe DOI: 10.1007/11817963_42 LEVER: A Tool for Learning Based Verification: (Tool Paper) p. 471 Abhay Vardhan, Mahesh Viswanathan DOI: 10.1007/11817963_43 Formal Verification of a Lazy Concurrent List-Based Set Algorithm p. 475 Robert Colvin, Lindsay Groves, Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir DOI: 10.1007/11817963_44 Bounded Model Checking of Concurrent Data Types on Relaxed Memory Models: A Case Study p. 489 Sebastian Burckhardt, Rajeev Alur, Milo M. K. Martin DOI: 10.1007/11817963_45 Fast and Generalized Polynomial Time Memory Consistency Verification p. 503 Amitabha Roy, Stephan Zeisset, Charles J. Fleckenstein, John C. Huang DOI: 10.1007/11817963_46 Programs with Lists Are Counter Automata p. 517 Ahmed Bouajjani, Marius Bozga, Peter Habermehl, Radu Iosif, Pierre Moro, Tomáš Vojnar DOI: 10.1007/11817963_47 Lazy Shape Analysis p. 532 Dirk Beyer, Thomas A. Henzinger, Grégory Théoduloz DOI: 10.1007/11817963_48 Abstraction for Shape Analysis with Fast and Precise Transformers p. 547 Tal Lev-Ami, Neil Immerman, Mooly Sagiv DOI: 10.1007/11817963_49 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: Re: 20.141 defining humanities computing Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:55:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 204 (204) Richard et al, I am reminded of a wonderful article by Monroe Beardsley, "On the creation of art", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 23.3 (1965): 291-304. He argues for a version of the creative process in which every stage powerfully affects the succeeding one -- in which each action of the artist, between the incept of the work and the final touch, sets up demands and suggestions as to what may come next and places limits on what can. Once the work is underway, he writes, it is carried along by tension between what's been done and what might have been done, leaving deficiencies and unrealized possibilities. He cites an example from poetry: "as the poet moves from stage to stage, it is not that he is looking to see whether he is saying what he already meant, but that he is looking to see whether he wants to mean what he is saying." This is the sort of process, of discovery-invention, that I had in mind. It's pragmatic in that the practice comes first, reflection on it second, except that strong reflection persists and survives to guide further practice. "Strategy" etymologically is the craft of the strategos, military general. Military history, I suspect, would show that successful generalship closely resembles the creative process described by Beardsley, though the good general may have more of a plan than the good artist. I doubt that an experienced general depends only on his or her intuition. Difficult to generalize (pun unforeseen but accepted). I do prefer the resonances of "practice", however. Perhaps you can tell me if the "rhetoric of" movement might have had greater success if it had made better use of the prepositional force of its programme (i.e., rhetoric *of* the subjects in which it occurs) and then synthesized its instances into a methodological commons, or perhaps just called itself "rhetoric". There's more than enough in the subject of rhetoric to keep many of us busy for a long time. The background is fascinating. See Ray Frazer, "The origin of the term 'image'", ELH 27.2 (1960): 149-61, which fell across my path recently. Yours, WM At 07:00 08/08/2006, you wrote: [deleted quotation]Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.30 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:56:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 205 (205) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 30 August 8, 2006 - August 14, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: BIH ON SOA, GAGLIANO ON DATA MINING IN E-LEARNING Joseph Bih analyzes the philosophy of SOA http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i30_soa.html Ross Gagliano reviews the book "Data Mining in E-Learning" (C. Romero and S. Ventura, editors) http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v7i30_rossreview.html For this week's Ubiquity go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 30 (August 8, 2006 - August 14, 2006) From: kr538_at_uni-bremen.de Subject: Re: 20.143 defining humanities computing Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:55:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 206 (206) Willard, the distinction between a "pragmatic" or a "strategic" approach to defining humanities computing, that has evolved in this discussion, is not without importance. Aristotle (NE 1140 a) distinguishes between acting (praxis) and producing (poiesis) on the basis that action has its goal within itself, whereas production uses tools and aims at making a work of art (Gen. An. 740 b). Therefore, he places art and technics within poiesis (MM 1197 a), because it is a productive behavior combined with a true notion of its actions (meta alethous logou poietike hexis, NE 1140 a). Art or technics is more than (pragmatic) action by experience, because the architect is able to teach the principles and reasons of his doings. Consequently, art or technics is knowledge or science (episteme) (Met. 981 b). Interestingly enough, Plato agrees in writing that art (techne) rules and governs of what it is an art (Pol. 342 C). There can be no doubt, then, that any definition of humanities computing or the digital humanities will have to say which are their principles and reasons as well as which "work of art" they are going to produce, if we do not want to fall back behind the classics. Of course, rhetoric is the art of the spoken word and it aims at gaining the victory in dialogue and defining the dispositives of institutional discourse. Hartmut From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Re: 20.143 defining humanities computing Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:56:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 207 (207) Willard, On the question of "strategy" or "pragmatism," I find myself cast in the uncomfortable position of advocate of the former term. I'm uncomfortable with this position not so much because of the limitations (which you've only just begun to elucidate) of "strategy," but because I have long been and still am as much a pragmatist as need be (a very pragmatic formulation, I think). It occurred to me after I wrote that Eagleton himself was very likely, in the mid-80s when he wrote Lit. Theory: An Introduction, an anti-pragmatist. Nonetheless, what he has to say in his chapter "Conclusion: Political Criticism" has moments of clarity that make the case for "strategy" quite compellingly. I think I'll let others consult that source if they are interested in doing so, because I doubt I could do it justice, and because of my discomfort in advocating, even devilishly, against pragmatic practice. On your question about the "rhetoric of" movement, perhaps more of an impulse, I would say that the study of and through rhetoric remains very strong in the US, much stronger than many of us who live outside the US academy realize. It regained strength in the early 1970s, (after losing a lot of ground circa 1920s when Dep'ts of Speech Communication arose to address exactly that area, an area which their advocates felt was going un- or at best under-represented in Dep't of English / Literature) and has stayed strong since--with ebbs and flows, of course. I think I'd like to come clean at this point and declare myself very much a non-supporter of the "rhetoric of" movement. This may help readers decide how far they want to trust my assessment of the movement. I have in mind Rockwell & McTavish's argument about "thinking through" multimedia when I say that the "rhetoric of" movement was a bad idea from the outset. It declares itself, immediately, as treating rhetoric as an appendage to a body rather than an integral system within the body. To be fair, there's a long history to this point of view (I think of William Gilbert's Preface to his 1600 text De Magnete, in which he claims his argument will have none of the graces of rhetoric but will leave readers to consider only the thing itself) but when supposed advocates of rhetorical study and practice adopt this one-size-fits-all-after-all-its-only-clothing position then who needs enemies--real or imagined. When rhetoric serves as a way of "thinking through" a practice, rather than as an after thought designed to help practitioners "sell" their practice or their results to a larger audience, then it affects, from the outset, the practice itself. "Rhetoric of" assumed, without, it seemed to me and others, even acknowledging its own assumption, that science existed prior to and independently of rhetoric. As both are deeply imbedded elements of the cultural soup in which both scientists and non-scientists swim everyday of their lives, I find it an unlikely assertion that a practitioner, i.e. a scientist, could "do" science without simultaneously doing, i.e. practicing, rhetoric. If we take as a bare minimum the definition that rhetoric is the art of persuasion, then we ought to acknowledge that long before the scientific community tries to persuade the larger culture of the value of, say, splitting an atom, some scientists have had to persuade other scientists of that value, and of the legitimacy of their approach. More potently, though, each scientist has had to confront the question of what serves as legitimate evidence; in other words "what will convince me that practice x will lead to result y" perhaps even before confronting the question of "is result y desirable?" which again requires (self-?)persuasion. I'm not a fan of naming authors and scholars who I think have erred in their practice, largely because the printed word so often outlives the author's advocacy of what she's said. So rather than directing you to any "rhetoric of" scholarship, permit me to recommend a book on rhetoric in science that avoids the pitfalls I've just touched on and that was produced during the period when others were obeying the "of" impulse. Richard Doyle's On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences is a great example of how to look at rhetoric AND science. Cheers, Richard At 04:59 AM 8/9/2006, you wrote: [deleted quotation] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: justification and definition re 20.138 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:57:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 208 (208) Willard, In your set of questions emanating from your quotation of F.H. Bradley, the theme of justification looms. [deleted quotation]You seem to be suggesting justification by works (results). Might I be so bold and propose justification by grace? As you might suspect I am not hankering after a theological underpinning. I am inviting you and the readers of Humanist to consider how grace of a materialist nature might be experienced. Grace in the sense of style. And style of course betokens not only method but also application. Application as a "fit" between means and ends. Style in game playing. For indeed humanities computing involves in certain regards the playing, the serious playing, of games. To use the machine (the stupid computer and its brute counting force) is analogous to limiting oneself to the use of clubs in the game of golf or rackets in the game of tennis. [This line of thought courtesy of Bernard Suits (_Grasshopper_) -- more of which in a future missive.) So again, it is style taken to mean the application of method to certain ends that would mark humanities computing as special and hence worthy of justification. Those ends? Why the beautiful playing of games! Regardless of results. A failure in desired outcomes is not a failure of beautiful play. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- July 2006 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:54:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 209 (209) TL INFOBITS July 2006 No. 1 ISSN: Not Yet= Assigned About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. 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It is easy to get swept up in the promises and hype of the headlines, but "good education is still hard work and not usually glamorous." His essay is available at http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i21_stuckey.html. Ubiquity [ISSN 1530-2180] is a free, Web-based publication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), "dedicated to fostering critical analysis and in-depth commentary on issues relating to the nature, constitution, structure, science, engineering, technology, practices, and paradigms of the IT profession." For more information, contact: Ubiquity, email: ubiquity_at_acm.org; Web: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. For more information on the ACM, contact: ACM, One Astor Plaza, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, USA; tel: 800-342-6626 or 212-626-0500; Web: http://www.acm.org/. ...................................................................... THE INTERNET PAST AND FUTURE In "Lessons for the Future Internet: Learning from the Past" (EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 41, no. 4, July/August 2006, pp. 16=AD25), Michael M. Roberts provides an overview of the Internet's development from 1980 to the present with a focus on academe's involvement in its progress. He also points out areas where more work is needed: basic research, advanced network facilities, universal affordable broadband, middleware, and the preservation of the Internet commons. The article is available at http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0640.asp. EDUCAUSE Review [ISSN 1527-6619], a bimonthly print magazine that explores developments in information technology and education, is published by EDUCAUSE (http://www.educause.edu/). Articles from current and back issues of EDUCAUSE Review are available on the Web at http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/. ...................................................................... PAPERS ON BLOGGING IN HIGHER ED The mission of the HigherEd BlogCon 2006 online conference was to "engage the Higher Education community in a conversation on the use of blogs, wikis, RSS, audio and video podcasts, social networks, and other digital tools in a range of areas in academe." During April 2006, BlogCon participants posted "articles, screencasts, videos, and mp3's on new media in academia." Presentations from this conference include: "How the Integrated Use of Blogs and Blackboard Can Improve a University Public Relations Class: A Case Study" by Ric Jensen, Northwestern State University, and an Infobits subscriber http://www.higheredblogcon.com/teaching/jensen/Jensen-March-06.html "Nomadic Desktops: What? How? 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A NETWORKED APPROACH TO THE BOOK Since May 2006, McKenzie Wark, a professor of media and cultural studies at New School University, has been participating in an experiment with the Institute for the Future of the Book "to see what happens when authors and readers are brought into conversation over an evolving text." Inspired by the Wikipedia encyclopedia which allows readers to add to and correct its entries, Wark lets readers comment on his latest book, GAM3R 7H30RY, as he is writing and revising it. When the book is "finished," it will be conventionally published. You can track the book's progress and read/post comments on the book at http://www.futureofthebook.org/gamertheory/. The Institute for the Future of the Book is a project of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California. The mission of the Institute is to "understand and influence" the shift of the "locus of intellectual discourse . . . from printed page to networked screen." 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Create extensive and reusable digital collections. The complete report is available online at http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/acls.ci.report.pdf. The American Council of Learned Societies is a "private non-profit federation of sixty-eight national scholarly organizations. The mission of the ACLS, as set forth in its Constitution, is 'the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies.'" For more information, contact American Council of Learned Societies, 633 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6795 USA; tel: 212-697-1505; fax: 212-949-8058; Web: http://www.acls.org/. ...................................................................... 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 has a new essay in a recent issue of UBIQUITY: "Coping with Innovative Technology: Albert Borgmann on How Does Technology Change Learning and Teaching in Formal and Informal Education" by Arun-Kumar Tripathi Ubiquity, vol. 7, issue 23, June 20, 2006 - June 26, 2006 http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i23_coping.html "The flood of information today threatens to overflow, suffocate and even obliterate actual reality, says the University of Montana philosophy professor Albert Borgmann. The 'lightness' of technological information seems bent on overcoming the 'moral gravity' and 'material density' that real things naturally possess and that demand our mindful engagement. Albert Borgmann is not asking us to abandon technological information. But he is calling us to link it effectively to 'things and practices' that provide for our material and spiritual well-being." ...................................................................... INFOBITS RSS FEED If you want to set up an RSS feed for Infobits, go to: http://lists.unc.edu/read/rss?forum=3DInfobits. From: textodigital_at_cce.ufsc.br Subject: Texto Digital Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:58:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 210 (210) Prezados, Vimos divulgar o lançamento do segundo número da Revista Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288), no endereço http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Publicada apenas em formato eletrônico, essa revista é um espaço destinado ŕ publicaçăo de textos (artigos científicos, palestras, etc) cuja temática envolva a Literatura e o Texto no Meio Digital, assim como as implicaçőes de escrita, leitura, ensino e aprendizagem, que esse suporte proporciona. Neste segundo número estamos publicando os ensaios e as palestras apresentados no II Simpósio Nacional de Literatura e Informática realizado em Florianópolis, SC, em 2005. Dear Friends, The second number of Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288) has been released at the address http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Published only in electronic format, this magazine means to be a space for publishing texts (scientific articles, lectures, etc) who’s thematic regard Literature and Texts in the Digital Medium, also the implications of writing, reading, teaching and learning provided by this digital support. In this second number we are publishing the essays and lectures presented in the II National Symposium of Literature and Computer Science that took place in Florianopolis, SC, in 2005. Chers amis, Le deuxičme numéro de Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288) vient de paraître, ŕ l’adresse http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Cettte revue, qui n’est publié qu’en version numérique, sur le web, propose un espace de publication en ligne ouvert ŕ des travaux portant sur la littérature et et les textes dans le numérique, ainsi que l’écriture, la lecture et l’apprentissage de littérature ŕ l’aide des ordinateurs. Dans ce deuxičme numéro, nous avons des articles et des conférences présentés lors du II Symposium Nacional en Littérature et Informatique, réalisé ŕ Florianópolis, SC, Brésil, en 2005. Amigos, Venimos a divulgar el número 2 de la revista Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288), en la dirección http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Publicada solamente en formato electrónico, esa revista es un espacio para publicación de textos (artículos científicos, ponencias, etc.) acerca de la literatura y de los textos en el medio digital, y también las implicaciones de escrita, lectura, enseńanza y aprendizaje en ese medio. En ese segundo número, se podrán leer los artículos y las ponencias presentadas en el II Simposio Nacional de Literatura y Informática, realizado en Florianópolis, SC, en 2005. Att. Comissăo Editorial da Revista Texto Digital Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Centro de Comunicaçăo e Expressăo Núcleo de Pesquisas em Informática, Literatura e Lingüística Prédio B - Sala 509 Telefone(48) 3331-6590 From: Subject: 6th International PhD School in Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:57:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 211 (211) Formal Languages and Applications 6th INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS 2006-2008 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 With the support of Xerox Corporation Courses and professors 1st term (March­July 2007) Languages - Alexander Okhotin (Turku) 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) Semigroups for the Working Theoretical Computer Scientist - Stuart Margolis (Ramat Gan) Computational Complexity - Markus Holzer (Munich) Descriptional Complexity of Automata and Grammars - Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt) Communication Complexity - Carsten Damm (Göttingen) Patterns - Kai Salomaa (Kingston ON) Infinite Words - Juhani Karhumäki (Turku) Partial Words - Francine Blanchet-Sadri (Greensboro NC) Two-Dimensional Languages - Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima) Grammars with Regulated Rewriting - Jürgen Dassow (Magdeburg) Contextual Grammars - Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona) Parallel Grammars - Henning Fernau (Trier) Grammar Systems - Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Budapest) Automata Networks - Pál Dömösi (Debrecen) Tree Automata and Tree Languages - Magnus Steinby (Turku) Tree Adjoining Grammars - James Rogers (Richmond IN) Term Rewriting Systems - Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv) Automata and Logic - Franz Baader (Dresden) Formal Languages and Concurrent Systems - Jetty Kleijn (Leiden) Petri Net Theory and Its Applications - Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei) Graph Grammars and Graph Transformation - Hans-Jörg Kreowski (Bremen) Restarting Automata - Friedrich Otto (Kassel) Courses and professors 2nd term (September­December 2007) Parameterized Complexity - Jörg Flum (Freiburg, Germany) Modern Complexity Theory - Mitsunori Ogihara (Rochester NY) Fuzzy Formal Languages - Claudio Moraga (Dortmund) Cellular Automata - Martin Kutrib (Giessen) DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments - Natasha Jonoska (Tampa FL) Splicing Systems - Paola Bonizzoni (Milan) Aqueous Computing - Tom Head (Binghamton NY) Biomolecular Nanotechnology - Max Garzon (Memphis TN) Quantum Automata - Jozef Gruska (Brno) Symbolic Dynamics and Automata - Christiane Frougny (Paris) Unification Grammars - Shuly Wintner (Haifa) Context-Free Grammar Parsing - Giorgio Satta (Padua) Probabilistic Parsing - Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen) Categorial Grammars - Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) 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) Weighted Automata - Manfred Droste (Leipzig) Finite Transducers - Jacques Sakarovitch (Paris) Sequential Pattern Matching - Thierry Lecroq (Rouen) 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) Automata for Verification - Moshe Vardi (Houston TX) 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 2,120 euros in total, approximately. DISSERTATION After following the courses, the students enrolled in the programme will have to 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’ dissertations, as well as any other well-reputed scientist at the discretion of the host institute. FUNDING The university will cover the tuition fees and full-board accommodation expenses of all admitted students during the first term. For the second one, funding opportunities will be provided, among others, by the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Becas MAEC-AECI), and the European Commission (Alban scheme for Latin American citizens). 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 institute. 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 university education diplomas, - a xerocopy of the academic transcripts, - full CV, - letters of recommendation (optional), - any other document to prove background, interest and motivation (optional). SCHEDULE Announcement of the programme: August 8, 2006 Pre-registration deadline: October 15, 2006 Selection of students: October 22, 2006 Starting of the 1st term: March 5, 2007 End of the 1st term: July 27, 2007 Starting of the 2nd term (tentative): September 3, 2007 End of the 2nd term (tentative): December 21, 2007 Defense of the research project (tentative): September 13, 2008 DEA examination (tentative): May 16, 2009 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION Contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martín Vide, at carlos.martin_at_urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tŕrraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543, +34-977-554391 Fax: +34-977-559597, +34-977-554391 From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 20.124 what is it that passes? Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:57:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 212 (212) Willard, In Vol. 20, No. 124, you tempt readers to embrace novlety: In a sense, perhaps, our most central question is innovation itself. "Pure innovatory knowledge has as its basis the impurity and complexity of the established bounds of culture. In a way knowledge is acquired against culture; but in what sense? By an epistemological leap which opens up a new dimension, and not by preliminary all-embracing discipline" (27) [...] Our core subject of study is that epistemological leaping, our core activity the liberating of imaginations, our core service the training of intellectual athletes By way of response, allow me to suggest that the discourse of Judith Schlanger is in the ambit of the research and analyses conducted by Pierre Bourdieu. The timing of the question of innovation is critical. Novelty need not be invoked at the outset. The "point de depart" is the plurivocality of both the domains of knowledge and of culture. They are domains animated by dialogic relations. I am leaning on a characterization of the teeming vulagrity of domains, that is, somewhere someone wrote in another context: In L'invention intellectuelle Judith Schlanger suggests that noise, the sheer mass of popularisation which the French call "vulgarisation" contributes to significant breakthroughs. Each rearticulation of current knowledge is a displacing repetition and affects however slightly the paths open and opening to thinkers. I believe in good French fashion (with a bow towards the social imaginary) that the two terms invoked, knowledge and culture, are both mobile. Furthermore, "savoir" and "culture" are mediated by "connaissance". To be acquainted with knowledge and to be acquainted with culture is the necessary prerequisite for making that epistemological (and aesthetic) leap. But, nuance, to be acquainted with is not the same as to acquire. The acquisition of knowledge occurs "against" culture. Could this not be an anaclitic relation? Knowledge leans against culture. The relation is not necessarily one of opposition. Invention cultivates that dimension where the domains lean against each other. Like any gap, if examined closely, yields much space to discover the new. Non? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/dolezel.htm From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0642 black-box vs glass-box methods Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:38:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 213 (213) Willard, This must be the month of metaphors.... Someone I know wrote back in the last century: In _ L'invention intellectuelle _ Judith Schlanger suggests that noise, the sheer mass of popularisation which the French call "vulgarisation" contributes to significant breakthroughs. Each rearticulation of current knowledge is a displacing repetition and affects however slightly the paths open and opening to thinkers. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S0.HTM where the citation is introduced: Sense: Beginning [...] [...] [...]
In L'invention intellectuelle Judith Schlanger suggests that noise [...] [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S0.HTM], I (i) Google is watching who and where "somewhere someone wrote" :-} BTW: some uncritical thinker could be amused seeing the long way from "which the French call 'vulgarisation'" (1996, Sept) to "the teeming vulagrity of domains" (2006,Aug). But Google voting suggests a quite common error: about 4,5 Mio. hits for "vulgarity" against only 767 hits seaching for "vulagrity"). Yours, Herbert 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: 2nd International PhD School in Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:12:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 214 (214) Language and SpeechTechnologies 2nd INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES 2006-2008 Rovira i Virgili University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Tarragona, Spain http://www.grlmc.com Foundational courses (March - April 2007) Foundations of Linguistics I: Morphology, Lexicon and Syntax - Gemma Bel-Enguix (Tarragona) Foundations of Linguistics II: Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse - M. Dolores Jiménez-López (Tarragona) Formal Languages - Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona) Declarative Programming Languages: Prolog, Lisp - various researchers at the host institute Procedural Programming Languages: C, Java, Perl, Matlab - various researchers at the host institute Main courses (May - July and September - December 2007) Anaphora Resolution - Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton) Annotating Time: Representational and Analytical Issues - Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY) Basics of Statistical Speech Recognition - Frederick Jelinek (Baltimore MD) Computational Morphology - Harald Trost (Vienna) Discriminative Learning of Sequence and Parsing Models - Fernando Pereira (Philadelphia PA) Empirical Approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation, Semantic Role Labeling, Semantic Parsing, and Information Extraction - Raymond Mooney (Austin TX) Foundations of Computational Semantics - Shalom Lappin (London) Human and Machine Translation - Martin Kay (Stanford CA) Information Extraction I - Ralph Grishman (New York NY) Information Extraction II - Guy Lapalme (Montréal QC) Language Processing for Human-Machine Dialogue Modelling - Yorick Wilks (Sheffield) Linguistic Corpora as Resources for Language Engineering - Udo Hahn (Jena) Machine Learning Approaches to Developing Language Processing Modules - Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen) Multimodal Speech-Based Interfaces - Elisabeth André (Augsburg) Natural Language Generation from a Cognitive Perspective - Michael Zock (Marseille) Natural Language Processing Pragmatics: Probabilistic Methods and User Modeling Implications - Ingrid Zukerman (Clayton) Ontology Engineering: From Cognitive Science to the Semantic Web - M. Teresa Pazienza (Roma) POS Tagging, Chunking, and Shallow Parsing - Yuji Matsumoto (Nara) Question Answering - Bernardo Magnini (Trento) Search Methods in Natural Language Processing - Helmut Horacek (Saarbrücken) Spoken Dialogue Systems - Diane Litman (Pittsburgh PA) Statistical Machine Translation - Reinhard Rapp (Tarragona) Text Mining for Knowledge Acquisition in the Biomedical Domain - Lynette Hirschman (Mitre, Bedford MA) Time in Language: Formal and Computational Approaches - Inderjeet Mani (Mitre, Bedford MA) Types and Semantic Roles in the Lexicon - James Pustejovsky (Waltham MA) Words, Meanings, and Emotions - Rada Mihalcea (Dallas TX) Optional courses (from the 6th International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications) Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars - Henning Bordihn (Potsdam) Tree Adjoining Grammars - James Rogers (Richmond IN) Unification Grammars - Shuly Wintner (Haifa) Context-Free Grammar Parsing - Giorgio Satta (Padua) Probabilistic Parsing - Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen) Categorial Grammars - Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Grammatical Inference - Colin de la Higuera (Saint-Étienne) Natural Language Processing with Symbolic Neural Networks - Risto Miikkulainen (Austin TX) STUDENTS: Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include Computer Science and Linguistics. Other students (for instance, from Psychology, Logic, Engineering or Mathematics) could be accepted depending on the strengths of their undergraduate education. The first two months of classes are intended to homogenize the students' varied background in linguistics, formal languages and programming languages. 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: 2,120 euros in total, approximately. DISSERTATION: After following the courses, the students enrolled in the programme will have to 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' dissertations, as well as any other well-reputed scientist at the discretion of the host institute. FUNDING: The university will cover the tuition fees and full-board accommodation expenses of all admitted students during the first term. For the second one, funding opportunities will be provided, among others, by the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Becas MAEC-AECI), and the European Commission (Alban scheme for Latin American citizens). 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 institute. 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 university education diplomas, - a xerocopy of the academic transcripts, - full CV, - letters of recommendation (optional), - any other document to prove background, interest and motivation (optional). SCHEDULE: Announcement of the programme: August 11, 2006 Pre-registration deadline: October 23, 2006 Selection of students: October 30, 2006 Starting of the 1st term: March 5, 2007 End of the 1st term: July 27, 2007 Starting of the 2nd term (tentative): September 3, 2007 End of the 2nd term (tentative): December 21, 2007 Defense of the research project (tentative): September 13, 2008 DEA examination (tentative): May 16, 2009 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martín-Vide, at carlos.martin_at_urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tŕrraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543, +34-977-554391 Fax: +34-977-559597, +34-977-554391 From: Willard McCarty Subject: from cloister to street Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:03:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 215 (215) In The Mechanization of the World Picture (Oxford, 1961), E J Dijksterhuis reflects on the increasing pressure from the artists and technicans of the Renaissance -- the likes of Brunelleschi, Alberti et al as well as the instrument-makers -- to the exclusive use of Latin in scientific writings. Their motives, Dijksterhuis, were obvious: as a rule they had to address those who had no Latin, and the rate at which new words were required for new ideas made coinage in the vernacular much easier than straining the classical language. He goes on to note, however, that [deleted quotation]What might we learn from the situation Dijksterhuis describes? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Bramson, Leon" Subject: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends Program Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:50:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 216 (216) Over the past five years the NEH Summer Stipends program has received an annual average of 866 applications and made an average of 116 awards, or 13%. We are publicizing the October 2, 2006 deadline for the 2007 awards. Individuals who are interested in obtaining copies of the guidelines and application instructions are invited to visit the NEH website at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html A list of previous awards for 2005 is available on the website. Click on "Frequently Asked Questions" for additional information concerning the application process and the program. Questions about the program can be sent via e-mail to stipends_at_neh.gov or via telephone: 202-606-8200. Leon Bramson Senior Program Officer Division of Research Programs 202/606-8340 Lbramson_at_neh.gov From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: DIGITAL HUMANITIES 2007 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:49:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 217 (217) CALL FOR PAPERS Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations DIGITAL HUMANITIES 2007 Hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), in cooperation with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA 4-7 June, 2007 http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/ Abstract Deadline: November 1, 2006 (Midnight CST) Presentations can include: * Single papers (abstract, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) * Multiple paper sessions (overview, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) * Posters (abstract, min. of 750 words, max. of 1500 words) Call for Papers Announcement I. General The international Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing and the digital humanities, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and issues in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing and the digital humanities, and on recent and expected future developments in the field. Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example, * text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning * creation, delivery and management of humanities digital resources * collaboration between libraries and scholars in the creation, delivery, and management of humanities digital resources * computer-based research and computing applications in all areas of literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship * use of computation in such areas as the arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and other areas reflecting our cultural heritage * research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula Proposals should report significant and substantive results and will include reference to pertinent work in the field (up to 10 items) as part of their critical assessment. The range of topics covered by humanities computing can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is November 1, 2006 (midnight CST). All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 1, 2007. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 1st, 2006. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer as soon as possible. For more information on the conference in general please visit the conference web site, at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations (poster/demos), and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Proposals to the Programme Committee may be presented in English and one of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Conference presentations may be in these languages as well, and the Programme Committee encourages presenters to consider multilingual presentations (for example, a presentation in one language with accompanying slides or handouts accommodating speakers of another language). 1) Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. 2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations (Poster/Demos) Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations. The term poster/demo refers to the different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. The poster/demo sessions build on the recent trend of showcasing some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. By definition, poster presentations and project demonstrations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. They provide the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with about two square meters of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Poster/demos will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters/demos may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters and demonstrations to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster. 3) Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; Or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. November 1, 2006. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form, which will be available at the conference web site from October 1st, 2006. IV. Bursaries for Young Scholars A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference. If you wish to be considered for a bursary, please refer to information about the bursary schemes available from the Association for Computing in the Humanities (http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (http://www.allc.org/awards/bursary.htm). Applications may be made to either the ACH or the ALLC, but not both organizations. V. International Programme Committee Jean Anderson (U Glasgow) Elisabeth Burr (U Leipzig) Kevin Hawkins (U Michigan) David Hoover (NYU) Espen Ore (National Library of Norway) Ray Siemens (U Victoria; Chair) Natasha Smith (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Paul Spence (Kings College London; Vice-Chair) Christian Wittern (Kyoto U) From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 20.150 somewhere someone wrote... Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:49:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 218 (218) Willard and Herbert, Very pleased to read a reader's meticulous reading and find (invent) once again the productivity of error. [deleted quotation]from "which [deleted quotation]Vulagrity: the matricial grittiness and volume of vulgarity... I am reminded of Gregory Ulmer, _Teletheory: Gramatology in the Age of Video_ (Rutledge, 1989). In that book is sketched out a story about the place of euretics in academic discourse and the convergence of rhetorical _inventio_ with innovation. The story draws in part on Freud's work on wit. Francis Bacon in the essay "Of Innovations" remarks "that a froward retention of custom, is as turbulent a thing as an innovation." yes "froward" is not quite the same as "forward" :) and with time enough and custom "vulagrity" and "vulgarity" may become dyslexical twins (: -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: "Hazel Gardiner" Subject: CHArt 2006 Conference Announcement - Booking now open! Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:26:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 219 (219) CHArt TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE – Booking now open! KINGS COLLEGE LONDON FAST FORWARD: Art History, Curation and Practice After Media Thursday 9 - Friday 10 November 2006 - PROGRAMME - Since its foundation in 1985 CHArt has closely followed the extraordinary developments in arts computing that have taken place over nearly two decades. The twenty-second CHArt conference will reflect upon the unprecedented ways that media. particularly 'new media', are transforming our understanding of the world and of ourselves. The CHArt 2006 program addresses the possibilities and challenges of these changes, as they affect visual culture. KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Bruce Wands, Director, New York Digital Salon, New York, USA. THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER SESSION 1 – Steps of New Media Art at the Venice Biennale, 1960s to 1990s. Francesca Franco, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Electronic Civil Disobedience: The SWARM case. Fidele Vlavo, London South Bank University, London, UK. SESSION 2 – User Requirements for a 'Virtual Arts Centre of the Future'. Katrien Berte and Peter Mechant, Department of Communication Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium. The Digital Space of the Teatro Olimpico: A New Environment for Interactive Arts. Daniela Sirbu, University of Lethbridge, Canada. SESSION 3 – New Futures in Net Art: Discovering Emergent Art Historical Technique in Net Art Contextualisation. Charlotte Frost, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. 'High Archive Fever': The Internet and Art Historical Research in China. Adele Tan, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK. Aesthetics and Interactive Art Karen Cham, The Open University, UK. SESSION 4 – Panel Session Approaches to the Practice of Curating New Media Art. Sarah Cook, Beryl Graham and Ele Carpenter, CRUMB, University of Sunderland. FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER SESSION 5 – Preservation of Net Art in Museums. Anne Laforet, University of Avignon, France. Preserving and Recovering Computer Art: Reconstructing Data or the Artwork. Nick Lambert, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Conservation and Preservation in the Post-Media Phase: A Suggested Strategy Theory. Timothy Mohn, Pratt Institute Digital Arts Laboratory, New York, USA. SESSION 6 – When Presence and Absence Turn into Pattern and Randomness: Can You See Me Now? Maria Chatzichristodoulou (maria x), Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. Embodying Judgment: New Media and Art Criticism. Daniel Palmer, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. SESSION 7 – CHARADE: The Peer-To-Peer Distribution of Media Assets Into the Public at Large. Simon Pope, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. A Blueprint of Bacterial Life - Can a Science-Art Fusion Move the Boundaries of Visual and Audio Interpretation? Elaine Shemilt, University of Dundee, Scotland. 'You Are Here': Locative Media and the Body As Networked Site. Alicia Cornwell, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA. SESSION 8 – No Thanks to the Dictionary: Visualising Language in the Post-Medium Age. Philip Klobucar, Vancouver, Canada. Putting Two and Two Together to Make Yellow - Synaesthesia, Media, Art and Life. Rob Flint, Nottingham Trent University, UK. DEMONSTRATIONS EdiNA (Edinburgh University Data Library), Paula Cuccurullo. The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk. Bookings made before 13 October 2006 will be entitled to a discount. Conference Fees (pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch. Send bookings to: Hazel Gardiner, CHArt, CCH, Kings College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, WC2R 3DX, tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2013, fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980, hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk (please use the subject heading CHArt Conference 2006 in any email queries). BOOKING CHArt Member: (TWO DAYS) Ł100 (Ł80 before 14 Oct 2006) (ONE DAY) Ł60 (Ł50 before 14 Oct 2006) Non-member: (TWO DAYS) Ł130 (Ł110 before 14 Oct 2006) (ONE DAY) Ł80 (Ł70 before 14 Oct 2006) CHArt Student Member: (TWO DAYS) Ł60 (Ł40 before 14Oct 2006) (ONE DAY)Ł40 (Ł30 before 14 Oct 2006) Student Non-member: (TWO DAYS) Ł80 (Ł60 before 14 Oct 2006) (ONE DAY)Ł50 (Ł40 before 14 Oct 2006) ........................................................ Hazel Gardiner Senior Project Officer AHRC ICT Methods Network Centre for Computing in the Humanities Kings College Kay House, 7 Arundel Street WC2R 3DX +44 (0)20 7848 2013 hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: 2006-2007 IPA Online Workshop Series from the CIP Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:48:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 220 (220) 2006-2007 Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop Series. The Center for Intellectual Property at 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 three outstanding workshops: E-Reserves and Copyright http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#ereserves October 2-October 18, 2006 Moderator: Laura (Lolly) Gasaway, M.L.S., J.D. Laura Gasaway is professor of law and director, Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ***The "E-Reserves and Copyright" workshop is being re-offered due to the high demand for the workshop in 2005. Register TODAY for this popular program!*** Workshop Goals: --Learn about the background and history of reserve collections and how it relates to fair use; --Discuss the purpose and legal basis for e-reserves; --Evaluate the views and concerns of involved parties; --Consider some of the technical aspects; --Review various guidelines for e-reserves and classroom use; --Explore some of the elements necessary for developing a policy for e-reserves; --Discuss coursepacks, e-reserves, and materials posted by faculty on course management software; --Consider the unique issues surrounding audio and video recordings as part of e-reserves. Copyright Education Programs http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#copyright_education November 6-November 17, 2006 Moderators: Carrie Russell, M.L.I.S., and Olga Francois, M.L.I.S. Carrie Russell is copyright specialist, Office for Information Technology Policy, American Library Association. Olga Francois is assistant director, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College. DRM Technologies http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#drm_tech January 22-February 2, 2007 Moderators: Kimberly Kelley, M.L.S., Ph.D., and by Bill Rosenblatt, M.S. Kimberly Kelley is Associate Provost, Information and Library Services, and Dean, Academic Resources and Services, University of Maryland University College. Bill Rosenblatt is founder of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies, a management consultancy focused on the content industries and whose primary clients are media companies and digital media technology vendors. ***This workshop resumes where the CIP's previous "Digital Rights Management (DRM) in Higher Education" workshop (January/February 2006) concluded.*** 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 $250; three workshops $350. 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 Visit us online at http://www.umuc.edu/cip ##### From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.31 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:47:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 221 (221) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 31 August 15, 2006 - August 21, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: Gutam Kumar Saha describes a low cost technique for gaining software implemented fault tolerance without using design diversity based N versions redundancy in both software and hardware. The proposed approach uses an enhanced single-version programming (ESVP) scheme for an application that executes on a single machine. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i31_esvp.html Michael de la Maza believes that the greatest promise of the "One Laptop Per Child" project (OLPC) lies not so much in education per se but in the ability of a $100 laptop to support new social structure. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i31_maza.html For this week's Ubiquity go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 31 (August 15, 2006 - August 21, 2006) From: "St-Amant, Kirk" Subject: Call for Chapter Proposals -- Edited Handbook of Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:27:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 222 (222) Research on Computer Mediated Communication Call for Chapters for the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication Editors: Sigrid Kelsey, Louisiana State University and Kirk St.Amant, Texas Tech University INTRODUCTION: Technology has changed communication drastically in recent years. Podcasts, Email, the World Wide Web, Blackberries, cell phones, text messaging, wireless connections, and other forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) have transformed communication in numerous ways, not only facilitating the speed and sometimes ease of communicating, but redefining and shaping today's communication norms. The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will provide comprehensive coverage of the most important current issues, trends, and technologies related to professional computer mediated communication. TOPICS AND PURPOSE: The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will feature chapters (5000- 7000 words) of a scholarly nature, written by experts offering in-depth descriptions of concepts, issues, and trends in various areas of CMC. The purpose of this handbook is to provide academic articles, each focusing on a specific topic, rather than a general treatment of CMC, keeping in mind a readership with a varied background. This book will explore various forms of CMC chapter by chapter and discuss the broad implications that each medium is having on communication. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to: - Email - Web Sites, web pages - Blackberries - Podcasts, RSS - Chatrooms - Instant messaging - Text messaging - Cell phones - Corporate blogging (may mention implications of personal blogging in the workplace) - Digital divide - File sharing, peer to peer networking - Online forums - Computer mediated collaboration - Wikis - Historical aspects of CMC - Effects of CMC on research participation - Web Design and visual CMC SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Individuals interested in submitting chapters should submit a chapter proposal of one single-spaced page on or before September 30, 2006 to Sigrid Kelsey at sigridkelsey_at_gmail.com (Rich Text Format or Microsoft Word is acceptable). The proposal should include the purpose and content of the proposed chapter and how the proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book. Upon acceptance of their proposals, authors will have until December 31, 2006, to prepare their chapters of 5000-7000 words. Guidelines for preparing chapters will be sent upon acceptance of proposals. This book is tentatively scheduled for publishing by Idea Group Reference (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.), www.ideagroup-ref.com, in 2008. _______________________________________________ Catac mailing list Catac_at_philo.at http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/catac From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Old Terms and Familiar Vistas Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:18:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 223 (223) Willard, I sometimes wonder why the Utopian visions or simple hankerings for a better and more just world that accompany scenarios about the good that technology brings. It is a persistent trope. However, what I want to signal below is the terminology: "interactive video-computer'. It no doubt is marked by its time. It may be interesting to contrast it with the "personal computer" and speculate if the positive positioning of such devices in the discourse on education declines in the generation of the wired, the PDA and the WWW. Peter Kline The Everyday Genius (1988) pp. 41-42 Relieved of the burden of drill, repetition and boredom, teachers will then be able to help us enter a new age of excitement about learning [...] For when machines handle the presentation of information, providing students with rapid evaluation and feedback, teachers will be free to engage in activities and discussions which help their students humanize what they have learned. [...] Because the interactive video-computer will bring rich new possibilities to the classroom, most people will desire to continue being students, at least on a part time basis, all through life. This will create new job opportunities for teachers, who will also be better paid than they are now. Indeed, education may become the biggest growth industry of the next half century. For there's nothing that can benefit people more, provided it actually works. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/doloezel.htm From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Looking for Papers: "Done. Finished Projects in the Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:18:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 224 (224) Digital Humanities" This is a call for participants for a panel I would like to organize at Digital Humanities 2007 at Illinois. The subject of the panel will be "Done. Finished Projects in the Digital Humanities." How do we decide when we're done? What does it mean to finish something? How does the "open ended nature of the medium" (a phrase we all pay lip service to) jibe with the reality of funding, deadlines, and deliverables? What can we learn from finished projects, both successful and unsuccessful? For that matter, how do we define success and failure? Are "we" the ones who ought to be defining it? If not, who? And so forth. Please send a paragraph or two outlining a paper you might contribute on this topic. I will select three, plus one alternate (in case someone drops out at the proposal writing stage). Persons interested should be prepared to write a 750-1500 word abstract in accordance with the DH CFP. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: SDN 2006 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:29:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 225 (225) Jean-Claude Guédon (Comparative Literature, Montréal) has drawn my attention to the conference "Semaine du Document Numérique", to be held at Fribourg, Switzerland, later this month. "L'objectif est avant tout de faire se rencontrer des communautés scientifiques travaillant sur un męme objet dans des disciplines scientifiques diverses incluant des informaticiens, des historiens, des linguistes, des cogniticiens, des pédagogues, etc. Cet objectif vise ŕ renforcer les liens interdisciplinaires entre les communautés des sciences et technologies de l'information (STIC) et des sciences humaines et de la société (SHS) afin de dégager des méthodologies innovantes s'appuyant sur des outils, des usages et des concepts complémentaires aux disciplines." See https://diuf.unifr.ch/event/sdn06/accueil.html. Yours, WM From: oupjournals-mailer_at_liontamer.stanford.edu Subject: LLC for September 2006; Vol. 21, No. 3 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:26:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 226 (226) Lit Linguist Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: September 2006; Vol. 21, No. 3 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol21/issue3/index.dtl?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- A New Approach to the Study of Translationese: Machine-learning the Difference between Original and Translated Text Marco Baroni and Silvia Bernardini Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:259-274. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/259?etoc The Evolution of Order in the Chapter Lengths of Trollope's Novels Peter Fink Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:275-282. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/275?etoc A Small-Corpus-Based Approach to Alice's Roles Akiko Inaki and Tomoko Okita Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:283-294. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/283?etoc Computerized Restoration of Historical Dictionaries: Uniformization and Date-assigning in Dictionary Quotations of the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal Dirk Kinable Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:295-310. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/295?etoc A Tool for Literary Studies: Intertextual Distance and Tree Classification Cyril Labbe and Dominique Labbe Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:311-326. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/311?etoc Cryogenics and Creativity: The Frankenstein Factor in Cultural Preservation Eileen Maitland and Cordelia Hall Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:327-339. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/327?etoc Graphical Editor for Manuscripts Desmond Schmidt Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:341-351. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/341?etoc Optimal Strategies for Accurate Transcription Matthew Spencer and Christopher J. Howe Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:353-362. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/353?etoc Computing Error: Reassessing Austin's Study of Groatsworth of Wit Richard Westley Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:363-378. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/363?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ----------------------------------------------------------------- 'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye. * Brian Vickers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 596 pp. ISBN 0-521-77243-5. {pound}55.00 (hardback). Jonathan Hope Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:379-380. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/21/3/379?etoc Form and Function of Parasyntactic Presentation Structures: Corpus-based Study of Talk Units in Spoken English. * Joybrato Mukherjee. Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics, Vol. 35. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. viii + 163 pp. ISBN 90-420-1295-1. {euro} 41/US$ 55 (hardback). Gerry Knowles Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:380-382. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/21/3/380?etoc New Frontiers of Corpus Research. Papers from the Twenty First International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora. Sydney 2000 (Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics 36). * Pam Peters, Peter Collins, and Adam Smith (eds). Amsterdam-New York, NY: Rodopi, 2002. 332 pp. ISBN 90-420-1237-4. $108/{euro}80 (hardback). Merja Kyto Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:382-384. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/21/3/382?etoc Corpora and Discourse. Proceedings of CamConf2002. Linguistic Insights 9. Studies in Language and Communication. * Alan Partington, John Morley, and Louann Haarman (eds). Bern: Peter Lang., 2004. 420 pages. ISSN 1424-8689. ISBN 3-03910-026-2. US-ISBN 0-8204-6262-4. Nelleke Oostdijk Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:384-386. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/21/3/384?etoc From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.32 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:27:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 227 (227) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 32 August 22, 2006 - August 28, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: A. Aaroud and B. Bounabat of the Faculty of Sciences El Jadida-Morocco write; "Wireless IP network has attracted significant interest due to their ability to support both voice and data transfer in mobile communication. One of the main issues concerning such network is the analysis and design of mobility function, particularly the location management." In this paper, they focus on modelling location update function in wireless network standard GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) by using an agent. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i32_aaroud.html For this week's Ubiquity go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 32 (August 22, 2006 - August 28, 2006) From: sramsay_at_unlserve.unl.edu Subject: The Presence of Busa Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:27:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 228 (228) In *Computers and Humanities* 14 (1980), Roberta Busa describes his quest to create a complete digital concordance to the work of Thomas Aquinas as having begun with research into the notion of "presence" in Thomas -- in particular, his emerging sense that elucidating the notion of presence required that one pay attention not to the obvious cognates, but to the preposition "in:" "My next step was to write out by hand 10,000 3x5 cards, each containing a sentence with the word 'in' or a word connected with 'in.' Grand games of solitaire followed" (83). Fr. Busa came to a famous realization shortly afterward: "It was clear to me that to process texts containing more than ten million words, I had to look for some type of machinery" (83) My question for the group is this: Did Busa ever return to his investigation of the notion of "presence?" Was he able to write the paper on presence in Thomas that had prompted the founding work of our discipline? Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 From: Stéfan Sinclair Subject: Canadian Symposium on Text Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:28:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 229 (229) Analysis (CaSTA 2006), Registration Now Open Early online registration is now available for the upcoming CaSTA 2006 conference at: www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006 CaSTA 2006 is the 5th in a series of CaSTA conferences, focusing on text analysis. This year's conference will bring together Computer Scientists and Humanities Computing researchers to share their work on the central issues driving current scholarly research on the linguistic, visual, and aural manifestations of text. Fees are: Regular Registration (Early/Late): $125/$150 Student Registration (Early/Late): $ 65/$ 75 Conference Workshops: $55 for ˝ day /$85 Full day Late fees will apply after September 15, 2006. CaSTA 2006 is taking place from October 11 to October 15, 2006 in the beautiful Riverfront Capital of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. There is an exciting program planned with five internationally known and highly regarded keynote speakers: William Y. Arms, Computer Science, Cornell University; Willard McCarty, Reader in Humanities Computing, King's College London; Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia; Ian Munro, Professor of Computer Science and Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design, University of Waterloo; and Peter Shillingsburg, Professor of English, De Montfort University, UK; a series of interesting pre and post-conference workshops, presentations based on peer reviewed papers and posters, and a provocative panel discussion "Humanities Computing Science?", focusing on research of common interest to humanists, computer and information scientists. A promotional poster for printing and posting is available at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006/relatedlinks.php We look forward to welcoming attendees to CaSTA 2006! **************************************************************************** Best regards, Sue ***************************************** Susan Oliver Program Coordinator - CaSTA 2006 UNB Libraries PO Box 7500 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 Phone: (506) 452-6103 Fax: (506) 453-4595 email: suoliver_at_unb.ca ****************************************** From: Willard McCarty Subject: AI & Society 20.4 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:38:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 230 (230) Volume 20 Number 4 of AI & Society is now available on the www.springerlink.com web site at http://www.springerlink.com. PREFACE AI & Society Vol. 20.4 p. 443 Victoria Vesna DOI: 10.1007/s00146-006-0032-y INTRODUCTION Media Literacy: twenty-first century arts education p. 444 Casey Reas DOI: 10.1007/s00146-006-0035-8 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Personal technologies: memory and intimacy through physical computing p. 446 Joanna Berzowska DOI: 10.1007/s00146-006-0033-x ORIGINAL ARTICLE Computer vision for artists and designers: pedagogic tools and techniques for novice programmers p. 462 Golan Levin DOI: 10.1007/s00146-006-0049-2 ORIGINAL ARTICLE "Carnivore personal edition": exploring distributed data surveillance p. 483 Alexander R. Galloway DOI: 10.1007/s00146-006-0034-9 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Making games for social change p. 493 Mary Flanagan DOI: 10.1007/s00146-006-0048-3 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Lessons from the scrapyard: creative uses of found materials within a workshop setting p. 506 Katherine Moriwaki, Jonah Brucker-Cohen DOI: 10.1007/s00146-006-0036-7 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Processing: programming for the media arts p. 526 Casey Reas, Ben Fry DOI: 10.1007/s00146-006-0050-9 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Edward Vanhoutte" Subject: Re: 20.163 the presence of Busa? Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:39:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 231 (231) In reply to Steve's question about Busa, let me quote some passages from my forthcoming doctoral dissertation: In his doctoral dissertation which was published in 1949 (Busa, 1949) Roberto Busa concentrated on the concept of presence in the works of Thomas Aquinas. Therefore, he wrote out by hand 10,000 3" x 5" cards each containing a sentence with the word in or a word connected with in. (Busa, 1980, p. 83) In doing so, he started to think about methods to automate linguistic analysis of texts. In Busa’s own writings, the momentum of this idea is reflected on as a period ranging from 1941 or 1942 to 1946.[1] The latter date marks the transition from the defence of his Ph.D. thesis to the plan for the Index Thomisticus, a lemmatized concordance of all the words in the complete works of Thomas Aquinas, ‘including conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns, to serve other scholars for analogous studies.’ (Busa, 1980, p. 83) It wasn’t till 1950, however, that he published his plans in an announcement in Speculum. (Busa, 1950) The question is not so much 'did he ever return to his investigation of the notion of 'presence' but rather, how did he move on from this research? During this research, Busa gained two major insights which together form the theoretical model on which most of his scholarly work up to now has been based.[2] Firstly, he realized that a reader of a text cannot approach that text with his own conceptual verbal system but has to study the author’s. Therefore ‘a philological and lexicographical inquiry into the verbal system of an author has to precede and prepare for a doctrinal interpretation of his works.’ His second insight was that the basic structures of human discourse are not generated by the so called “meaningful” words, but by all functional or grammatical words ‘which in my mind are not ‘empty’ at all but philosophically rich.’ In these words, Busa sees the manifestation of ‘the deepest logic of being’ and it is ‘this basic logic that allows the transfer from what the words mean today to what they meant to the writer.’ (Busa, 1980, p. 83)[3] From this ‘generative ontology’ (Busa, 2004a, p. 16) he developed the concept and method of ermeneutica computerizzata or computational hermeneutics (Busa, 1998), computerized hermeneutics (Busa, 1998 and 2002), hermeneutical informatics (Busa, 1999), or hermeneutic informatics (Busa, 2004b).[4] Computerized hermeneutics he sees as the only form of text processing which allows one to discover the unknown.[5] In order to allow other scholars in both the humanities and artificial intelligence to perform research on the texts he was working on, he had to prepare ‘a map of a linguistic universe’, that is ‘a document in which as many facts as possible are given with as few as possible personal interpretations’ (Busa, 1976, p. 114), thus preferring an inductional approach over a deductional one. This could be achieved by coding the several categories of vocabulary redundancy in the text during the input phase of a project:[6] flexions and conjugations should be lemmatized and the literal quotations in texts, or quotations ad sensum, for instance, should be coded as such in order not to corrupt any research which tries to draw inferences from the author’s verbal system, for they are not his words. Eventually, 10.631.973 words (tokens) were processed. [7] Notes [1] Cp. ‘During World War II, between 1941 and 1946, I began to look for machines for the automation of the linguistic analysis of written texts.’ (Busa, 2004b, p. xvi) and ‘The idea of linguistic analysis first came to me in 1942 (...)’ (Busa, 2002, p. 49). The former quote does not give an exact date for the start of his quest, instead the start and end date of his doctoral research is given, which covers the period of WW II. Although the latter quote does mention an exact year, it does not say that the idea reported on here includes the use of computing machines. Busa reaffirmed the earliest date to me in a private email of 24 July 2005. [2] An ‘essential’ bibliography of Busa’s writings up to 2002 is published in Busa (2002). [3] ‘Grammar is the foundation of philosophy. Philosophy aims at unifying synthesis of the whole cosmos. Examining those grammatical words is the only possible path leading to and documenting such a synthesis, when near to its goal.’ (Busa, 2004a, p. 17) [4]‘I insist on calling it hermeneutics, that is interpretation. It is, in fact, one of our cognitive activities which, by going backwards, seeks to reconstruct from a text written by others the structures, rules and choices of the thinking which is there so expressed. It does this by observing one at a time all the aspects that constitute the text of another author, first of all and above of all the reality of things, rather than and before making a list of the opinions and judgements of others who have spoken about it. It does this knowing in this way a scholar himself firstly puts into execution that same logic which tries to recover, define and describe in the work of another, that is the same logic which is common to all, and secondly seeks to define and describe also what message and different styles emerge from it. (...) When I say that such hermeneutics is computerized, I mean computer assisted: the scholar makes the computer perform firstly all the operations of assembling, ordering, re-ordering, summarizing etc., and secondly all the searches for single data or groups of data which every heuristic strategy requires, one after the other. In fact, the specific function of the electronic organizer is that of carrying out censuses which are exhaustive, quantized and classified of the linguistic elementary micro-elements that form the framework of any text. Such a service is all the more valuable in that it really seems that every linguistic category is fuzzy or approximate and not rigid. Perhaps no linguistic category is absolute; perhaps all admit of exceptions. Only with the computer can the probability curves of such exceptions be specified in numbers and percentages, in order, furthermore, to identify what these are, and, finally, to check whether they are merely a noise that can be ignored or whether they carry a message, that is, are significant.’ (Busa, 2002, p. 56-57) [5] In his model, Busa sees two other lines of text processing, namely information retrieval service infrastructures such as databanks, hypertext techniques, the Internet, and the WWW, and several ways of publishing new kinds of books such as diskettes, CDs, multimedia, etc. These, however, are aimed at retrieving and diffusing what is already known. (Busa, 1998) In Busa (1999), he calls the respectively ‘data bank’ and ‘publishing informatics’ which he considers social services (p. 5): ‘the number of their consumers is extremely large and expanding. Consequently, the money invested in them has quick returns.’ (p. 6) [6] In Busa (1976, p. 115), he mentions seven different categories which can result in vocabulary redundancy: authorship, content, grouping of the inflexions into lemma units, polysemy, polymorphy, concentrations of frequency, and correlations of words. [7] Figure according to the project report Opera quae in indicem thomisticum sunt redacta concluded on February 2, 1975 and revised in 1980 (privately made available to me). The 118 works of Thomas Aquinas contain 8.767.848 tokens, the 61 works by other authors connected with the Thomistic works contain 1.864.125 tokens. Over the course of time, these figures were adjusted constantly which explains why Busa (1976) reports on ‘ten and a half million words’ (p. 114); Busa (1980) quotes the figures ‘10.600.000’ (p. 85) and ‘10.666.000’ (p. 86); Busa (2002) speaks of ‘11.000.000 words’ (p. 58, 59, 60, 61, and 62); and Busa (2004a, p. 15-16, and 2004b, p. xvii) mention ‘11 million words’. References Busa, Roberto (1949). La terminologia Tomistica dell'Interioritŕ: Saggi di metodo per una interpretazione della metafisica della presenza. Milano: Bocca. Busa, Roberto (1950). Complete Index Verborum of Works of St Thomas. Speculum: a journal of medieval studies, XXV/1 (january 1950): 424-425. Busa, Roberto (1976). Computer Processing of over Ten Million Words: Retrospective Criticism. In Alan Jones and R.F. Churchhouse (eds.). The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Studies. (Proceedings of the Third International Symposium). Cardiff: The University of Wales Press, p. 114-117. Busa, Roberto (1980). The Annals of Humanities Computing: The Index Thomisticus. Computers and the Humanities, 14: p. 83-90. Busa, Roberto (1998). Concluding a Life’s Safari from Punched Cards to World Wide Web. In L. Burnard, M. Deegan and H. Short (eds.). The Digitial Demotic: Selected Papers from DRH97, Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference, St. Anne's College, Oxford, September 1997. London: Office for Humanities Communication, p. 3-11. Busa, Roberto (1999). Picture a Man... Literary and Linguistic Computing, 14: 5-9. Busa, Roberto (2002). Hermeneutika e kompiuterizar. Pas gjashtëdhjetë vjetësh—L'ermeneutica computerizzata. Sessant’anni dopo—Computerized hermeneutics. Sixty years on. Tiranë: albin. Busa, Roberto (2004a). Analysis of scientific and philosophical texts. What differentiates them and what they have in common. In buzzetti, Dino, Pancaldi, Guiliano, and Short, Harold. (eds.) Augmenting Comprehension. Digital Tools and the History of Ideas. Proceedings of a conference at Bologna, 22-23 September 2002. London: Office for Humanities Publication, p. 15-17. Busa, Roberto (2004b). Foreword: Perspectives on the Digital Humanities. In Schreibman, Susan, Siemens, Ray, and Unsworth, John. A Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden, MA/Oxford/Carlton, Victoria: Blackwell Publishing. p. xvi-xxi. Edward Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Independent Researcher Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing University of Antwerp - CDE Dept. of Literature Universiteitsplein 1 b-2610 Wilrijk Belgium edward dot vanhoutte at kantl dot be http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/staff/edward.htm From: "Alex Murzaku" Subject: Re: 20.163 the presence of Busa? Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:40:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 232 (232) Last time I met him, he gave me a full list of his publications (up to 1991). I can't find anything on "presence." One of the volumes of Index Thomisticus (1979/80), Sectio Secunda, Vol. 7 is intitled "Et = In = Quam quod" XVI + 1270. The XVI pages of introduction might have some discussion about the "In" concordances. From: "port]is.an.option"@unlserve.unl.edu Subject: Re: 20.165 the presence of Busa Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:48:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 233 (233) On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:44:01AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Well no, actually. This is the question (for me at least). No one denies that Busa's investigations into the notion of presence inspired his most famous contribution to the field. My question is whether, having built the Index, he ever went on to use the Index to further the theological project that inspired it. I gather from your message that the dissertation itself pursues the question of presence, but did not (for obvious reasons) rely on the digital version of the Index. Busa himself famously declared the reason for the index in the article in the *Annals*: "[A] philological and lexicographical inquiry into the verbal system of an author has to precede and prepare for a doctrinal interpretation of his works. Each writer expresses his conceptual system in and through his verbal system, with the consequence that the reader who masters this verbal system, using his own conceptual system, has to get an insight into the writer's conceptual system. The reader should not simply attach to the words he reads the significance they have in his mind, but should try to find out what significance they had in the author's mind" (83). It does not seem to me beside the point to ask whether he (or anyone) ever managed to undertake a "doctrinal interpretation" of Thomas using the Index. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 From: John Unsworth Subject: Fwd: Announcement of Digital Humanities fellowship Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:16:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 234 (234) at the Stanford Humanities Center Begin forwarded message: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: the presence of Busa Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:15:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 235 (235) Steve's question, about whether the Index has made a difference to the theological project that inspired its maker, is a good one. It would be good to know whether that work ever proved useful to the man himself. A larger question Steve's question suggests -- whether it made a difference Aquinas scholarship, or to scholarship more generally -- is, I think, unanswerable. How can one determine how much of a difference one has made, by one's books, teaching, lecturing and so forth? A great scholar I know compared the publication of one of his books to dropping a rose petal down into a deep chasm, this anxiety of influence to waiting for the sound of its impact. When I wrote to him to tell him how great I thought his book was, he wrote back to say he could hear the sound of a great splash, and it brought him considerable joy. The anxiety of our own influence possesses many of us. Unfortunately it also has possessed the bureaucrats, who have a great passion to measure our performance, our "impact". How utterly mistaken an idea of worth these metrics embody. Sometimes one does something, perhaps taking many years to do it, then abandons the thing because it seems wrongheaded, or one simply gets bored with it. Then someone else comes along and runs with it, does good work etc. Again, the answer seems to be that one cannot know whether many scholarly acts (and, perhaps, many acts) amount to much. How about foolish fashions of scholarship, which produce mountains of citations, loads of publications, then vanish? How about brilliant insights (such as Morton Bloomfield's, in 1963, on the nature of personification) that don't come to much at the time but later prove foundational to someone else's work? (Bloomfield's idea was, I think, unworkable then because computing was too primitive to be of any use to such a problem as he uncovered.) Clearly we need a very generous, magnanimous conception of scholarship, and of life, for what we do to flower as it can. 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: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 20.167 the presence of Busa Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:15:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 236 (236) Steve Ramsay raises a fascinating question. From this exchange and a little other knowledge, I gather that Father Busa felt early in his career that you could not make definitive statements about an author's habits of thought unless you first studied everything about his way with words. I use 'definitive' advisedly because that appears to be the way Father Busa thought about his work, to judge, for instance, from Steve's own discussion in an earlier draft of his Algorithmic Criticism, which I read with much pleasure. What if Father Busa never got around to making those statements about his author's habits of thought? It looks like he never did--at least not in the direct way in which Plato never wrote his Lecture on the Good or Verdi never wrote his opera about Lear--although one could make a good case that both of them indirecty did just that much of the time. How does this matter? Does it call into question the Herculean labor of the Index Thomisticus? Was Father Busa wrong about the long detour he took? Or should its results and utility be measured by what others did with it? And how do we know what they did with it? Behind Father Busa's project stands a millennial hermeneutical tradition that is nicely captured by the title of Augustine's (incomplete?) commentary De Genesis ad Literam or "On Genesis word by word." Father Busa's Index was the first (?) big project to put digital technology in the service of giving a new dimension of exhaustive completion to "word by word" and he has been justly honoured for it. Therefore I sense another question behind Steve's initial question. What about this entire enterprise of which Father Busa's Index is such a spectacular example? Is it a proper detour that will help in reaching large goals, if not by the original author, then by others? Or is it an instance of what Heidegger calls Holzwege, lumber trails that lead nowhere in particular. But Heidegger's use of the term is pretty deeply ironic and seems to be raise all manner of questions about what it means to be a way that leads somewhere. On Aug 25, 2006, at 2:51 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:19:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 237 (237) Dear colleagues: Sending out of Humanist will be occasional for the next two weeks, i.e. depending on the occasions when I can get access to e-mail. I will be in Bulgaria, for the Contextualizing Classics programme, www.proclassics.org, until 11 September. If you post any messages, please make sure to keep a sharp eye out for them, and if one or two should perchance not appear soon after 11 September, assume my overactive spam filtering unaccountably caught them. 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: Ubiquity 7.33 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:15:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 238 (238) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 33 August 29, 2006 =96 September 4, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: OPTIMIZATION Samir Kumar Bandyopadhyay, Debnath Bhattacharyya, and Poulami Das note that Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Optimization are classical areas of researches in computer science, and that computer scientists have been trying to map the Biological and Natural Solution with the Artificial one for two decades now. They have developed a population-based stochastic optimization technique inspired by the social behavior of the female mosquito.Go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i33_mosquito.html For this week's Ubiquity go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 33 (August 29, 2006 =96 September 4, 2006) -- Willard McCarty willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk From: Willard Mccarty Subject: new on WWW: JEP Summer 2006 now online Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:24:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 239 (239) We are pleased to announce the publication of the Summer 2006 issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing (http://www.hti.umich.edu/j/jep). Below the signature I've included our Editor's Note, which highlights some of what you'll find in our latest issue. As always, thank you for your interest and support; spread the word! Best regards, Shana ++++++++++++ Shana Kimball Managing Editor, Journal of Electronic Publishing Scholarly Publishing Office University of Michigan kimballs_at_umich.edu Inside the Beltway --Judith Axler Turner Where I live, Washington DC, we suffer from "inside the beltway" thinking: for us, every burp in the federal government is a major issue that concerns us tremendously. Sometimes those burps have no more effect than, well, a burp. And sometimes they change the very fabric of our world. The same is true in the world of scholarly publishing: we are interested in minutiae that others find narrow and boring, but sometimes those minutiae grow to change the way we live and work and conduct our business. The Internet was once a local phenomenon. Remember BITNET and Gopher? And look at the effect it has had. This issue introduces us to some of the specialized work that is done in e-publishing in academe, and much of it has the potential to change the world. I think you will find new ideas here that will resonate inside whatever beltway that surrounds your world -- and perhaps beyond. Hilary Wilder and Sharmila Pixy Ferris, both at William Paterson University in New Jersey, look at how shared knowledge is changed by the medium through which it is communicated, in Communication Technology and the Evolution of Knowledge (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0009.201). What's more, they created and published their article in wikispace, a technology that itself changed their ability to share knowledge and indeed to create it. Edwin A. Henneken, Michael J. Kurtz, Guenther Eichhorn, Alberto Accomazzi, Carolyn Grant, Donna Thompson, and Stephen S. Murray of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts study the effect of pre-publication on astrophysics citations, and find -- as earlier studies did in other disciplines -- that the effect is salubrious (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0009.202). Terje Hillesund from the University of Stavanger in Norway, and Jon E. Noring of the OpenReader Consortium argue for a universal digital publication format, and offer some suggestions on what it might include (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0009.203) . Elisabeth Jones and Mark Sandler, both from the University of Michigan, wrote separate articles on the symposium sponsored by University of Michigan University Library (JEP's owner) and National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, "Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects." Mark reported on his publishing panel (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0009.207) ; Elisabeth took a broader view of the entire two-day event http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0009.204). Stuart Allen, Robert Constable, and Lori Lorigo, all from Cornell University in New York, explain in Using Formal Reference to Enhance Authority and Integrity in Online Mathematical Texts how advanced software can help mathematicians ensure that their proofs are correct and build correctly on the work they are citing. Such software could move beyond mathematics to other fields where exact citation is important (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0009.205). In All Knowledge, Past and Present, Susan Lukesh, an archaeologist from Hofstra University in New York, invites us into the world she has created with her ancient pottery database, using software that could be applied in other visual fields as well (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0009.206). Brian F. Lavoie of the OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and Roger C. Schonfeld of Ithaka, in Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the System-wide Print Book Collection make the case for a metalibrary of print books that depends on technology to support decisions about purchasing, storing, and archiving collections (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0009.208). Enjoy! ++++ For more information about your subscription see http://www.hti.umich.edu/j/jep/info.html?sub. To contribute to the Journal of Electronic Publishing, see the submission guidelines at http://www.hti.umich.edu/j/jep/info.html?gui. We welcome your comments and feedback to jep-info_at_umich.edu. We hope you find our new issue stimulating and useful. -- Willard Mccarty willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk From: Willard Mccarty Subject: new on WWW: Poetess Archive Database Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:25:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 240 (240) Poetess Archive Database I write to announce a =93beta=94 release of the Poetess Archive Database. The Poetess Archive is a bibliography of works by and about women and men writing in the =93poetess=94 tradition between 1750 and 1900. Once a series of static html pages, this electronic resource has become a searchable database. The web site includes the electronic Poetess Journal containing essays by the site editors: Katherine D. Harris, Harry Hootman, Virginia Jackson, Laura Mandell, and Eliza Richards. The database and journal are currently under peer review at Romantic Circles where, if accepted, it will move permanently. Since Romantic-Circles reviewers will certainly ask for changes to the search engine as well as to the presentation of texts and bibliographic data, we welcome your recommendations for changes as well. The site offers feedback forms, and we look forward to any input that you are able offer. Go to: http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess Sincerely, Laura Mandell Laura Mandell Assoc. Professor Dept. of English Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 513.529.5276 -- Willard Mccarty willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2007 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:45:14 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 241 (241) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION. Museums and the Web 2007 April 11 - 14, 2007 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ You are invited to participate in the Eleventh Annual Museums and the Web Conference. * THEMES FOR 2007 * Social Issues and Impact - Building Communities - Public Content Creation - On-going Engagement Organizational Strategies - Building + Managing Web Teams - Multi-Institutional Ventures - Facilitating Institutional Change - Sustainability Applications - Wireless Inside/Outside - Visitor Support On-site + On-line - Schools + Educational Programs - E-commerce for Museums Technical and Design Issues - Standards, Architectures + Protocols - Interface + Design Paradigms - New Tools + Methods - Managing Content + Metadata Museum 2.0 Services - Podcasting, Blogging, RSS, Social Tagging, - Folksonomy, Wikis, Cell Phone Tours ... - Museum Mashups Evaluation + User Studies - Research Methods + Results - Impact Studies - User Analysis + Audience Development [This list is not exhaustive; any relevant proposal will be considered.] [...] -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2007 produced by April 11 - 14, 2007, San Francisco, CA Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2007_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 -- From: Willard Mccarty Subject: Call: Doing Ethnography: Examining ICT use in context Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:22:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 242 (242) *Call for Participation in ASIS&T 2006 Workshop =AD * *Doing Ethnography: Examining ICT use in context* Saturday, 4 November 2006 1:30-5:30 pm *Deadlines: *500-word problem statement due September 8, 2006 (REVISED DEADLINE) to the organizer (see details below) *Speaker**s*: Elisabeth Davenport, Brenda Dervin, Elizabeth Figa (see bios below) *Expertise level*: all levels welcome This =BD day workshop aims to help participants to devise and enrich ethnographic techniques for investigating the complex interplay between people, technology and information given time and resource constraints. It offers an opportunity to researchers to share their experiences in the fiel= d and/or learn from the prior experiences of others. The workshop is part of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) taking place from November 3-8, 2006, in Austin, Texas. This =BD day ethnography workshop will offer participants the opportunity t= o work with three eminent discussants: Elisabeth Davenport, Brenda Dervin, an= d Elizabeth Figa (details below). The discussants will draw on their own research experiences in the field to serve as commentators on the themes raised in the problem statements of participants. Description of the Workshop Interactions in today's digital information environments blur the lines between the physical and the social, between a tool that one uses and a person with whom one communicates. These information systems are in fact socio-technical systems with a complex and interdependent system of dynamic and interrelated elements involving people, tools and information structures. Understanding the interplay between people, information and technology requires a fuller understanding of ways to examine this dynamic relationship in the context of practice in "real world" settings. The philosophic traditions of ethnography can inform such research through the guidelines they provide for sensitizing observations in the field. With its emphasis on prolonged engagement and systematic observation of people i= n natural settings, this form of research generally involves rich description= s of the situations observed and their sociocultural context. Ethnographic techniques provide a powerful way for researchers to study lived, everyday experiences. It is however imperative that any techniques applied to the study of these context-rich environments are consistent with ethnography's core principles. *The workshop will address the following methodological problems or goals: = * 1: Increase understanding of how the ideals of an ethnographic approach can be translated into specific project goals. 2: Increase understanding of how a researcher can develop the appropriate skill set to investigate and understand the critical processes taking place in the situation under study whilst remaining true to the methodological holism that is the defining quality of ethnography. 3: In view of the limited time and resources faced by many researchers, compare best practices for how researchers employ ethnographic approaches with efficiency and expediency. *Discussants biographies: =3D Elisabeth Davenport* heads the Center for Social Informatics at Napier University and has a permanent visiting scholar appointment at the Rob Klin= g School of Informatics at Indiana University . She is a senior scholar of social aspects of computing and has received a number of grants from the European Commission under the Information Society Technologies Programme.* =3D Brenda Dervin* is full professor at the School of Communication and Joa= n N. Huber Fellow in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Ohio State University. She is well known for the development and implementation of the Sense-Makin= g Methodology, a philosophically derived approach for studying communication as communication. * =3D Elizabeth Figa* is an assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas and a fellow of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge. Her research includes ethnographies of information retrieval and human systems and ethnographies of storytelling. All participants are invited to submit a brief problem statement (500 words= ) describing the particular research challenge they wish to discuss within th= e workshop. Registered participants will have an opportunity prior to the workshop to review all the problem statements. Prior to the workshop, organizers and invited discussants will review these statements to identify key themes and create small working groups for the = =BD day session. The workshop will involve small group and full workshop sessions during which discussants will comment on the challenges being raised by workshop participants. The workshop will close with a discussion of some core principles and techniques. ABSTRACTS: Send your 500-word problem statement to theresa.anderson_at_uts.edu.au by September 8, 2006 QUESTIONS: All questions, email Theresa Anderson ( theresa.anderson_at_uts.edu.au) Fees ASIS Members $40, non-members $50, before Sept. 22 ASIS Members $50, non-members $65, after Sept. 22 This half day course does not qualify for a $75 discount NOTE: This 1/2 day workshop is being offered in conjunction with the 1/2 da= y SIG-SI symposia: *Interrogating the Social Realities of Information and Communications Systems *on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2006, 8:30am-12:30pm (separate fee) For further information on both events, please go to http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/article.php/special-interest-groups/37 For further information about the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, please go to: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/index.html -- ---------------- Dr. Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson Lecturer Information and Knowledge Management Program Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia telephone: +61 2 9514 2720 email: theresa.anderson_at_uts.edu.au -- Willard Mccarty willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- August 2006 Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:54:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 243 (243) TL INFOBITS August 2006 No. 2 ISSN: Not Yet= Assigned About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL'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. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitaug06.html You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ ...................................................................... Technology Literacy Test Reveals Student Deficiencies Playing Games Sloan Semester Archives Obstacles to Educational Use of Digital Material Papers on Digital Collections Recommended Reading Infobits RSS Feed ...................................................................... TECHNOLOGY LITERACY TEST REVEALS STUDENT DEFICIENCIES Educational Testing Service's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Assessment "uses scenario-based tasks to measure both cognitive and technical skills . . . and assesses individual student proficiency." Institutions that were early adopters of the test are finding that it reveals student deficiencies in critical areas. "Of 10,000 high school and college students asked to evaluate a set of Web sites last fall, nearly half could not correctly judge which was the most objective, reliable and timely, according to preliminary results of a digital-literacy assessment." ["Students Don't Know Much Beyond Google," by Leila Fadel; STAR-TELEGRAM, July 27, 2006; http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/15134538.htm] While college students may be competent Google searchers, many lack skills for evaluating online resources and are unaware of other digital resources, such as library databases, that could provide more reliable content. The test's results indicate the need for more formal training for students at all levels to acquire the skills they need to critically evaluate online resources. For more information on the ICT, go to http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.435c0b5cc7bd0ae7015d9510c3921509= From: ELPUB 2007 Subject: ELPUB 2007: First Call for Papers Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:53:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 244 (244) *** Apologies for cross-postings *** First Call for Papers 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 13 to 15 June 2007, Vienna (Austria) http://www.elpub.net Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access "Openness" is a broad philosophical as well as technical tenet that underlies much of the innovation in the creation and consumption of Internet technologies, which are in turn transforming scholarly communications, practices and publishing across the disciplines and around the world. ELPUB 2007 is devoted to examining the full spectrum of "openness" in digital publishing, from open source applications for content creation to open distribution of content, and open standards to facilitate sharing and open access. We welcome papers with theoretical analysis, description of models and services, or new and innovative technical results on: * Publishing models, tools, services and roles * Digital publication value chain * Multilingual and multimodal interfaces * Services and technology for specific user communities, media, and content * Interoperability and scalability * Middleware infrastructure to facilitate awareness and discovery * Personalisation technologies ((e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS, microformats) * Metadata creation, usage and interoperability * Semantic web issues * Security, privacy and copyright issues * Digital reservation, contents authentication * Recommendations, guidelines, standards AUTHOR GUIDELINES: Contributions are invited for the following categories: - Single papers (abstract minimum of 1,000 and maximum of 1500 words) - Tutorial (abstract minimum of 500 and maximum of 1500 words) - Workshop (abstract max of 1000 words) - Poster (abstract max of 500 words) - Demonstration (abstract max of 500 words) Abstracts must be submitted following the instructions on the conference website <http://www.elpub.net>. Important dates: January 10th 2007: Deadline for submission of abstracts (in all categories): February 28, 2007: Authors will be notified of the acceptance of submitted papers and workshop proposal. April 11th, 2007: Final papers must be received . See website for detailed author instructions. Posters (A1-format) and demonstration materials should be brought by their authors at the conference time. Only abstracts of these contributions will be published in the conference proceedings. Information on requirements for Workshops and tutorials proposals will be posted shortly on the website. Accepted full paper will be published in the conference proceedings. Electronic version of the contributions will also be archived at: http://elpub.scix.net <http://elpub.scix.net/ ABOUT ELPUB The ELPUB 2007 conference will keep the tradition of the ten previous international conferences on electronic publishing, held in the United Kingdom (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999), Russia (2000), the Czech Republic (2002), Portugal (2003), Brazil (2004), Belgium (2005) and Bulgaria (2006), which is to bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians, developers, businessmen, entrepreneurs, managers, users and all those interested on issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts. These include the human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses. Three distinguished features of this conference are: broad scope of topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active exchange and learning about various aspects of electronic publishing; combination of general and technical issues; and a condensed procedure of submission, revision and publication of proceedings which guarantees presentations of most recent work. Conference Location: Vienna, the capital of Austria, is one of Europe's most fascinating cities with a rich history and various cultural attractions and reasonable living costs. The campus of Vienna University of Technology is located near the historic downtown of Vienna. Conference Host: Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria General Chair: Bob Martens , Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Programme Chair: Leslie Chan , University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto, Canada From: Michael Hancher Subject: call for papers, SHARP 2007 Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:58:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 245 (245) CALL FOR PAPERS SHARP 2007 Conference: Open the Book, Open the Mind The fifteenth annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) will be held in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota on July 11-15, 2007. SHARP is the leading international association for historians of print culture, enlisting more than 1,200 scholars world-wide; its members study "the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print, including newspapers, periodicals, and ephemera," as well as the history of books. Recent SHARP conferences have paid special attention to the nature of electronic text. The forthcoming conference is organized in cooperation with the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota; University of Minnesota Libraries; Minneapolis Public Library; Minnesota Historical Society, and Minnesota Center for Book Arts -- a part of Open Book. The conference theme, "Open the Book, Open the Mind," will highlight how books develop and extend minds and cultures, and also how they are opened to new media and new purposes. However, individual papers or sessions may address any aspect of book history and print or manuscript cultures -- past, present, and future. The conference organizers invite proposals for individual presentations, and also for complete panels of three presentations on a unifying topic. As is the SHARP custom, each session of 90 minutes will feature three papers of up to 20 minutes, providing time for substantive discussion with members of the audience. Proposals should be submitted via the online conference website by November 30, 2006: please go to http://purl.oclc.org/NET/SHARP2007proposals and follow the directions provided there. Each individual proposal should contain a title, an abstract of no more than 300 words, and brief biographical information about the author or co-authors. Session proposals should explain the theme and goals, as well as include the three individual abstracts. Each year SHARP provides funding support for a few partial travel grants for advanced graduate students and for independent scholars. If you would like to apply for such support please do so online, as you submit your proposal. In keeping with the theme of the conference, a "pre-conference" of practical workshops and a plenary session devoted to book arts and artists' books will be held at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts at Open Book, near the University of Minnesota campus, on Tuesday, July 10, 2007. Details about that pre-conference and about the main conference program, registration, and housing arrangements will be made available early in 2007 at the general conference web site, http://www.cce.umn.edu/conferences/sharp. Much information about SHARP 2007 and its location, including hotel-reservation information, is already available there. -- Michael Hancher Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota 207 Lind Hall, 207 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 From: Simon Tanner Subject: Archiving 2007 Call for Papers Announced Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:59:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 246 (246) [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Electronic Records Research Fellows Symposium Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:03:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 247 (247) [Submitted by Helen R. Tibbo, tibbo_at_ils.unc.edu] I am pleased to announce that Professor Seamus Ross will be the keynote speaker at the 2006 NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellows Symposium, Friday, October 6, 2006 in Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill. This promises to be a great beginning to a wonderful day. Following Professor Ross, the 2005 Fellows will present the findings from their research projects and the 2006 Fellows will give us a glimpse into what they will be doing during the upcoming year. Dr. Paul Conway will provide a critique of the projects. This event is free and open to the public but we encourage you to register to facilitate our planning for the event at: http://sils.unc.edu/news/nhprc/ Please visit our website for more information: http://www.ils.unc.edu/nhprcfellows/. Title: Uncertainty, Risk, Trust, and Digital Persistency Author: Seamus Ross, Director HATII University of Glasgow and Associate Director of the UK's Digital Curation Centre Digital preservation and curation is, in part, about the management of uncertainty and the engendering of trust. Management of uncertainty underpins mechanisms for ensuring the authenticity, integrity, and provenance of digital materials. The conversion of uncertainties into measurable and manageable risks involves an appreciation of the preservation pressure points and the methods, technologies, and processes that can be employed to ameliorate them. To manage risks associated with the fragility of digital objects auditable processes, workflows, and methods need to be supported by guidelines, metadata, a richer understanding of the nature of digital objects, and tools. Current research in digital preservation and curation is making strides towards better defining risks and ways of avoiding and managing them. The discussion of approaches to measuring uncertainty and managing risk in digital curation is set against the backdrop of the work of key European projects in the area of digital preservation and curation. These include the work of The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in the UK, DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), CASPAR (Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval), PLANETS (Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services), Digital Preservation Cluster of the DELOS Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries (DELOS-DPC), and ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network). All these projects are contributing to the global effort to address the challenges which make long term accessibility of digital materials an uncertain activity and risks difficult to assess and manage. Seamus Ross, Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation, and Director of Humanities Computing and Information Management at the University of Glasgow, runs HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) (http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk) of which he is the founding director. He is an Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre in the UK (http://www.dcc.ac.uk), a co-principal investigator in the DELOS Digital Libraries Network of Excellence (http://www.dpc.delos.ac.uk), and Principal Director of DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) (http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu). He was Principal Director of ERPANET a European Commission activity to enhance the preservation of cultural heritage and scientific digital objects (http://www.erpanet.org), and a key player in The Digital Culture Forum (DigiCULT Forum) which worked to improve the take-up of cutting edge research and technology by the cultural heritage sector (http://www.digicult.info). Before joining the University of Glasgow he was Head of ICT at the British Academy and a technologist at a company specialising in knowledge engineering. He earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Some of his publications are available at http://eprints.erpanet.org During 2005/6 Seamus Ross is Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) and Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College (Oxford). -Helen Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Professor School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 tibbo_at_ils.unc.edu Tel: 919.962.8063 Fax: 919.962.8071 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: Poiesis & Praxis 4.3 Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:56:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 248 (248) Volume 4 Number 3 of Poiesis & Praxis: International Journal of Technology Assessment and Ethics of Science is now available on the www.springerlink.com web site at http://www.springerlink.com. Original Paper Sustainable Computing p. 163 Dennis Mocigemba DOI: 10.1007/s10202-005-0018-8 Original Paper The body in medical imaging between reality and construction p. 185 Britta Schinzel DOI: 10.1007/s10202-006-0025-4 Original Paper Towards the desired future of the elderly and ICT: policy recommendations based on a dialogue with senior citizens p. 199 Steven Eggermont, Heidi Vandebosch, Stef Steyaert DOI: 10.1007/s10202-005-0017-9 Original Paper Discourse ethics in TA procedures: a game theory model p. 219 Henrik Pontzen DOI: 10.1007/s10202-006-0024-5 Book Review Galert T.: Vom Schmerz der Tiere–Grundlagenprobleme der Erforschung tierischen Bewußtseins. Paderborn: Mentis, 2005, 328 pp. (ISBN 3-89785-236-5) EUR 48.00 p. 231 Bernd Gräfrath DOI: 10.1007/s10202-005-0013-0 Book Review Jischa M.: Ingenieurwissenschaften (Engineering Sciences) p. 233 Wolfgang Rathgeber DOI: 10.1007/s10202-005-0006-z Announcement Call for Papers p. 237 DOI: 10.1007/s10202-006-0026-3 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: Humanist 20.176 Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:17:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 249 (249) Dear colleagues, For a reason I cannot at the moment fathom, Humanist 20.176 is incomplete. I've sent it through again but with the same result. Circumstances here prevent me from investigating further, but I will do so as soon as I can. Apologies once again on behalf of the software. 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: Maurizio Lana Subject: paper from ALLC-ACH goteborg 2004 proceedings Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:52:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 250 (250) Dear humanists, I am searching for the Proceedings of ALLC-ACH conference of Goteborg 2004, and specifically for these papers: 1) Juola, P. Ad-hoc Authorship Attribution Competition. In: Proceedings 2004 Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ALLC/ACH 2004), Go¨teborg, Sweden. 2) Koppel, M. and Schler, J. (2004). Ad-hoc Authorship Attribution Competition Approach Outline. In Juola, P. (ed.), Ad-hoc Authorship Attribution Contest, ACH/ALLC. Does anyone know if they are available through an online service like Ingenta, or the site of the publisher (which I am not able to recognise)? with many thanks for your help maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Universitŕ del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: Maria Esteva Subject: Processing Spanish electronic texts Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:00:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 251 (251) Hi, For my dissertation I will mine a corpus of corporate electronic texts. The corpus contains some texts in English and Portuguese and I need to focus on the Spanish section. I am wondering if anybody knows where can I find some or all of the next tools to process the texts: Language identification software (to sort texts based on language) Spanish stemmer Spanish tokenizer Spanish stop words list Thanks, Maria Esteva Doctoral Candidate School of Information University of Texas at Austin From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media, 9/15-9/17 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:51:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 252 (252) BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. September 15-17, 2006. More information, including a complete schedule at: http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc//bios_flyer BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media is an interdisciplinary symposium gathering artists and scholars to WVU for an exploration of the re-invention of life in digital media. The program combines talks and creative work / performances along broad and inclusive lines. Hosted by the Center for Literary Computing and the Division of Art at West Virginia University. Part of the E-Poetry Symposia and Festivals. Co-organized with the Electronic Poetry Center and Digital Media Studies Program (SUNY-Buffalo). Support from the WVU Department of English, the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Art. All events are free and open to the public. From: Miki Hermann Subject: LPAR 2006 (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), Call for Participation Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:52:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 253 (253) LPAR-13 Phnom Penh, Cambodia http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~hermann/LPAR2006/ 13th-17th November 2006 Call for Participation The 13th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR-13) will be held 13th-17th November 2006, at the Hotel Cambodiana, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Registration is open now for both regular participants and accopanying persons. Please, find the registration on the web page http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~hermann/LPAR2006/registration.html Do not forget to reserve your hotel room. The hotel reservation form can be found at http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~hermann/LPAR2006/hotel.html Local Information (a new window pops up) can be found at http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~hermann/LPAR2006/localinfo/ The most important part of it are the Visa Regulations which can be found at http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~hermann/LPAR2006/localinfo/visa.html All these pages are, of course, accessible from LPAR 2006 main page. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cambodia ... Land of LPAR and Pagodas -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lynda Williams Subject: Apologies on behalf of the software Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:53:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 254 (254) "Apologies on behalf of the software." I love it! It should be on a button. (Like the attached image ... ) [Actually not attached, due to limitations in the software for Humanist. --WM] The software damn well ought to be chagrined about the amount of trouble it causes people these days. (And I say that as a professional techie with a masters in computer science as well as a wannabe humanist starting an MA in English. :-) --------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING 2006 Guide to the Okal Rel Universe - Fandom Press From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Text, Speech and Dialogue (LNCS 4188) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:00:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 255 (255) Volume 4188/2006 (Text, Speech and Dialogue) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the www.springerlink.com web site at http://www.springerlink.com. Learning by Reading: An Experiment in Text Analysis p. 3 Eduard Hovy DOI: 10.1007/11846406_1 Depth of Feelings: Alternatives for Modeling Affect in User Models p. 13 Eva Hudlicka DOI: 10.1007/11846406_2 The Lexico-Semantic Annotation of PDT: Some Results, Problems and Solutions p. 21 Eduard Bejcek, Petra Möllerová, Pavel Stranák DOI: 10.1007/11846406_3 Czech Verbs of Communication and the Extraction of Their Frames p. 29 Václava Beneová, Ondrej Bojar DOI: 10.1007/11846406_4 Featuring of Sex-Dependent Nouns in Databases Oriented to European Languages p. 37 Igor A. Bolshakov, Sofia N. Galicia-Haro DOI: 10.1007/11846406_5 On the Behavior of SVM and Some Older Algorithms in Binary Text Classification Tasks p. 45 Fabrice Colas, Pavel Brazdil DOI: 10.1007/11846406_6 A Knowledge Based Strategy for Recognising Textual Entailment p. 53 Óscar Ferrández, Rafael M. Terol, Rafael Muńoz, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Manuel Palomar DOI: 10.1007/11846406_7 Paragraph-Level Alignment of an English-Spanish Parallel Corpus of Fiction Texts Using Bilingual Dictionaries p. 61 Alexander Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, José Ángel Vera-Félix DOI: 10.1007/11846406_8 Some Methods of Describing Discontinuity in Polish and Their Cost-Effectiveness p. 69 Filip Gralinski DOI: 10.1007/11846406_9 Exploitation of the VerbaLex Verb Valency Lexicon in the Syntactic Analysis of Czech p. 79 Dana Hlavácková, Ale Horák, Vladimír Kadlec DOI: 10.1007/11846406_10 Hungarian-English Machine Translation Using GenPar p. 87 András Hócza, András Kocsor DOI: 10.1007/11846406_11 Combining Czech Dependency Parsers p. 95 Tomá Holan, Zdenek Žabokrtský DOI: 10.1007/11846406_12 Processing Korean Numeral Classifier Constructions in a Typed Feature Structure Grammar p. 103 Jong-Bok Kim, Jaehyung Yang DOI: 10.1007/11846406_13 Parsing Head Internal and External Relative Clause Constructions in Korean p. 111 Jong-Bok Kim DOI: 10.1007/11846406_14 A Hybrid Model for Extracting Transliteration Equivalents from Parallel Corpora p. 119 Jong-Hoon Oh, Key-Sun Choi, Hitoshi Isahara DOI: 10.1007/11846406_15 Sentence Compression Using Statistical Information About Dependency Path Length p. 127 Kiwamu Yamagata, Satoshi Fukutomi, Kazuyuki Takagi, Kazuhiko Ozeki DOI: 10.1007/11846406_16 Transformation-Based Tectogrammatical Analysis of Czech p. 135 Václav Klime DOI: 10.1007/11846406_17 The Effect of Semantic Knowledge Expansion to Textual Entailment Recognition p. 143 Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vázquez, Andrés Montoyo DOI: 10.1007/11846406_18 Segmentation of Complex Sentences p. 151 Vladislav Kubon, Markéta Lopatková, Martin Plátek, Patrice Pognan DOI: 10.1007/11846406_19 Enhanced Centroid-Based Classification Technique by Filtering Outliers p. 159 Kwangcheol Shin, Ajith Abraham, SangYong Han DOI: 10.1007/11846406_20 Multilingual News Document Clustering: Two Algorithms Based on Cognate Named Entities p. 165 Soto Montalvo, Raquel Martínez, Arantza Casillas, Víctor Fresno DOI: 10.1007/11846406_21 A Study of the Influence of PoS Tagging on WSD p. 173 Lorenza Moreno-Monteagudo, Rubén Izquierdo-Beviá, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Armando Suárez DOI: 10.1007/11846406_22 Annotation of Temporal Relations Within a Discourse p. 181 Petr Nemec DOI: 10.1007/11846406_23 Applying RST Relations to Semantic Search p. 189 Nguyen Thanh Tri, Akira Shimazu, Le Cuong Anh, Nguyen Minh Le DOI: 10.1007/11846406_24 Data-Driven Part-of-Speech Tagging of Kiswahili p. 197 Guy De Pauw, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Peter W. Wagacha DOI: 10.1007/11846406_25 Hand-Written and Automatically Extracted Rules for Polish Tagger p. 205 Maciej Piasecki DOI: 10.1007/11846406_26 Effective Architecture of the Polish Tagger p. 213 Maciej Piasecki, Grzegorz Godlewski DOI: 10.1007/11846406_27 Synthesis of Czech Sentences from Tectogrammatical Trees p. 221 Jan Ptácek, Zdenek Žabokrtský DOI: 10.1007/11846406_28 ASeMatch: A Semantic Matching Method p. 229 Sandra Roger, Augustina Buccella, Alejandra Cechich, Manuel Sanz Palomar DOI: 10.1007/11846406_29 Extensive Study on Automatic Verb Sense Disambiguation in Czech p. 237 Jirí Semecký, Petr Podveský DOI: 10.1007/11846406_30 Semantic Representation of Events: Building a Semantic Primes Component p. 245 Milena Slavcheva DOI: 10.1007/11846406_31 Cascaded Grammatical Relation-Driven Parsing Using Support Vector Machines p. 253 Songwook Lee DOI: 10.1007/11846406_32 Building Korean Classifier Ontology Based on Korean WordNet p. 261 Soonhee Hwang, Youngim Jung, Aesun Yoon, Hyuk-Chul Kwon DOI: 10.1007/11846406_33 Exploiting the Translation Context for Multilingual WSD p. 269 Lucia Specia, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes DOI: 10.1007/11846406_34 Post-annotation Checking of Prague Dependency Treebank 2.0 Data p. 277 Jan Štepánek DOI: 10.1007/11846406_35 Language Modelling with Dynamic Syntax p. 285 David Tugwell DOI: 10.1007/11846406_36 Using Word Sequences for Text Summarization p. 293 Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Luis Villaseńor-Pineda, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez DOI: 10.1007/11846406_37 Exploration of Coreference Resolution: The ACE Entity Detection and Recognition Task p. 301 Ying Chen, Kadri Hacioglu DOI: 10.1007/11846406_38 Parsing with Oracle p. 309 Michal Žemlicka DOI: 10.1007/11846406_39 Evaluating Language Models Within a Predictive Framework: An Analysis of Ranking Distributions p. 319 Pierre Alain, Olivier Boëffard, Nelly Barbot DOI: 10.1007/11846406_40 Another Look at the Data Sparsity Problem p. 327 Ben Allison, David Guthrie, Louise Guthrie DOI: 10.1007/11846406_41 Syllable-Based Recognition Unit to Reduce Error Rate for Korean Phones, Syllables and Characters p. 335 Bong-Wan Kim, Yongnam Um, Yong-Ju Lee DOI: 10.1007/11846406_42 Recognizing Connected Digit Strings Using Neural Networks p. 343 Lukasz Brocki, Danijel Koržinek, Krzysztof Marasek DOI: 10.1007/11846406_43 Indexing and Search Methods for Spoken Documents p. 351 Luká Burget, Jan Cernocký, Michal Fapo, Martin Karafiát, Pavel Matejka, Petr Schwarz, Pavel Smrž, Igor Szöke DOI: 10.1007/11846406_44 Analysis of HMM Temporal Evolution for Automatic Speech Recognition and Verification p. 359 Marta Casar, José A. R. Fonollosa DOI: 10.1007/11846406_45 Corpus-Based Unit Selection TTS for Hungarian p. 367 Márk Fék, Péter Pesti, Géza Németh, Csaba Zainkó, Gábor Olaszy DOI: 10.1007/11846406_46 Automated Mark Up of Affective Information in English Texts p. 375 Virginia Francisco, Pablo Gervás DOI: 10.1007/11846406_47 First Steps Towards New Czech Voice Conversion System p. 383 Zdenek Hanzlícek, Jindrich Matouek DOI: 10.1007/11846406_48 Are Morphosyntactic Taggers Suitable to Improve Automatic Transcription? p. 391 Stéphane Huet, Guillaume Gravier, Pascale Sébillot DOI: 10.1007/11846406_49 Fast Speaker Adaptation Using Multi-stream Based Eigenvoice in Noisy Environments p. 399 Hwa Jeon Song, Hyung Soon Kim DOI: 10.1007/11846406_50 Phonetic Question Generation Using Misrecognition p. 407 Supphanat Kanokphara, Julie Carson-Berndsen DOI: 10.1007/11846406_51 Speech Driven Facial Animation Using HMMs in Basque p. 415 Maider Lehr, Andoni Arruti, Amalia Ortiz, David Oyarzun, Michael Obach DOI: 10.1007/11846406_52 Comparing B-Spline and Spline Models for F0 Modelling p. 423 Damien Lolive, Nelly Barbot, Olivier Boëffard DOI: 10.1007/11846406_53 Environmental Adaptation with a Small Data Set of the Target Domain p. 431 Andreas Maier, Tino Haderlein, Elmar Nöth DOI: 10.1007/11846406_54 Current State of Czech Text-to-Speech System ARTIC p. 439 Jindrich Matouek, Daniel Tihelka, Jan Romportl DOI: 10.1007/11846406_55 Automatic Korean Phoneme Generation Via Input-Text Preprocessing and Disambiguation p. 447 Mi-young Kang, Sung-won Jung, Hyuk-chul Kwon, Aesun Yoon DOI: 10.1007/11846406_56 Robust Speech Detection Based on Phoneme Recognition Features p. 455 France Mihelic, Janez Žibert DOI: 10.1007/11846406_57 Composite Decision by Bayesian Inference in Distant-Talking Speech Recognition p. 463 Mikyong Ji, Sungtak Kim, Hoirin Kim DOI: 10.1007/11846406_58 Speech Coding Based on Spectral Dynamics p. 471 Petr Motlícek, Hynek Hermansky, Harinath Garudadri, Naveen Srinivasamurthy DOI: 10.1007/11846406_59 Detecting Broad Phonemic Class Boundaries from Greek Speech in Noise Environments p. 479 Iosif Mporas, Panagiotis Zervas, Nikos Fakotakis DOI: 10.1007/11846406_60 A System for Information Retrieval from Large Records of Czech Spoken Data p. 485 Jan Nouza, Jindrich Ždánský, Petr Cerva, Jan Kolorenc DOI: 10.1007/11846406_61 A Structure of Expert System for Speaker Verification p. 493 Ale Padrta, Jan Vanek DOI: 10.1007/11846406_62 Automatic Online Subtitling of the Czech Parliament Meetings p. 501 Ale Pražák, J. V. Psutka, Jan Hoidekr, Jakub Kanis, Ludek Müller, Josef Psutka DOI: 10.1007/11846406_63 Character Identity Expression in Vocal Performance of Traditional Puppeteers p. 509 Milan Rusko, Juraj Hamar DOI: 10.1007/11846406_64 A Dissonant Frequency Filtering for Enhanced Clarity of Husky Voice Signals p. 517 Sangki Kang, Yongserk Kim DOI: 10.1007/11846406_65 Post-processing of Automatic Segmentation of Speech Using Dynamic Programming p. 523 Marcin Szymanski, Stefan Grocholewski DOI: 10.1007/11846406_66 Diphones vs. Triphones in Czech Unit Selection TTS p. 531 Daniel Tihelka, Jindrich Matouek DOI: 10.1007/11846406_67 Silence/Speech Detection Method Based on Set of Decision Graphs p. 539 Jan Trmal, Jan Zelinka, Jan Vanek, Ludek Müller DOI: 10.1007/11846406_68 Prosodic Cues for Automatic Phrase Boundary Detection in ASR p. 547 Klára Vicsi, György Szaszák DOI: 10.1007/11846406_69 Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Language Modeling p. 555 Pascal Wiggers, Leon J. M. Rothkrantz DOI: 10.1007/11846406_70 Feature Subset Selection Based on Evolutionary Algorithms for Automatic Emotion Recognition in Spoken Spanish and Standard Basque Language p. 565 Aitor Álvarez, Idoia Cearreta, Juan Miguel López, Andoni Arruti, Elena Lazkano, Basilio Sierra, Nestor Garay DOI: 10.1007/11846406_71 Two-Dimensional Visual Language Grammar p. 573 Siska Fitrianie, Leon J. M. Rothkrantz DOI: 10.1007/11846406_72 Are You Looking at Me, Are You Talking with Me: Multimodal Classification of the Focus of Attention p. 581 Christian Hacker, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth DOI: 10.1007/11846406_73 Visualization of Voice Disorders Using the Sammon Transform p. 589 Tino Haderlein, Dominik Zorn, Stefan Steidl, Elmar Nöth, Makoto Shozakai, Maria Schuster DOI: 10.1007/11846406_74 Task Switching in Audio Based Systems p. 597 Melanie Hartmann, Dirk Schnelle DOI: 10.1007/11846406_75 Use of Negative Examples in Training the HVS Semantic Model p. 605 Filip Jurcícek, Jan Švec, Jirí Zahradil, Libor Jelínek DOI: 10.1007/11846406_76 Czech-Sign Speech Corpus for Semantic Based Machine Translation p. 613 Jakub Kanis, Jirí Zahradil, Filip Jurcícek, Ludek Müller DOI: 10.1007/11846406_77 Processing of Requests in Estonian Institutional Dialogues: Corpus Analysis p. 621 Mare Koit, Maret Valdisoo, Olga Gerassimenko, Tiit Hennoste, Riina Kasterpalu, Andriela Rääbis, Krista Strandson DOI: 10.1007/11846406_78 Using Prosody for Automatic Sentence Segmentation of Multi-party Meetings p. 629 Jáchym Kolár, Elizabeth Shriberg, Yang Liu DOI: 10.1007/11846406_79 Simple Method of Determining the Voice Similarity and Stability by Analyzing a Set of Very Short Sounds p. 637 Konrad Lukaszewicz, Matti Karjalainen DOI: 10.1007/11846406_80 Visualization of Prosodic Knowledge Using Corpus Driven MEMOInt Intonation Modelling p. 645 David Escudero-Mancebo, Valentín Cardeńoso-Payo DOI: 10.1007/11846406_81 Automatic Annotation of Dialogues Using n-Grams p. 653 Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos DOI: 10.1007/11846406_82 PPChecker: Plagiarism Pattern Checker in Document Copy Detection p. 661 NamOh Kang, Alexander Gelbukh, SangYong Han DOI: 10.1007/11846406_83 Segmental Duration Modelling in Turkish p. 669 Özlem Öztürk, Tolga Çiloglu DOI: 10.1007/11846406_84 A Pattern-Based Methodology for Multimodal Interaction Design p. 677 Andreas Ratzka, Christian Wolff DOI: 10.1007/11846406_85 A Pattern Learning Approach to Question Answering Within the Ephyra Framework p. 687 Nico Schlaefer, Petra Gieselmann, Thomas Schaaf, Alex Waibel DOI: 10.1007/11846406_86 Explicative Document Reading Controlled by Non-speech Audio Gestures p. 695 Adam J. Sporka, Pavel Žikovský, Pavel Slavík DOI: 10.1007/11846406_87 Hybrid Neural Network Design and Implementation on FPGA for Infant Cry Recognition p. 703 Israel Suaste-Rivas, Alejandro Díaz-Méndez, Carlos A. Reyes-García, Orion F. Reyes-Galaviz DOI: 10.1007/11846406_88 Speech and Sound Use in a Remote Monitoring System for Health Care p. 711 Michel Vacher, Jean-François Serignat, Stéphane Chaillol, Dan Istrate, Vladimir Popescu DOI: 10.1007/11846406_89 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: addresses? Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:58:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 256 (256) [submitted by Yuri Tambovtsev, yutamb_at_mail.ru] Dear colleagues in the field of computers and linguistics, may I ask you to send me the email addresses of those who work on computing the frequencies of occurrence of sounds in the world languages? Actually, I took up the Arikara language of the Caddoan family. I wonder if Oneida also is included in this family? Arikara is the 29th AmerIndian language I have computed to study the sound chain similarities. I wonder who can consult me on the phonemic inventary of Arikara, Caddo, Kitsai, Pawnee and Wichita. I have been trying to reach David S. Rood or Douglas R. Parks for the latest five years but they never answered so I guess they are both dead. I have computed about 200 world languages but many more seem to rermain untouched. Looking forward to hearing from you to mail email address: yutamb_at_mail.ru soon Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia. 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: TSD 2006 Subject: TSD 2006 Last Call for Participation Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:01:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 257 (257) ********************************************************* TSD 2006 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************************************* Ninth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2006) Brno, Czech Republic, 11-15 September 2006 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. VENUE: Hotel Continental, Brno, Czech Republic IMPORTANT DATES September 11-15 2006 ..... Conference date TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series (as Volume 4188 this year). TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging transcription problems in spoken corpora sense disambiguation links between text and speech oriented systems parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems information retrieval and information extraction text/topic summarization machine translation semantic networks and ontologies semantic web speech modeling speech segmentation speech recognition search in speech for IR and IE text-to-speech synthesis dialogue systems development of dialogue strategies prosody in dialogues emotions and personality modeling user modeling knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue applied systems and software facial animation visual speech synthesis Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [...] From: "Spence, E.H. (Edward, GW)" Subject: Two PhD positions in New Media at Twente Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:54:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 258 (258) The Department of Philosophy of the University of Twente in the Netherlands is looking for Two Ph.D. Students (M/F, fulltime) for the international research project: Evaluating the Cultural Quality of New Media: Towards a Philosophy of Human-Media Relations. Women are strongly encouraged to apply. The two PhD positions are part of a prestigious and exciting international research project in philosophy named Evaluating the Cultural Quality of New Media. This five-year project, which will include five researchers and will involve collaboration with leading international scholars and research centres, has as its aim to develop a framework for better normative analyses of new media and new media culture, especially in relation to their contribution to the quality of life (the good life) and the quality of society. Project leader is Dr. Philip Brey. Two postdocs have already been appointed to the project: dr. A. Briggle, PhD (USA) and dr. E. Spence, PhD (Australia). The project will be part of a new international Centre of Excellence in Ethics and Technology of the departments of philosophy of Twente University, Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology. Applications are accepted for three different projects: Ph.D Project 1 - The Quality of Virtual Environments and Tools This subproject aims to perform a philosophical analysis of the implications of the ever increasing virtualization for the quality of life and of society. Virtualization is defined as the digital production of interactive structures, whether graphical or symbolic, that mirror things and events in the physical world. What are the implications of this process for moral and social identity, embodiment, and conceptions of reality, and how can these implications be normatively evaluated? Ph.D. Project 2 The Quality of Computer-Mediatedd Social Relations This subproject focuses on computer-mediated social relations and practices in friendships, love relationships, and community life. Increasingly, the social world is held together by electronic networks. More and more, communication, social relationships, and community formation take place over such networks. The aim of the project is to perform a philosophical analysis of the implications of this trend for the quality of life and of society. Ph.D. Project 3 Societal Appraisalls of the Cultural Quality of New Media This subproject will perform a study of appraisals of new media that are made by representatives of major ideologies or worldviews, with the aim of assessing how they relate to conceptions of the good life and the good society held by these ideologies. It will study liberal, communitarian, conservative, religious and postmaterialist evaluations of new media, and will try to assess which ideologies see themselves as winners and losers in the development of a new media culture. It will also provide critiques of current ideological stances on new media. Only the two best candidates out of all applicants will be offered a position. Selection will only be based on the quality of the candidate, and not on his or her preference for a particular project, except that the two PhD appointments will be for different projects. You may apply for more than one project if you wish. Profile For all three projects: a Master's degree or equivalent degree in philosophy, with strength in ethics and/or political philosophy. Consideration will also be given to candidates with a multidisciplinary Master's degree on a topic relevant to the project and some background in philosophy, and to exceptional candidates with only a bachelor's degree in philosophy. Demonstrable interest in philosophical issues relating to information technology and new media. Good analytical skills. Good communication skills in English, in writing as well as orally. Creativity, open-mindedness, and an ability to develop new ideas. Offer A four-year full-time Ph.D. position starting November 1, 2006. The gross salary is Euro 1.933,- in the first year goinng up to Euro 2.472,- in the fourth year (Euro 25.552,- an and Euro 32.677,- per annum, respectively, including vacattion pay). Each Ph.D. position comes with a budget of up to Euro 8,000,- for travel and conference attendance. Information and application A description of the overall project, the three subprojects and a FAQ can be retrieved from http://www.ceptes.nl/vici. Applicants are advised to read these texts carefully before applying. For questions not answered on the website you can contact the project leader, dr. Philip Brey (e-mail: p.a.e.brey_at_utwente.nl). Your application should contain the following documents: a letter of application which explains your interest in the position and explains your qualifications (this letter should contain some suggestions on how you would want to approach the project you apply for); a curriculum vitae which includes the name and e-mail address/telephone number of one of your professors, preferably the supervisor of your master's thesis; a copy of your master's thesis; copies of publications, if any; an academic transcript that contains a list of subjects taken and grades received (this may be an unofficial version or scanned copy; we can request the original later). Optionally, you can also include letters of recommendation from your professors. Your application can be sent by e-mail (preferred) or by normal post to dr. ir. J.F.C. Verberne (e-mail: pz-gw_at_gw.utwente.nl), managing director of the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands. Please mention the vacancy number: 06/072-1 (project 1), 06/072-2 (project 2), or 06/072-3 (project 3). Your application should be in by October 2, 2006. Job interviews will be held between October 9 and 13. From: "UCHRI Communications" Subject: UCHRI Calls for Proposals Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:01:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 259 (259) The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) invites proposals for various programs. Application deadlines for the programs below are October 15, 2006, unless otherwise noted. RFPs for other UCHRI programs will be forthcoming. Conferences and Seminars 2007-08: http://uchri.org/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=105 Collaborative Compositions 2007-08: http://uchri.org/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=150 Extramural Explorations 2007-08: http://uchri.org/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=177 UC-U Utrecht Collaborative Grants 2006-07: http://uchri.org/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=170 *Deadline: November 1, 2006 From: "nyhan, julianne" Subject: RE: 20.182 queries: ALLC/ACH paper? processing Spanish texts? Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:57:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 260 (260) Dear maurizio, [deleted quotation]Authorship Attribution Competition Approach Outline. I do not know if the proceedings are available online (they were published by Goteborg University), but I can send you on a photocopy of the papers you are looking for - if that helps? Regards, Julianne Nyhan ----------------------------------- Dr Julianne Nyhan Research associate, CELT project, History Department, University College Cork e-mail:julianne.nyhan_at_ucc.ie phone: 00353 214903142 Web: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/digineen.html Web: http://epu.ucc.ie/lexicon/complex_example Mailing list: https://www.ucc.ie/digiquest/ --------------------------------------------- Dear humanists, I am searching for the Proceedings of ALLC-ACH conference of Goteborg 2004, and specifically for these papers: 1) Juola, P. Ad-hoc Authorship Attribution Competition. In: Proceedings 2004 Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ALLC/ACH 2004), Go=A8teborg, Sweden. 2) Koppel, M. and Schler, J. (2004). Ad-hoc Authorship Attribution Competition Approach Outline. In Juola, P. (ed.), Ad-hoc Authorship Attribution Contest, ACH/ALLC. Does anyone know if they are available through an online service like Ingenta, or the site of the publisher (which I am not able to recognise)? with many thanks for your help maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Universit=E0 del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: Maria Esteva Subject: Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:00:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 261 (261) Hi, For my dissertation I will mine a corpus of corporate electronic texts. The corpus contains some texts in English and Portuguese and I need to focus on the Spanish section. I am wondering if anybody knows where can I find some or all of the next tools to process the texts: Language identification software (to sort texts based on language) Spanish stemmer Spanish tokenizer Spanish stop words list Thanks, Maria Esteva Doctoral Candidate School of Information University of Texas at Austin From: "Judith Siefring" Subject: Job vacancy: EEBO/ECCO-TCP, Oxford Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:56:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 262 (262) OXFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SERVICES OXFORD DIGITAL LIBRARY TEXT ENCODING REVIEWER GBP 24,886 - GBP 30,607 Full-Time Fixed-Term One Year (Maternity Cover) The Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Text Creation Partnerships are seeking a Text Encoding Reviewer to carry out quality assurance of electronic texts created from digital image files of early printed books. The applicant must be educated to degree level, be IT literate, have excellent proofreading skills, a demonstrable interest in the literature and history of the period 1473-1800, and an awareness of the issues involved in the markup of electronic texts. Some knowledge of XML and experience of XML editing software is desirable. Further details can be found at www.odl.ox.ac.uk/eebo/recruitment Further particulars and an application form are available at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ or from the OULS Personnel Section, Clarendon Building, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford; tel. 01865 277171; email personnel_at_ouls.ox.ac.uk. Closing date Friday 22nd September 2006. Please quote our reference: BL6064 From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Subject: Re: 20.182 queries: ALLC/ACH paper? processing Spanish texts? Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:42:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 263 (263) [deleted quotation]Short abstracts are available via the conference's web page: http://www.hum.gu.se/allcach2004/AP/ The full text proceedings are not available=20 online any more, but I can send you the printed=20 conference proceedings if you send me your postal=20 address. Plaese send it to my address, not to the list. -- Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Centre for Humanities Computing phone: +46 31 773 4553 G=F6teborg University fax: +46 31 773 4455 Sweden From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Digital Dialogues Series at MITH Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:31:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 264 (264) All of MITH's Digital Dialogues are free and open to the public. We'd love to see colleagues from around the area, or anyone in town who is just passing through. Matt -- Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Digital Dialogues and Speakers Schedule Fall 2006 Tuesdays @12:30 in MITH's Conference Room (B0135 McKeldin Library, University of Maryland). 9.5 Kimberly Staking and Nikki Stewart (Department of Women's Studies), "Visualizing Women's Studies: Facilitating Visual Learning in the Feminist Classroom." 9.12 Roundtable discussion of the September 11 Digital Archive (a contribution to the September Project). 9.19 David Kirsch (Robert H. Smith School of Business), "'The Business of America': Preservation of Born Digital Business Records from the Dot Com Era." 9.26 Kevin Bertram (CEO, Distributive Networks), "You Can Take It with You: The Nascent Role for Mobile in the Digital Humanities." 10.3 Timothy Stinson (Johns Hopkins University), "Everything Old Is New Again: The Re-emergence of Medieval Polyvocality in Digital Manuscript Archives." 10.10 Daniel Pitti (Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia), "Social Software: Why Would I Want to Consult an Encyclopedia that Would Have Me as a Contributor?" 10/17 Susan Schreibman (University Libraries), "Beautiful Untrue Things: The Digital Dilemma." 10.24 Doug Oard (College of Information Studies), "The MALACH Project: Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives." 10.31 Jason Nelson (Griffith University, Australia), "Odd and Wondrous Creatures: Jason Nelson's Traveling Digital Magicke Show." 11.7 Vika Zafrin (Brown University), "The Virtual Humanities Lab and the Evolution of Remote Collaboration." 11.14 Stuart Moulthrop and Nancy Kaplan (School of Information Arts, University of Baltimore), title TBA. 11.21 Brandon Morse (Department of Art), title TBA. 11.28 Doug Reside (MITH), "Byte by Byte, Putting it Together: Electronic Editions of Musical Theatre Texts." 12.5 Jimmy Lin (College of Information Studies), "Applying Automated Content Analysis Techniques to Legal Texts." Contact: Neil Fraistat, Director, MITH (www.mith.umd.edu, mith_at_umd.edu, 301-405-5896). -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- August 2006 Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:54:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 265 (265) TL INFOBITS August 2006 No. 2 ISSN: Not Yet Assigned About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL'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. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitaug06.html You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ ...................................................................... Technology Literacy Test Reveals Student Deficiencies Playing Games Sloan Semester Archives Obstacles to Educational Use of Digital Material Papers on Digital Collections Recommended Reading Infobits RSS Feed ...................................................................... TECHNOLOGY LITERACY TEST REVEALS STUDENT DEFICIENCIES Educational Testing Service's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Assessment "uses scenario-based tasks to measure both cognitive and technical skills . . . and assesses individual student proficiency." Institutions that were early adopters of the test are finding that it reveals student deficiencies in critical areas. "Of 10,000 high school and college students asked to evaluate a set of Web sites last fall, nearly half could not correctly judge which was the most objective, reliable and timely, according to preliminary results of a digital-literacy assessment." ["Students Don't Know Much Beyond Google," by Leila Fadel; STAR-TELEGRAM, July 27, 2006; http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/15134538.htm] While college students may be competent Google searchers, many lack skills for evaluating online resources and are unaware of other digital resources, such as library databases, that could provide more reliable content. The test's results indicate the need for more formal training for students at all levels to acquire the skills they need to critically evaluate online resources. For more information on the ICT, go to http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.435c0b5cc7bd0ae7015d9510c3921509= ...................................................................... PLAYING GAMES Several recently-published articles discuss the role of game playing as tools for education or social engagement. "Simulations, Games, and Learning" By Diana Oblinger EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, May 2006 http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3004.pdf "Today's games are complex, take up to 100 hours, require collaboration with others, and involve developing values, insights, and new knowledge. They are immersive virtual worlds that are augmented by a more complex external environment that involves communities of practice, the buying and selling of game items, blogs, and developer communities. In many ways, games have become complex learning systems." "Digital Game-Based Learning: It's Not Just the Digital Natives Who Are Restless" By Richard Van Eck EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 41, no. 2, March/April 2006, pp. 16=AD30. http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0620.asp According to the author, "The combined weight of three factors has resulted in widespread public interest in games as learning tools." These factors are (1) "ongoing research conducted by DGBL [digital game-based learning] proponents;" (2) "today's 'Net Generation,' or 'digital natives,' who have become disengaged with traditional instruction;" and (3) "the increased popularity of games. . . nearly as many digital games were sold as there are people in the United States (248 million games vs. 293.6 million residents.)" "Scavenger Hunt Enhances Students' Utilization of Blackboard" By Dianne C. Jones JOURNAL OF ONLINE LEARNING AND TEACHING, vol. 2, no. 2, June 2006 http://jolt.merlot.org/Vol2_No2_Jones.htm "The use of the Scavenger Hunt game has made the use of a web-based course management system, like Blackboard, less threatening for students and has significantly reduced the need for additional instructor time to deal with technology-related issues throughout the course." "Where Everybody Knows Your (Screen) Name: Online Games as 'Third Places'" By Constance Steinkuehler and Dmitri Williams JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, vol. 11, issue 4, 2006 http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue4/steinkuehler.html The authors studied how massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) provide a means for establishing informal social relationships beyond the workplace and home. (This issue has other articles related to games and play. Link to other articles at http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue4/.) ...................................................................... SLOAN SEMESTER ARCHIVES The "Sloan Semester" was an initiative by Sloan-C member institutions to provide free online courses to college and university students whose studies were impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. In twenty-one days a "virtual" institution was set up to provide "more than 1,350 courses from over 150 institutions in 38 states available to over 1,750 students, utilizing over 4,000 'seats' in online courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels." The Sloan Semester Archives website includes "includes links to an archived version of the Sloan Semester Catalog, a case study of the project, data about participants and lessons learned." The archives are available at http://www.sloan-c.org/sloansemester/index.asp. 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. For more information go to http://www.aln.org/. ...................................................................... OBSTACLES TO EDUCATIONAL USE OF DIGITAL MATERIAL "The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age" reports on a year-long study, conducted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, to "explore whether innovative educational uses of digital technology were hampered by the restrictions of copyright." Four serious obstacles were identified in the study: -- "Unclear or inadequate copyright law relating to crucial provisions such as fair use and educational use;" -- "Extensive adoption of 'digital rights management' technology to lock up content;" -- "Practical difficulties obtaining rights to use content when licenses are necessary;" and -- "Undue caution by gatekeepers such as publishers or educational administrators." The complete report can be download at no cost at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3D923465. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School is a "research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. For more information, contact Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA; tel: 617-495-7547; fax: 617-495-7641; email: cyber_at_law.harvard.edu; Web: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/. ...................................................................... PAPERS ON DIGITAL COLLECTIONS This month's issue of FIRST MONDAY is devoted to selected papers from "Inspiring Discovery: Unlocking Collections -- WebWise 2006," the seventh annual conference on libraries and museums in the digital world held in February. Of particular interest is "Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google," the conference's keynote address given by Paul N. Courant. The author has placed the paper in the public domain so it can be freely shared with colleagues. This and other conference papers are available at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_8/. First Monday [ISSN 1396-0466] is an online, peer-reviewed journal whose aim is to publish original articles about the Internet and the global information infrastructure. It is published in cooperation with the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information, contact: First Monday, c/o Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor, PO Box 87636, Chicago IL 60680-0636 USA; email: ejv_at_uic.edu; Web: http://firstmonday.dk/. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "Perspective: Teen's Warning on the Gospel of Wikipedia" By Soumya Srinagesh CNET News.com, August 11, 2006 http://news.com.com/2010-1038_3-6104446.html?part=3Drss&tag=3D6104446&subj= =3Dnews "Yes, teachers and parents constantly remind students to think twice before relying on certain online sources, but it's easy for a student in a rush to forget that Wikipedia belongs in the category of unverified information rather than credible information--especially because its format is one of a traditional encyclopedia. Which isn't to say Wikipedia's a bad thing." From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.34 Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:56:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 266 (266) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 34 September 5, 2006 =96 September 11, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: GAGLIANO and IRRGANG Ross Gagliano considers the new book, "The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design." Gagliano is an associate editor of Ubiquity. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v7i34_personna.html> Bernhardt Irrgang meditates on the question whether Computers/Robots can act morally. Professor Irrgang is with the Department of Philosophy of Technology, Institute for Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology, Germany. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i34_irrgang.html>http://www.acm.org/ubi= quity/views/v7i34_irrgang.html For this week's Ubiquity go to <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/>. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 34 (September 5, 2006 September 11, 2006) From: Perry Willett Subject: MBooks Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:00:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 267 (267) [deleted quotation]Kelly E. Cunningham Senior Public Affairs Specialist Office of Media Relations and Public Affairs 1026 Fleming Administration Building 503 Thompson Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Phone: (734) 615-2447 Cell: (734) 945-5832 Fax: (734) 615-2081 kecunham_at_umich.edu From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: Autumn 2006 Online Workshops from the Center for Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:01:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 268 (268) Intellectual Property Greetings from the Center for Intellectual Property at University of Maryland University College. This is a friendly reminder about our annual Intellectual Property in Academia online workshop series. If you have already registered, we will look forward to "seeing" you in class. We ask that you please consider sharing this opportunity with your colleagues and friends. If you have not yet registered, this is a great time to do so and to save by registering before September 22. Thank you. [Please excuse the cross posting] ***** University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property 2006-2007 Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop Series The Autumn 2006 lineup includes two workshops... E-Reserves and Copyright http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#ereserves October 2-October 18, 2006 Moderator: Laura (Lolly) Gasaway, M.L.S., J.D. Professor of Law and Director, Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ***This workshop is being offered again due to the high demand in 2005. SPACE IS FILLING QUICKLY!*** Workshop Goals: * Discuss the purpose and legal basis for e-reserves; * Review various guidelines for e-reserves and classroom use; * Explore some of the elements necessary for developing a policy for e-reserves; * Discuss coursepacks, e-reserves, and course management software; * and more... Early registration--only $125--closes SEPTEMBER 22. Copyright Education Programs: Teaching the Ethical and Legal Use of Information http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#copyright_education November 6-November 17, 2006 Moderators: Carrie Russell, M.L.I.S. Copyright Specialist for the Office for Information Technology Policy of the American Library Association Olga Francois, M.L.I.S. Assistant Director of the Center for Intellectual Property at University of Maryland University College Workshop Goals: * Discuss the purpose and legal basis for copyright education in higher education; * Look at challenges in establishing effective copyright education programs; * Consider some of the technical and logistical aspects of developing a copyright education program; * Review various guidelines for the use of copyrighted materials; * Explore some of the elements and steps necessary for developing copyright policies; * and more... Early registration--only $125--closes OCTOBER 27. Coming Soon in 2007: DRM Technologies http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#drm_tech January 22 - February 2, 2007 Moderators: Kimberly Kelley, M.L.S., Ph.D. and Bill Rosenblatt, M.S. REGISTRATION: Space is limited in each workshop--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 240-582-2965 http://www.umuc.edu/cip From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- August 2006 Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:09:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 269 (269) TL INFOBITS August 2006 No. 2 ISSN: Not Yet= Assigned About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL'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. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitaug06.html You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ ...................................................................... Technology Literacy Test Reveals Student Deficiencies Playing Games Sloan Semester Archives Obstacles to Educational Use of Digital Material Papers on Digital Collections Recommended Reading Infobits RSS Feed ...................................................................... TECHNOLOGY LITERACY TEST REVEALS STUDENT DEFICIENCIES Educational Testing Service's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Assessment "uses scenario-based tasks to measure both cognitive and technical skills . . . and assesses individual student proficiency." Institutions that were early adopters of the test are finding that it reveals student deficiencies in critical areas. "Of 10,000 high school and college students asked to evaluate a set of Web sites last fall, nearly half could not correctly judge which was the most objective, reliable and timely, according to preliminary results of a digital-literacy assessment." ["Students Don't Know Much Beyond Google," by Leila Fadel; STAR-TELEGRAM, July 27, 2006; http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/15134538.htm] While college students may be competent Google searchers, many lack skills for evaluating online resources and are unaware of other digital resources, such as library databases, that could provide more reliable content. The test's results indicate the need for more formal training for students at all levels to acquire the skills they need to critically evaluate online resources. For more information on the ICT, go to http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.435c0b5cc7bd0ae7015d9510c3921509= From: Erik Hatcher Subject: Re: 20.182 queries: ALLC/ACH paper? processing Spanish texts? Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:30:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 270 (270) On Sep 12, 2006, at 2:07 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 271 (271) [deleted quotation]Maria, The Lucene family of projects has all the pieces you're after. Here are the pointers.... [deleted quotation]Nutch has a language identifier plugin. It is not distilled from Nutch yet, but there is an effort to do so. You can find its source code here: <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/nutch/trunk/src/plugin/=20 languageidentifier/> [deleted quotation]All of these are rolled into one here: <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-java-user/=20 200408.mbox/%3C010a01c48950$1d8745d0$1db8e818_at_ernesto%3E> The SnowballAnalyzer stems, and the hardcoded list of stop words are removed. Tokenizing Spanish is fairly trivial and any of the basic Lucene analyzers would do a reasonable job with that, such at the StandardAnalyzer found in the core Lucene API. There is an accent removal filter available in Lucene's core (called ISOLatin1AccentFilter), which will change characters like =F1 into n. Erik From: Duane Gran Subject: Re: 20.188 ALLC/ACH paper Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:31:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 272 (272) Maria, I see your original inquiry below about stemming analysis of spanish. You may be interested in the following: http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/spanish/stemmer.html This algorithm is usable by the Lucene search engine (which includes tokenization): http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/lucene-sandbox/ Duane Gran On Sep 13, 2006, at 2:10 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 273 (273) [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Cognition, Technology & Work 8.3 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:27:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 274 (274) Volume 8 Number 3 of Cognition, Technology & Work is now available on the www.springerlink.com web site at http://www.springerlink.com. Poem Memory load p. 157 Johan F. Hoorn DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0004-x Editorial CTW special issue on human-centred design in automotive systems p. 159 P. C. Cacciabue DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0036-x Original Article Design of human=96machine interactions in light of domain-dependence of human-centered automation p. 161 T. Inagaki DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0034-z Original Article A function-centred approach to joint driver-vehicle system design p. 169 Erik Hollnagel DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0032-1 Original Article Some critical issues when studying behavioural adaptations to new driver support systems p. 175 Farida Saad DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0035-y Original Article Principles of cooperation and competition: application to car driver behavior analysis p. 183 F. Vanderhaegen, S. Chalm=E9, F. Anceaux, P. Millot DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0037-9 Original Article Communication and interaction strategies in automotive adaptive interfaces p. 193 Angelos Amditis, Aris Polychronopoulos, Luisa Andreone, Evangelos Bekiaris DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0033-0 Original Article A user-centred approach for designing driving support systems: the case of collision avoidance p. 201 P. C. Cacciabue, M. Martinetto DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0039-7 Original Article Shaping the drivers=92 interaction: how the new vehicle systems match the technological requirements and the human needs p. 215 Fabio Tango, Roberto Montanari DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0038-8 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: "Kathryn Evans" Subject: Re: 13.370 large text database system Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:23:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 275 (275) Dear Humanist Discussion Group: I am studying an Early Modern Humanist and have been searching for an online version of the Biblia Latina cum Glossa Ordinaria. A posting, from Tue Feb 01 2000 - 22:19:40 CUT, lists the website <http://www.commpact.com/TExplorer>, where Steve Killings included Biblia Vulgata cum Glossa Ordinaria: Biblia Sacra iuxta Vulgatam Clementinam and the Glossa Ordinaria from the Douay edition. That website did not work at this date in 2006. Please advise as to whether or not the above Bible has been moved to another website, or if you know of a website where a version can be viewed. Thank you so very much for your considerate reply, Kathryn Evans From: "Dot Porter" Subject: CFP: Session "DH & Single Scholar" at DH2007 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:24:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 276 (276) Session on "Digital Humanities and the Single Scholar" at Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign No, it's not a dating club. I'm interesting in small scale projects - small in terms of staff and funding, not in terms of vision! This session will focus on the needs and requirements of digital projects with only one or two editors who may have to deal with limitations of funding (no money to pay students or consultants) and/or technical experience (I have to learn the TEI?). How can we deal with or overcome these disadvantages? Can we even use such limitations to our advantage? Please send a few paragraphs describing a paper that you might contribute to this session to me, Dot Porter, at dporter_at_uky.edu, by October 1. Authors selected for the session will need to provide a 750-1500 word abstract in accordance with the DH2007 CFP (http://digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/cfp/). -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter_at_uky.edu 859-257-9549 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter_at_vis.uky.edu *************************************** From: Amy Earhart Subject: CFP "Digital Humanities and Open Source" session Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:25:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 277 (277) at Digital Humanities 2007 Call for Papers, "Open Source and Digital Humanities" session at Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This session will focus on the possibility of utilizing various aspects of open source in Digital Humanities. Topics include using open source tools in Digital Humanities projects, incorporating the open source development community and methodologies in academic Digital Humanities projects, and intellectual property issues in the open source context. I am especially interested in papers that consider how the open source movement impacts traditional academic work and how we might engage the open source community in our projects. Please send a brief abstract (1/2-1 page) describing a paper that you might contribute to this session to Amy Earhart (aearhart_at_tamu.edu) by October 5, 2006. If selected you will need to submit a 750-1500 word abstract. Amy Earhart Department of English Texas A&M University From: Ruy de Queiroz Subject: WoLLIC'2007 - Call for Papers Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:30:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 278 (278) Call for Papers 14th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC'2007) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 2-5, 2007 WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The Fourteenth WoLLIC will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 2 to July 5, 2007, and sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2007/instructions.html A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 23, and the full paper by March 2 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 13, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by April 27 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS Proceedings, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting. Publication venue TBA. INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC'2007 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2007). See www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES February 23, 2007: Paper title and abstract deadline March 2, 2007: Full paper deadline (firm) April 12, 2007: Author notification April 26, 2007: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky (U Oxford) Michael Benedikt (Bell Labs) Lars Birkedal (ITU Copenhagen) Andreas Blass (U Michigan) Thierry Coquand (Chalmers U, Goteborg) Jan van Eijck (CWI, Amsterdam) Marcelo Finger (U Sao Paulo) Rob Goldblatt (Victoria U, Wellington) Yuri Gurevich (Microsoft Redmond) Hermann Haeusler (PUC Rio) Masami Hagiya (Tokyo U) Joseph Halpern (Cornell U) John Harrison (Intel UK) Wilfrid Hodges (U London/QM) Phokion Kolaitis (IBM Almaden Research Center) Marta Kwiatkowska (U Birmingham) Daniel Leivant (Indiana U) (Chair) Maurizio Lenzerini (U Rome) Jean-Yves Marion (LORIA Nancy) Dale Miller (Polytechnique Paris) John Mitchell (Stanford U) Lawrence Moss (Indiana U) Peter O'Hearn (U London/QM) Prakash Panangaden (McGill, Montreal) Christine Paulin-Mohring (Paris-Sud, Orsay) Alexander Razborov (Steklov, Moscow) Helmut Schwichtenberg (Munich U) Jouko Vaananen (U Helsinki) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Marcelo da Silva Correa (U Fed Fluminense) Renata P. de Freitas (U Fed Fluminense) Ana Teresa Martins (U Fed Ceara') Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco, co-chair) Petrucio Viana (U Fed Fluminense, co-chair) WEB PAGE www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2007 From: Peter Liddell Subject: UVic-HCMC Canadian Graduate scholarships for TEI-C Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:25:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 279 (279) (Oct 226-27 The Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria, (UVic-HCMC) announces two bursary awards of up to CA$1000 each for graduate students wishing to attend the TEI-C meetings in Victoria, October 27-28, 2006. http://etcl.uvic.ca/public/tei2006/ The guidelines are as follows: Preference will be given to Canadian graduate students in the first instance. Other graduate students may apply. Awards will be given only in return for original receipts for air fare, and/ or up to 3 nights' accommodation over the conference days. [Note: UVic-HCMC Awardees to attend ALLC/ACH [*now "Digital Humanities*} 2006 are not eligible for this award.] Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals for Poster presentations at the meetings; other applications will be considered. Primary consideration is your degree of interest in the Text Encoding Initiative and its members' activities. Awards Committee: Ray Siemens, Peter Liddell Deadline for all documentation (electronic or paper) to reach us is September 29th, 2006 Documentation required (all are required): - proof of status at a Canadian institution and citizenship if studying abroad; - a brief letter of application explaining why you need the assistance and how you expect to benefit from the meetings - a letter of support from your academic supervisor or equivalent academic authority who knows your work and can attest knowledgeably to the importance of your attending the meetings All documentation should be sent in a single package to UVic-HCMC TEI-C Awards committee, Humanities Computing & Media Centre, Clearihue Bldg, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 3P4, Canada From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: NEH Digital Humanities Initiative Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:29:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 280 (280) ANNOUNCEMENT NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INITIATIVE My name is Brett Bobley. I am the Chief Information Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities. As you may have heard, the NEH has recently launched a new initiative called the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI), which I am chairing. We are trying to reach out to the digital humanities field. Under the DHI umbrella, we are putting in place several new grant programs including a Digital Humanities Fellowship program (Winter 2007) and a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program. The latter program is already up and running and the first deadline is November 15, 2006. I think this Start-Up Grant program may be of great interest to readers of Humanist. We're trying to find innovative, cutting-edge projects and giving them a US$30K grant to help launch them. You can think of it as a digital humanities planning grant. Please see the information below about the program for more details. *** DIGITAL HUMANITIES START-UP GRANTS Deadline: November 15, 2006 & April 3, 2007 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants is the first new program under the NEH's new Digital Humanities Initiative. The name "Start-Up Grant" is deliberately evocative of the technology start-up--a company like an Apple Computer or a Google that took a brilliant idea and, with a small amount of seed money, was able to grow it into a new way of doing business. NEH's Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants will encourage scholars with bright new ideas and provide the funds to get their projects off the ground. Some projects will be practical, others completely blue sky. Some will fail while others will succeed wildly and develop into important projects. But all will incorporate new ways of studying the humanities. The cross-divisional nature of the Start-Up Grants is a key. Applicants don't need to be concerned with determining exactly which NEH division or program is best suited for their projects. Their job is to be innovative and the NEH's job is to provide the funding they need to be successful. NEH staff will work with potential applicants in the pre-application stages to help them craft their submissions. NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants are offered for the planning or initial stages of digital humanities initiatives in all areas of NEH concern: research, publication, preservation, access, teacher training, and dissemination in informal or formal educational settings. The maximum award is $30,000. Applications should describe the concept or problem that is being addressed, the plan of work, the experience of the project team as it relates to the plan, and the intended outcomes of both the grant and the larger project that the grant will initiate. Application guidelines for this program are available at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html General information about the NEH's Digital Humanities Initiative is available at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html Questions? Have a draft for us to review? Please contact: dhi_at_neh.gov From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The September 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:22:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 281 (281) Greetings: The September 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, an opinion piece, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month's featured collection is "Deafness in Disguise: 19th and 20th Century Concealed Hearing Devices," courtesy of the Washington University Bernard Becker Medical Library in St. Louis, Missouri. The opinion piece is: Handle Records, Rights and Long Tail Economies John Erickson, Hewlett Packard Laboratories The articles include: Repository Librarian and the Next Crusade: The Search for a Common Standard for Digital Repository Metadata Beth Goldsmith and Frances Knudson, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library Perspectives on Teachers as Digital Library Users: Consumers, Contributors, and Designers Mimi Recker, Utah State University What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Youngok Choi, The Catholic University of America; and Edie Rasmussen, The University of British Columbia Computational Science Educational Reference Desk: A Digital Library for Students, Educators, and Scientists Diana Tanase and Jonathan Stuart-Moore, Shodor Education Foundation; and David A. Joiner, Kean From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The September 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:22:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 282 (282) Greetings: The September 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, an opinion piece, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month's featured collection is "Deafness in Disguise: 19th and 20th Century Concealed Hearing Devices," courtesy of the Washington University Bernard Becker Medical Library in St. Louis, Missouri. The opinion piece is: Handle Records, Rights and Long Tail Economies John Erickson, Hewlett Packard Laboratories The articles include: Repository Librarian and the Next Crusade: The Search for a Common Standard for Digital Repository Metadata Beth Goldsmith and Frances Knudson, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library Perspectives on Teachers as Digital Library Users: Consumers, Contributors, and Designers Mimi Recker, Utah State University What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Youngok Choi, The Catholic University of America; and Edie Rasmussen, The University of British Columbia Computational Science Educational Reference Desk: A Digital Library for Students, Educators, and Scientists Diana Tanase and Jonathan Stuart-Moore, Shodor Education Foundation; and David A. Joiner, Kean StartOfEnvelope: ExternalSender:n From:willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU HelloName:gateway3.link.net Recipient:khaledrifaat_at_link.net ReturnPath:owner-humanist_at_Princeton.EDU SenderIP:213.131.64.207 Subject:20.202 new on WWW: D-Lib for September RawSubject:20.202 new on WWW: D-Lib for September Priority:Normal Validated:y SenderPtrRecord: Message-ID:<7.0.1.0.2.20060919063839.0415ce40_at_kcl.ac.uk> InitialMessageBody:Humanist=20Discussion=20Group,=20Vol.=2020,=20No.=20202.=0dCentre=20for=20Computing=20in=20the=20Humanities,=20King's=20College=20London=0dwww.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html=0dwww.princeton.edu/hu IpDosWhitelisted:true MMSmtpMapsRbl: ArrivalTime:1158649660 MMVirusFound:false EndOfEnvelope:00000304 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Cognition, Technology & Work 8.3 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:27:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 283 (283) Volume 8 Number 3 of Cognition, Technology & Work is now available on the www.springerlink.com web site at http://www.springerlink.com. Poem Memory load p. 157 Johan F. Hoorn DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0004-x Editorial CTW special issue on human-centred design in automotive systems p. 159 P. C. Cacciabue DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0036-x Original Article Design of human=96machine interactions in light of domain-dependence of human-centered automation p. 161 T. Inagaki DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0034-z Original Article A function-centred approach to joint driver-vehicle system design p. 169 Erik Hollnagel DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0032-1 Original Article Some critical issues when studying behavioural adaptations to new driver support systems p. 175 Farida Saad DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0035-y Original Article Principles of cooperation and competition: application to car driver behavior analysis p. 183 F. Vanderhaegen, S. Chalm=E9, F. Anceaux, P. Millot DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0037-9 Original Article Communication and interaction strategies in automotive adaptive interfaces p. 193 Angelos Amditis, Aris Polychronopoulos, Luisa Andreone, Evangelos Bekiaris DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0033-0 Original Article A user-centred approach for designing driving support systems: the case of collision avoidance p. 201 P. C. Cacciabue, M. Martinetto DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0039-7 Original Article Shaping the drivers=92 interaction: how the new vehicle systems match the technological requirements and the human needs p. 215 Fabio Tango, Roberto Montanari DOI: 10.1007/s10111-006-0038-8 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/ StartOfEnvelope: ExternalSender:n From:willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU HelloName:gateway3.link.net Recipient:khaledrifaat_at_link.net ReturnPath:owner-humanist_at_Princeton.EDU SenderIP:213.131.64.207 Subject:20.200 new publication: Cognition, Technology & Work 8.3 RawSubject:20.200 new publication: Cognition, Technology & Work 8.3 Priority:Normal Validated:y SenderPtrRecord: Message-ID:<7.0.1.0.2.20060919063329.041790c8_at_kcl.ac.uk> InitialMessageBody:Humanist=20Discussion=20Group,=20Vol.=2020,=20No.=20200.=0dCentre=20for=20Computing=20in=20the=20Humanities,=20King's=20College=20London=0dwww.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html=0dwww.princeton.edu/hu IpDosWhitelisted:true MMSmtpMapsRbl: ArrivalTime:1158649297 MMVirusFound:false EndOfEnvelope:00000328 From: "Kathryn Evans" Subject: Re: 13.370 large text database system Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:23:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 284 (284) Dear Humanist Discussion Group: I am studying an Early Modern Humanist and have been searching for an online version of the Biblia Latina cum Glossa Ordinaria. A posting, from Tue Feb 01 2000 - 22:19:40 CUT, lists the website <http://www.commpact.com/TExplorer>, where Steve Killings included Biblia Vulgata cum Glossa Ordinaria: Biblia Sacra iuxta Vulgatam Clementinam and the Glossa Ordinaria from the Douay edition. That website did not work at this date in 2006. Please advise as to whether or not the above Bible has been moved to another website, or if you know of a website where a version can be viewed. Thank you so very much for your considerate reply, Kathryn Evans From: Ross Scaife Subject: Latin treebank Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:10:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 285 (285) A message received yesterday from David Bamman at Perseus and now making the rounds of various lists: The Perseus Project has recently received a planning grant from the NSF to investigate the costs and labor involved in constructing a multimillion-word Latin treebank, along with its potential value for the linguistics and Classics community. While our initial efforts under this grant will focus on syntactically annotating excerpts from Golden Age authors (Caesar, Cicero, Vergil) and the Vulgate, a future multimillion-word corpus would be comprised of writings from the pre- Classical period up through the Early Modern era. To date we've annotated a total of 12,000 words in a style that's predominantly informed by two sources: the dependency grammar used by the Prague Dependency Treebank (itself based on Mel'cuk 1988), and the Latin grammar of Pinkster 1990. While treebanks provide valuable training data for computational tasks such as grammar induction and automatic syntactic parsing, they also have the potential to be used in traditional research areas that Classicists in particular are poised to exploit. Large collections of syntactically parsed sentences have the potential to revolutionize lexicography and philology, as they provide the immediate context for a word's use along with its typical syntactic arguments (this lets us chart, for example, how the meaning of a verb changes as its predominant arguments change). Treebanks enable large-scale research into structurally-based rhetorical devices particularly of interest to Classicists (such as hyperbaton) and they provide the raw data for research in historical linguistics (such as the move in Latin from classical SOV word order to romance SVO). The eventual Latin treebank will be openly available to the public; we should, therefore, come to a consensus on how it should be built. To that end we encourage input from the linguistics and Classics community on the treebank design (including the syntactic representation of Latin) and welcome contributions by annotators (for which limited funding is available). Interested collaborators should contact David Bamman (David.Bamman_at_tufts.edu) at the Perseus Project. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.36 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:03:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 286 (286) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 36 September 19, 2006 =96 September 25, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: ROB MEYER AND ROSS GAGLIANO Rob Meyer, CEO of the Numerical Algorithms Group,=20 writes: "However your organization chooses to=20 meet the emerging demands for HPC-compatibility,=20 these emerging multi-multi-core systems underline=20 the importance of having a well-considered=20 software migration strategy. New applications or=20 updates to existing ones need to have portability=20 and quality assurance factored into their design=20 if they are to cope with coming hardware changes.=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i36_multicore.html>http://www.acm.org/u= biquity/views/v7i36_multicore.html Ross Gagliano discusses the new John Wiley book,=20 "The Cognitive Dynamics of Computer Science: Cost=20 Effective Large Scale Software Development," by Michael de Gyurky <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v7i36_dynamics.html>http://www.acm= .org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v7i36_dynamics.html Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 36 (September 19, 2006 =96 September 25, 2006) =20 From: oupjournals-mailer_at_liontamer.stanford.edu Subject: LLC 21.1, Supplement 1 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:26:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 287 (287) Literary and Linguistic Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: 2006; Vol. 21, Supplement 1 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol21/suppl_1/index.dtl?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction Melissa Terras and Edward Vanhoutte Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:1-4. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/21/suppl_1/1?etoc Night Watches on the Computer: Creating an Author's Dictionary with Computational Means Barbara Arnold Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:5-14. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/5?etoc Decoding Emblem Semantics Peter Boot Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:15-27. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/15?etoc Designing and Implementing an Ontology for Logic and Linguistics Caterina Caracciolo Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:29-39. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/29?etoc Derivational Morphology of Italian: Principles for Formalization Francesca Carota Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:41-53. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/41?etoc An Unregulated Woman: A Computational Stylistics Analysis of Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, The Faire Queene of Jewry Louisa Connors Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:55-66. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/55?etoc Streaming Video Theory Susan Hesemeier Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:67-75. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/67?etoc Persistent Links for the Internet: Fundamentals and Implementation Dieter Kohler Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:77-86. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/77?etoc 'When thou tookest the book / To view the scriptures, then I turned the leaves/And Led thine eye.' Literary Theory and Hypertext--A Faustian Predicament Katharine Lindsay Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:87-98. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/87?etoc Fretful Tags Amid the Verbiage: Issues in the Representation of Modern Manuscript Material Vincent Neyt Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:99-111. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/99?etoc A Multidimensional Perspective on Collocational Patterning in Swedish Fiction Texts Translated from English P.-O. Nilsson Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:113-126. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/113?etoc Virtual Verse Analysis: Analysing Patterns in Poetry Marc R. Plamondon Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:127-141. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/127?etoc Some Aspects of the PAROLE-SIMPLE-CLIPS Semantic Layer: Uses and Advantages Marisa Ulivieri, Igor Bianco, Elisabetta Guazzini, and Stefano Molino Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:143-156. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/143?etoc RolandHT [as|and] Corpus Study Vika Zafrin Lit Linguist Computing 2006 21:157-167. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/suppl_1/157?etoc From: Willard McCarty Subject: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 10.6 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:27:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 288 (288) Volume 10 Number 6 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the www.springerlink.com web site at http://www.springerlink.com. Original Article Bridging the physical and virtual worlds by local connectivity-based physical selection p. 333 Heikki Ailisto, Lauri Pohjanheimo, Pasi V=E4lkkynen, Esko Str=F6mmer, Timo Tuomisto, Ilkka Korhonen DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0057-0 Original Article Methods for quantitative usability requirements: a case study on the development of the user interface of a mobile phone p. 345 Timo Jokela, Jussi Koivumaa, Jani Pirkola, Petri Salminen, Niina Kantola DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0050-7 Original Article Meta-searches in peer-to-peer networks p. 357 Juha Lehikoinen, Ilkka Salminen, Antti Aaltonen, Pertti Huuskonen, Juha= Kaario DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0054-3 Original Article The experience of enchantment in human-computer interaction p. 369 John McCarthy, Peter Wright, Jayne Wallace, Andy Dearden DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0055-2 Original Article A software infrastructure for supporting spontaneous and personalized interaction in home computing environments p. 379 Tatsuo Nakajima, Ichiro Satoh DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0056-1 Original Article Human-agent service matching using natural language queries: system test and training p. 393 W. Pasman, J. Lindenberg DOI: 10.1007/s00779-006-0067-6 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Tim van Gelder" Subject: Rationale - Argument Mapping Software Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:45:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 289 (289) Austhink recently released Rationale, a new software package for argument mapping. A trial version can be downloaded from <http://www.austhink.com>www.austhink.com. Rationale is the first commercial-grade software in the argument mapping field. It is the successor to the Reason!Able software (2000). Extensive testing showed that, under the right conditions, students using Reason!Able reliably showed substantial gains in general critical thinking skills. Since Rationale is much improved in relation to Reason!Able, we expect similar benefits to accrue from its use. Rationale has been designed from the outset to be used in two contexts: * In education, to help students learn (and teachers teach) the fundamentals of reasoning, argument and critical thinking * In the workplace, to help people engage in complex reasoning and argumentation more rigorously and efficiently. Rationale features include: * Three different map types - simple grouping, basic reasoning, and advanced reasoning. * Highly usability, based on a simple drag-and-drop approach, and using a "Ribbon" GUI of the sort which will appear in Office 2007 * Essay Planner - a system for scaffolding students in writing argumentative essays. * Templates - lots of arguments and argument schemas available in drag-and-drop format. * Image export - for including high-quality argument map graphics in e.g. Word documents * An extensive set of learning resources available free of charge (soon - from within the software itself) * and many others For more information, and to download, visit <http://www.austhink.com>www.austhink.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: great promise, not great threat? Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:35:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 290 (290) Recently I found myself in conversation, in the kitchen of an academic residence in Leiden, with three other academics, one of them a distinguished older historian, one a younger sociologist, the third a much younger historian. In the course of talking about this and that, the older fellow asked me what I did. Weighing heavily on my mind was a public lecture I was writing on just that topic, so I summarized the contents of the lecture. In it, as is my habit these days, I argue that computing gives us powerful help in addressing the question of how we know what we know -- by allowing us to set aside what can be described computationally, leaving the uncomputable residue. This leads to some research that draws on ideas in the philosophy of experimental science, and to speculation (to me compelling) of how computing defines an intellectual space within which one can operate *as if* the objects of study were natural objects obeying algorithmic laws -- the point, again, being in the comparison with what we in the end plainly know. My appeal is, and was then, in the kitchen in Leiden, to curiosity. Who, I wonder, would not want to pry into how they know what they know -- with any tool that comes to hand? Silly me. Curiosity kills cats. But I exaggerate. I wasn't killed. My senior colleague was soft-spoken and very polite. In his own way, however, he illuminated the problem -- he said he was "disappointed". What he wanted from me, he said, was a strong argument from the humanities rather than one from the sciences. I thought I was giving him exactly that -- no scientist qua scientist would argue as I do. Later on, the young historian told me, "we don't like being told that the sciences have all the answers!" Again, my point was precisely that the answers coming from the sciences are interesting to me precisely because they fall short -- though I admit to, and am curious about, intriguingly closer answers coming from the neurosciences, as they up the ante a fair bit. I would be very interested to know where you think the problem is, especially if some part of it, as I suspect, is due to muddleheadedness on my part. Richard Rorty said some time ago (in an London Review of Books piece) that he thought we are seeing an end to the epistemic wars between the sciences and the humanities. Ian Hacking has done much to change hostilities into negotiations. I think we have a big role to play here -- and, if I am right, that it just could be the most important result of all. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Brent Nelson Subject: tenure-track job at Saskatchewan (Canada) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:36:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 291 (291) The Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Technologies of Communication at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2007. The successful candidate will have expertise in at least two of the following: history (of print culture, of literary history and the book, of readers and markets, etc.), theory/culture (cultural studies, the politics of print, media studies, etc.), or application (textual scholarship, humanities computing, electronic research methods, digital editions, etc.). The successful candidate will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the Technologies of Communication, as well as more traditional literary material. A Ph.D. in English and significant evidence of achievement in research and teaching are required. Besides its commitment to traditional literary historical periods and national literatures, the Department of English has particular teaching and research interests in the histories of orality and textuality; editorial practice; textual constructions of health, illness and the body; gender and sexuality theory; and Aboriginal and Postcolonial studies. The department is home to the journal Essays on Canadian Writing, the Eighteenth-Century Studies Research Unit, the Humanities Research Unit, and ETRUS (Electronic Text Research at the University of Saskatchewan), and contributes to an interdisciplinary program in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Successful candidates will be afforded opportunities to participate in these and other initiatives. We are especially interested in receiving applications from candidates who will be involved in innovative research and in reshaping our curriculum as the discipline embraces emerging areas, including Race Studies, Gay and Lesbian/Bisexual Studies, and Cultural Studies. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, transcripts, a writing sample, and evidence of teaching success (including a teaching dossier if available), and should ask three referees to write directly to Professor D.J. Thorpe, Head, Department of English, University of Saskatchewan, 9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A5. Applicants are encouraged to consult www.usask.ca/english for additional information about the department and to get in touch with the department head (doug.thorpe_at_usask.ca) before submitting an application. Formal review of applications will begin November 10, 2006 and will continue until the positions are filled. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian and permanent residents will be given priority. In accordance with the University's Employment Equity Policy, the department welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. Women, people of aboriginal descent, members of visible minorities, and people with disabilities are invited to identify themselves as members of these designated groups on their applications. We also welcome applicants to submit pertinent information regarding non-traditional forms of knowledge and alternate career paths. ********************* Brent Nelson, assistant professor Department of English University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 0B7 ph. 306-249-4489 From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: "Done": Finished Projects in the Digital Humanities Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:36:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 292 (292) This is a call for participants for a panel I would like to organize at Digital Humanities 2007 at Illinois. The subject of the panel will be "Done. Finished Projects in the Digital Humanities." How do we decide when we're done? What does it mean to finish something? How does the "open ended nature of the medium" (a phrase we all pay lip service to) jibe with the reality of funding, deadlines, and deliverables? What can we learn from finished projects, both successful and unsuccessful? For that matter, how do we define success and failure? Are "we" the ones who ought to be defining it? If not, who? And so forth. Please send a paragraph or two outlining a paper you might contribute on this topic. I will select three, plus one alternate (in case someone drops out at the proposal writing stage). Persons interested should be prepared to write a 750-1500 word abstract in accordance with the DH CFP. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Allen H Renear Subject: workshop on global models for use of historical & Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:34:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 293 (293) scientific information Call for Participation Workshop on Exploring the limits of global models for integration and use of historical and scientific information October 23-24 2006 ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Invited Speaker: Nicola Guarino ISTC-CNR, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Trento Website: http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/workshops.html Effective large scale information integration requires an agreement on the common semantics of the data structure elements and other categories employed. Recently, there has been increasing doubt about the possibility of global ontological models. However, knowledge integration based on mere similarity of categories, such as "inexact equivalence" does not allow for precise, global querying advanced reasoning, or interoperability. On the other hand, practical core ontologies such as CIDOC/CRM (ISO/PRF 21127) demonstrate a surprisingly wide validity over multiple domains. This workshop explores the limits of such global models for integrating and making use of historical and scientific information, in order to enhance both, our theoretical understanding of the limits of ontological agreement in a specific application setting, and our practical understanding of how to implement effective large scale knowledge integration services and exploit the power of global models. Nicola Guarino, Invited Talk G. Goerz, Why do we need a Meta-Level for the CIDOC CRM? N. Aussenac-Gilles, Ontology or meta-model for retrieving scientific reasoning in documents: The Arkeotek project M. Doerr, About Material and Immaterial Creation R. Smiraglia, Instantiation: Empirical Emergence of a Global Phenomenon R. Urban, Folio Metaphysics, Wholes and Parts in Cultural Objects M. Genereux, D. Arnold, Preserving meanings in multilingual text mining for Cultural Heritage P. Constantopoulos, V. Dritsou, A CIDOC CRM compatible metadata model for digital preservation O. Eide, C. E. Ore TEI, CIDOC-CRM and a Possible Interface between the Two R. Kummer, Integrating data from The Perseus Project and Arachne using the CIDOC CRM K. May, Integrating cultural and scientific heritage: archaeological ontological modelling for the field and the lab Registration: there is no fee. Please send email to renear_at_uiuc.edu if you intend to attend. Include contact information and indicate your particular interests in these topics of the workshop. Location: Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Heraklion, Crete, Greece. See http://www.ics.forth.gr/contact-info.htmlfor directions to ICS-FORTH. Additional information will be available on the website. [...] Website: http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/workshops.html For more information contact Allen Renear renear_at_uiuc.edu --------------------------------------------------- The application of formal ontologies in cultural domains such as museums, libraries, and archives, the semantic web, and other related areas, inevitably raises difficult theoretical problems which appear to complicate the development of practical ontologies. For instance,these problems affect directly the performance of information systems, when there is no agreement on the identity and unity of referred items, such as: * Does Tut-Ankh Amun still exist (i.e. as a mummy)? * Is Luther's translation an expression of the Holy Bible or another work? * Is Caesar's coming to the Curia a part of the event of his murder? * How can the respective ontological choices be objectified, and how can they be reconciled in practical applications? * To which degree compatible generalizations of a model can compensate inconsistencies following the widening of the scope of a model? What are the limits of ontology harmonization? * Which kinds of concepts tend to be globally compatible and which not, and in which sense? This workshop elicits contributions related to studies, experiences and practical and theoretical solutions around the above problems. As well as formal information systems approaches to these problems we welcome contributions based on perspectives from philosophy, from cognitive science, and from the social sciences. On the other side, this workshop elicits contributions about the application and prospects and limits of domain overarching information integration, in particular with respect to cultural heritage and scientific information. Issues in this area include... * Models for the semantic interoperability and integration of scientific and cultural information and possibly other disciplines. * The long-term preservation and future interoperability of data structure semantics. * Scalable information architectures, linking and reasoning services under semantic models, in particular scalable solutions. The following topics are of particular interest: * Philosophical implications or controversies with respect ontological choices of the CIDOC CRM, FRBR and other core ontologies for information in libraries, archives, museum and scientific data repositories. * Identity and temporal existence of conceptual items. Identity ofWorks. Can works or texts gain or lose non-relational properties? Is identity based on the continuity of tradition or essential properties? * Work as continuant versus Work as occurrent. * Identity and substance of events, parts of events, spatiotemporal limits of events in non-discrete models compatible with the nature of historical records. Methods for managing the practical needs of information systems... * Objective criteria for selecting and justifying ontological choices in information systems * Harmonization of ontologies. Can Digital Libraries be based on one global information model, or why not? * Integrating cultural and scientific heritage: Scientific records as historical data. Integrated access and (re)use. E-science metadata. The relevance of factual knowledge for e-science. * Preservation of data structure semantics -- interoperability with the future. * Knowledge extraction and core ontologies. * Document linking and semantic relationships. Website: http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/workshops.html From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2007)" Subject: CFP: CICLing-2007 - NLP, Mexico City, Feb 2007, Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:35:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 294 (294) CICLing-2007 8th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 18-24, 2007; Mexico City, Mexico www.CICLing.org/2007 PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (indexed by ISI SCIe / JCR); posters: journal "Research in Computing Science" KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Kathleen McKeown, Gregory Grefenstette, Raymond Mooney, more to be announced. EXCURSIONS: Ancient pyramids, Monarch butterflies, great cave and colonial city, and more. All tentative. See photos on www.CICLing.org. AWARDS: Best paper, best presentation, best poster. TOPICS: Computational linguistics research: Comp. Linguistics theories and formalisms, Knowledge representation, Discourse models, Comp. morphology, syntax, semantics, Machine translation, text generation, Statistical methods, Lexical resources; Intelligent text processing and applications: Information retrieval, question answering, Information extraction, Text mining, Document categorization and clustering, Automatic summarization, NL interfaces, Spell-checking; and all related topics. SCHEDULE (tentative): Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday: full-day excursions; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: talks; Monday: Welcome party & poster session, see website. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1: registration of abstract, October 6: uploading of full paper (contact organizers for a late submission) See complete CFP and contact info on www.CICLing.org. This CFP is sent to you in good faith of its relevance for you as an NLP scholar. If this is an error, please contact us via the contact options indicated on the webpage above. From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 20.211 great promise, not great threat? Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:32:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 295 (295) Speaking as one who has switched back and forth between humanities and sciences all her life and is currently in a phase of disillusionment with science ... what good are powerful tools if they are applied in pursuit of the wrong ends? That's the problem. Science has high status because it has proved it can spin straw into gold. The more social confusion in our world, the more important money is because money requires no complex cultural context in which to provide meaning. It just "works". But like science, it has no power to make lives meaningful at the human level in all the ways we have so completely taken for granted thus far that we are not consciously aware of their intrinsic value. I like to play a mental game that goes like this: assume the coolest possible whatever it is that you think you want. Now locate possession of it in a world in which there is nothing but it. Would it satisfy? If not, what is missing that was being taken for granted in the first scenario? e.g. All the money I desire. But it would be meaningless if I possessed that in a world without anything but the money, itself. I am presuming a backdrop of human activity (culture) that would value me more highly because I possessed the money, award me special status that would cause me pleasure because I am a social animal, and therefore make me feel happiness. Which is intangible. Regrettably, where one thing is measurable and another is not, the measurable thing will always "look like" the valuable thing. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING 2006 Guide to the Okal Rel Universe - Fandom Press On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:50:12 +0100, willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU wrote: [deleted quotation]ht [deleted quotation]great threat? [deleted quotation]--------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING 2006 Guide to the Okal Rel Universe - Fandom Press From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 20.211 great promise, not great threat? Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:33:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 296 (296) Willard, two things: 1. By no means all historians would share the Luddite sentiments you ran into. After all, many history depts are part of faculties of social science now. Individual differences are enormous, here as elsewhere in academia. 2. Some academics simply don't listen. At a talk recent, a very senior named chairholder told a younger presenter that the case he had made about a certain issue was absurd and that what he should have said was X. He then laid out as X precisely the case that the presenter had made! Hadn't heard a thing. It is said that intellectual battles are won not with our colleagues but with the generation that is currently our graduate students. I'd be willing to bet that some of the graduate students of the historians you mentioned would have reacted quite differently from the way the historians reacted. Andrew -- Andrew Brook Chancellor's 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: ian.lancashire_at_utoronto.ca Subject: Lexicons of Early Modern English Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:58:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 297 (297) Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) at leme.library.utoronto.ca now offers open public searching of 500,000 word-entries in over 150 lexical works, printed and manuscript, from 1480 to 1702. LEME was launched by the University of Toronto Press and the University of Toronto Library on September 19, 2006. It has been generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and the Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT) through Geoffrey Rockwell's TAPoR portal at McMaster University. Although basic LEME searching is open to the public, free sessions are limited in numbers of queries, and of results, per session. Editorial apparatus, word-lists, lexicon indexes, page-displays, EEBO links, and advanced, unlimited searches may be licensed. Institutional and personal licenses may be obtained for fees shown on the LEME site. These support the maintenance and expansion of the LEME database, which is a global, not-for-profit scholarly service. To set up a personal trial subscription, please contact Anne Marie Corrigan at acorrigan_at_utpress.utoronto.ca. If others at your institution would be interested in accessing LEME, ask your librarian to contact her to set up a trial for your institution. LEME replaces the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD; 1996-). Ian Lancashire Editor, Lexicons of Early Modern English University of Toronto From: mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com Subject: Electronic Literature Organization Completes Move Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:59:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 298 (298) to the University of Maryland COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) has established its new headquarters at The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. The move from California was made possible by sponsorships from MITH, the English department at Maryland, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the University Libraries. The move was completed earlier this summer. Neil Fraistat, director of MITH, said of the move: "In moving from UCLA to the University of Maryland, the ELO will provide MITH with a unique opportunity for a truly comprehensive program in the Digital Humanities, one that focuses equally on migrating electronically the cultural artifacts of the past and the production of the cultural artifacts of the future." ELO President Thom Swiss added: "The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park, is internationally known and, together with the support of its campus partners in this venture, makes for the best possible home for the ELO because of our similar, and now collaborative interests and ambitions." Founded in 1999 in Chicago, the ELO is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization made up of writers, scholars, educators, and technologists dedicated to exploring how computers can be used for literary expression, and how born-digital work can use the computer and the network to build on and extend the tradition of literature. Landmark events in the ELO's short history include: * The launch of the Electronic Literature Directory, an acclaimed database-driven resource of information about electronic literature maintained by authors and visited by thousands of readers; * Readings of electronic literature and outreach events in Chicago, New York, Seattle, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Providence; * The Electronic Literature Awards, which recognized exemplary works of poetry and fiction and rewarded winners with substantial cash prizes; * The State of the Arts Symposium, which united over one hundred international writers, scholars, and publishers of electronic literature at UCLA for two days of panels and presentations and produced hard-copy proceedings; and * The Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination (PAD) project's publication of two reports, Acid-Free Bits: Recommendations for Long-Lasting Electronic Literature and Born-Again Bits: A Framework for Migrating Electronic Literature. The ELO has an international network of directors, literary advisors, and members. The organization's university partners include the University of Iowa, the University of Illinois Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania. The ELO partnerships and its partnership with UCLA, will continue, as will electronic literature readings, events, and activities across the country. The partnership between MITH and the ELO will help both organizations pursue their related missions. The ELO will work, with MITH's help, to further its programs and its impact, both internationally and on the Maryland campus. The ELO has long sought a partnership with a major research library to further its initiatives in the realm of the preserving, archiving, and disseminating electronic literature. Charles Lowry, dean of the University Libraries at Maryland, said: "To say that the scholarly information exchange is transforming academic and research libraries belabors the obvious. Nonetheless it is an essential condition for defining what libraries will be in the future. Libraries have played an historic role by providing the secure archive for the scholarly record. This is vital work worth preserving, but that will be done in a multitude of new ways. Among them, libraries must assume responsibility for the output of scholarly and creative work that is born digital. This is one of the most important reasons that from my perspective the University of Maryland Libraries have supported the ELO's move to our campus." Moreover, a working relationship with a major English department will allow the ELO to develop its curricular and pedagogical initiatives in a new way; one of these initiatives, the Electronic Literature Collection (a digital literary annual to be made available online and on CD-ROM) is already in progress, with MITH as one of its five sponsors. Charles Caramello, chair of the English department, said: "The English Department looks forward to ELO's joining the Maryland community. ELO perfectly complements Departmental emphases on creative writing, comparative literary arts, and digital and textual studies; and its presence on campus will greatly enhance opportunities for Departmental faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates to collaborate with artists and scholars in the vanguard of literature and literary scholarship using twenty-first century technologies." James F. Harris, dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Maryland, also noted how the ELO will complement the campus's existing strengths, saying: "The College of Arts and Humanities is very pleased to welcome the ELO to the University of Maryland campus. We have long had a focus on the creative and performing arts, as well as the use of new technologies in traditional humanities settings; the ELO, with its emphasis on the artistic and imaginative use of computers and new media, is a natural fit and helps complete that circle. I look forward to a broad range of activities and events that enhance the creative and intellectual life of the College." The ELO's new events and initiatives, along with news and information about the organization, can be found at http://eliterature.org. MITH news, information, and event postings can be found at http://www.mith.umd.edu/. Media Contact: Matthew Kirschenbaum, Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director, The Electronic Literature Organization 301-405-8505 mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com K-1-1103669-22791442-2-39-AV1-75321593 From: textodigital_at_cce.ufsc.br Subject: Chamada de artigos (call for papers) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:00:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 299 (299) Prezados(as) Amigos(as), Vimos solicitar a colaboraçăo dos(as) senhores(as) para divulgar a chamada de submissőes de artigos para o 3ş número da Revista Texto Digital, que será publicada em Dezembro deste ano. O prazo para submissăo dos artigos termina em 10/11/2006. Pediríamos que falassem disso ŕs pessoas interessadas em publicar seus trabalhos em nossa Revista. É claro que contamos também com as eventuais colaboraçőes de vocęs. Para mais informaçőes www.textodigital.ufsc.br Cordialmente, Comissăo Editorial Dear friends, We come to request your cooperation to publicize the call for papers for the 3rd number of the Revista Texto Digital, that will be published in December of this year. The period for paper submission ends in 11/10/2006. We would ask you to speak of this to people interested in publishing their works in our Magazine. Of course we also count with your eventual cooperation. For more information www.textodigital.ufsc.br Cordially Editorial Board Chers amis, Nous venons vou rappeler que nous ferons publier, au mois de décembre, le troisičme numéro de Texto Digital. La date pour soumettre des articles est le 10 novembre prochain. Nous vous prions d’en parler aux personnes de vos relations qui seraient intéressées ŕ publier ses travaux dans Texto Digital. Il va sans dire que nous accueillerons avec plaisir vos collaborations. Pour avoir plus d’information, veuillez vous adresser ŕ www.textodigital.ufsc.br Bien ŕ vous, Les responsables de l’édition Estimados Amigos: solicitámoles la colaboración de los seńores para divulgar la llamada de sumisión de artículos para el 3ş número de la Revista Texto Digital, que será publicada en el deciembre próximo. El plazo a la sumisión termina el 10/11/2006. Requerímoles encarecidamente, en el intuito de ampliar el número de publicaciones, que sugirieran nuestra revista a los interesados en publicar sus artículos, sea publicaciones de colaboradores diversos o de nuestra propia consejería. Más informaciones acceda el sitio www.textodigital.ufsc.br Cordialmente, Comisión Editorial From: David Sewell Subject: Re: 20.211 great promise, not great threat? Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:58:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 300 (300) [deleted quotation]I can't speak to the epistemic issues, but at least within the context of the United States it would be the height of irresponsibility for an academic humanist to persist in fighting the old "two cultures" battles against our colleagues in the sciences at a historical moment when the authority, independence, and integrity of the natural sciences have been under sustained attack from powerful retrograde forces. Elsewhere things are not so dire, at least to the extent that putting fingers in one's ears and muttering "I can't hear you!" has not been considered an appropriate response to empirical evidence by most central governments. Still, if there was ever a time for humanists to be making common cause with scientists, I'd say this is it. We share a common belief in the value of inquiry, and for both groups the suppression of inquiry is a far greater threat than the unlikely possibility that one side of the sciences/humanities division is ever going to have permanent ascendancy over the other. DS -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Courier: 310 Old Ivy Way, Suite 302, Charlottesville VA 22903 Email: dsewell_at_virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.37 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:24:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 301 (301) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 37 September 26, 2006 October 2, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: BOOKS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES; SMART SPACES BOOKS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES Brian F. Lavoie and Roger C. Schonfeld examine the largest single source of cross-institutional bibliographic data available, and offer a framework for future efforts to describe the universe of print-book: How many titles does the system contain? What holding patterns prevail, especially with regard to overlap and the incidence of rare or unique materials? And what are some of the characteristics, such as date of publication and language? <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i37_books.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiqu= ity/views/v7i37_books.html SMART SPACES Ramesh Singh, Preeti Bhargava, and Samta Kain, define smart spaces as ordinary environments equipped with visual and audio sensing systems, pervasive devices, sensors, and networks that can perceive and react to people, sense ongoing human activities and respond to them. Their ubiquity is evident by the fact that various state of the art smart spaces have been incorporated in all situations of our life. These smart space elements require middleware, standards and interfacing technologies to manage complex interactions between them. Here, we present an overview of the technologies integrated to build Smart Spaces, review the various scenarios in which Smart Spaces have been incorporated by researchers, highlight the requirements of software infrastructure for programming and networking them, and mention the contemporary frameworks for interaction with them. Singh is Senior Technical Director, National Informatics Center,New Delhi, India. Bhargava and Kain are students. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i37_smart.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiqu= ity/views/v7i37_smart.html Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 37 (September 26, 2006 =96 October 2, 2006) From: "CEC2007" Subject: IEEE CEC 2007 CFPs: Evolutionary Computation Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:25:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 302 (302) Dear Colleague, Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this announcement. *****The conference proceedings of CEC have been=20 continuously included in the EI Compendex Database and IEEE Xplore.***** IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) September 25-28, 2007 Swiss=F4tel The Stamford, Singapore Website: http://www.cec2007.org CALL FOR PAPERS We would like to invite you to attend the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and co-sponsored by the Evolutionary Programming Society and the IET, the CEC 2007 will be held in Singapore, September 25-28, 2007. The annual IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation is one of the leading events in the area of evolutionary computation. It covers all topics in evolutionary computation, including, but not limited to: * Ant colony optimization * Artificial immune systems * Artificial life * Autonomous mental & behavior development * Bioinformatics & bioengineering * Coevolution & collective behavior * Cognitive systems & applications * Combinatorial & numerical optimization * Computational finance & economics * Constraint & uncertainty handling * Evolutionary data mining * Evolutionary design * Evolutionary games * Evolutionary intelligent agents * Evolutionary learning systems * Evolutionary robotic & control systems * Evolvable hardware & software * Evolving neural networks & fuzzy systems * Memetic & hybrid algorithms * Molecular & quantum computing * Multiobjective optimization * Particle swarm= intelligence * Real-world applications * Representation & operators * Theory of evolutionary computation CEC 2007 will feature a world-class conference that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionary computation and computational intelligence from all around the globe. Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass keynote speeches, special sessions, tutorial workshops, panel discussions as well as poster presentations. On top of this, participants will be treated to a series of social functions, receptions and networking sessions, which will serve as a vital channel to establish new connections and foster everlasting friendship among fellow counterparts. Singapore is a vibrant commercial and financial hub, which at the same time also serves its role as a melting pot for the fusion of a diverse mix of many different cultures. Visitors to this tropical island resort will be treated to a great array of interesting attractions, festival celebrations and cultural events, not forgetting the one-stop shopping and eating experience in this entertainment paradise. The conglomeration of all the different elements will definitely give visitors of Singapore an exciting and unforgettable experience. [...] Important Dates: Paper Submission: March 15, 2007 Decision Notification: May 15, 2007 Camera-Ready Submission: June 15, 2007 For more details, please visit the conference website at: http://www.cec2007.org From: Michael Fraser Subject: User Requirements Gathering for the Humanities - Workshop Two Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:26:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 303 (303) User Requirements Gathering for the Humanities - Call for Participants Workshop Two - Requirements gathering in eScience Following a successful application to the AHRC, the 'Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities' (http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk) project is holding the second of a series of workshops to highlight the necessity of user requirements gathering for the humanities community. Thursday 12th October, 10.30 a.m. to 4 p.m, The Classics Centre, The Old Boys School, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL. (http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/faculty/index.html) The JISC funded 'Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities' (BVREH) project has recently been carrying out an extensive user requirements survey of humanities researchers at Oxford University. This is one of a number of ICT projects based in the humanities which have begun to focus on user requirements gathering prior to developing technology. The project feels that this is an important time to bring together these initiatives and work towards building a requirements capturing community for the humanities sector. The workshops are of particular importance in identifying the needs of humanities researchers in a broad range of subject areas and disciplines. Building on the existing expertise in e-Science they will attempt to identify ways in which humanities research can develop equivalent and inter-disciplinary structures and methodologies which will serve the needs of the research community and link it more firmly to ICT research structures on a national scale. Workshop Two - Requirements gathering in eScience The second workshop is designed to provide information about current methods of requirements capture within the e-science sector and to encourage discussion as to the similarities and differences between the sciences and humanities. In this respect the workshop will address what the wider community is doing, what is and is not relevant to requirements capture within humanities research, and will encourage participants to begin to think about a methodology devoted to the humanities. In conjunction with Marina Jirotka of the Oxford Centre for Requirements and Foundations, the session will outline the key methodologies utilized within the sciences, encouraging discussion and interaction around the relevance and benefit of current e-Science methods within the humanities. In order to gain a good sense of those wishing to attend, individuals are asked to submit a paragraph describing their interest is the workshop, together with a short summary of their background. Please confirm if you would like to attend by emailing ruth.kirkham_at_humanities.ox.ac.uk by Friday 6th October 2006. There are a limited number of places available so please book early to avoid disappointment. Lunch and light refreshments will be served during the day. Kind regards, Ruth Kirkham ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ruth Kirkham Project Manager 'Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities' The Classics Centre, The Old Boys School George Street Oxford OX1 2RL Email: ruth.kirkham_at_humanities.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 288394 BVREH Project Website: http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk/ From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 20.219 more than a great promise Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:26:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 304 (304) [deleted quotation]Put that way, the argument that humanities should support the sciences makes sense. But it begs the question "in what cause". The most fundamental problem is that the whole premise of academia as a bastion of "the spirit of inquiry" is under attack from the new model of academia as a business. But perhaps I was simply naive to have imagined there was ever any other agenda than the good of individual faculty members and institutions, from a career point of view. Except for a few wonderful people here and there whose interests lay in pure inquiry, or in inquiry for the betterment of mankind. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING 2006 Guide to the Okal Rel Universe - Fandom Press From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: RE: 20.211 great promise, not great threat? Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:31:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 305 (305) Colleagues, First Willard (via Andrew) and then David, if I may be permitted -- and I'm trying my best to be brief. (Since one could go on indefinitely on this topic while hardly even feeling it.) I'd think that dismissing the two historians' reactions as "Luddite sentiments" is not only too facile (surely one can if so inclined counter them in a more substantive way) and perhaps too denigrating, but -- to me most importantly -- by implication too scientistic. As though natural scientists by the very nature of what they do are bringers of social, cultural and intellectual progression (not to speak of truth and rationality, mirrors of nature and suchlike), and uneasiness with their "answers" and "arguments" can arise only from a sort of imbecilic conservatism. Feyerabend has laid the validity of this kind of assumption pretty convincingly to rest. (Not that he's the only one -- but he did it repeatedly and in various ways, and eloquently and with good humor, so I'll mention only him.) Not that I am inclined to applaud those historians' line of thinking. They seem (ironically !) to be in the same boat, very much the wrong boat in my opinion, as Andrew, already at their very point of departure : i.e. in presuming that there are essential epistemic differences between investigators/scholars in the natural sciences and investigators/scholars in the humanities : in the way they think, the way they see things, the kinds of conclusions they draw. Ontologies differ significantly (though probably less than one used to think, before Latour and others), epistemics -- not to mention social and social-psychological determinants -- not significantly. This is the drift of much of the last decades' work in the philosophy of science, the sociology of knowledge and other disciplines. And it accords well with the conclusions of many an eminent natural scientist once he turns seriously to reflecting on what he has spent his life doing, and may well still be doing. What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that the whole discussion, the whole controversy if you will, in the end is hardly fertile. So that a question such as Willard's, "the question of how we know what we know", of "the comparison with what we in the end plainly know [and an intellectual space with pseudo- natural objects obeying algorithmic laws]", should never be seen as an occasion for setting a "science" way of thinking off against a "humanities" way of thinking (or of reasoning or of arguing). We don't need humanities answers instead of science answers, or vice versa, we just need good answers. The only good answers, at least the only answers to this kind of question which I have ever found compelling, can never be forced into one or the other of those two (artificial, and presumably incommensurable) categories. That's the great glory of real intellectual cogency. It's to me a tremendous reassurance, namely that we're all in this together. What more could you want ? (And don't be nervous about the "sciences"; they've if anything more to fear from us these days than we from them.) And then as to David's posting under this heading. This all sounds quite (direly) intriguing, to quote : "a historical moment when the authority, independence, and integrity of the natural sciences have been under sustained attack from powerful retrograde forces", "the suppression of inquiry" -- which makes one all the more curious to what he's in fact referring. And "empirical evidence" of what ?? Maybe I missed something along the line, but it all sounds sufficiently ominous to merit some discussion even on this list (now that we're off on science as opposed to us). I'm quite curious. I hope he will fill us in and be more explicit, for I'd welcome the occasion to see discussed, against the background of an actual specific contemporary situation, concepts such as the authority and independence of the natural sciences -- topics on which there exists a great deal of confusion and misunderstanding, it seems to me. Laval Hunsucker Universiteit van Amsterdam Universiteitsbibliotheek / Bibliotheek Geesteswetenschappen [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 306 (306) [deleted quotation] From: Mark Olsen Subject: DHCS Colloquium Registration Open Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:53:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 307 (307) What to Do with a Million Books: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. NOVEMBER 5-6, 2006 http://dhcs.uchicago.edu/ Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street The University of Chicago Chicago, IL Registration deadline: OCTOBER 23, 2006 The goal of this colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. In the wake of recent large-scale digitization projects aimed at providing universal access to the world's vast textual repositories, humanities scholars, librarians and computer scientists find themselves newly challenged to make these resources functional and meaningful. Digitizing "a million books" poses far more than just technical challenges. Tomorrow, a million scholars will have to re-evaluate their notions of archive, textuality and materiality in the wake of recent developments. How will the humanities scholar and the computer scientist find ways to collaborate in the "Age of Google?" TRAVEL GRANTS FOR STUDENTS. Application deadline: OCTOBER 16, 2006 We are very pleased to be able to offer $500 towards transporation expenses and four nights paid lodging to three graduate students who wish to participate in the DHCS Colloquium. For more information, please consult: http://dhcs.uchicago.edu/student_grants INVITED SPEAKERS: Greg Crane, Professor of Classics and Editor-in-Chief of the Perseus Project, Tufts University Ben Shneiderman, founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland John Unsworth, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PROGRAM: http://dhcs.uchicago.edu/program For more information or to register, visit http://dhcs.uchicago.edu or email dhcs-conference_at_listhost.uchicago.edu Sponsored by the Humanities Division and the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology. From: Joanne Yeomans Subject: Announcing OAI5 : 5th Workshop on Innovations in Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:54:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 308 (308) Scholarly Communication, 18-20 April 2007 Apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to announce the dates of the 5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland (OAI5): Wednesday 18th - Friday 20th April 2007 Please consult the conference website: http://cern.ch/oai5 The OAI series of workshops is one of the biggest international meetings of technical repository-developers, library Open Access policy formulators, and the funders and researchers that they serve. The programme contains a mix of practical tutorials given by experts in the field, presentations from cutting-edge projects and research, posters from the community, breakout discussion groups, and an intense social programme which has helped to build a strong network amongst previous participants. The event is almost unique in bringing together these scholarly communication communities and is proud to continue this tradition with the OAI5 workshop in 2007. Note for regular participants: the workshop will now fall Wednesday to Friday and NOT Thursday to Saturday as previously. Further information will be added to the web site in November, including further programme details, a registration form, and a call for contributions. We look forward to welcoming you to CERN in 2007. ******************** Joanne Yeomans Office 3/1-012, DSU/SI Service http://library.cern.ch/ Email: joanne.yeomans@cern.ch Mail address: Mailbox C27810 CERN CH 1211 Geneva 23 Switzerland Tel: 70548 (externally dial +41 22 76 70548) From: David Sewell Subject: Re: 20.221 great promise, not great threat Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:53:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 309 (309) On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, R.L. Hunsucker wrote: [deleted quotation]I'll do my best to respond without being polemical, but I can't respond without exposing my own political viewpoint, with which others are of course free to disagree. The situation in the United States is quite simply that scientists in a variety of fields, from environmental sciences to evolutionary biology to medical research and beyond, have been undermined and put on the defensive by the explicit policies and actions of the Bush administration and its allies. I'm sure that the broad outlines of the situation (e.g., the renewed effort to "balance" Darwinism with creationistic theories in the classroom; attempts to censor or suppress climate researchers at odds with the Administration line on global warming) are familiar to Europeans, but the best single source for anyone interested in the details would be the just-issued revised version of "The Republican War on Science" by Chris Mooney (Basic Books, 2006). I may have overreacted to what I perceived as a "humanities versus sciences" reference because of some personal history. I earned a Ph.D. in literature and then taught for eight years in an American university department of English in an environment where the sort of social-constructivist critique of sciences that Andrew Ross offered in "Strange Weather" was very much in the ascendant. I can remember myself loosely considering science departments "the enemy", if I thought about them at all. I left university teaching in 1992 and ended up for several years working on the editorial staff of the major international journal of radiocarbon studies, housed at the University of Arizona, a position that brought me into constant contact with geoscientists, dendrochronologists, soil scientists, oceanographers, paleobotanists, and archaeologists from all parts of the world. It was an education that soon made me thoroughly ashamed of the caricatured view of scientific practice and epistemology that I'd accepted without questioning. So I was on Alan Sokal's side by the time of his famous 1997 hoax article in "Social Text" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair for a good brief history of this episode). And I think he was quite prophetic in seeing the postmodernist attack on science as ultimately aiding reactionary anti-intellectualism; notoriously, the advocates of putting Intelligent Design into biology classrooms have used the language of "teaching the controversy" and appealed to vague notions of multiculturalism in arguing that students have a right to have their beliefs about human history respected. One of the people I came to know at Arizona was Malcolm Hughes, head of the Tree-Ring Laboratory there, as wonderful a colleague as I've had in 20+ years of university employment. He was a victim in 2005 of the sort of anti-scientistic bullying that I used to blithely think happened in the bad old Soviet Union, not the good old USA; see a summary account on the Union of Concerned Scientists' website http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/Barton-Investigation.html In short, the last few years have been precarious ones for the "authority and independence of the natural sciences" in these parts. I'd recommend ScienceBlogs, www.scienceblogs.com, for good discussions by a variety of folks on current issues in the culture and politics of science. -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Courier: 310 Old Ivy Way, Suite 302, Charlottesville VA 22903 Email: dsewell_at_virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ From: "J. Trant" Subject: MW2007 Proposal Deadline: Sept. 30, 2006 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:24:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 310 (310) REMINDER: Proposal Deadline this Saturday! Museums and the Web 2007 April 12-16, 2007 San Francisco, California, USA Don't forget that proposals for MW2007 are due on Saturday, September 30, 2006. Make yours on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/call.html All proposals for Museums and the Web are peer-reviewed. The program will be announced in mid-November. For program details and registration information see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ or email mw2007@archimuse.com. We hope to see you in San Francisco! jennifer and David -- __________ J. Trant jtrant_at_archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __________ From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 20.223 events: What to Do with a Million Books; Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:23:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 311 (311) Innovations in Scholarly Communication Speaking of a Million Books. . .it won't be that long before you can get an entire million in one place. . .maybe 1/2 million starting Sunday, as in the following press release. . . . 1/2 Million Volume Goal for Next Week's World eBook Fair! Fair Hopes to Give Away 100 Million Copies of eBooks! It Is Now One Week to The Second World eBook Fair! 500,000+ eBooks are scheduled to be available in October, International Book Fair Month For an advance look visit: http://worldebookfair.com Press Release: Effective Sept 26 - October 3, 2006 A one minute visit to The World eBook Fair site could get you a free copy of any of over 400,000 eBooks or an eBook via a 50% off coupon from a commercial eBook vendor. The Second World eBook Fair will add nearly 100,000 eBook downloads to its free access site for a total of 400,000+ instantly downloadable books, and will hopefully add even more than 100,000 commercial eBooks in mid-October, for a grand total that could pass 1/2 million and approach 2/3, by the end of the month as more and more eBooks are added throughout the month. This total includes over 100,000 from Project Gutenberg's eBook library and over 300,000 of the World eBook Library collection that are usually availably by subscription for $8.95 per year, but are given away free of charges during The World eBook Fairs. 500,000 eBooks From Over 100 eLibraries=World eBook Fair! Over 100 worldwide electronic libraries have donated book collections being made available to all in October, and a total of over 125 could be in place by month's end. If all the collections being amassed at this moment would come to fruition during the International Book Fair Month of October 1 - 31, the grand total could be well over the estimated 1/2 million mark, perhaps even to 2/3 million-- but we're sticking with the estimate of 1/2 million for a couple weeks until mid-October. The Rapid Growth of eBooks The First World eBook Fair gave away ~30 million eBooks a few months ago in July, and now a Second World eBook Fair is trying to give away 100 million, in addition to adding requested new materials from the commercial eBook world. Just 100 days after opening The First World eBook Fair in which books were offered from 100 electronic libraries we have already received donations of additional eBooks from ~25 more eLibraries from around the world and are looking forward to two collections, one commercial, one free, for sometime during The Second World eBooks Fair, each one in excess of 100,000 additional eBooks. Perhaps Twice As Many eBooks Will Be Included in October! Up from the 1/3 million eBooks included in The First World eBook Fair three months ago, perhaps 1/2 to 2/3 million at the highest hopes are now goals for The Second World eBook Fair scheduled to start on October 1, the beginning of the International Book Fair Month. What Is The World eBook Fair? The first step towards building a library of eBooks was in 1971, 20 years before the word "Internet" appeared a first time on the cover or front page of any major publication: Page One, The Wall St. Journal, Oct. 29, 1991 The story was about the very eBooks that are appearing now as part of The World eBook Fair, but the press is giving a nearly total credit to Google and Yahoo, as if they should be credited with the invention of eBooks and eLibraries. The World eBook Fair is a continuing attempt to bring free and inexpensive eBooks to the attention of the public, for the purposes of increasing literacy and reading throughout the entire world. This is a major effort to increase awareness of eBooks for downloading via the Internet, via cellphones, or via DVDS, CDs, iPods, Palm Pilots and just plain computers. If we can increase literacy and reading habits by just 10% then we also increase the odds of a cure for AIDS by 10%. Our goal is to reach 15% of the world population and to do what we can to give each of them a library of millions and millions of books they would not have access to otherwise. The First World eBook Fair presented 1/3 million free book files for download and The Second will include even more-- and will also include, at the request of our readers, some additional new commercial eBooks. Contact information for all parties is included below. In response to requests from readers around the world, the Second World eBook Fair will include modern books from the commercial eBook publishers in greater numbers, perhaps as many as 100,000 of these by the end of October, though the entire commercial eBook count and release is very hushhush at the moment, and we probably can't tell you until we are literally at the very last moment. However, there is a second possible collection of 100,000, all of which will be free of charge, that is also a secret project for the time being, also scheduled for unveiling a few weeks from now during October. Actually, each of these projects is targeting in excess of 100,000 books each. If both of these project come to fruition in October as we are hoping and planning, the grand total would likely rise to over 600,000 and perhaps to 2/3 million, doubling eBook totals from the First World eBook Fair. Of course, if neither come to fruition in October then the grand total is still between 400,000 and 500,000 eBooks, a far sight from the 100,000 eBooks sometimes offered by the Google Book Search project. Bigger, Better, Faster, More In addition to requests for more modern eBooks, efforts in the Second World eBook Fair have been made to insure users won't have the delays caused by such long virtual lines in October, as the highest size and grade of bandwidth is now in place at http://worldebookfair.com New computers are also in place, along with a new software upgraded in several areas to provide the easier and faster searches that have also been requested, Most of the eBooks are fully searchable, you can search to find any quotation, name, etc., in hundreds of thousands. Contacts For Further Information: Michael S. Hart, Founder, Project Gutenberg USA Phone: 217-344-6623 John Guagliardo, Founder, World eBook Library USA Phone: 808-292-2086 Prof. Greg Newby, CEO, Project Gutenberg USA Phone: 907-450-8663 Visit Digital Pulp Publishing at http://www:ddpstore.com Catherine Hodge 760-327-5110 USA Hodge_at_digitalpulppublishing.com John Mizzi, Founder, Mobile [Cell Phone] eBooks +356 2155 0846 johnmizzi@mobilebooks.org http://www.mobilebooks.org [Malta] Visit The World eBook Fair at http://worldebookfair.com Here is some additional information from each of these parties: Mobile [Cellphone] eBooks Are Becoming All The Rage 5,000 new eBooks for cellphones are being added this week and this is only 1% of the hoped for 500,000 eBooks being targeted for release on the first day of October in honor of International Book Fair Month. Details below. Up from the 1/3 million eBook files offered for download, all free of charge, on July 4, in response to requests of eBook readers around the world, more eBooks were added to include more modern selections via commercial sources and a wider variety of formats, which could total 1/2 million eBooks in October. If all goes perfectly well there will be 1/2 million free eBooks, AND over 100,000 from various commercial eBook sources. Given the unprecedented downloading of ~30 million eBooks files in July, The World eBook Fair has created whole new combinations of hardware and software to allow more files to be downloaded by more people, with the hopes of giving away 100 million eBooks in October. Both Searching and Downloading of eBooks Now Streamlined New software has been implemented to eliminate delays due to high download activity, searches are now handled via a completely different servers than downloads and searching should be not only faster but easier, as more suggestions are available when using the search engine. Bandwidth should be multiplied by 6 or 7, and should thus allow for everyone to log in at the same time without any of the problems from overloading of lines. Obvious Comparisons To Google Google has just passed 100,000 eBooks, many of which will not be allowed for download; nearly two years after their huge launch of their 10 million book Google Print Library back in 2004 = just 1% of their goal. The World eBook Fair, which started just three months ago appears to already be reaching 500,000 eBooks, the stated goal for July 4, 2007, and could perhaps pass 2/3 million which was their stated goal for July 4, 2008, but only if all their ducks line up in a row and take off perfectly. However, with two such massive additional projects on the horizon, there is little doubt that The World eBook Fairs will continue to outpace Google Book Search, which Google had to rename the Google Print Library to since it turned out users could neither print the books nor use them in a traditional library sense. Of course, this has been contradicted not only by Google's actions, but also in their own words: "Google Book Search is a means for helping users discover books, not to read them online and/or download them." However, in all honesty, we must inform you that Google's current efforts seem to be in a better direction, even if they don't appear to be making much progress toward their 10 million eBook goal as stated. A Little eBook History Project Gutenberg began the world's first eLibrary around July 4, 1971 and has continued as the major voice for the construction of free electronic libraries worldwide. Project Gutenberg currently hosts over 100,000 eBooks for free download on sites around the world. [Details below] John Guagliardo and The World eBook Library Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg founder, was invited to a meeting of The Hawaii Library Association to present at a yearly conference around 1999 by then Hawaii Library Assn President John Guaglairdo, founder of World eBook Library and now sponsor of The Project Gutenberg Consortia Center and The World eBook Fair. John and Michael enjoy working together on eBooks more than most people could imagine. The World eBook Library has hundreds of thousands of book titles available in .pdf files, any and all of which will be downloadable free during The World eBook Fair, and are permanent additions to your own eBook library. The books are normally available for $8.95 per year subscription at http://public-library.net/ Greg Newby, Project Gutenberg CEO Greg and Michael met at The University of Illinois School of Library Science when Dr. Newby first arrived as a Ph.D in Library and Information Science from Syracuse; friends from the first moment they met they worked on information science with the energy and perspectives only shared by a combination of the young and the idealistic, both with an assortment of skills and workaholic idealism that started public computing at The University Of Illinois. Greg is now spending much of his time running "The Arctic Regions Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks," and spends the rest of his working time on Project Gutenberg, when not mushing his dog teams or home with his family. Catherine Hodge and Digital Pulp Publishing Yet another workaholic idealist, Catherine met Michael on one of the more popular eBook discussion lists, and their mutual interests have carried them into World eBook Fairs #1 and #2 with an ever increasing role being played by an eBook commercial center. Right now Catherine, Greg, John and Michael, and friends, relatives, etc., are overworking themselves to create The Second World eBook Fair in a manner than cannot be missed by anyone who values literacy or literature. John Mizzi and Mobile Books for Cellphones John Mizzi, Founder of Mobile Books: contact info above, is the latest major contributor with 5,000 eBooks via the ranks of cellphone/mobile users all over the world and he is already targeting a goal of 20,000 eBooks for the next World eBook Fair. 100,000+ Project Gutenberg eBooks permanently available The following 100,000+ eBooks are always free of charge: 21,500 eBooks at http://www.gutenberg.org ~50 languages 100,000 eBooks at http://www.gutenberg.cc ~100 languages 1,290 eBooks at http://gutenberg.net.au PG of Australia 350 eBooks at http://pge.rastko.net ~65 languages via Project Gutenberg of Europe From: Willard McCarty Subject: anti-intellectualism vs the promise Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:37:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 312 (312) The anti-intellectualism detailed for one part of the world by David Sewell is not unfamiliar to those of us who live elsewhere. The seriousness of the situations in which it is growing cannot be overstated. Common cause with our colleagues in the natural and social sciences would be foolish in the extreme to reject. If there are cogent arguments against such statements as these, then please let them be made. But I doubt that they can be made persuasively. At the same time, while we can, if we can, the best we as individuals can do, I think, is to be clear and steadily eloquent about the promise of what we are now engaged in developing -- eloquent not just to ourselves and our already committed fellow travellers but to those who have no particular reason to think one way or another about that promise. This is difficult to do for all sorts of reasons. Let me focus here on one of those difficulties. The dominant model for successful relation between universities and the wider world since WWII has been Big Science, starting with the Manhattan Project in the US. In physics, the dominant field at the time, Louis Alvarez (for whom as a youth I worked as the lowest of his lowest) did for research in his field what Henry Ford did for the automobile, and in much the same style. I think some have called it "factory physics". It was spectacularly successful. But having been on that scene at the time when it was successful -- graduate students literally queuing up for the privilege of being involved somehow, anyhow -- I can say that some, I suspect many physicists were not particularly happy with the style of work. They wanted to be cabinetmakers but had ended up being shop managers in a furniture factory. The point is, I think, that we need to think carefully about what appeals to people, starting with ourselves. About a year ago I found myself in a group of classicists, one of them very prominent in his specialism. They were, as classicists are wont to do these days, complaining about the fact that their discipline is declining in numbers. It's a serious problem, which I do not want in any way to make light of. But it seemed to me then as now that the way forward for them begins with the appeal I just spoke of with regards to physics. Transferrable skills, yes, yes, yes.... But is being transferrably skilled, or simply being transferrable, why people like us went the directions we went? Idealism does not get much time in the marketplace, but it does get a great deal of attention wherever it is that our motivations arise, and whenever it is that people ask the hard questions. Earlier this week I interviewed a middle-aged investment banker from the City (the financial district of London), who has decided that having made his money he wants to do, as he said, something for himself. So he comes to talk about enrolling in a postgraduate programme in the digital humanities. He read history at Baliol College Oxford many years ago and remembers what the intellectual life was like, and that's what he wants again. I was powerfully reminded that we do indeed have a very interesting and not inconsequential audience to address. Do we have the words? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: RE: 20.224 great promise, not great threat Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:22:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 313 (313) [ I'm going to respond in two postings, for reasons both of length and of content. ] I appreciate David's graciously and thoughtfully responding to my posting. Quite interesting to me are two dichotomies he draws, one more pronounced and equilibrious than the other. To begin with the latter : the one (implicitly) setting the "situation in the United States" off against the (possible) situation(s) elsewhere. The USA is indeed where I myself grew up and was educated (excepting a year's work at a German university), but I haven't been resident there for more than twenty-five years. That's one reason I'm particularly interested in his observations, and in possible answers from others on this list to the question I pose below, occasioned by his bringing in of Alan Sokal -- someone I tend myself to consider maybe just as rabidly and possibly even irresponsibly pro-natural-science-polemical as the practitioners of "anti-scientistic bullying" are irresponsibly rabid in the other direction. (But more on that in my next posting.) [Incidentally just for safety's sake, though the clarification will probaly not be necessary for most persons on this list : the term "scientistic" which I used must never be confused with "scientific" etc. ; see the OED's definition of scientism as "2. A term applied (freq. in a derogatory manner) to a belief in the omnipotence of scientific knowledge and techniques; also to the view that the methods of study appropriate to physical science can replace those used in other fields such as philosophy and, esp., human behaviour and the social sciences" and of scientistic as "Of or pertaining to scientism (sense 2)". I assume David too is using it in this sense.] It is coincidentally this very Sokal who in another publication (_Impostures intellectuelles_, with Jean Bricmont ; later translated into English) remarked more or less in passing that the more virulent and polemical varieties of the constructivist/ postmodernistic/relativistic attitude to science, though founded on writings of latter-20th-century European intellectuals, flourished much less broadly and obviously in Europe itself than in North America. When I read this years ago (and I'm working from memory here in my (cautious) formulation above), I couldn't help but enthusiastically agree with this observation. But that's not the same as saying that I understand *why* such was or is the case. I don't. And this is the perfect occasion to pose to all of you -- especially those of you experienced in North American academia, which may well be most of you -- the question : =3D> *Why* did this culture-wars phenomenon catch on so much more on that side of the water than on this, given that the theoretical foundations were laid much more on this side (not least in France) than on that ?? This list seems almost the perfect place to initiate such a deliciously reflexive discussion. It is certainly *not* the case that the postmodernist (to compress the whole matter into one not really accurate but often-applied term) conception of science-in-the-world marched quickly to victory in the hearts and minds of Europeans and therefore there was no need further to engage in dialogues/debates/controversies/polemics on the matter. Scientism, even in (humanities etc.) academic circles, is no less endemic here than elsewhere. Why, then ?? And this against the background of the fact that Europeans (here including Britons) have in qualitative terms surely predominated in dissolving the philosophical foundations of scientism, from Edmond Bouty, Ferdinand de Saussure, Gaston Bachelard and Ludwik Fleck via Michael Polanyi, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Popper, Imre Lakatos, Michel Foucault, Jean-Fran=E7ois Lyotard, Paul Feyerabend, through Mary Hesse, Stephen Toulmin, Bruno Latour, David Bloor, Barry Barnes to Karin Knorr-Cetina, Harry Collins, Steve Woolgar, Michael Mulkay, Steven Shapin, Trevor Pinch, Dan Sperber and further. David has therefore a certain point in contrasting the surroundings in which he has been operating with those in other areas of the world. The suggestion is that at least part of the explanation is to be sought in the religious environment. But somehow that seems at best only a part of the answer. Maybe even only a small part. Laval Hunsucker, Amsterdam, Nederland [deleted quotation]ation.html In short, the last few years have been precarious ones for the "authority and independence of the natural sciences" in these parts. I'd recommend ScienceBlogs, www.scienceblogs.com, for good discussions by a variety of folks on current issues in the culture and politics of science. --=20 David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Courier: 310 Old Ivy Way, Suite 302, Charlottesville VA 22903 Email: dsewell_at_virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ From: Catherine Coleman Subject: Job at Stanford Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:16:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 314 (314) Academic Technology Specialist, Visual Resources Center, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford University The Visual Resources Center (VRC) is one of several centers, schools and departments participating in the Academic Technology Specialists (ATS) Program which places technology experts with specific disciplinary training into departments where they can leverage their unique combination of skills to assists faculty in utilizing technology in the pursuit of their research and teaching goals. The Visual Resources Center provides an image collection and image production services to support the instructional program of the Department of Art & Art History. Formerly aligned with the Department of Art & Art History (AAH), VRC was recently transferred to the Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR), where it operates under the supervision of the Art & Architecture Library. The VRC has over 300,000 35 mm slides and 24,000 digital images and is engaged in both slide and digital image production. The collection covers all aspects of the study of art and architecture, especially Greek & Roman, European, American, Chinese and Japanese. The transfer of VRC into the SUL/AIR system provides numerous opportunities to leverage a department-based visual resource operation into a campus-wide service facility. The primary goals of the University -- teaching, learning, and research -- are centered on the accumulation and distribution of information among faculty, staff, and students, and the primary goal of the ATS is to support this mission through practical and creative uses of technology. An ATS position is multifaceted, and an ATS must be comfortable managing (juggling) a range of projects and duties that may include the development of complex web applications and/or databases on the one hand while assisting faculty in acquiring new technology skills. The ATS will play a central role in strategic planning and program development as VRC works to enhance and significantly expand its existing operation. The ATS will be responsible for leveraging technologies to achieve efficiencies in the digital production process, developing a back-up system for the imagebase, and designing a stable production platform from which to move forward. The recent incorporation of a Film and Media Studies program into AAH will require the addition of a digital video service for instructional support. The VRC will also need to expand its technological infrastructure to support the curricular requirements for the Electronic Media Arts program. As these VRC services grow, the ATS will be responsible for designing, developing and deploying the necessary technology solutions including a major initiative to network the imagebase, and provide VRC services online to the larger Stanford academic community. The ideal candidate will have a record of innovation and creativity in leveraging technology to make resources accessible, understandable, and appealing to an academic audience and demonstrated leadership and resourcefulness in identifying and integrating technological solutions to research and pedagogical needs. The ability to work closely and respectfully with VRC staff, Art & Architecture Library staff, under the supervision of the Head of the Art & Architecture Library, in an extremely collegial, service-based, and forward-looking operation, is essential. For a full job description with detailed responsibilities and necessary qualifications, visit http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html and enter the job number, 22353 in the keyword search field. To apply for the job, select Apply at the bottom of the job page. From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: Humanites "vs." the natural sciences, OR Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:15:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 315 (315) "anti-intellectualism vs the promise" I was yesterday speaking of two dichotomies raised by David, and said my bit on the one regarding the USA as opposed to other parts of the world. The other is the universal one of natural science as opposed to the rest of society. (I write consciously "rest of society" ; though scientists used to like to think, while many of them still do, that qua scientists, qua the professional work that they do, they stand not in, but outside, the social sphere. An interesting question would be to what extent social and humanities scholars labor under a similar illusuion.) What seems inherent in both of David's postings is that "science" is some kind of special, unique, pure and self- justifying activity -- practiced by human beings but for the rest not subject to factors that we acknowledge as relevant to other genres of human activity. Do we believe this ? Should we believe this ? Is this in fact a genuine possibility ? And so here's the rub. If we don't give up that idea, we're gonna have to explain how humans can at the same time be non-humans (perceptually, cognitively, affectively, interactionally, rhetorically and in still other ways). If we do -- as I think we can't avoid in the long run doing -- give up that idea, then things like, to use the formulation of David, "the authority and independence of the natural sciences" have a odd sort of ring to them. What is it that justifies an unquestioning acceptance of that authority, of that independence ? Who or what has legitimated it -- in the past, the present or for the future ? (Or are we actually singing the praises of a sky-hook ?) Nobody who's looked into the matter denies anymore the many missteps, dead-ends, incoherencies, non-empiricalities, vested interests, ideological motivations, time- and place- dependency, unforeseen applications and other skeletons-in- the-closet of science as actually practiced, from the seventeenth century to the present. Certainly the scientists themselves are well aware of all these things (though you don't read about them in textbooks, publicity materials, grant applications and so on). This brings us to the so-called internalist/externalist controversy. Are such problems -- as the scientists themselves tend to argue, supported by the more Mertonian sociologists of science -- things that the scientific community (the scientific specialism) itself should be left to address, without meddling by non-insiders (read: the rest of society, whose money scientists nevertheless always gladly accept) ? Science *claims* to be self-correcting. And a kind of self-correction *does* often take place as time goes by. Can we leave it at that ? Are the internalists right ? Paul Feyerabend, whom I mentioned in passing earlier in this thread, gave a lot of thought to these questions. One thing is his frequently surfacing reminder that science is not (as the cliche has it) value-free. (It is naive to maintain that science, like any human endeavor, is not driven by its own values. And in an open society differing values can and should be weighable off against each other.) But specifically on p. 260-262 of his _Farewell to Reason_ (Verso, 1987), he argues that it is absolutely essential for a democracy *not* to be dependent on science's self-correction -- i.e., essential to *deny* to science an unexamined authority and independence. Society as a whole may even decide to reject the view of reality which science has cobbled together for its own purposes, in favor of a view of reality more apt "to stabilise the qualitative world of our everyday experiences". And those everyday experiences definitely include religion. What is paramount is the (collective) quality of life. Science can then be valued explicitly for its instrumentality of prediction (cf. Mary Hesse's pragmatic criterion of prediction and control). This Feyerabend writes at the end of a piece on Galileo and Cardinal Bellarmino which I can recommend, if as nothing else as a thought-exercise, to anyone. (And let us not forget Einstein's conviction that physics at the theoretical level requires a strong faith and a "religious feeling", a "religious spirit" in order to approach understanding reality -- see the pieces reprinted in his _Ideas and opinions_, 1954 plus reprints.) David writes that having taken a PhD in literature and having taught eight years in that field he went into science publishing. We seem to have strangely similar backgrounds : after a PhD in Classics and seven years teaching in that field at three American universities, I worked for seven years at Elsevier Science Publishers. The difference is that I hardly remember ever encountering a 'science departments as the enemy' attitude which my later experiences in the world of high-level science revealed as fatuous or unfair. (That *could* be because I was ten to fifteen years earlier than David.) My whole life was led amidst a more or less self-evident blue-sky scientistic positivist worldview -- until I almost totally on my own began to realize how obscurantist actual (ethnographic, historical, epistemological, cognitive etc.) investigations of science-as-theory but especially science-as-practice have shown such a worldview to be. David opines that his "own political viewpoint" lies behind his science- as-victim plea. I have no reason to disagree with him there. Maybe it's best just to leave it at that. - Laval Hunsucker From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: anti-intellectualism / great promise, not great threat Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:16:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 316 (316) Probably I've already run on long enough on this topic for the present -- but I ask your indulgence for just a short response to the continuing discussion. I think we've got (i.e., it's our intellectual and critical, our reflexive and even our social responsibility) to be very cautious about distinguishing real anti-intellectualism from valid criticism from outside of what we, or our colleagues in the natural sciences, are doing. That's far too facile, not to say self-serving. Anti-scientism (as opposed to anti- science), anti-positivism, anti-essentialism or anti- representationalism are not anti-intellectualism. Many a keen thinker and many a good scholar is to be found in any of those ranks. The perhaps greatest contribution of Foucault (an anti- intellectual ?) to contemporary culture was the consistent insistence on the potential value to us of pursuing an honest "g=E9n=E9alogie" (in his sense of that word) of the academic discipline -- whatever that may be -- in which we are engaged. It is astounding how much, even institutionalized, "d=E9formation professionnelle" such an exercise can quickly bring to light. And from such light we can only profit. One of the most blatant examples I know is my own current discipline of documentation (what was decades ago overoptimistically renamed "information science", and is now grotesquely being marketed as "knowledge management" or some variant thereof). Willard refers to classicists (my former discipline) and their problems. Couldn't they be confusing the symptoms with the problems ? The prominent classicist John Peradotto was of the opinion that such an exercise as recommended by Foucault was precisely what his -- intellectually reclusive, as he described it -- discipline needed (first chapter of _Man in the Middle Voice_, 1990). I doubt he was optimistic that most of the discipline would take him seriously. And I believe that he was in that case quite right. Common cause against anti-intellectualism is fine. I would agree with Willard that being "steadily eloquent" in that cause is something our culture and society very much can use from us. But defense of intellectualism is something very different from defense of disciplines as they presently exist and function. Let's be clear about that. Where do our real priorities lie ? - Laval Hunsucker Amsterdam From: "Alan Burk" Subject: Reminder: Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis starts Oct. 11 Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:19:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 317 (317) CaSTA 2006: A reminder that the 2006 Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA 2006) starts Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006, with the following workshops: Phonetic Analysis of Texts: How to See What You Hear Using Perl to Make Text Transformation Easier Testing Usability and the User Experience No More HTML: Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to present XML for the Web A post-conference workshop on Sunday, Oct. 15 entitled Using XTeXT to develop search and retrieval web applications might also be of interest. Register today for what is sure to be a very interesting international symposium. We hope to see you at CaSTA 2006. Regards, Brad Nickerson and Alan Burk Conference Organizing Committee, Co-Chairs **** CaSTA 2006 registration available announcement **** Registration is now available for the upcoming CaSTA 2006 conference at: www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006 CaSTA 2006 is the 5th in a series of CaSTA conferences, focusing on text analysis. This year's conference will bring together Computer Scientists and Humanities Computing researchers to share their work on the central issues driving current scholarly research on the linguistic, visual, and aural manifestations of text. Fees are: Regular Registration (Early/Late): $125/$150 Student Registration (Early/Late): $ 65/$ 75 Conference Workshops: $55 for 1/2 day /$85 Full day The above rates include all taxes. Late fees will apply after September 15, 2006. CaSTA 2006 is taking place from October 11 to October 15, 2006 in the beautiful Riverfront Capital of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. There is an exciting program planned with five internationally known and highly regarded keynote speakers: William Y. Arms, Computer Science, Cornell University; Willard McCarty, Reader in Humanities Computing, King's College, London, UK; Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia; Ian Munro, Professor of Computer Science and Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design, University of Waterloo; and Peter Shillingsburg, Professor of English, De Montfort University, UK. A series of interesting pre and post-conference workshops, presentations based on peer reviewed papers and posters, and a provocative panel discussion "Humanities Computing Science?", focusing on research of common interest to humanists, computer and information scientists are all part of the program. A promotional poster for printing and posting is available at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006/relatedlinks.php We look forward to welcoming attendees to CaSTA 2006! **** End of CaSTA 2006 registration available announcement **** _______________________________________________ Members mailing list Members_at_lists.sdh-semi.org http://lists.sdh-semi.org/mailman/listinfo/members From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD in Digital Humanities Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:15:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 318 (318) The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King's College London, invites preliminary enquiries for its PhD programme in the digital humanities to start in Autumn 2007. Unlike most North American PhDs, for example, this is a research degree, i.e. without course-requirements or qualifying examination. Candidates on the programme are allowed to pursue the degree full-time for a maximum of four years; part-time study is possible, and due allowances are made for it in the allowed span of time. Funding is difficult to obtain, so interested individuals are encouraged to begin their enquiries early in the Autumn semester of the academic year preceding the desired year of admission. Preliminary discussion with the admissions tutor is highly recommended because a cogent research proposal is crucial to the success of an application. Almost all enquiries and applications received so far involve some form of dual supervision, with one supervisor in the CCH, the other in the department of the student's discipline of origin. Admission therefore also normally depends on our ability to secure the cooperation of a suitable academic in or near London to represent the other discipline. Primary emphasis of the PhD must, however, be in humanities computing. Normally the degree will involve practical as well as theoretical work, although the balance depends very much on the topic and approach. In the first instance enquiries should be directed to Sarah Davenport, sarah DOT davenport AT kcl DOT ac DOT uk. 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_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Jeux, Esprit, Science Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:16:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 319 (319) Dear Willard, Some time ago (within the last calendar year), I suggested that the philosophical explorations of Bernard Suits into the nature of game playing might offer a worthy analogy of the types of activities involved in humanist computing. I offer here a quotation from the passage that I had in mind. Its value for me is less in its deployment of the categories of "will" and "necessity" and more in the value it places on "lusory attitude". [Speaker="Grasshopper"] To play a game is to attempt to achieve a specific state of affairs (prelusory goal), using only means permitted by rules (lusory means), where the rules prohibit use of more efficient in favour of less efficient means (constitutive rules), and where the rules are accepted just because they make possible such activity (lusory attitude). I also offer the following simpler and, so to speak, portable version of the above: playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles. Bernard Suits. The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia. Toronto: Univeristy of Toronto Press, 1978. p. 41 By analogy, humanist computing has two vectors of influence aligned along two questions: which material can be the subject of which games and which games can be applied to which material. Such symmetry is of course dialectical if one considers that the preparation of material as partaking of game play. Which material? -- how is humanist computing positioned to support work beyond (to the side of) the core linguistic focus? how does its work on the "word" relate to work on other signs? Which games? is humanist computing in a position to export or import methods to and from less word-based areas of activity? can (should) humanist computing be able to abstract its knowlege structures and apply them to objects other than the signs of natural languages? Is the principle game of humanist computing, translation? From: Anderson, Noel W Subject: Fwd: Chicago Manual of Style' Marks Its Centennial Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:18:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 320 (320) Sent: Mon 10/2/2006 10:12 AM CHICAGO RULES: In November 1906, a modest little book crept onto the publishing scene with a mouthful of a title. The Manual of Style: Being a Compilation of the Typographical Rules in Force at the University of Chicago Press, to Which Are Appended Specimens of Types in Use grew out of a style sheet kept in the press's composing room. Fifteen editions and 100 years later, The Chicago Manual of Style has established itself as the press's all-time top earner. Its distinctive dust jacket - an eye-popping orange that calls to mind traffic cones - brightens the reference shelves of word jockeys across the nation. It has sold 1.75 million copies over its long lifetime, according to Ellen Gibson, the press's reference-marketing manager. As it closes in on its centennial, The Chicago Manual has evolved yet again, this time for the digital age. Users have clamored to have it in digital form, Ms. Gibson says. "One of the things we heard over and over again was 'Can you please make it searchable online?'" In response the press just released the manual on CD-ROM, with a price tag of $60, five dollars more than the print volume. An online edition was set to debut on September 29. Users can sign up for a free 30-day trial. After that, a one-year online subscription costs $25, with an annual renewal fee of $30. Both digital incarnations reproduce the 15th edition faithfully, down to the last figure and table. The press also hopes to build a virtual community around the new online version, a space in which editors can debate the finer points of style. The Q&A feature of the manual's current Web site already gets 100,000 to 150,000 visitors a month, according to the press, which augurs well for the online edition. "We would love to be up to 50,000 subscribers in a year," says Ms. Gibson. "That's kind of our dream. But it really depends on what the manual users think of it." The reference's target audience, too, appears to have adapted to the digital age. Erin McKean, editor in chief of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press, says, "It would be very rare to find copy editors that don't do a considerable amount of their reference work online." And many users want to be able to search by keyword instead of using the print version's index and numbered-paragraph system. She plans to get her hands on the CD-ROM as soon as possible. "I travel a lot," she says. "I wouldn't be calling people up and saying, I don't have my CMOS with me, can you look something up?" Click on the link below to read the rest of this article from the September 29th Chronicle of Higher Education. [deleted quotation]http://tinyurl.com/lhn7b + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Mr. Noel Anderson 817-235-4339 cell Humanities Librarian 817-272-7428 office Univ. Texas at Arlington Library 817-272-3593 fax noel_at_uta.edu Rm. 311 Central Library + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + -- Carolyn Guertin, PhD Director, eCreate Lab Department of English University of Texas at Arlington 203 Carlisle Hall, Box 19035 Arlington, TX USA 76019-0035 http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/academy/carolynguertin/ (Voice): 817.272.2692 (FAX): 817.272.2718 From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: New Media Poetry and Poetics Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:15:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 321 (321) issue: Leonardo Electronic Almanac vol 14, issue 05 [deleted quotation]Now Available! Leonardo Electronic Almanac New Media Poetry and Poetics Issue Sept, v o l 14, i s s u e 05 http://www.leoalmanac.org A cool 10 grand. That's the number of hits that electronically streamed through this e-journal during its virgin weekend. This was revealed by an ecstatic LEA editor-in-chief, Nisar Keshvani, who also shares the accolades that have been pouring in from readers. He adds, 750 man-hours have gone into producing the "New Media Poetics and Poetry" Special guest-edited by Tim Peterson. Of the 70 submissions, nine crisp essays and four artist statements feature in Vol 14 No 5 - 6. The peer-reviewed electronic journal introduces downloadable PDFs of its essays with MLA and APA style citations and launches LEAD: Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion. LEAD will engage readers in an online moderated discussion list and real-time live chats with New Media Poetics scholars. Let's now, leap into yet another bold foray, this time revolving around the world of new media poetics. Bursting at the cyber-seams, a spiffy collection of essays by myriad authors await. "In the new media environment, we deal with an expanded notion of "poem" as praxis of surface level and sub-textual computer code levels, and an expanded awareness of the digital poem as process. The reading and reception of this writing occurs in a networked context, in which the reader becomes an "ergodic" participant (to use Espen Aarseth's term) and helps shape the form of the new media poem," defines New Media Poetics and Poetry issue guest editor Tim Peterson. * * * Peterson has woven together a marvelous mix featuring Loss Pequeńo Glazier John Cayley with Dimitri Lemmerman Lori Emerson Phillippe Bootz Manuel Portela Stephanie Strickland Mez Maria Engberg Matthias Hillner * * * Don't forget to scurry over to the equally exciting gallery, exhibiting works by Jason Nelson Aya Karpinska Daniel Canazon Howe mIEKAL aND CamillE BacoS Nadine Hilbert Gast Bouschet. For the first time also, be mesmerized by Mathias Hillner and Manuel Portela's shockwave creations. http://www.leoalmanac.org 01 e d i t o r's n o t e Nisar Keshvani 02 g u e s t e d i t o r i a l Tim Peterson on New Media Poetry and Poetics 03 e s s a y s New Media Poetics and Poetry 04 g a l l e r y Waxing Lyrical with New Media Poetics and Poetry 05 r e s o u r c e s Sign up for the Leonardo Electronic Almanac NMP list 06 a n n o u n c e m e n t s Watch this space for details on LEA's live forum with authors From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Reporting and Rewarding Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:16:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 322 (322) Willard, To the chapter of documenting professional activity, I want to signal the option that the University of Hawaii's Kapiolani Community College has made available to participants in its annual online conference. I signal it because it provides a means of highlighting and validating the _responsive function_ that is vital to intellectual interchange. The conference offers a "Certificate for Active Participation". Participants interested in receiving a certificate submit a short paper that is reviewed by conference staff in consultation with an advisory panel. Approved papers are posted to the conference website. The papers are "a minimum of 200 words" and reflect "upon two or theree discussion threads among the conference presentations." The intent is to not only collect and house reactive responses but also responses that are synthetic in outlook: teasing out relations among the conference presentations. In essence the practice records a web of readings. http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/certificate/index.html From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: Special Innovate Issue on Open Source Software Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:17:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 323 (323) Below is a one-time announcement of The October-November 2006 issue of Innovate (www.innovateonline.info), which focuses on the potential of open source software and related trends to transform educational practice. If you take advantage of our free subscription, you will be sent announcements of future issues (if you indicate on the subscription form that you want to receive these announcements). Our first four articles map out the current state of open source technology and offer recommendations for how educational institutions can benefit from its advances. David Wiley sets the stage by offering a recent history of the open source movement and discussing its recent impact in the educational sector. (See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=354 ) In turn, Robert Stephenson argues that the community networks established by open source software initiatives provide a model for similar networks in the educational sphere. In his commentary Stephenson outlines his concept of open course communities, a "knowledge ecosystem" in which the development and assessment of course materials would arise from technology-enhanced grassroots collaboration among educators, designers, librarians, and students themselves. (See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=345 ) Meanwhile, for many institutions the actual adoption of open source software still remains an open question; focused advocacy and strategic foresight thus remain the watchwords in our next two articles. In their commentary Gary Hepburn and Jan Buley first describe the implementation strategies available to schools considering open source software, and they subsequently address the key sociopolitical factors that must be taken into account by advocates of such implementation. (See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=323 ) Patrick Carey and Bernard Gleason note that open source software has resulted in significant advances in commercial software as well, which has led to the possibility of adopting modular combinations of open code and proprietary applications. In order to take full advantage of these trends, they argue, institutional planners should ensure that their systems provide an open, standards-based architecture that allows for a flexible range of software options. (See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=314 ) The remaining articles contain detailed accounts of the development, design, and use of specific open source applications as well as a study of how the process of open source development provides a valuable model of pedagogical design in its own right. Toru Iiyoshi, Cheryl Richardson, and Owen McGrath introduce readers to the KEEP Toolkit, a set of software tools designed to provide graphic representations of teaching practice and thereby support focused inquiry into pedagogical strategies. (See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=339 ) Harvey Quamen illustrates how he used MySQL software and PHP code to create a database that streamlines editorial tasks and procedures for a journal on humanities research. (See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=325 ) Kun Huang, Yifei Dong, and Xun Ge propose that the collaborative work environment of open source development has a distinctively pedagogical value for instructors. In illustrating this claim, they describe a graduate computing course in which student teams worked on software design projects in an online environment modeled after the virtual workspaces of open source software initiatives. (See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=324 ) Finally, in his Places to Go column, Stephen Downes introduces readers to Intute, an open access Web site that represents a significant step forward in the evolution of learning object repositories. Through the distinctive design of its search feature, Intute gives readers free access to a much broader network of resource providers than typically provided by other repositories. With its plans to release its own software as open source, Intute also promises to spur the growth of similar repositories that will further fuel vital innovations in teaching practice. (See http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=398 ) Please forward this announcement to appropriate mailing lists and to colleagues who want to use IT tools to advance their work. Ask your organizational librarian to link to Innovate in their resource section for open-access e-journals. Finally, please take advantage of our discuss feature within each article to add your commentary on this important topic. 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: Neven Jovanovic Subject: LibraryThing Social Software Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:17:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 324 (324) Dear Humanists, I just found out what is for me a new social software idea implemented: LibraryThing, an internet resource for creating and sharing personal library catalogues. Each catalogue is created by re-using data from existing electronic library catalogues (such as the one of the Library of Congress). LibraryThing seems to have started in June. Perhaps you would like to have a look at it, so we can think about it: http://www.librarything.com/ I sense quite a lot of educational potential there. Yours, Neven Jovanovic From: "Daniel O'Donnell" Subject: Scanning recommendation? Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:50:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 325 (325) Hi all, We are putting together a grant and need to find a contractor who can do very high quality 3D scanning of a smallish object in Belgium. Does anybody have any recommendations? The object is metal and wood and caused us glare problems when we tried photographing it, though I don't think that should be a problem with modelling. I suppose we are looking for a recommendation for a good company or institute with experience in this kind of thing in the Benelux, northern France or Germany. I'd appreciate any recommendations. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor and Chair of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 :@caedmon/ubuntu From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 31.3, September 2006 Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:49:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 326 (326) ISR Editorial Cattermole, Howard 31.3 193-193(1) <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://maney/isr/2006/00000031/00000003/art00001> Supporting interdisciplinarity: the Andrea von Braun Stiftung von Braun, Christoph-Friedrich 31.3 195-200(6) <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://maney/isr/2006/00000031/00000003/art00002> Organisation of language in the brain: does it matter what language you speak? Patterson, Karalyn; Fushimi, Takao 31.3 201-216(16) <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://maney/isr/2006/00000031/00000003/art00003> Cultural diversity in nanotechnology ethics Schummer, Joachim 31.3 217-230(14) <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://maney/isr/2006/00000031/00000003/art00004> Limits of professional secrecy: medical confidentiality in England and Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Pranghofer, Sebastian; Maehle, Andreas-Holger 31.3 231-244(14) <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://maney/isr/2006/00000031/00000003/art00005> Science and theatre in open dialogue: Biblioetica, Le Cas de Sophie K. and the postdramatic science play Campos, Liliane; Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten 31.3 245-253(9) <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://maney/isr/2006/00000031/00000003/art00006> 'Three hot drops of salmon oil': the artist and the self in the aftermath of Chernobyl Petrucci, Mario 31.3 254-260(7) <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://maney/isr/2006/00000031/00000003/art00007> Composing Einstein: exploring the kinship of art and science Ostergaard, Edvin 31.3 261-274(14) <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://maney/isr/2006/00000031/00000003/art00008> Revolutions in music and physics, 190030 Longair, Malcolm 31.3 275-288(14) <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/expand?pub=infobike://maney/isr/2006/00000031/00000003/art00009> Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.38 Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:49:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 327 (327) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 38 October 3, 2006 - October 9, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: AI REEMERGING AS RESEARCH IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS Authors Kemal A. Delic and Umeshwar Dayal explain that the history and the future of Artificial Intelligence could be summarized into three distinctive phases: embryonic, embedded and embodied. They briefly describe early efforts in AI aiming to mimic intelligent behavior, evolving later into a set of the useful, embedded and practical technologies. Then they project the possible future of embodied intelligent systems, able to model and understand the environment and learn from interactions, while learning and evolving in constantly changing circumstances. They conclude with the(heretical) thought that in the future, AI should re-emerge as research in complex systems. One particular embodiment of a complex system is the Intelligent Enterprise. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i38_ai.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i38_ai.html Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 38 (October 3, 2006 =96 October 9, 2006) From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Text Technology Issue Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:50:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 328 (328) Text Technology Issue Text Technology has a new issue out and the articles are available online at texttechnology.mcmaster.ca. The new issue includes articles first presented at the Face of Text CaSTA conference. The contents of the new issue include: John Bradley What You (Fore)see is What You Get:Thinking About Usage Paradigms for Computer Assisted Text Analysis Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Jeffrey Antoniuk, Sharon Farnel, Jane Haslett, and Kathryn Carter Facing the Deep: The Orlando Project Delivery System 1.0 Julia Flanders Detailism, Digital Texts, and the Problem of Pedantry David L. Hoover Hot-Air Textuality: Literature after Jerome McGann Jerome McGann Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities Jean Guy Meunier, Ismail Biskri, and Dominic Forest A Model for Computer Analysis and Reading of Text (CARAT): The SATIM Approach Marc R. Plamondon Computer-Assisted Phonetic Analysis of English Poetry: A Preliminary Case Study of Browning and Tennyson Stephen Ramsay In Praise of Pattern From: Journal of Digital Information Subject: JoDI: Adaptive Hypermedia Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:18:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 329 (329) The Journal of Digital Information, JoDI, has published a new special issue on Adaptive Hypermedia. http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/issue/view/29 The Adaptive Hypermedia special issue focuses on the fundamental issues of adaptive hypermedia as well as describing real-world applications of this technology. 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. 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. We are also pleased to announce that the journal's location has moved to its new home at the Texas Digital Library (TDL). With the move we have also upgraded the software behind JoDI which brings several improvements. JoDI is now using workflow software from Open Journal Systems, which now provides the ability to search the site and browse by title, author, or theme. If you wish to receive future notices about JoDI publications you will need to sign up at the journal's new site: http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/user/register JoDI From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: 2006 Music Retrieval Evaluation Results Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:41:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 330 (330) Dear Colleagues: On behalf of the hard-working student assistants in the IMIRSEL group, I am proud to announce that the results for the 2006 running of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2006) are now available. One-page PDF summarizing all this year's results for each task: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex2006/images/b/bd/MIREX2006_poster_final.pdf Links to all the individual evaluation task results: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex2006/index.php/MIREX2006_Results Links to the discussion pages on setting up the evaluation tasks: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex2006/index.php/Main_Page The MIREX 2006 participants will be convening at the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2006 (Oct. 8-12), Victoria, BC) to discuss the results and to plan for next year's MIREX 2007. If you are interested in things Music Information Retrieval, a visit to the ISMIR 2006 web page would be very much worth your time as this year's papers and posters are very strong!: http://ismir2006.ismir.net/ A special thanks to all that help make MIREX 2006 possible, Cheers, Stephen -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Center Affliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox](217) 649-3839 M2K Project Home: http://music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- September 2006 Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:42:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 331 (331) TL INFOBITS September 2006 No. 3 ISSN: Not Yet Assigned About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL'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. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitsep06.html You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ ...................................................................... Is Email Now Only for "Old People"? More Fun and Games Students' Perceptions of Online Learning Papers on Internet Censorship New Take on Peer Review of Scholarly Papers Recommended Reading Infobits RSS Feed ...................................................................... IS EMAIL NOW ONLY FOR "OLD PEOPLE"? According to an article in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION (vol. 53, issue 7, p. A27, October 6, 2006), "College officials around the country find that a growing number of students are missing important messages about deadlines, class cancellations, and events sent to them by e-mail because, well, the messages are sent to them by e-mail." The article cites research reported in a 2005 Pew Internet & American Life Project called "Teens and Technology," which found that while college students still used email to communicate with their professors, they preferred to use instant messaging, text messaging, and services such as MySpace to interact with their peers. The Chronicle article is available online at http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i07/07a02701.htm. The complete Pew report is available at no cost online at http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=3D162. The Pew Internet & American Life Project "produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through collection of data and analysis of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world." For more information and other reports, see http://www.pewinternet.org/index.asp. The Chronicle of Higher Education [ISSN 0009-5982] is published weekly by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc., 1255 Twenty-third Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037 USA; tel: 202-466-1000; fax: 202-452-1033; Web: http://chronicle.com/. ...................................................................... MORE FUN AND GAMES Continuing last month's topic on using games in learning environments (TL Infobits, August 2006 http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitaug06.html#2), more can be read in the October 2006 issue of ITALICS (vol. 5, issue 3, http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/vol5iss3.htm). Papers include: "Innovations in Learning and Teaching Approaches using Game Technologies -- Can 'The Movies' Teach How to Make a Movie?" By Ryan Flynn and Nigel Newbutt "Using A Virtual World For Transferable Skills in Gaming Education" By M. Hobbs, E. Brown, and M. Gordon "Providing the Skills Required for Innovative Mobile Game Development Using Industry/Academic Partnerships" By Reuben Edwards and Paul Coulton ITALICS, Innovation in Teaching And Learning in Information and Computer Science [ISSN 1473-7507] is an electronic journal published by the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) to provide a "vehicle for members of the ICS communities to disseminate best practice and research on learning and teaching within the subject disciplines." Current and past issues are available at http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/index.htm. For more information about the ICS, see http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/. See also: "Living a Second Life" THE ECONOMIST, September 28, 2006 http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=3D7963538 The article describes how Second Life, a virtual world environment, is being used as an educational tool. ...................................................................... STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF ONLINE LEARNING "The ultimate question for educational research is how to optimize instructional designs and technology to maximize learning opportunities and achievements in both online and face-to-face environments." Karl L. Smart and James J. Cappel studied two undergraduate courses -- an elective course and a required course -- that incorporated online modules into traditional classes. Their research of students' impressions and satisfaction with the online portions of the classes revealed mixed results: -- "participants in the elective course rated use of the learning modules slightly positive while students in the required course rated them slightly negative" -- "while students identified the use of simulation as the leading strength of the online units, it was also the second most commonly mentioned problem of these units" -- "students simply did not feel that the amount of time it took to complete the modules was worth what was gained" The complete paper, "Students' Perceptions of Online Learning: A Comparative Study" (JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, vol. 5, 2006, pp. 201-19), is available online at http://jite.org/documents/Vol5/v5p201-219Smart54.pdf. Current and back issues of the Journal of Information Technology Education (JITE) [ISSN 1539-3585 (online) 1547-9714 (print)] are available free of charge at http://jite.org/. The peer-reviewed journal is published annually by the Informing Science Institute. For more information contact: Informing Science Institute, 131 Brookhill Court, Santa Rosa, California 95409 USA; tel: 707-531-4925; fax: 480-247-5724; Web: http://informingscience.org/. ...................................................................... PAPERS ON INTERNET CENSORSHIP The theme for the September 2006 issue of FIRST MONDAY (vol. 11, no. 9), is "Who Supports Internet Censorship?" Some of the papers of interest to higher education faculty include: "Publishing Cooperatives: An Alternative for Non=ADProfit Publishers" By Raym Crow http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/crow/index.html "Publishing cooperatives can provide a scaleable publishing model that aligns with the values of the academy while providing a practical financial framework capable of sustaining society publishing programs." "A Privacy Paradox: Social Networking in the United States" By Susan B. Barnes http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/barnes/index.html "Teenagers will freely give up personal information to join social networks on the Internet. Afterwards, they are surprised when their parents read their journals. Communities are outraged by the personal information posted by young people online and colleges keep track of student activities on and off campus." "Puppy Smoothies: Improving the Reliability of Open, Collaborative Wikis" By Tom Cross http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/cross/index.html#c6 "In spite of its problems, Wikipedia is an enormously important information resource, used by a community of millions of people all over the world. I believe the popularity of Wikipedia stems from the fact that it fills an important niche in the constellation of information resources that was previously unserved. Improvements to this technology can have a positive impact on how these millions of users think and collaborate." 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/. ...................................................................... NEW TAKE ON PEER REVIEW OF SCHOLARLY PAPERS The Public Library of Science will launch its first open peer-reviewed journal called PLoS ONE which will focus on papers in science and medicine. Papers in PLoS ONE will not undergo rigorous peer review before publication. Any manuscripts that is deemed to be a "valuable contribution to the scientific literature" can be posted online, beginning the process of community review. Authors are charged a fee for publication; however, fees may be waived in some instances. For more information see http://www.plosone.org/. For an article on this venture, see: "Web Journals Threaten Peer-Review System" By Alicia Chang Yahoo! News, October 1, 2006 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061001/ap_on_sc/peer_review_science ...................................................................... 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. "State of the Art Smart Spaces: Application Models and Software Infrastructure" By Ramesh Singh, Preeti Bhargava, and Samta Kain Ubiquity, volume 7, issue 37 (September 26, 2006 - October 2, 2006) http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i37_smart.html Abstract: "Smart spaces are ordinary environments equipped with visual and audio sensing systems, pervasive devices, sensors, and networks that can perceive and react to people, sense ongoing human activities and respond to them. Their ubiquity is evident by the fact that various state of the art smart spaces have been incorporated in all situations of our life. These smart space elements require middleware, standards and interfacing technologies to manage complex interactions between them. Here, we present an overview of the technologies integrated to build Smart Spaces, review the various scenarios in which Smart Spaces have been incorporated by researchers, highlight the requirements of software infrastructure for programming and networking them, and mention the contemporary frameworks for interaction with them." From: Richard Cunningham Subject: CFP for 2007 sdh/semi meeting Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:42:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 332 (332) Society for Digital Humanities Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs Call for Papers Bridging Communities: making public knowledge--making knowledge public 2007 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 2007 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Saskatchewan, from 28-30 May. The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress -- Bridging Communities -- or its sub-theme -- making public knowledge/making knowledge public. Computing in the humanities already has a strong history of fostering collaboration in areas of research that have traditionally been built on the model of the solitary scholar. Digital technology has enabled networking and collaboration where logistics were previously prohibitive, and the digital medium has accelerated dissemination of knowledge and enriched means for delivering complex and diverse forms of data. The Internet has further taken much scholarly work out of the confines of university libraries and made it readily accessible to an extensive reading public. While this year’s Congress theme is well suited to the interests of SDH/SEMI, we encourage submissions on all topics relating to both theory and praxis in the evolving discipline of humanities computing. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: -- Humanities computing as an means of bridging disciplinary communities -- The public and the proprietary in electronic publication -- Virtual communities -- The computer as a generative or analytical tool in humanities research -- Humanities computing and pedagogy -- Digitizing material culture -- Computer supported collaboration -- Computer modeling in humanities research -- The history and future of humanities computing -- Computing in the fine, performing and new media arts -- Facility and large project management The conference will also present a number of joint sessions with several national societies, including the Canadian Society of Medievalist/Société canadienne des médiévistes (CSM/SCM), the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/Sociéte canadienne d'études de la Renaissance (CSRS/SCER), and the Association for the Study of Book Culture/Association canadienne pour l’étude de l’histoire du livre (ASBC/ACEH), as well as the international society, Association of Digital Humanities Organisation (ADHO). Proposals should specify any preference for inclusion in a joint session. Selected papers from the conference will appear in a special collection, jointly published by Computing in the Humanities Working Papers, and Text Technology. In collaboration with CSM/SCM and ASBC/ACEH we will also host a half-day symposium on “Reassembling Disassembled Books,” featuring a keynote talk by Professor Peter Stoicheff (associate dean of humanities and fine arts, University of Saskatchewan) on the Otto Ege manuscripts and a project for digitally reconstructing parts of the collection. 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, 2006. 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: Brent Nelson, Conference Committee Chair and Local Coordinator, (University of Saskatchewan) nelson_at_arts.usask.ca or Department of English 9 Campus Dr. Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 We hope you consider joining us in Saskatoon for this year’s meetings of SDH/SEMI at Congress. In addition to the excellent slate of papers that we expect this year, the local organizing committee for Congress 2007 has several cultural events planned, including an aboriginal round dance and film festival, an Alice In Wonderland croquet match in the university commons, complete with costumes and flamingo mallets (will President McKinnon be the Queen of Hearts?) and a repeat performance of Songs of a Prairie Girl, a musical review featuring the songs of Joni Mitchell. The picturesque university campus sits upon the banks of the Saskatchewan river valley, which offers an extensive system of trails and parks ideal for evening walks. There will also be excursions available to local historical sites, including Fort Carleton, Duck Lack, Batoche, and Waneskewin Heritage Park. Appel ŕ soumissions Le partenariat entre communautés : la création et la diffusion du savoir public Réunion annuelle 2007 de la Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs / Society for Digital Humanities La Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SEMI / SDH) invite les spécialistes ainsi que les étudiants et étudiantes de deuxičme et troisičme cycle ŕ soumettre des propositions d’articles de recherches et de sujets de conférences pour la réunion annuelle de la Société dans le cadre du Congrčs des sciences humaines et sociales les 28, 29 et 30 mai 2007 ŕ l’Université de Saskatchewan. La Société aimerait encourager en particulier les soumissions qui se rapportent ŕ une discussion du thčme central du Congrčs, c’est-ŕ-dire le partenariat entre communautés, ou du sous-thčme, la création et la diffusion du savoir publique. En pratique, l’informatique dans les sciences humaines s’est toujours bien prętée ŕ encourager la collaboration entre les spécialistes de différents domaines qui, traditionnellement, se limitaient au travail individuel et isolé. La technologie digitale permet maintenant le travail en réseau alors que dans le passé, la logistique nécessaire ŕ la collaboration rendait cette activité quasi impraticable. Ce nouveau support digital permet la diffusion accélérée du savoir et demeure un véhicule privilégié pour la transmission de données complexes et diverses. L’internet encourage l’accessibilité du savoir en permettant les ouvrages académiques, jusqu’alors restreints aux habitués des bibliothčques universitaires, d’ętre ŕ la portée d’un public élargi. Męme si le thčme du Congrčs cette année correspond bien aux intéręts de la SEMI/SDH, nous voulons encourager des soumissions qui se rapportent ŕ la fois ŕ la théorie et ŕ la praxis dans le domaine dynamique des médias interactifs. Voici quelques suggestions de sujets pertinents dont le but est de favoriser la réflexion et non de limiter l’inspiration: -- Les médias interactifs comme moyen d’encourager le partenariat interdisciplinaire -- Le savoir public et les droits d’auteurs dans le monde de la publication électronique -- Les communautés virtuelles -- L’informatique comme outil génératif ou analytique dans le domaine des sciences humaines -- Les médias interactifs et la pédagogie -- L’adaptation de la culture matérielle un support digital -- L’informatique comme soutien la collaboration -- La création de mod les informatisés d’aide la recherche dans le domaine des sciences humaines -- Le développement historique et l’avenir des médias interactifs -- Les médias interactifs dans les domaines du théâtre, des beaux-arts, et des arts médiatiques -- La gestion de structures et de projets importants La conférence présentera aussi un certain nombre de colloques qui s’articuleront en commun avec plusieurs autres sociétés nationales y compris la Société canadienne des médiévistes/Canadian Society of Medievalists (SCM/CSM), la Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance/Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (SCER/CSRS), et l’Association canadienne pour l’étude de l’histoire du livre/Association for the Study of Book Culture (ACEH/ASBC) ainsi que la société internationale Association of Digital Humanities Organisation (ADHO). Nous vous encourageons ŕ spécifier dans les propositions soumises si la participation ŕ une de ces discussions collaboratives est souhaitée. Certains articles de recherches présentés ŕ la conférence seront inclus dans une collection spéciale publiée conjointement par Computing in the Humaities Working Papers et par Text Technology. Nous présenterons aussi, en collobaration avec la SCM/CSM et l’ACEH/ASBC, un symposium d’une demi-journée intitulé Ť Reassembling Disassembled Books ť (Le rassemblement des livres désassemblés). Le discours-programme du symposium sera prononcé par le professeur Peter Stoicheff (doyen associé, Faculté des sciences humaines et des beaux-arts, Université de Saskatchewan) et aura pour thčme les manuscrits Otto Ege et un nouveau projet qui vise ŕ reconstruire digitalement certaines parties de la collection. Les ressources disponibles pour financer une séance d’étudiants et d’étudiantes de deuxičme et troisičme cycle sont limitées. Les candidats et candidates intéressé(e)s doivent se renseigner auprčs des responsables. Voir l’adresse ci-bas. Les soumissions de propositions d’articles de recherches et de sujets de conférences seront admises jusqu’au 15 décembre 2006. Veuillez noter que tous les présentateurs et présentatrices doivent ętre membre de la SEMI/SDH avant de donner leur conférence. Les résumés et propositions doivent inclure les renseignements suivants tout au haut de la premičre page : titre de l’article, nom de l’auteur, adresse postale complčte, adresse de courriel, affiliation institutionnelle et classement, s’il ya lieu, de l’auteur, et un avis si l’équipement audio-visuel est requis. Les résumés d’articles doivent se limiter ŕ 300 mots et indiquer clairement la thčse soutenue par l’article, sa méthodologie et sa conclusion. Tous les résumés et toutes les questions doivent ętre envoyés soit par courrier électronique (de préférence) ou par courrier conventionnel aux adresses suivantes : Brent Nelson, président du comité de la congrčs et coordonateur local (Université de Saskatchewan) nelson_at_arts.usask.ca ou Department of English 9 Campus Dr. Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 Nous espérons que vous vous joindrez ŕ nous ŕ Saskatoon pour la conférence annuelle du congrčs de la SEMI/SDH. Nous nous attendons ŕ des présentations excellentes cette année et nous vous proposons aussi des divertissements captivants. Le comité d’organisation local du congrčs 2007 a planifié des événements culturels intéressants comprenant un spectacle de danse aborigčne, un festival de films, un match de croquet ŕ la Alice au pays des merveilles avec costumes et maillets en forme de flamants sur le campus de l’université (est-ce que le président McKinnon jouera le rôle de la reine de cœur?) et un spectacle intitulé Ť Songs of a Prairie Girl ť, une revue musicale qui met en vedette les chansons de Joni Mitchell. Le campus universitaire pittoresque sur les bords de la rivičre Saskatchewan offre un accčs ŕ plusieurs parcs et pistes de randonnés pédestres idéales pour ces promenades en soirées. Des excursions vers quelques sites historiques de la région, y compris Fort Carleton, Duck Lake, Batoche et Waneskewin Heritage Park, seront aussi disponibles. From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: live chat with John Cayley 10/9 (Leonardo Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:39:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 333 (333) Electronic Almanac Discussion) _Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_ :: Live chat with John Cayley about writing in immersive VR, new media poetics, and other topics. :: Chat date: Monday, October 9. :: Chat time: 11am West Coat US / 2pm East Coast US / 8pm Paris FR / 4am Melbourne AU :: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media Poetics special Issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Chat instructions are below. The LEA website includes instructions and a complete list of upcoming chats: http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/forum.asp. John Cayley is a London-based poet, translator, publisher and bookdealer. Links to his writing in networked and programmable media are at www.shadoof.net/in. His last printed book of poems, adaptations and translations was Ink Bamboo (London: Agenda & Belew, 1996). Cayley was the winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Award for Poetry 2001 (www.eliterature.org). He is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London, and has taught and directed research at the University of California San Diego and Brown University, amongst other institutions. His most recent work explores ambient poetics in programmable media, with parallel theoretical interventions concerning the role of code in writing and the temporal properties of textuality (bibliographic links are available from the shadoof site). :: How to participate in the live chat? Live chats will use Jabber (http://www.jabber.org/), an open, secure, ad-free alternative to consumer IM services like AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo. It is the most widely-used open source instant messaging and chat protocol. The New Media Poetics chatroom is on the jabber.org public server under the name "leanmp" and the password "leoalmanac." Follow three easy steps and you are ready to join the chat: 1) Download and install a Jabber client. A list of recommended Jabber clients is available at the following url: http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml. For Windows users, we recommend the Exodus client. For Macintosh users, please use Psi, as the other recommended clients do not consistently register on the Jabber server. For Linux, Psi is also available, but the other recommended clients should work as well. 2) Register as a user on the jabber.org public server. When you first open your Jabber client you will see a start screen. If you do not see this screen, or if you are not starting the client for the first time, the screen is also available in a pull down menu as Account Details or Preferences (depending on your Jabber client). Enter a username, password, and server. Use any username and password you choose. Enter "jabber.org" as the server. When you register, if your proposed username is taken, you need to choose another. Check the button for "new account" or to automatically register the account (depending on your client). Note: you may not be able to register if you are not using one of the recommended clients listed above. Hit OK or Login. Your Jabber client will then automatically register you and connect you to the jabber.org server. 3) At this point, you are ready to chat, but there is one more step: you must join the chatroom. Select "Join a Chat Room" from your client's pull down menu. Enter the name of the chat room: leanmp. Enter the password: leoalmanac. You can also specify a nickname or "handle" to use while in the chatroom. Hit "Finish" or "OK" to join the chat. The chat room window will open and you are ready to go! Note: the chat room may not be available outside of scheduled chat times. Additional information is available at the Jabber userguide: http://www.jabber.org/user/userguide/. From: "Obrst, Leo J." Subject: Early Registration ends: OCT. 18, FINAL CFP: FOIS Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:40:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 334 (334) 2006 - Nov. 9-11, Baltimore, MD, USA *** EARLY REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 18. This is also the cutoff date for the special conference rate at the Inn at the Colonnade conference hotel. So hurry to register and reserve your room, to obtain best rates. *** ============================================= FINAL Call for Participation FOIS-2006 <http://www.formalontology.org/fois-2006/fois-2006.htm/> International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems November 9-11, 2006 Baltimore, Maryland (USA) Early registration is through October 18, 2006. Late registration will begin October 19, 2006. The conference hotel is: Inn at The Colonnade. <http://www.doubletree.com/en/dt/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=BWICUDT> The Inn at the Colonnade is right off the John Hopkins University campus, about a 5-10 min walk from the conference location, the new Charles Commons facility. To register for FOIS 2006, please enter the appropriate information at the registration website <https://www.seattletech.com/registration/index.php?%20confno=584&stgun iv=119&PAYMENTS=TRUE> . November 8, 2006: Co-located Workshop: Biomedical Ontology in Action <http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/medinf/kr-med-2006/> (separate registration required). ________________________________ Conference Description Since ancient times, ontology, the analysis and categorisation of what exists, has been fundamental to philosophical enquiry. But, until recently, ontology has been seen as an abstract, purely theoretical discipline, far removed from the practical applications of science. However, with the increasing use of sophisticated computerised information systems, solving problems of an ontological nature is now key to the effective use of technologies supporting a wide range of human activities. The ship of Theseus and the tail of Tibbles the cat are no longer merely amusing puzzles. We employ databases and software applications to deal with everything from ships and ship building to anatomy and amputations. When we design a computer to take stock of a ship yard or check that all goes well at the veterinary hospital, we need to ensure that our system operates in a consistent and reliable way even when manipulating information that involves subtle issues of semantics and identity. So, whereas ontologists may once have shied away from practical problems, now the practicalities of achieving cohesion in an information-based society demand that attention must be paid to ontology. Researchers in such areas as artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering and information retrieval have come to realise that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all these areas, attention is now being focused on the content of information rather than on just the formats and languages used to represent information. The clearest example of this development is provided by the many initiatives growing up around the project of the Semantic Web. And, as the need for integrating research in these different fields arises, so does the realisation that strong principles for building well-founded ontologies might provide significant advantages over ad hoc, case-based solutions. The tools of formal ontology address precisely these needs, but a real effort is required in order to apply such philosophical tools to the domain of information systems. Reciprocally, research in the information sciences raises specific ontological questions which call for further philosophical investigations. The purpose of FOIS is to provide a forum for genuine interdisciplinary exchange in the spirit of a unified effort towards solving the problems of ontology, with an eye to both theoretical issues and concrete applications. [...] From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Digital Humanities 2007: Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:38:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 335 (335) Submitting paper, poster/demo, and session proposals Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2007 Hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), in cooperation with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA 4-7 June, 2007 Website: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/ CFP: http://digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/cfp/ Submissions: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ ---- Further to the call for papers for Digital Humanities 2007, I'm pleased to announce that electronic submissions of proposals for papers, sessions, and poster/demos will now be received, via the conference website or, directly, at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/. The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is November 1, 2006 (midnight CST). All submissions will be refereed, and presenters will be notified of acceptance February 1, 2007. We look forward to seeing you in Illinois in 2007! Ray Siemens, on behalf of the International Programme Committee * Jean Anderson (U Glasgow) * Elisabeth Burr (U Leipzig) * Kevin Hawkins (U Michigan) * David Hoover (NYU) * Espen Ore (National Library of Norway) * Ray Siemens (U Victoria; Chair) * Natasha Smith (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill) * Paul Spence (Kings College London; Vice-Chair) * Christian Wittern (Kyoto U) and * John Unsworth (UIUC; Local Host) From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: SDH Call for Papers Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:38:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 336 (336) Society for Digital Humanities Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs Call for Papers Bridging Communities: making public knowledge--making knowledge public 2007 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 2007 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Saskatchewan, from 28-30 May. The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress–“Bridging Communities”–or its sub-theme–“making public knowledge/making knowledge public.” Computing in the humanities already has a strong history of fostering collaboration in areas of research that have traditionally been built on the model of the solitary scholar. Digital technology has enabled networking and collaboration where logistics were previously prohibitive, and the digital medium has accelerated dissemination of knowledge and enriched means for delivering complex and diverse forms of data. The Internet has further taken much scholarly work out of the confines of university libraries and made it readily accessible to an extensive reading public. While this year’s Congress theme is well suited to the interests of SDH/SEMI, we encourage submissions on all topics relating to both theory and praxis in the evolving discipline of humanities computing. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: • Humanities computing as an means of bridging disciplinary communities • The public and the proprietary in electronic publication • Virtual communities • The computer as a generative or analytical tool in humanities research • Humanities computing and pedagogy • Digitizing material culture • Computer supported collaboration • Computer modeling in humanities research • The history and future of humanities computing • Computing in the fine, performing and new media arts • Facility and large project management Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until December 15, 2006. 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: Brent Nelson, Conference Committee Chair and Local Coordinator, (University of Saskatchewan) nelson_at_arts.usask.ca or Department of English 9 Campus Dr. Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 For a more detailed version of the call see: <http://www.usask.ca/english/news/sdhcfp2007.pdf>http://www.usask.ca/english/news/sdhcfp2007.pdf From: AHRC ICT Methods Network Subject: Senior Research Project Co-ordinator Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:37:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 337 (337) There is the following vacancy in the AHRC ICT Methods Network Administrative Centre: Senior Research Project Coordinator Fixed term: 18 months Grade: ALC 3, currently from GBP 32,212 to GBP 34,655 (depending on experience) plus GBP 2,323 London Allowance per annum. Applications are invited for a post in the AHRC ICT Methods Network Administrative Centre (NAC), based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King's College London. This national initiative promotes and disseminates the use of ICT in UK arts and humanities research, by building a broadly-based collaborative network of researchers from all humanities and arts disciplines working on the application of computational methods in research. The Methods Network promotes collaboration and facilitates multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary work via a series of high-profile activities and publications. The holder of this position will have a broad remit to co-ordinate Methods Network outreach and collaborations, They will also 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. 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 an interest and expertise in computing in the arts and humanities, as well as expertise in the associated technologies. Experience of working on a collaborative basis in major research projects involving research academics and specialists in applied computing, and experience of managing complex events and activities in an academic context 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. An application form is available at http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/advert/ The closing date for applications is 31 October 2006. Only candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted. From: Subject: LATA 2007: 2nd call for papers Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:41:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 338 (338) ****************************************************************************= 2nd Call for Papers 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2007) Tarragona, Spain, March 29 - April 4, 2007 http://www.grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2007/ ****************************************************************************= AIMS: LATA 2007 intends to become a major conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications that is being developed at the host institute since 2001, it will reserve significant room for young computer scientists at the beginning of their career. LATA 2007 will aim at attracting scholars from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: - words, languages and automata - grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.) - grammars and automata architectures - combinatorics on words - language varieties and semigroups - algebraic language theory - computability - computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized complexity - patterns and codes - regulated rewriting - trees, tree languages and tree machines - term rewriting - graphs and graph transformation - power series - fuzzy and rough languages - cellular automata - DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing - quantum, chemical and optical computing - biomolecular nanotechnology - automata and logic - automata for verification - automata, concurrency and Petri nets - parsing - weighted machines - foundations of finite state technology - grammatical inference and learning - symbolic neural networks - text retrieval and pattern recognition - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and= bioinformatics - mathematical evolutionary genomics - language-based cryptography - compression - circuit theory and applications - language theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial= life STRUCTURE: LATA 2007 will consist of: - 3 invited talks - 2 invited tutorials - refereed contributions - open sessions for discussion in specific subfields - young sessions on professional issues INVITED SPEAKERS: Volker Diekert (UStuttgart), Equations: From Words to Graph Products= (tutorial) Nissim Francez & Michael Kaminski (Technion), Extensions of Pregroup Grammars and Their Correlated Automata Eric Graedel (RWTH Aachen), Infinite Games (tutorial) Neil Immerman (UMass, Amherst), Nested Words Helmut J=FCrgensen (UWestern Ontario), Synchronization and Codes (tentative title) [...] From: Matthew Jockers Subject: Health of Digital Hum? Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:36:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 339 (339) Forgive me for re-asking a sort of perennial question, but I was wondering lately about the general health of the Humanities Computing/Digital Humanities discipline/community. Things certainly seem to be strong and recent news, such as that sent this week from Willard announcing the phd in Digital H, from King's College, would appear to be strong indicators of a growing appreciation/need for computing humanists. That said, my observations are rather anecdotal; I wonder if any of you has the specific numbers to support my suspicion that things are healthy. For example, How is membership in ACH/ALLC/ADHO? Are we a growing organization? And what about new university programs in the US. I know of Nebraska's recent investment, and there are the old stalwart programs at UVa, Mith, and etc., but where are the MA's, the PhD's? It looks like Iath's MA program is "on hold." Matt Kirshenbaum's December 2005 Blog entry is very useful, of course, (http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000869.html) as are the comments to follow. And the list of "Institutional Models" at the ADHO site http://www.allc.org/imhc/ is very encouraging overall but at the same time rather light in terms of degree granting programs, especially in the US. The view from here (in the heart of the Silicon Valley) is, well, foggy. We recently began offering Stanford undergraduates enrolled in our Interdisciplinary Studies program the opportunity to get an "emphasis" in Digital Humanities. Similar "emphases" options have been proposed in several humanities departments across campus and though things are moving along, I think that even in 2006 there is still a great deal of confusion about how computing and, say literary studies, can coexist. I ask none of this with any eye toward stirring the pot, or towards renewed discussion of whether we are or are not a discipline etc., I'm really just curious to know, as quantitatively as possible the health/state of things. Matt -- Matthew L. Jockers Stanford University From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: Digital Document Quarterly 5(3) is available F Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:34:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 340 (340) The Digital Document Quarterly newsletter volume 5 number 3 is available at <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_5_3.htm>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_5_3.htm. In its Digital Preservation section it contains short summaries and the abstract of a D-Lib Magazine submission whose title is Digital Preservation in a National Context: Questions and Views of an NDIIPP Outsider. DDQ 5(2) continues with two squibs about document security, pointers to articles for people who might want to create personal digital libraries, and the confession of a DDQ 2(1) logical mistake regarding the Russell Paradox. In addition to the usual News and Practical Matters for personal computing sections, DDQ 5(3) contains book recommendations to Michael Friedman's A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger and to the classic British History satire, 1066 and All That. Readers' comments and criticisms are invited. Best wishes, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney (408)867-5454 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 20.246 are we healthy? Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:30:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 341 (341) On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 06:40:02AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]This is an excellent question, Matt. I've had the good fortune to work at three different institutions with investments in digital humanities, and I've had the opportunity to visit many other institutions that were either starting out or well underway. I think all of the institutions I've come in contact with are embedded somewhere in a trajectory that I've come to regard as typical (at least in the US and Canada). First, there's a groundswell of research interest. It might only be a single investigator, but more often there are several people doing digital work in the humanities and they manage to find one another, get together on grants, and so forth. The next stage tends to be the creation of some kind of organized research activity (a center, say) requiring some nontrivial amount of institutional support. If that activity flourishes and institutional support continues, it can lead to hires in the area. When those hires reach a quorum, talk turns inevitably to the creation of a program of some sort. At any stage, one will typically see course offerings in the area starting to appear and a growing body of students (graduate and undergraduate) clustering around the activity. All of these stages can present difficulties. Even a single investigator can find that their work is hampered by incomprehension from colleagues, tenure and promotion committees (real or imagined), and lack of funds. Centers are very difficult to build and require tremendous political skills, but they can become jewels in the crown for Deans and other administrators trying to show off work in the humanities. Programs -- which some regard as the surest path to longevity -- are the hardest of all. If we look at the institutions that are furthest along in this process, we see that most of them are teetering on the edge of the program stage, which I think explains why we aren't yet seeing many MAs and Ph.Ds just yet. On the other hand, these institutions are mostly well beyond the stage of having to justify their coexistence with traditional humanities departments. I have the great honor of having been hired (twice) into English departments that were explicitly trying to hire a specialist in this area. That bodes well, I think, for the idea of programs in this area, and while I wouldn't want to underestimate the difficulties involved, I think most of the big institutions will get there over the next ten years or so. I'm not sure that asking "Where are the Ph.Ds?" is a good way to determine the health of the discipline, though. I think it's perhaps more useful to ask how many institutions have encountered insuperable barriers along the way and therefore watched the groundswell of support for DH dwindle away. In my experience, digital humanities is continuing along its upward course at most institutions. It perhaps doesn't have the white hot jet stream that it did during the dot com bubble, but then again, the bubble might be a useful analogy for the perils of irrational exuberance and unsustainable growth when it comes to institutionalizing DH. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: 20.246 are we healthy? Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:30:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 342 (342) Dear Matt, Willard et al, An interesting question about the focus, identity and scope of the "Digital Humanities" community. Firstly, can I point you to my article in LLC published last year (which was a paper given in Victoria) regarding the numbers and membership and scope of the field. In it, I present all available numbers I could get my hands on, and also analyse the attendees at the conference - what does that say about our "field"? I then relate these stats to the literature on what does it mean to be a field or a discipline. Terras, M. (2006). "Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse Humanities Computing'." Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 21. 229 - 246. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/229?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=terras&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT Secondly - as the person on both the ALLC and ACH executives who is dealing with membership issues, I can say that - membership is stable -but there is more we can do to increase membership - and it would be desirable to increase membership of the journal. Increased membership of the journal would mean more income for the constituent bodies, which means more funds to give in bursaries, awards, for workshop training and other teaching initiatives, and for funding for other projects. Things that either/or/both committees support include the Digital Humanities summer school in Victoria; workshops, such as the forthcoming training workshop in Kolkata, India, and initiatives: such as in internationalisation project by the TEI. The journal is in stable health - but we would encourage more members, and the involvement of more members in making suggestions on how we can best serve the community with these initiatives. Over the past two or three months since I've been dealing with membership issues, I've been working with our new rep at OUP to see how we can increase membership. We're about to launch new promotional materials, start to chase up lapsed members, make promo material available for those who want to encourage people at a grass roots level, and publicise more widely the benefits of being a member. We've also set the differential fee at conferences between members and non-members to be much higher: its cheaper now to join and attend the conference, than to attend as a non-member. If there are any other suggestions people would like to make regarding how we can encourage more individuals and institutions to join, please send them on! I'm aware that only 10% of those "reading" (ie subscribed to) Humanist are members of the associations and subscribe to the journal. Membership now includes online access to the full back catalogue of LLC (so you can read the article, above!), and much cheaper rates at the Digital Humanities conference from now on, as well as the ongoing benefits of being able to apply for bursaries and grants from the organisations, and a voice in how the discipline proceeds. Its not prohibitively expensive to join (and there are much reduced rates for students). Details can be found here: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/litlin/access_purchase/price_list.html best wishes, Melissa _______________________________________________ Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE Lecturer in Electronic Communication School of Library, Archive and Information Studies Henry Morley Building University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax) Email: m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/ Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: state of health from here Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:55:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 343 (343) Matt Jockers' question, apparently provoked by notice of the PhD programme here at King's College London, is a welcome shift from "do we exist?", the asking of which always seemed silly to me. But querying our health is worth doing. In the year and a half that the PhD programme has existed here, we have had no problem whatever attracting serious interest. The only annoying problem has been funding -- an esp acute problem in the UK for postgraduate work. Interested persons have on several occasions faded away, despite very strong topics and much encouragement, once they have realised the financial consequences. Currently we have three PhD students, one of which we have been able to fund thanks to a studentship we were given by the College. Some others are in the wings. But it is quite clear that interest in the degree is strong. As it is evolving, the PhD in Digital Humanities is likely to involve collaborative supervision with someone representing the candidate's discipline of origin. As long as it is "in Digital Humanities", the major work needs to be in humanities computing, but any dissertation involving significant work in an established discipline has to pass muster there as well. This makes it a challenging degree both to supervise and to pursue, but intellectually it is wonderful. Our MA programmes here are healthy -- more about them in a few days. Undergraduate programmes are perhaps the most challenging of all to run, at least in the UK, because students in secondary school would appear not to understand what they are for. They seem to confuse IT training (e.g. how to use Excel) with the digital humanities. Our approach here is to strengthen and broaden the programme so as to make its nature as obvious as possible. Our institutional health at King's is due to at least three factors: the lack of tenure in the UK, which makes creation of programmes and academic hires much less of a hurdle than in N America; the astonishing collegial support across all the departments of the humanities at King's and by the School of Humanities itself; and the administrative imagination and intellectual vision of the founding head of my department, Harold Short, without whom not. Many of us by our natures want to settle down and do our individual work. Like the late and much missed Antonio Zampolli, a man of similar vision, Harold has dedicated his career to seeing that others may thus settle down. I suspect that such a person (if one may say such a thing in reference to unique individuals) is sine quo/qua non. My colleagues and I have been hired into positions in humanities computing directly. It seems to me that hires of this kind are best, for obvious reasons, but what's absolutely essential is people whose self-conception is directly and intimately bound up with our field, whose survival (institutional, moral, intellectual) depends on it. It's comforting to speak in terms of an autonomous evolutionary pattern, but we're still small enough in numbers that individual strokes of administrative genius play a highly significant role. So I wonder if what is needed in N America is for institutions such as Stanford to leap out of the box, however expanding it may be, and simply create positions and programmes. Such institutions are rich enough. Were this to happen, with the right people a quite small department would be successful. How could it not be? Having done that, a prominent institution such as Stanford would provide an example few could ignore. A state/province-funded institution, I'd guess, has to please its state or provincial legislature; a private institution pleases itself (including its trustees, of course). In any case, humanities computing needs trained people to replace all of us who trained ourselves and who are getting close to vanishing from the day-to-day. 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: "UCHRI Communications" Subject: REMINDER - UCHRI Calls for Proposals Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:19:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 344 (344) The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) invites proposals for various programs. Application deadlines for the programs below are October 15, 2006, unless otherwise noted. RFPs for other UCHRI programs will be forthcoming. Conferences and Seminars 2007-08: <http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=message_link&fn=Key&id=apxmxvgwtlttsqmfkgeprwpkzbybbcp&link=ajpxsgbxmvvfpglznlkkpnlhjjdibfh>http://uchri.org/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=105 Collaborative Compositions 2007-08: <http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=message_link&fn=Key&id=apxmxvgwtlttsqmfkgeprwpkzbybbcp&link=bgtreuixacfopjigvkrgbgzdebxtbha>http://uchri.org/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=150 Extramural Explorations 2007-08: <http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=message_link&fn=Key&id=apxmxvgwtlttsqmfkgeprwpkzbybbcp&link=augcgotzzqrjjasthrvvgkxczjtxbhk>http://uchri.org/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=177 UC-U Utrecht Collaborative Grants 2006-07: <http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=message_link&fn=Key&id=apxmxvgwtlttsqmfkgeprwpkzbybbcp&link=ajpaffxgehdwnzwcpwxriirwarhabbl>http://uchri.org/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=170 *Deadline: November 1, 2006 From: Willard McCarty Subject: AHRC ICT Methods Network funding Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:20:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 345 (345) Apply for Funding from the AHRC ICT Methods Network -- Deadline 31 December= 2006 The AHRC ICT Methods Network invites the arts and humanities Higher Education community in the UK to submit proposals for Methods Network activities. Activities may include workshops, seminars, focused workgroups, postgraduate training events and publications. The Methods Network is keen to support both single and cross-disciplinary proposals and those that encourage new collaborative frameworks between technical specialists and arts and humanities scholars. The primary emphasis is on the use and reuse of digital resources. Proposals for hybrid activities such as workshop/seminar/workgroup combinations are also welcomed, as are proposals for any other activity which falls within the Methods Network remit to support and promote the uses of advanced ICT methods in academic research. Funding of up to =A35000 is available for workshops and hybrid activities. Workshops provide training in advanced ICT methods for community members within academic institutions. They engage with issues such as: formal methods in analysis of source data and the creation of technical models; working with multiple technologies; and other matters of vital practical interest to the community. Funding of up to =A32000 is available for seminars. These may concentrate on highly-defined topics of interest and also problem areas within the community or may have a more general focus. For information on eligibility and how to apply for funding see the Methods Network website (<http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk>www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk). For further information about submitting a proposal contact Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk). Forthcoming Methods Network Funded Activities We welcome applications from individuals who would like to attend Methods Network workshops and seminars, but must emphasise that registration is essential for these activities. Participants are also expected to make an active contribution to the activity. Occasionally a Methods Network event will be by invitation only, but all resulting materials, including (where appropriate) podcasts, wikis, training workbooks, reports and publications will be made freely available to the community via the Methods Network website. All enquiries about registration for the Methods Network activities listed below should be sent by email to methnet_at_kcl.ac.uk. For further information about the following activities see the Methods Network website. Visualization and Remote Sensing for the Arts and Humanities: An Access Grid Support Network - A workshop organized by Vince Gaffney, Institute for Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham (October 2006). Film, Visualization, Narrative - A seminar run by Adam Ganz, Royal Holloway, University of London (17 November 2006). Technical Innovation in Art Historical Research: Opportunities and Problems - A seminar run by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, The Courtauld Institute of Art and King's Visualization Lab, CCH, King's College, London and Tim Benton, Open University (20 November 2006). Advanced Technologies for Collaborative Performance - A workshop run by Alan Blackwell, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge (December 2006). Approaches to the Forensic Investigation of Primary Textual Materials - A workshop run by Andrew Prescott, Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield (January 2007). Theoretical Approaches to Virtual Representations of Past Environments - A workshop run by Kate Devlin, Goldsmiths College, University of London (March 2007). New Protocols for Electroacoustic Music Analysis - A workshop run by Leigh Landy, De Montfort University, Leicester (13 June 2007). Recent activities sponsored by the Methods Network Open Source Critical Editions - A workshop run by Juan Garces, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King=92s College, London (22 September 2006). Development of Skills in Advanced Text Encoding with TEI P5 - A workshop run by Lou Burnard, Sebastian Rahtz and James Cummings, Oxford University (18-20 September= 2006). The Future of Information Technology in Music Research and Practice - A workshop run by Dave Meredith, Goldsmiths College, University of London (8 September 2006). Historical Text Mining - A workshop organized by Paul Rayson, Lancaster University and Dawn Archer, University of Central Lancashire (20-21 July 2006). Digital Restoration for Damaged Documents - A workshop organized by Julia Craig-McFeely, <http://www.diamm.ac.uk/>DIAMM, Royal Holloway, University of London (29 June 2006). Large-Scale Manuscript Digitization - A workshop organized by Peter Robinson, Institute of Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, Birmingham University and Marilyn Deegan, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, (5 June 2006). Corpus Approaches to the Language of Literature - A workshop organized by the Oxford Text Archive, Oxford University (17-18 May 2006). Digital Visibility: A Workshop on Neglected Digital Resources - A workshop co-sponsored with the LAIRAH project at University College London (26 April 2006). Making 3D Visual Research Outcomes Transparent - A symposium co-sponsored by the Methods Network, King's Visualization Lab, and PIN, Prato, Italy/EPOCH (23-25 February 2006). Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: lmerton_at_utm.utoronto.ca Subject: Asst Professor of Cultural Studies of Digital Media Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:11:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 346 (346) and Technology ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CULTURAL STUDIES OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY The Institute of Communication and Culture, University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM) seeks applications for a tenure-stream Assistant professor in Cultural Studies of Digital Media and Technology (with an emphasis on visual culture and communication and demonstrated theoretical sophistication in cultural studies and an emphasis on visual culture). The position entails undergraduate teaching at the Mississauga campus and a graduate appointment at the St. George campus. Application deadline: November 15th. For details see: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/academicjobs/display_job_detail_public.cfm? job_id=2095 email: digicult_at_utm.utoronto.ca The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. From: Methnet Subject: CHArt conference bursaries Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:16:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 347 (347) sponsored by the AHRC ICT Methods Network STUDENT BURSARIES FOR CHART 2006 - PLEASE CIRCULATE STUDENT BURSARIES FOR CHART 2006 - PLEASE CIRCULATE The AHRC ICT Methods Network (www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk), which exists to promote and support the use of advanced ICT methods in arts and humanities research, is generously offering a limited number of bursaries to post-graduate students who wish to attend the 2006 CHArt conference, FAST FORWARD: Art History, Curation and Practice After Media. The conference takes place on Thursday 9 - Friday 10 November 2006 at the Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London, WC1 7HX. Applications for bursaries are sought from post-graduate students registered at UK Universities whose research interests are grounded in areas covered by CHArt. These include: the application of ICT to the study of art and the history of art; new media theory and new art practice; creation and curation of digital scholarly and image resources including those in museums, galleries or libraries, and other areas which may be considered to be within CHArt's sphere of interest. The bursaries are intended to help towards conference expenses. Successful applicants will be able to claim funds up to a total of Ł200 toward the cost of conference fees, accommodation and travel. The application requires the submission of a brief statement of interest (approximately 500 words) outlining your current studies and research interests and detailing how attending CHArt might support you in your research. If you wish to apply for a bursary please register for the CHARt conference in the first instance. The CHArt conference programme, abstracts and booking form are available on the CHArt website (www.chart.ac.uk). Please provide the following details on a separate document when you submit your booking form. Email submissions are acceptable. Name: HE Institution: Department: MA course or Ph.D. title: Preferred Contact Address: Telephone: Email: Statement of interest:(max. 500 words) Bursary winners are also asked to submit a brief report following the conference. CHArt conference costs are as follows: CHArt Student Member: Two days Ł60 One day Ł40 Student Non-member: Two days Ł80 One day Ł50 Please address any enquiries to Hazel Gardiner, CHArt, 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: Antonella D'Ascoli Subject: JIIA Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:18:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 348 (348) "Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology" <http://www.jiia.it>http://www.jiia.it/ JIIA Eprints Repository <http://eprints.jiia.it>http://eprints.jiia.it/ Latest Additions to JIIA Eprints Repository <http://eprints.jiia.it/perl/latest>http://eprints.jiia.it/perl/latest Per gentile concessione della Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano-Alto Adige. in progress... Thun Hohenstein, Ursula Strategie di sussistenza adottate dai Neandertaliani nel sito di Riparo Tagliente (Prealpi venete) September 2006, Book Section. 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[Deposited 13 October 2006] ______________ Antonella D'Ascoli Direttore Responsabile di JIIA & ADR 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' URL: <http://www.jiia.it>http://www.jiia.it & 'Archaeological Disciplinary Repository' JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository) URL: <http://eprints.jiia.it>http://eprints.jiia.it/ Address: Via Giacomo Leopardi n.56 80044 - Ottaviano (NA) - Italy tel. +39 (0)81 8278203 tel. fax +39 (0)81 8280384 cell. 333 2899783 Skype: dascoli1957 e-mail: dascolia_at_tiscalinet.it e-mail: dascoli1957_at_gmail.com From: Stuart Dunn Subject: cfp: Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:00:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 349 (349) Call for Papers: Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities (SOCH) Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities (SOCH) A joint workshop of the EPSRC Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNet) and the AHRC ICT Methods Network London, UK, 18-19 December 2006 We are pleased to invite contributions to the above workshop from those working with service oriented software and computing in the Humanities. Paper submissions are welcome in areas including, but not limited to, the following: 1. Service-oriented software architectures for managing humanities data 2. Semantic web and its applications in the humanities 3. Interoperability and protocols 4. Ontologies 5. Data services and data integration 6. Matching distributed computing power and application needs 7. Digital research methods 8. Service description 9. Automated composition 10. Data and service provenance 11. Migrating existing applications towards services Submissions should be in the form of an extended abstract (no more than 4 pages) to be received by 11pm GMT on 12th November 2006. There will be a short review process undertaken by a small programme committee and papers will be accepted on the basis of quality and relevance to the workshop theme. Notification of acceptance will be circulated by 27th November 2006. Full papers will not be required but authors will have the opportunity to revise their extended abstract in the light of reviewers' comments if they so desire. An informal proceedings will be produced for participants. Some limited financial support for attendance will be available for student authors giving a presentation. At least one author of each accepted abstract will be expected to attend and present their work. Electronic submissions in PDF should be sent to: kiarash.mahdavi_at_kcl.ac.uk We look forward to receiving your contributions! Nicolas Gold and Lorna Hughes Directors (respectively) of SOSoRNet and the Methods Network About SOSoRNet -------------- SOSorNet (http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk) is an EPSRC-funded network to bring together people working in the various communities associated with service-oriented software e.g. Grid, web services, application service provision etc. The aim is to promote the cross-fertilisation of ideas between these communities. SOSoRNet is organised by: * Nicolas Gold, King's College London (network director) * Pearl Brereton, Keele University * Keith Bennett, David Budgen, Durham University * Christos Tjortjis, Nikolay Mehandjiev, John Keane, Paul Layzell, Manchester University * Jie Xu, Leeds University To join SOSorNet please email nicolas.gold_at_kcl.ac.uk or kiarash.mahdavi_at_kcl.ac.uk. What is SOSoRNet for? - To share best-practice and research in service-oriented software systems - To bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners - To promote cross-fertilisation of ideas between communities Who is it for? Anyone involved in service-oriented software development and use e.g. - Grid researchers - Application service providers - Users and developers of web services About AHRC ICT Methods Network ------------------------------ The Methods Network is a multi-disciplinary partnership providing a national forum for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for arts and humanities research. The aims of the Methods Network are: - To promote, support and develop the use of advanced ICT methods in arts and humanities research and to support the cross-disciplinary network of practitioners from institutions around the UK. - To develop a programme of activities and publications on advanced ICT tools and methods and to ensure the broadest participation of the community by means of an open call for proposals for Methods Network activities. Further information about the Methods Network can be found at: http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk Dr Stuart Dunn Research Associate Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre www.ahessc.ac.uk Centre for Computing in the Humanities Arts and Humanities Data Service King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2R 3DX London WC2B 5RL From: ELPUB 2007 Subject: ELPUB 2007 - Second Call for Papers Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:01:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 350 (350) *** Apologies for cross-postings *** 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 13 to 15 June 2007, Vienna (Austria) Submission deadline: Jan. 10, 2007 http://www.elpub.net Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access "Openness" is a broad philosophical as well as technical tenet that underlies much of the innovation in the creation and consumption of Internet technologies, which are in turn transforming scholarly communications, practices and publishing across the disciplines and around the world. ELPUB 2007 is devoted to examining the full spectrum of "openness" in digital publishing, from open source applications for content creation to open distribution of content, and open standards to facilitate sharing and open access. We welcome papers with theoretical analysis, description of models and services, or new and innovative technical results on: * Publishing models, tools, services and roles * Digital publication value chain * Multilingual and multimodal interfaces * Services and technology for specific user communities, media, and content * Interoperability and scalability * Middleware infrastructure to facilitate awareness and discovery * Personalisation technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS, microformats) * Metadata creation, usage and interoperability * Semantic web issues * Security, privacy and copyright issues * Digital reservation, contents authentication * Recommendations, guidelines, standards AUTHOR GUIDELINES Contributions are invited for the following categories: - Single papers (abstract minimum of 1,000 and maximum of 1500 words) - Tutorial (abstract minimum of 500 and maximum of 1500 words) - Workshop (abstract max of 1000 words) - Poster (abstract max of 500 words) - Demonstration (abstract max of 500 words) Abstracts must be submitted following the instructions on the conference website <http://www.elpub.net> IMPORTANT DATES January 10th 2007: Deadline for submission of abstracts (in all categories). February 28, 2007: Authors will be notified of the acceptance of submitted papers and workshop proposal. April 11th, 2007: Final papers must be received. See website for detailed author instructions. Posters (A1-format) and demonstration materials should be brought by their authors at the conference time. Only abstracts of these contributions will be published in the conference proceedings. Information on requirements for Workshops and tutorials proposals will be posted shortly on the website. Accepted full paper will be published in the conference proceedings. Electronic version of the contributions will also be archived at: <http://elpub.scix.net> ABOUT ELPUB The ELPUB 2007 conference will keep the tradition of the ten previous international conferences on electronic publishing, held in the United Kingdom (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999), Russia (2000), the Czech Republic (2002), Portugal (2003), Brazil (2004), Belgium (2005) and Bulgaria (2006), which is to bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians, developers, businessmen, entrepreneurs, managers, users and all those interested on issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts. These include the human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses. Three distinguished features of this conference are: broad scope of topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active exchange and learning about various aspects of electronic publishing; combination of general and technical issues; and a condensed procedure of submission, revision and publication of proceedings which guarantees presentations of most recent work. CONFERENCE LOCATION Vienna, the capital of Austria, is one of Europe's most fascinating cities with a rich history and various cultural attractions and reasonable living costs. The campus of Vienna University of Technology is located near the historic downtown of Vienna. Conference Host: Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria General Chair: Bob Martens , Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Programme Chair: Leslie Chan , University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto, Canada From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: e & eye - four talks at Tate Modern, London Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:57:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 351 (351) [deleted quotation]e and eye art and poetry between the electronic and the visual http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/6703.htm Led by Penny Florence, Tim Mathews and John Cayley Monday 16 October 2006, 18.30-20.00 Monday 23 October 2006, 18.30-20.00 Monday 30 October 2006, 18.30-20.00 Monday 13 November 2006, 18.30-20.00 Modern art has had a close historical relationship with poetry and performance since its formation. Electronic poetry has developed a strong element of performance, an implicit demand for some form of exhibition. This series of events explores the relationship between the visual, the poetic and the electronic in art. The sessions begin with a conversation in which invited speakers discuss issues relevant to the Collection and to electronic and visual poetry. This is followed by a short performance or reading of an electronic poem, and an open discussion. Laptop computers with video projection showing interactive electronic works are also placed within the galleries. The speakers are theorists and practitioners in a variety of media and virtual curators, and include John Aiken, Malcolm Bowie, Patrick Burgaud, John Cayley, Penny Florence, Elizabeth James, Mark Leahy, Tim Mathews, Brigid McLeer, Sharon Morris and TNWK (Kirsten Lavers and cris cheek). Virtual presence/practitioners/curators/theorists: Sandy Baldwin, N Katherine Hayles, Camille Utterback, Talan Memmott, Rita Rayley, David Rokeby, Alan Sondheim, Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Organised by Penny Florence and Tim Mathews, with John Cayley. In collaboration with The Slade School of Fine Art, SCEMFA and the Department of French, University College London Tate Modern Throughout the gallery Free, booking recommended Price includes drinks afterwards A booking fee of 50p applies to online bookings. For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888. ---------- There is also a blog-like site relating to these events, where we are collecting textual material and discussion from the participants. This is now also open to the public: http://web.mac.com/shadoof/iWeb/eandeye/ ---------- From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: live chat with MEZ 10/17 (Leonardo Electronic Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:57:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 352 (352) Almanac Discussion) _Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_ :: Live chat with MEZ about creating the co[de][i]n.Text and other topics. :: Chat date: Tuesday, October 17. :: 12 midnight West Coast US / 3 am East Coast USA / 9 am Paris FR / 5 pm Melbourne AU :: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media Poetics special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Chat instructions are here: http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/forum.asp. PLEASE NOTE: The instructions are intended to apply to all jabber chat clients, but there may be some variation for individual clients. For example, some clients may require the chat room server "conference.jabber.org" and others clients only "jabber.org." Also, please refer to the link for a complete schedule of upcoming chats and for instructions on joining chats. About MEZ: a partial bibliograph can be accessed - with varying degrees of chronology + linearity - from the following. Warning: search.behavior may be required/n.couraged. http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/nav.htm http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/resume2d.htm From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: But how healthy are we really? Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:59:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 353 (353) It is curious to observe that there is indeed scarce quantitative information on the administrative state of humanities computing and digital humanities. Up to the late 1980s several surveys, directories etc. of , for instance, projects, courses, software, text repositories in the field of humanities computing were published in Chum and on mailing lists. Partly because of the enormous evolution of the field which made overlooking the field a tough job, and partly because the increasing availibility of the WWW spread the false impression that all information was available on-line, these efforts to draw quantitative maps of humanities computing ceased to exist. No directories of scholars active, no humanities computing yearbooks, and no lists of available courses anymore. The question whether humanities computing is in a healthy state nowadays can only be answered from a historical perspective. Absolute fugures don't tell us anything until they are related to earlier fiigures which can show an upward or a downward trend. Much of these earlier figures (or at least estimates) are available and have been published. Current figures, however, remain, to my knowledge, unpublished. That's why Melissa Terass' paper (Terras, 2006) is important, because it does publish recent figures and provides an analysis of them. As far as courses in humanities computing are concerned, the Advanced Computing in the Humanities thematic network project has produced a thematic survey of computing in humanities education in seventeen countries and identified the basis for a humanistic computer science in 1999 (De Smedt et al., 1999). Also, the inventory of institutional models for humanities computing (McCarty and Kirschenbaum, 2003) does include some general guidance on the recent teaching of humanities computing in the world. But surveys as the ones published in Computers and the Humanities from 1971 to 1987 have not been pulished since. The first survey referred to here was published in 1971 and identified 28 computer courses for the humanist (Bowles, 1971). This figure grew rapidly in the coming years: 35 courses in 1972 (De Campo, 1972); 42 courses in 1974 (Allen, 1974); and 133 individual courses and seven institutes or research groups that offered multiple courses were listed in 1978 (Rudman, 1978). In 1987, Rudman listed 346 courses but added that the real figure might well be over 400 and that more courses were planned to run in the following years (Rudman, 1987). How many (advanced) courses are offered nowadays? Nobody seems to know. Is King's doing well with three PhD students in Digital Humanities in 2006? Probably, but in 1958, only a couple of miles or so away from King's, two of Andrew D. Booth's PhD students at Birkbeck College, Leonard Brandwood and John Cleave, may have been the first PhD students in applying computers to the humanities, apart from translation language problems. Leonard Brandwood worked on the chronology and concordance of Plato's works (Booth et al., 1958, p. 50-65), and John Cleave on the mechanical transcription of Braille (Booth et al., 1958, p. 97-109). An increase of 1 PhD candidate in the field of computing in and for the humanities in half a century in a city like London is hardly a healthy trend. This is why we need chronologies and histories of humanities computing(s). not only to understand the past, but to check our current state of health. Referenced works: Allen, John R. (1974). The Development of Computer Courses for Humanists. Computers and the Humanities, 8: 291-295. Booth, A.D., Brandwood, L., and Cleave, J.P. (1958). Mechanical resolution of linguistic problems. London: Butterworths Scientific Publications. Bowles, Edmund A. (1971). Towards a Computer Curriculum for the Humanities. Computers and the Humanities, 6/1: 35-38. De Campo, Leila (1972). Computer Courses for the Humanist: A Survey. Computers and the Humanities, 7/1: 57-62. De Smedt, Koenraad, Gardiner, Hazel, Ore, Espen, Orlandi, Tito, Short, Harold, Souillot, Jacques, and Vaughan, William (eds.) (1999). Computing in Humanities Education. A European Perspective. Bergen: University of Bergen. McCarty, Willard, and Kirschenbaum, Matthew (2003). Institutional Models for Humanities Computing. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 18/4: 465-489. On-line publication: <http://www.allc.org/imhc/>. Rudman, Joseph (1978). Computer Courses for Humanists: A Survey. Computers and the Humanities, 12: 253-279. Rudman, Joseph (1987). Teaching Computers and the Humanities Courses: A Survey. Computers and the Humanities, 21: 235-243. Terras, Melissa (2006). Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse 'Humanities Computing'. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 21/2: 229-246. Edward -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Coordinator Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL) Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium tel: +32 9 265 93 51 / fax: +32 9 265 93 49 edward 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: "J.L.Abdelnour-Nocera" Subject: PhD studentship in Culture and HCI Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:34:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 354 (354) THAMES VALLEY UNIVERSITY, LONDON INSTITUTE for IT CENTRE for INTERNATIONALISATION and USABILITY EPSRS Research Studentship in Human-Computer Interaction, VESEL Project (Village e-science for Life) Bursary =A312300 pa. 3 year post We are seeking a postgraduate research student to join the VESEL Project (Village e-science for Life) a EPSRC-funded research project commencing in October 2006. The aim of VESEL is to explore and develop participatory methods for developing novel solutions for ICT in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis upon the educational barriers. The initial normal place of work will be the Slough Campus but the candidate will have the opportunity to spend some periods, distributed over the project life within an African context as well as site visits to Kenya. Candidates should have a good BSc or MSc degree in a computing discipline with a significant HCI component. They should also have a keen interest in understanding African cultures and a knowledge of KisSwahili would be an advantage. Closing date: 5 November, 2006. Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Lynne Dunckley (Lynne.Dunckley_at_tvu.ac.uk) or Dr. Jose Abdelnour-Nocera (Jose.Abdelnour-Nocera_at_tvu.ac.uk). Dr. Jose Abdelnour Nocera Senior Lecturer Institute for Information Technology Thames Valley University Wellington Street Slough - England SL1 1YG Tel [work] +44(0)1753697887 / [home] +44(0)1908648376 Fax +44 (0)1753 697750 http://sirius.tvu.ac.uk/~abdejos/ From: "On Behalf Of Jonathan Tarr" Subject: cfp: "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface," Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:37:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 355 (355) Call for Papers International HASTAC Conference "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface" April 19-21, 2007 www.hastac.org We are now soliciting papers and panel proposals for "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface," the first international conference of HASTAC ("haystack": Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). The interdisciplinary conference will be held April 19-21, 2007, in Durham, North Carolina, co-sponsored by Duke University and RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute). Details concerning registration fees, hotel accommodations, and the full conference agenda will be posted to www.hastac.org as they become available. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface" is one of the culminating events for the In|Formation Year that began in June 2006 and extends through May of 2007. (See the HASTAC website for a calendar of In|Formation Year events, plus open source archived materials suitable for downloading for courses or campus events.) The keynote address will be delivered by visionary information scientist John Seely Brown (The Social Life of Information) at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke. Other events include a talk by legal theorist James Boyle (co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Science Commons), a conversation among leaders of innovative digital humanities projects led by John Unsworth (chair of the ACLS "Cyberinfrastructure and the Humanities and Social Sciences" commission), and a presentation by media artist and research pioneer Rebecca Allen. The conference will also include refereed scholarly and scientific papers, multimedia performances, an exhibit hall of innovative software and hardware, plus tours of art and scientific installations in virtual reality, learning-game, and interactive sensor space environments. CALL FOR PAPERS Six sessions will be devoted to panels with refereed papers on aspects of "interface" spanning media arts, engineering, and the human, social, natural, and computational sciences. Panels will be topical and cross-disciplinary; they will be comprised of papers that are themselves interdisciplinary as well as specialized disciplinary papers presented in juxtaposition with one another. We will consider proposals for full panels (three or four papers), for paired cross-disciplinary papers on a shared topic, or for single papers. Topics: Panels might address interfaces between humans and computers, mind and brain, real and virtual worlds, science and fiction, consumers and producers, text-archives and multi-media, youth and adults, disciplines, institutions, communities, identities, media, cultures, technologies, theories, and practices. Other possible topics: The body as interface, neuroaesthetics and neurocognition, prosthetics, mind-controlled devices, immersion, emergence, presence, telepresence, sensor spaces, virtual reality, social networking, games, experimental learning environments, human/non-human situations and actors, interactive communication and control, access, borders, intellectual property, porosity, race and ethnicity, difference, Afro-Geeks and Afro-Futurism, identity, gender, sexuality, credibility, mapping and trafficking, civic engagement, social activism, cyberactivism, plus all of the other In|Formation Year topics: in|common, interplay, in|community, interaction, injustice, integration, invitation, innovation. Proposal Submissions: Please send 500-1000 word paper and/or panel proposals to info_at_hastac.org Deadline for Proposals: December 1, 2006. Full-length papers or power-point presentations will be posted on the HASTAC website prior to the conference. The sessions themselves will be devoted to synopses of the work, followed by a response designed to elicit audience participation. Attendees whose papers are not accepted will be encouraged to display their work at a digital poster session. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Registration will be limited to 150 people. HASTAC will announce a priority registration period for HASTAC In|Formation Year site leaders, followed by open registration. SCHOLARSHIPS Some scholarship funding will be available to graduate students to help defray fees and conference costs. For additional information as well as copies of the In|Formation Year poster, contact Jonathan Tarr, HASTAC Project Manager (info_at_hastac.org or 919 684-8471). HASTAC uses Creative Commons licenses for all of its endeavors. All conference sessions will be webcast, archived, and made available for non-profit educational purposes From: Computational Philosophy Subject: NEW BOOKS by L. Magnani et. al., Proceedings of MBR04 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:35:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 356 (356) 1) L. MAGNANI (ed), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering. Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Logic, 6. College Publications, London, 2006. ISBN 1904987230, Ł 18.00. Authors: A. Aliseda, S. Bandini, D. Batens, E. Belli, R. Bod, J. E. Brenner, A. Carsetti, B. Chandrasekaran, J. Clement, E. Datteri, D. Gabbay, M. Gorman, H. Hosni, K. Inoue, T. A. Kuipers, M. Leyton, Ping Li, L. Magnani, S. Mildeová, A. Mosca, M. Palmonari, H. Pape, D. P. Portides, A. Rivadulla, C. Sakama, C. Shelley, G. Tamburrini, G. Tuzet, B. Tversky, Z. Wang, J. Woods, G. Vizzari. Publisher Website: under (re)construction http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/ kcl-publications/ *** 2) Forthcoming: special issue of Foundations of Science (Springer) "Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering", edited by L. MAGNANI Authors: F. Amigoni, M. Boon, E. Finkeissen, A. Heeffer, H. Liu, Hui Li, V. Schiaffonati, M. S. Steinberg, J. J. Sung, Hai-Yin Xu. http://www.springer.com/east/home/philosophy?SGWID=5-40385-70-35679328-0 *** 3) Forthcoming: special issue of Foundations of Science (Springer) "Tracking Irrational Sets. Science, Technology, Ethics", edited by L. MAGNANI Authors: T. Addis, J. T. Addis, C. Arrighi, E. Bardone, D. Billinge, D. Gooding, M. E. Gorman, R. Ferrario, L. Magnani, A. Rodríguez, E. Surcar, S. Vadera, B.-F. Visscher. http://www.springer.com/east/home/philosophy?SGWID=5-40385-70-35679328-0 *** 4) Special Issue of Logic Journal of the IGPL, 14(1) (2006)(Oxford University Press) "Abduction, Practical Reasoning, and Creative Inferences in Science", edited by L. MAGNANI. [the papers by Bandini, Mosca and Palmonari and by Tuzet have been presented at E-CAP2004_ITALY]. Authors: A. Aliseda, S. Bandini, B. Banerjee, Z. A. Bari, D. Batens, M. C. Becker, V. Bharathan, P. D. Bruza, W. Carnielli, R. J. Cole, G. Dai, T. Knag Fylkesnes, D. Gabbay, K. Hakkarainen, K. Inoue, J. R. Josephson, S. Luan, L. Magnani, J. Meheus, A. Mosca, A. Nepomuceno, S. Paavola, M. Palmonari, C. Pizzi, P. Pohjola, L. Reyes, C. Sakama, M. Sintonen, F. Soler, D. Song, G. Tuzet, J. Wood, F. Zirpoli http://jigpal.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl *** ORDERING INFORMATIONS To order the volume at the issues 1) and 4) please contact Jane Spurr , secretary of College Publications, London. From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The October 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:33:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 357 (357) Greetings: The October 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, seven reports from the ECDL 2006 conference, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month's featured collection is "Digital Collections at the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill," contributed by Judith M. Panitch, UNC-Chapel Hill. The articles include: DLF-Aquifer Asset Actions Experiment: Demonstrating Value of Actionable URLs Robert Chavez, Tufts University; Timothy W. Cole, Muriel Foulonneau, and Thomas G. Habing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jon Dunn, Indiana University; William Parod, Northwestern University; and Thornton Staples, University of Virginia An Interoperable Fabric for Scholarly Value Chains Herbert Van de Sompel and Xiaoming Liu, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Carl Lagoze, Sandy Payette, and Simeon Warner, Cornell University; and Jeroen Bekaert, Ghent University Strategies and Frameworks for Institutional Repositories and the New Support Infrastructure for Scholarly Communications Tyler O. Walters, Georgia Institute of Technology Measuring Total Reading of Journal Articles Donald W. King, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Michael Clarke, American Academy of Pediatrics The conference reports include: ECDL 2006: A Conference Report Based on a Travel Log in Context Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame Cross-Language Evaluation Forum - CLEF 2006 Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR Report on the 5th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop Traugott Koch, UKOLN, University of Bath ECDL 2006 Workshop Report: The Use of Digital Object Repository Systems in Digital Libraries (DORSDL) Gert Schmeltz Pedersen, Technical University of Denmark; Kostas Saidis, University of Athens; and Hans Pfeiffenberger, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Digital Library Goes e-Science (DLSci06): Workshop Held in Conjunction with ECDL 2006, September 17-22, 2006. Alicante, Spain Rachel Heery, UKOLN, University of Bath Report on the Workshop of Learning Object Repositories as Digital Libraries: September 22, 2006, Alicante, Spain Miguel R. Artacho, UNED University; and Erik Duval, K.U.Leuven Report on the 1st International Critical Success Factors for Institutional Change Workshop (CSFIC): 22 September, Alicante, Spain Karen Fill, University of Southampton From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.40 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:50:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 358 (358) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 40 October 17, 2006 =96 October 23, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: SECURE DELIVERY OF HANDWRITTEN SIGNATURE Computer scientists Samir Kumar=20 Bandyopadhyay (University of Calcutta), Debnath=20 Bhattacharyya (Heritage Institute of Technology)=20 and Anindya Jvoti Pal (Heritage Institute of=20 Technology) examine digital watermarking, the=20 process that embeds data called a watermark into=20 an object such that the watermark can be detected=20 and extracted later to make an assertion about=20 the object. Watermarking is either =B2visible=B2 or=20 =B2invisible=B2. Although visible and invisible are=20 visual terms watermarking is not limited to=20 images, it can also be used to protect other=20 types of multimedia objects. The research work of=20 these authors is on watermarking techniques in=20 particular, and they note that many of the=20 proposed techniques share three specific weaknesses: complexity of copy detection, vulnerability to=20 mark removal after revelation for ownership=20 verification, and mark integrity issues due to=20 partial mark removal. Their paper for Ubiquity=20 presents a method for watermarking Handwritten=20 Signature that achieves robustness by responding=20 to these three weaknesses. They say the key=20 techniques involve using secure functions to=20 generate and embed an image mark that is more=20 detectable, verifiable, and secure than existing=20 protection and detection techniques. See=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i40_signature.html>http://www.acm.org/u= biquity/views/v7i40_signature.html Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 39 (October 17, 2006 =96 October 23, 2006)=20 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: 10th Anniversary Version of Scholarly Electronic Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:51:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 359 (359) Publishing Bibliography Version 64 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,780 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html This is the 10th anniversary version of SEPB, whose first version was published in October 1996: http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/01/sepb.html The PDF version of SEPB is produced annually. The 2005 PDF file is available (Version 60, published 12/9/2005). http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/60/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials General Electronic Publishing* Images* Legal* Preservation* Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The 2005 annual PDF file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 210 pages long. The PDF file is over 560 KB. Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries E-Mail: cbailey_at_uh.edu Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others) From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Bibliographical Society of America 2007 Fellowship Program Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:53:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 360 (360) The Bibliographical Society of America 2007 Fellowship Program Announcement <http://www.bibsocamer.org/fellows.htm> The Bibliographical Society of America (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. Among the BSA Fellowships offered each year are a number of named awards funded through generous contributions from members of the bibliographical community: * The Folter Fellowship in the History of Bibliography ($2,000); * The Katharine Pantzer Fellowship in the British Book Trades ($2,000); * The McCorison Fellowship for the History and Bibliography of Printing in Canada and the United States: the Gift of Donald Oresman ($2,000); * The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas ($2,000). Applicants need not apply for a specific named fellowship to be eligible, although if their research falls within the scope of a particular award they may wish to shape their project description accordingly. BSA Fellowships may be held for one or two months. The program is open to applicants of any nationality, with or without current academic affiliation. Fellows will be paid a stipend of up to $2,000 per month (for up to two months) in support of travel, living, and research expenses. Applications for this program, including three letters of reference, must be received on or before 1 December 2006. No applications will be accepted after that date. Completed application packages may be submitted via e-mail attachment using the word-processing form (preferred) <http://www.bibsocamer.org/Fellowships/Email_app.doc>, or via post using the PDF print-out form <http://www.bibsocamer.org/Fellowships/Postal_app.pdf>. Specific application instructions may be found on the forms themselves. Prospective applicants unable to download submission forms may contact the executive secretary for application material as well as additional information about the program: BSA Executive Secretary, P.O. Box 1537, Lenox Hill Station, New York, NY 10021, e-mail bsa(at)bibsocamer.org. Any questions about the submission procedure may be directed to David Gants, Chair of the Fellowship Committee, dgants(at)unb.ca. From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: Assistant/Associate Professor - SILS - Knowledge Organization Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:53:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 361 (361) Closing Date: 02/15/2007 Position Summary: This is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the assistant/ associate professor rank, available Fall 2007. Job Responsibilities: - Teach three courses per semester including Knowledge Organization. - Develop courses and help build programs in area of specialization; contribute to curriculum development. - Conduct research in knowledge organization, publish in peer- reviewed journals, and present at professional conferences. - Serve as an advisor to SILS students. - Serve on School and Institute committees and participate in Institute-wide initiatives; contribute to the life of the school. - Perform all other related activities as required. Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Qualifications: We require a Ph.D. in library and information science or a related field. Applicants must have a specialization in knowledge organization defined broadly to include access and retrieval for database systems and networks, search engines and digital libraries. Demonstrated ability to help build programs and courses in the knowledge organization field defined broadly to include areas such as cataloging, metadata, indexing, taxonomy and thesauri. Candidates should have some college level teaching experience, preferably in an LIS graduate program; some professional experience related to knowledge organization; and related research and publications. Must be active in professional organizations and have excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills. To Apply: Please submit a letter of application, c.v., and the names and contact information for three professional references to: Assistant to the Dean School of Information and Library Science Position Code APKO Pratt Institute 144 West 14th Street 6th Floor New York, NY 10011 Email: vthomas_at_pratt.edu Fax: 212-367-2492 Jeremy Hunsinger School of Library and Information Science Pratt Institute () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Humanities Computing Asst. Prof. Position at U. Georgia Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:53:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 362 (362) Assistant Professor, tenure-track, in the area of Humanities Computing. Ph.D. required by time of appointment, August 2007. Four course load; salary competitive. Demonstrated accomplishment in and commitment to research and teaching in humanities computing / digital studies and the application of digital technology to humanities research are required. In particular, candidates must have knowledge of and ability to teach mark-up and scripting. Ability to teach major classes in at least one other area offered by the department is expected (i.e., traditional British and American periods, contemporary, African American and multi-cultural, English language, rhet/comp, folklore, creative writing, or theory). Send statement of application and cv including pertinent URLs by Nov. 15 to Prof. N. Hilton, Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602; attn.: Humanities Computing Search (email, with any attachments in .pdf is preferred: nhilton_at_uga.edu). We encourage applications from women and minorities. The University of Georgia is an AA/EEO institution. Prof. Nelson Hilton ~ Director, Center for Teaching and Learning University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 ~ 706.542.1355 ~ www.ctl.uga.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: MA programmes at the CCH in London Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:21:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 363 (363) MA programmes in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Applications are invited for the MA programmes of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. Currently two programmes are on offer and are described below. For further information on these programmes, see www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/pg/programmes/. For information on funding, see www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/humanities/schoff/grad/. Application may be made online, at www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/humanities/schoff/grad/humap.html. Applicants are likely to be interviewed by telephone if not in person. Note that results from prior degrees and, for non-native speakers, from the standard tests for competence in English are taken very seriously. Strong letters of recommendation are as important as one would suspect. Applicants should pay close attention to the personal statement of interests, showing a close match between these and the objectives of the programme for which they are applying. Note that the courses of each programme, with the exception of its core- course, are available to students enrolled in the other programme. Further enquiries may be made to Sarah Davenport, the programme administrator, sarah.davenport_at_kcl.ac.uk. MA IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES The MA in Digital Humanities assists students to develop the analytical and practical skills that will enable them to understand and apply computing to the source materials and problems of the humanities. Its subject matter comprises formal methods and techniques and the consequences and implications of applying them. Instruction includes lectures on theoretical topics, demonstrations, and practical classes and exercises. A representative selection of case-studies drawn from a number of disciplinary areas is used to exemplify analysis of typical problems and the combination of technical means needed to approach them successfully. Because of the range and depth of these problems, the programme is able to equip students not only for further research at the doctoral level but also for work in museums, libraries, business and the public services. At the core of the programme is the meeting between the formal rigour of computational methods and the imaginative diversity of cultural expression. The programme emphasizes in theory and practice the consistency and explicitness that the computer requires while highlighting in each case-study the kinds of knowledge which inevitably escape these rigorous demands. By creating structured models out of the irregular and disparate data of the humanities, the student learns to judge when the application of computing may lead to useful or interesting results and also to learn how the analytical and practical processes can throw new light on the object of study. By combining the divergent perspectives of computing and the humanities, the student encounters in a concrete way the question of how we know what we know. This question is developed throughout as an essential tool for better critical thinking. MA IN DIGITAL CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY The aim of the MA in Digital Culture and Technology is to develop participants' understanding of the role and consequences of digital technologies in contemporary culture, broadly interpreted to include such areas of activity as performing arts, telecommunications, information technology, philosophy, law and education. The programme is conceived as fundamentally interdisciplinary, drawing for its teaching on four academic Schools: Humanities; Law; Physical Sciences & Engineering; and Social Science & Public Policy. It is aimed at a diverse range of participants, offering technological insights to those with non-technical backgrounds, and cultural perspectives to those who have not thought about digital culture in a systematic way. The central focus of the programme is the interrelatedness of technology and culture in contemporary society. The principal educational aims are to develop and enhance participants' awareness and understanding of a range of subjects relevant to digital culture and technology. These include the following: -- information and communication technologies that shape contemporary society; developments in contemporary cultural expression, specifically as these are driven, mediated or influenced by digital technologies; -- the role of these technologies in the study of culture and cultural artefacts from the past; -- how digital technologies are shaping society more generally, e.g. social intercourse, social structures, government, international politics, education and law; -- current critical and theoretical debates around digital culture and the role of technology in cultural life; -- the ethical, moral and philosophical issues that arise from the role and impact of technology in cultural and social life. Overall, the programme aims to develop and enhance the critical and analytical skills of participants in forming their own assessments of digital technologies and their impact in society and culture. ----- 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: being strong as well as healthy Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:04:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 364 (364) In the latest issue of the Times Literary Supplement, no. 5402, for 13 October, appears an article by Alex Burghart, "Web works", on the development of freely distributed electronic resources for medieval historians. Burghart is Postgraduate Research Assistant in the Department of History, King's College London, and a member of the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England project, www.pase.ac.uk, launched this last May. Burghart writes that the project, [deleted quotation]He goes on to contrast the usefulness of this "work at the coal face" with the usual fate of PhD dissertations -- to remain unread in library vaults (if not turned into books that most often would have been far better if delayed in the rewriting until the author had fully recovered from the peculiar experience of writing in that peculiar genre). PASE and other projects of its kind are fruits of both institutional and professional investment as well. When such products of collaborative work emerge into the world of daily scholarship, the individuals named on the cover-page, corresponding to authors on a printed titlepage, fit into a recognizable category, and so we have no difficulty in understanding their responsibility for the publication. What's newer and so more difficult to grasp is the role of the academic department where the humanities computing work was done and where this digital publication will continue to be an object of specific care. If, as seems likely, the academic world judges such products of scholarship to be what is wanted in this perpetually incunabular digital age of ours, then the institutional road ahead is plain. Simply put, one needs to have a collaborative research (and teaching) department whose bread-and-butter, rather than jam on the side, is the intellectual coal-face labour such as Burghart describes. Outsourcing or hiring it in piecemeal is impractical and often financially impossible. And once you have such a department, much else becomes possible, such as teaching programmes. Are we healthy? Here, I think, is a way to be strong. In the spirit of full disclosure, I must admit to talking about my own department, of which I'm obviously proud. But the longer-range matter is to continue to figure out how to give what we do a "stone body", as Mircea Eliade said in a very different context. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:31:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 365 (365) New books published by Springer Verlag: (1) Between Dirt and Discussion Methods, Methodology and Interpretation in Historical Archaeology Archer, Steven N.; Bartoy, Kevin M. (Eds.) 2006, XIV, 235 p., 50 illus., Hardcover ISBN-10: 0-387-34218-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-387-34218-4 Interpretations of the past are under constant critical scrutiny in archaeology. In recent decades, theoretical views have profoundly changed the conceptions of both "the past" and archaeologists' relationship to this object of study. However, our basic excavation and analytical methods have undergone little critical re-evaluation. Often archaeological discussions begin as if "data" were already established, independent of the research designs and analytical choices that produce them. Interpretation often ends at the lectern, but it has many beginnings within the traditional archaeological process. Exploring how data is generated and interpreted by historical archaeologists, it is at the intersection of "dirt and discussion". The cases presented in this volume revisit old methods and previous scholarly approaches with new perspectives, along with incorporating the newest technologies available to understanding the past. Rethinking the classics and engaging with new modes of data creation also generate fresh theoretical approaches. Using their own work as examples, the contributors explore the connections between methodology and interpretation. Between Dirt and Discussion advocates recentering the materials that make archaeology archaeology, in the hopes of reinvigorating dialogues about the historic past, and archaeological contributions to its understanding. (2) Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005, Revised Selected Papers Series: <http://www.springer.com/dal/home/computer/database?SGWID=1-153-69-173621324-0>Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 4022 Sublibrary: <http://www.springer.com/dal/home/computer/database?SGWID=1-153-69-173623305-0>Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI Peters, C.; Gey, F.; Gonzalo, J.; Mueller, H.; Jones, G.; Kluck, M.; Magnini, B.; de Rijke, M. (Eds.) 2006, XXI, 1013 p., Softcover ISBN-10: 3-540-45697-X ISBN-13: 978-3-540-45697-1 The papers are organized in topical sections on multilingual textual document retrieval, cross-language and more, monolingual experiments, domain-specific information retrieval, interactive cross-language information retrieval, multiple language question answering, cross-language retrieval in image collections, cross-language speech retrieval, multilingual Web track, cross-language geographical retrieval, and evaluation issues. (3) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 10th European Conference, EDCL 2006, Alicante Spain, September 17-22, 2006, Proceedings Series: <http://www.springer.com/dal/home/computer/database?SGWID=1-153-69-173621324-0>Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 4172 Sublibrary: <http://www.springer.com/dal/home/computer/database?SGWID=1-153-69-173623305-0>Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI Gonzalo, J.; Thanos, C.; Verdejo, M.F.; Carrasco, R.C. (Eds.) 2006, DLXIX, 17 p., Softcover ISBN-10: 3-540-44636-2 ISBN-13: 978-3-540-44636-1 The papers are organized in topical sections on architectures, preservation, retrieval, applications, methodology, metadata, evaluation, user studies, modeling, audiovisual content, and language technologies. 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: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: Plaisant on user interfaces for data mining: 10/23 11am Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:19:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 366 (366) The Computing in the Humanities Users' Group presents Exploring Erotics in Emily Dickinson's Correspondence with Text Mining and Visual Interfaces Catherine Plaisant Human Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland 11am, Monday October 23 STG Conference Room Graduate Center, Tower E The Nora project aims to develop tools to support humanities scholars in their interpretation of literary work. Nora's user interface and web architecture integrates text mining, a graphical user interface and visualization, while attempting to remain easy to use by non specialists. Users can interactively read and rate documents found in a digital libraries collection, prepare training sets, review results of classification algorithms and explore possible indicators and explanations. Initial evaluation steps suggest that there is a rationale for "provocational" text mining in literary interpretation scholarship. This talk will focus on the user interface of Nora and its evaluation. I will demonstrate the system, report on how scholars have started using it, and review possible future designs. The Nora Project (www.noraproject.org) brings together multidisciplinary teams from five institutions (University of Illinois, Nebraska, Virginia, Nebraska and Maryland) and multiple domains, from the humanities to information science and computer science. Dr. Catherine Plaisant is Associate Research Scientist at the Human- Computer Interaction Laboratory of the University of Maryland. She earned a Doctorat d'Ingenieur degree in France. In 1987 she joined the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. Her research contributions range from focused user interaction techniques (e.g. Excentric Labeling) to innovative visualizations (such as LifeLines for personal records or SpaceTree for hierarchical data exploration) and interactive search interface techniques such as Query Previews. She recently co-authored with Ben Shneiderman the 4th Edition of "Designing the User Interface". http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/ cplaisant We will be able to continue the discussion over a brief lunch with our speaker, please email stg_info_at_brown.edu for more information about lunch plans if you'd like to join us. From: Willard McCarty Subject: International Conference on Digital Communications Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:24:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 367 (367) and Computer Applications Jordan University of Science and Technology - Faculty of Computer and Information Technology The 1st International Conference on Digital Communications and Computer Applications (DCCA2007) Dear Colleague : DCCA2007 Will be organized by Jordan University of Science and Technology March 19-22, 2007. The website for the conference is : www.cis.just.edu.jo/dcca2007 Conference focuses on all areas of Digital Communications Computer Science, and Information Technology. We invite paper submissions for this event. Paper submission deadline is Nov. 1st 2006. The best papers of the conference will be published in a special issue of an indexed journal. After the conference, there is a trip to the ancient city JERASH/PETRA. Important Dates :: - Submission of papers deadline: Nov. 1st, 2006. - Notification of acceptance: Dec. 1st, 2006. - Camera ready submission and registration: Jan. 10th, 2007. - Conference date: March 19-22, 2007. For more information Please Contact :: Dr. Sameer Batanieh Conference Chair, DCCA2007 Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan E-mail: samir_at_just.edu.jo Or dcca2007_at_just.edu.jo. LINKS | CONFERENCES <http://www.cis.just.edu.jo/dcca2007> WEBSITE CONTACT US PROGRAM CHAIR 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: Joyce, Entropy and Technicity -- and other matters Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:21:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 368 (368) Dear Joyceans, The Irish Studies Centre at Charles University in Prague plans to host its 3rd Joyce Colloquium in the second week of May 2007, focusing on the topic of "Ethics, Law and Authorship." For further information, write to info @ litterariapragensia . com ... The next issue of Hypermedia Joyce Studies (founded 1994) will be a double issue (7.2/8.1) focusing on Joyce, Entropy and Technicity. Submissions should be sent to hypermedia_joyce @ yahoo . co . uk Deadline 15 November. ... Litteraria Pragensia Books continues to develop its series of Joyce titles: Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of the Other, eds. Louis Armand & Clare Wallace, was published earlier this year in a revised and expanded paperback edition--including contributions from Fritz Senn, Helen Cixous, Gayatri Spivak, Vicki Mahaffey, Murray McArthur, Michel Delville, Kevin Nolan, Joseph Valente, John McCourt, Sheldon Brivic, M.E. Roughley, Renzo Crivelli, and Richard Brown. For further information go to http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/giacomo_joyce.html of visit the main LPB site at www.litterariapragensia.com. NB. All of Litteraria's Joyce titles are available to order online through its authorised agent 2CO, or may be ordered through Syracuse University Press: http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/ Wishing you all the best, Louis Armand 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: Joyce, Entropy and Technicity -- and other matters Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:21:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 369 (369) Dear Joyceans, The Irish Studies Centre at Charles University in Prague plans to host its 3rd Joyce Colloquium in the second week of May 2007, focusing on the topic of "Ethics, Law and Authorship." For further information, write to info @ litterariapragensia . com .. The next issue of Hypermedia Joyce Studies (founded 1994) will be a double issue (7.2/8.1) focusing on Joyce, Entropy and Technicity. Submissions should be sent to hypermedia_joyce @ yahoo . co . uk Deadline 15 November. .. Litteraria Pragensia Books continues to develop its series of Joyce titles: Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of the Other, eds. Louis Armand & Clare Wallace, was published earlier this year in a revised and expanded paperback edition--including contributions from Fritz Senn, Helen Cixous, Gayatri Spivak, Vicki Mahaffey, Murray McArthur, Michel Delville, Kevin Nolan, Joseph Valente, John McCourt, Sheldon Brivic, M.E. Roughley, Renzo Crivelli, and Richard Brown. For further information go to http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/giacomo_joyce.html of visit the main LPB site at www.litterariapragensia.com. NB. All of Litteraria's Joyce titles are available to order online through its authorised agent 2CO, or may be ordered through Syracuse University Press: http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/ Wishing you all the best, Louis Armand 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: oxfordjournals-mailer_at_alerts.stanford.edu Subject: TOC for Literary and Linguistic Computing 21.4: Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:08:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 370 (370) Special Issue on Progress in Dialectometry Lit Linguist Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: Special Issue on Progress in Dialectometry: November 2006; Vol. 21, No. 4 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol21/issue4/index.dtl?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Progress in Dialectometry: Toward Explanation John Nerbonne and William Kretzschmar, Jr Art and Science in Computational Dialectology William A. Kretzschmar, Jr Recent Advances in Salzburg Dialectometry Hans Goebl Database Design and Technical Solutions for the Management, Calculation, and Visualization of Dialect Mass Data Edgar Haimerl North American English Vowels: A Factor-analytic Perspective Cynthia G. Clopper and John C. Paolillo Identifying Linguistic Structure in Aggregate Comparison John Nerbonne The Relative Contribution of Pronunciational, Lexical, and Prosodic Differences to the Perceived Distances between Norwegian Dialects Charlotte Gooskens and Wilbert Heeringa Measuring Syntactic Variation in Dutch Dialects Marco Rene Spruit To What Extent are Surnames Words? Comparing Geographic Patterns of Surname and Dialect Variation in the Netherlands Franz Manni, Wilbert Heeringa, and John Nerbonne Geographic Variation in Acadian French /r /: What Can Correspondence Analysis Contribute Toward Explanation? Wladyslaw Cichocki Mutual Comprehensibility of Written Afrikaans and Dutch: Symmetrical or Asymmetrical? Charlotte Gooskens and Renee van Bezooijen From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: chat with Stephanie Strickland 10/17 *New Chat Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:05:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 371 (371) System* (LEAD) _Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_ :: IMPORTANT: NEW CHAT SYSTEM BELOW :: Live chat with poet Stephanie Strickland, discussing the 11 Dimensions of E-Poetry and other topics. :: Chat date: Friday, October 20. :: 10 am West Coast US / 1 pm East Coast USA / 7 pm Paris FR / 3 am Melbourne AU :: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media Poetics special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac <http://leoalmanac.org/> * For tomorrow's chat only, we are experimenting with different chat software: PloneChat, a brower-based chat program hosted at the Center for Literary Computing. This program is less robust than jabber but does not require you to download a client and will not be blocked by firewalls that block instant messaging clients. * The url for the chat is here: http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/projects/leonardo. We will return to the regular system - using jabber - for upcoming chats (see the schedule below). * You need a username and password to access the chat. Email charles.baldwin_at_mail.wvu.edu with the subject line "strickland chat" to receive a username and password. * Also, please note the dates and times for the next two chats (using the jabber chat program): Manuela Portela 10/23 1 pm West Coast US / 4 pm East Coast USA / 10 pm Paris FR / 6 am Melbourne AU Jason Nelson 10/24 10 am West Coast US / 1 pm East Coast USA / 7 pm Paris FR / 3 am Melbourne AU *--------------------------------------- Stephanie Strickland Biography Stephanie Strickland is both a print and digital hypermedia poet. Her Poem V is an intermedial work consisting of a double poetry book from Penguin(V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una), a Web component cited at book center(Vniverse, http://vniverse.com, created with Cynthia Lawson), and a supplementary interactive Flash poem (Errand Upon Which We Came, created with M.D. Coverley, http://califia.hispeed.com/Errand/title1a.htm). Strickland's poems True North, http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/TrueNorth.html, and The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot, http://wordcircuits.com/gallery/sandsoot/, have won simultaneous awards in both print and electronic forms. Strickland's essays about electronic literature appear online in ebr (Electronic Book Review) and in collections from MIT Press and Intellect Press (England). As the McEver Chair in Writing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, she created and produced TechnoPoetry Festival 2002. She has taught hypermedia literature as part of experimental poetry at many universities and serves on the board of the Electronic Literature Organization. From: AHRC ICT Methods Network Subject: Call for Papers: Workshop on Service Oriented Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:06:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 372 (372) Computing in the Humanities (SOCH) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities (SOCH) Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities (SOCH) =================================================== A joint workshop of the EPSRC Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNet) and the AHRC ICT Methods Network, London, UK, 18-19 December 2006 We are pleased to invite contributions to the above workshop from those working with service oriented software and computing in the Humanities. Paper submissions are welcome in areas including, but not limited to, the following: 1. Service-oriented software architectures for managing humanities data 2. Semantic web and its applications in the humanities 3. Interoperability and protocols 4. Ontologies 5. Data services and data integration 6. Matching distributed computing power and application needs 7. Digital research methods 8. Service description 9. Automated composition 10. Data and service provenance 11. Migrating existing applications towards services Submissions should be in the form of an extended abstract (no more than 4 pages) to be received by 11pm GMT on 12th November 2006. There will be a short review process undertaken by a small programme committee and papers will be accepted on the basis of quality and relevance to the workshop theme. Notification of acceptance will be circulated by 27th November 2006. Full papers will not be required but authors will have the opportunity to revise their extended abstract in the light of reviewers' comments if they so desire. An informal proceedings will be produced for participants. Some limited financial support for attendance will be available for student authors giving a presentation. At least one author of each accepted abstract will be expected to attend and present their work. Electronic submissions in PDF should be sent to: kiarash.mahdavi_at_kcl.ac.uk We look forward to receiving your contributions! Nicolas Gold and Lorna Hughes Directors (respectively) of SOSoRNet and the Methods Network About SOSoRNet -------------- SOSorNet (http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk) is an EPSRC-funded network to bring together people working in the various communities associated with service-oriented software e.g. Grid, web services, application service provision etc. The aim is to promote the cross-fertilisation of ideas between these communities. SOSoRNet is organised by: * Nicolas Gold, King's College London (network director) * Pearl Brereton, Keele University * Keith Bennett, David Budgen, Durham University * Christos Tjortjis, Nikolay Mehandjiev, John Keane, Paul Layzell, Manchester University * Jie Xu, Leeds University To join SOSorNet please email nicolas.gold_at_kcl.ac.uk or kiarash.mahdavi_at_kcl.ac.uk. What is SOSoRNet for? - To share best-practice and research in service-oriented software systems - To bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners - To promote cross-fertilisation of ideas between communities Who is it for? Anyone involved in service-oriented software development and use e.g. - Grid researchers - Application service providers - Users and developers of web services About AHRC ICT Methods Network ------------------------------ The Methods Network is a multi-disciplinary partnership providing a national forum for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for arts and humanities research. The aims of the Methods Network are: - To promote, support and develop the use of advanced ICT methods in arts and humanities research and to support the cross-disciplinary network of practitioners from institutions around the UK. - To develop a programme of activities and publications on advanced ICT tools and methods and to ensure the broadest participation of the community by means of an open call for proposals for Methods Network activities. Further information about the Methods Network can be found at: http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: an elusive utterance Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:41:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 373 (373) Dear colleagues, I remember reading but now cannot locate a statement, I think by Richard Rorty, in which he anticipates the day, which he says will come soon, 'when the neurobiologists do to the cognitive scientists what the chemists did to the alchemists' -- or something along those lines. I would be enormously grateful to anyone who can point a bibliographic finger to this delightfully intemperate utterance. Not that I believe it, of course.... Mny 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 MA and PhD degrees Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:39:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 374 (374) Individuals from Latin America interested in either of the MA programmes or the PhD programme in Digital Humanities at King's College London should consider applying for funding under the Alban scheme, described at www.programalban.org. The following is a brief extract from the information found at that site: [deleted quotation]Applications are due in December 2006. Since the scheme presumes acceptance into the intended programme, anyone intending to apply should get in contact with our programme administrator, Sarah Davenport, immediately, at sarah.davenport_at_kcl.ac.uk. 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: comments on ethical & legal issues of simulation? Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:02:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 375 (375) I have recently completed a paper entitled "Historical Simulations - Motivational, Ethical and Legal Issues" that appears in the August, 2006 issue of the Journal of Futures Studies. It is available on SSRN at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=929327 The paper discusses the ethical and legal issues of using completely realistic, fine-grained simulations around the mid-21st century for reflective nostalgia, historical research, testing new forms of artificial intelligence, and backing-up civilization in perilous times. Any comments would be welcome. Peter S. Jenkins "PETER JENKINS" Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: live chat with Manuel Portela 10/23 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:57:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 376 (376) _Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_ :: Live chat with poet and critic Manuel Portela, discussing concrete and digital poetics, and other topics. :: Chat date: Monday, October 23. :: 1 pm West Coast US / 4 pm East Coast USA / 10 pm Paris FR / 6 am Melbourne AU :: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media Poetics special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac= <http://leoalmanac.org/> Chat instructions are here: http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/forum.asp. PLEASE NOTE: The instructions are intended to apply to all jabber chat clients, but there may be some variation for individual clients. For example, some clients may require the chat room server "conference.jabber.org" and others clients only "jabber.org." Also, please refer to the link for a complete schedule of upcoming chats and for instructions on joining chats. -------------------------------------- Manuel Portela Biography Manuel Portela has written books of visual and sound poetry, as well as a number of satirical poems. His early poems have been collected in Cras! Bang! Boom! Clang (1991) and Pixel Pixel (1992). He organized an international exhibition of visual and concrete poetry in 1993 - Wor(l)d Poem/ Poema Mu(n)do, which was held at the Museum of Figueira da Foz, Portugal. He has also exhibited his own visual poetry and he has created several digital poems. Since 1994 he has published 10 volumes of translation, including the first Portuguese editions of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1994) and Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (2 vols, 1997-98). He was awarded the National Prize of Literary Translation for Tristram Shandy. Many other translations have appeared in Portuguese and Brazilian journals and anthologies, including poems by Samuel Beckett, Edwin Morgan, Tony Harrison, John Havelda, Charles Bernstein, Mike Basinski, Bill Howe, Ron Silliman, Bob Perelman, Dennis Cooley, Robert Kroetsch, Roy Miki, Don Paterson. He has written short plays both for radio and stage. His latest book is O Comércio da Literatura [The Commerce of Literature] (2003), a study of representations of the literary marketplace in eighteenth-century England. Currently he works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His latest research is concerned with textual forms in digital media. From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: live chat with Jason Nelson 10/24 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:58:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 377 (377) _Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_ :: Live chat with digital artist and cyberpoet Jason Nelson, discussing fictobiography, responsive poetry, and other topics. :: Chat date: Tuesday, October 24. :: 10 am West Coast US / 1 pm East Coast USA / 7 pm Paris FR / 3 am Melbourne AU :: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media Poetics special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac <http://leoalmanac.org/> Chat instructions are here: http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/forum.asp. PLEASE NOTE: The instructions are intended to apply to all jabber chat clients, but there may be some variation for individual clients. For example, some clients may require the chat room server "conference.jabber.org" and others clients only "jabber.org." Also, please refer to the link for a complete schedule of upcoming chats and for instructions on joining chats. -------------------------------------- Artist Biography With work recently appearing in Singapore at the Asian Civilizations Museum, St. Petersburg Florida, UCLA, Hermeneia from Barcelona, Spain, Vancouver Washington, around Australia, and other worldly parts, Jason Nelson is always charmed by how rarely he travels beyond the distance provided by a tank of gas. Being a Digital Writing Lecturer at Griffith University in the Gold Coast of Australia, he deeply misses the snows of the Oklahoma plains, so miss the snows. Come explore his creatures at: http://secrettechnology.com or http://heliozoa.com From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 4.1 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:59:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 378 (378) The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (On-line) has posted Volume 4-1 to the web it is available at: www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies Gerry Coulter Founding Editor From: "Joel Elliott" Subject: Lyman Award Lecture (Nov. 6, 5pm) Date: Mon., November 6th, 2006, 5:00 PM X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 379 (379) Location: National Humanities Center, Durham, NC Willard McCarty is the 2006 recipient of the Richard W. Lyman Award, selected for his contributions to and leadership within the field of the digital humanities. Best known as a theoretician, McCarty is also steeped in the practical dimensions of the application of information technology to the problems of humanistic learning. In 1987 he founded Humanist, a digital medium designed to bring together scholars working on problems born of the intersection of computing and the humanities. Also since the late 1980's he has tested his approach to the digital humanities on Ovid's Metamorphoses, encoding the text and working with a series of research assistants to better understand what encoding might contribute to literary criticism and the humanities as a whole. The product of that project is a body of work known as The Analytical Onomasticon. In his newest book, Humanities Computing, McCarty explains how and why humanities computing is in itself an intellectual humanistic field of inquiry. McCarty is Reader in Humanities Computing at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, where he has taught since 1996. Source: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/news/2006fallevents.htm#mccarty From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Guardian on ArtReview on Google Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:35:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 380 (380) Willard, The following is a delectable tale or food [eye-candy] for thought. As with menu planning, listing is an art. Good list placement is sometimes at the tail end (in a print publication where scrolling doesn't matter but scanning or eye-balling does). The item that appears 100th on a list of 100 is in a priveleged position. See the following. The Guardian 14.10.06 in a story by Esther Addley reports on ArtReview's annual listing of the 100 most powerful people in the contemporary art scene: The most surprising inclusion on this list, at number 100, is the search engine Google. Mr Welch [[editor of ArtReview]] insisted it was not a joke. "Manny of the curators we speak to have mentioned the potential of [the photo-sharing site] Flickr as a viable exhibition area =AD that in a few years from now they'll be curating online to millions of viewers. And while we quickly concluded that Flickr has a way to go yet, it did make us realise how much we rely on Google for our art information. In a strange way, the number of hits an artist, curator or even a dealer gets can legitimise him in the same way it can anyone else." From: Willard McCarty Subject: CHArt 22nd annual conference Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:51:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 381 (381) LAST CALL FOR CONFERENCE BOOKINGS! SOME PLACES STILL AVAILABLE AT CHART 2006. CHArt TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE CLORE LECTURE THEATRE, BIRKBECK COLLEGE LONDON (CONFIRMED VENUE) FAST FORWARD: Art History, Curation and Practice After Media Thursday 9 - Friday 10 November 2006 - PROGRAMME - Since its foundation in 1985 CHArt has closely followed the extraordinary developments in arts computing that have taken place over nearly two decades. The twenty-second CHArt conference will reflect upon the unprecedented ways that media. particularly 'new media', are transforming our understanding of the world and of ourselves. The CHArt 2006 program addresses the possibilities and challenges of these changes, as they affect visual culture. KEYNOTE ADDRESS Bruce Wands, Director, New York Digital Salon, New York, USA. THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER SESSION 1 Steps of New Media Art at the Venice Biennale, 1960s to 1990s. Francesca Franco, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Electronic Civil Disobedience: The SWARM case. Fidele Vlavo, London South Bank University, London, UK. SESSION 2 User Requirements for a 'Virtual Arts Centre of the Future'. Katrien Berte and Peter Mechant, Department of Communication Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium. The Digital Space of the Teatro Olimpico: A New Environment for Interactive Arts. Daniela Sirbu, University of Lethbridge, Canada. SESSION 3 New Futures in Net Art: Discovering Emergent Art Historical Technique in Net Art Contextualisation. Charlotte Frost, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. 'High Archive Fever': The Internet and Art Historical Research in China. Adele Tan, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK. Aesthetics and Interactive Art Karen Cham, The Open University, UK. SESSION 4 Panel Session Approaches to the Practice of Curating New Media Art. Sarah Cook, Beryl Graham and Ele Carpenter, CRUMB, University of Sunderland. FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER SESSION 5 Preservation of Net Art in Museums. Anne Laforet, University of Avignon, France. Preserving and Recovering Computer Art: Reconstructing Data or the Artwork. Nick Lambert, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Conservation and Preservation in the Post-Media Phase: A Suggested Strategy Theory. Timothy Mohn, Pratt Institute Digital Arts Laboratory, New York, USA. SESSION 6 When Presence and Absence Turn into Pattern and Randomness: Can You See Me Now? Maria Chatzichristodoulou (maria x), Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. Embodying Judgment: New Media and Art Criticism. Daniel Palmer, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. SESSION 7 CHARADE: The Peer-To-Peer Distribution of Media Assets Into the Public at Large. Simon Pope, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. A Blueprint of Bacterial Life - Can a Science-Art Fusion Move the Boundaries of Visual and Audio Interpretation? Elaine Shemilt, University of Dundee, Scotland. SESSION 8 No Thanks to the Dictionary: Visualising Language in the Post-Medium Age. Philip Klobucar, Vancouver, Canada. 'You Are Here': Locative Media and the Body As Networked Site. Alicia Cornwell, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA. DEMONSTRATIONS EdiNA (Edinburgh University Data Library), Paula Cuccurullo. The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk. Conference Fees (pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch. Send bookings to: Hazel Gardiner, CHArt, CCH, Kings College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, WC2R 3DX, tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2013, fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980, hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk (please use the subject heading CHArt Conference 2006 in any email queries). ... ........................................................ Hazel Gardiner Senior Project Officer AHRC ICT Methods Network Centre for Computing in the Humanities Kings College Kay House, 7 Arundel Street WC2R 3DX +44 (0)20 7848 2013 hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: CHArt bursaries Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:53:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 382 (382) STUDENT BURSARIES FOR CHART 2006 - LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - DEADLINE 1 NOVEMBER 2006 The AHRC ICT Methods Network (www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk), which exists to promote and support the use of advanced ICT methods in arts and humanities research, is generously offering a limited number of bursaries to post-graduate students who wish to attend the 2006 CHArt conference, FAST FORWARD: Art History, Curation and Practice After Media (programme below) The conference takes place on Thursday 9 - Friday 10 November 2006 at the Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London, WC1 7HX. Applications for bursaries are sought from post-graduate students registered at UK Universities whose research interests are grounded in areas covered by CHArt. These include: the application of ICT to the study of art and the history of art; new media theory and new art practice; creation and curation of digital scholarly and image resources including those in museums, galleries or libraries, and other areas which may be considered to be within CHArt's sphere of interest. The bursaries are intended to help towards conference expenses. Successful applicants will be able to claim funds up to a total of Ł200 toward the cost of conference fees, accommodation and travel. The application requires the submission of a brief statement of interest (approximately 500 words) outlining your current studies and research interests and detailing how attending CHArt might support you in your research. If you wish to apply for a bursary please register for the CHARt conference in the first instance. The CHArt conference programme, abstracts and booking form are available on the CHArt website (www.chart.ac.uk). Please provide the following details on a separate document when you submit your booking form. Email submissions are acceptable. Name: HE Institution: Department: MA course or Ph.D. title: Preferred Contact Address: Telephone: Email: Statement of interest:(max. 500 words) Bursary winners are also asked to submit a brief report following the conference. CHArt conference costs are as follows: CHArt Student Member: Two days Ł60 One day Ł40 Student Non-member: Two days Ł80 One day Ł50 Please address any enquiries to Hazel Gardiner, CHArt, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Kings College, Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, WC2R 3DX. 020 7848 2013, hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 20.276 ethical & legal issues of historical simulation? Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:37:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 383 (383) Regarding the abstract below -- sounds a bit like the "Deep Thought" scenario explaining Earth's existence, from the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Universe. :-) And I'm suspecting a dose of "modest proposal" here, yes? Abstract: A future society will very likely have the technological ability and the motivation to create large numbers of completely realistic historical simulations and be able to overcome any ethical and legal obstacles to doing so. It is thus highly probable that we are a form of artificial intelligence inhabiting one of these simulations. To avoid stacking (i.e. simulations within simulations), the termination of these simulations is likely to be the point in history when the technology to create them first became widely available, (estimated to be 2050). Long range planning beyond this date would therefore be futile. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING 2006 Guide to the Okal Rel Universe - Fandom Press On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:06:25 +0100, willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU wrote: [deleted quotation]ht [deleted quotation]legal issues of simulation? [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Virtual Reality 10.2 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:47:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 384 (384) Volume 10 Number 2 of Virtual Reality is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Special Issue: Editorial Author(s) Leonie Schäfer, Steffi Beckhaus Collaborative virtual sculpting with haptic feedback Author(s) Chris Gunn Virtual environments for creative work in collaborative music-making Author(s) Michael F. Schober Carpeno: interfacing remote collaborative virtual environments with table-top interaction Author(s) Joerg Hauber, Mark Billinghurst, Holger Regenbrecht, Michael Haller Multi-user mixed reality system ‘Gulliver’s World’: a case study on collaborative edutainment at the intersection of material and virtual worlds Author(s) Hirokazu Kato, Daniela Kuka, Roland Haring, Christopher Lindinger, Horst Hörtner Factors influencing flow of object focussed collaboration in collaborative virtual environments Author(s) David Roberts, Oliver Otto, Ilona Heldal, Robin Wolff The design and realization of CoViD: a system for collaborative virtual 3D design Author(s) Loutfouz Zaman, Andriy Pavlovych, Ji-Young Oh, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger Musical creativity in collaborative virtual environments Author(s) Tim Barrass, Stephen Barrass Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.41 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:34:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 385 (385) his Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 41 October 24, 2006 – October 31, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: INTERVIEW WITH USC's ALICE PARKER Professor Alice Parker is a Professor in the electrical engineering department at the University of Southern California, where she has also served as Division Director for Computer Engineering, Dean of Graduate Studies, and Vice Provost for Research. Among numerous other honors, she has received an NSF Faculty Award for Women Scientists and Engineers and is a fellow of IEEE. In this interview with Ubiquity she talks about her current research and her distinguished career in higher education. See <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i41_parker.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i41_parker.html Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 41 (October 24, 2006 – October 31, 2006) From: "Shaker Publishing Newsletter" Subject: Digital use of technical literature Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:56:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 386 (386) ================================================= Shaker Verlag 2006/10 - #955990# ================================================= Dear author, This year's Book Fair in Frankfurt, the biggest in the world, that has just ended was marked by a current development that is affecting all areas of literature: the progressive digitisation of the book and media industry. More and more technical literature in particular is being digitised and processed for full text searches on the Internet. In today's newsletter we would like to briefly inform you of the latest developments in the field of digitisation and explain the possibilities these offer you as an author and scientist. Yours sincerely Shaker Publishing, Aachen ================ Contents ======================= 1. Digitisation as a key topic of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2. Google Book Search 2.1 Full text search 2.2 Legal uncertainty 3. Planned alternative projects 4. Amazon offers 4.1 Search Inside! 4.2 Amazon Upgrade 5. Your publication 6. Information on new publications 7. Your opinion 8. Newsletter distribution list ================ Contents ======================= ================================================= 1. Digitisation as a key topic of the Frankfurt Book Fair ================================================= 30 percent of the products and services offered at the Frankfurt Book Fair came from the digital sector. The numerous info sessions on digitisation made one thing very clear: electronic media should not be seen as rivals but as supplements and a support for the book trade. The providers of the various book search engines on the Internet in particular are interested in strengthening books as a medium. The contents of books should be made more transparent to help the selective marketing and distribution of individual titles. This results in two big advantages for science: firstly, the search for appropriate technical literature within the scope of research work is facilitated and secondly, one's own publications are noticed more by other scientists and interested parties. We would like to present the most important full text projects and their relevant bias in the following. ================================================= 2. Google Book Search ================================================= The biggest, and at the same time most controversial digitisation project is the book search offered by the search engine Google. For over a year, Google has been digitising the inventories of the world's biggest university libraries so that the contents of the books can be used for full text searches on the Internet. Thus, all available knowledge will gradually be digitised so that it can be called up at any time in a sort of comprehensive, virtual library. Apart from the library inventories, other titles from relevant publishers will also be provided within the scope of the so-called partner program. Google is at present trying to push this program. ================================================= 2.1 Full text search ================================================= All digitised full texts can be searched for terms that appear in all works at http://www.books.google.com and viewed in the context of the relevant passage in the text. A few pages are shown for titles from the partner program but only brief "snippets" for those from the library project. Public domain works from the library program, in other words those works that are no longer covered by copyright, are placed at the readers full disposal. Once you have found a certain book via a search word you can then search for other terms within this book and view the relevant pages. Information on various sources of supply - assortments, online book stores and publisher's website - or library locations may also be provided. ================================================= 2.2 Legal uncertainty ================================================= The digitisation project is controversial above all because apart from the books submitted by publishing houses, complete library inventories are being scanned without the express consent of the copyright owners. Although protected works can only be viewed to a very limited extent, scanning and storage in a database can already be regarded as an unauthorised processing and utilisation of the work, thus violating the copyright. In reaction to protests, Google has now granted copyright owners the right to object to the digitisation. A number of copyright owners are also sceptical about titles from the partner program since the search engine provider alone controls access to the book content. They also fear that the restriction specified by Google to the relevant excerpts can be technically bypassed, thus leading to the risk of a misuse of the entire copyrighted material. ================================================= 3. Planned alternative projects ================================================= As a reaction to the search service offered by Google, its rival Yahoo established the "Open Content Alliance" (OCA) at the end of last year, which has now been joined by Microsoft too. Unlike Google, copyrighted works will only be digitised with the express consent of the author. These texts can then be called up in full by users as open content. The "European Digital Library" is a European initiative. The European Union is supporting digital access to the European cultural heritage with this project. A European network is being set up in co-operation with European national libraries. The European Digital Library will be based on the infrastructure of the European Library (TEL), a web portal, offering access to catalogues and digital collections of at present 17 European national libraries. (http://libraries.theeuropeanlibrary.org/aboutus_en.html) The project began on September 1st. All national libraries of EU and EFTA countries should be integrated by the end of 2007. ================================================= 4. Amazon offers ================================================= The Internet dealer Amazon is also seriously involved in the digitisation of books. Apart from the familiar "Search Inside!" function, conceived as a marketing tool for book sales, Amazon will also be offering an additional digital utilisation option for technical literature as of the coming Spring with "Amazon Upgrade". ================================================= 4.1 Search Inside! ================================================= The Search Inside! function has been available on the European portals of Amazon for over a year now. The program covers mainly text and reference books and concentrates on titles that are currently available in stores. They are provided by the relevant publishers or authors as a full text. When a search term is entered, all titles will be shown in which this term occurs. The user can then view the two pages before and after the term that has been found in these books. Search Inside!, just like Google Book Search, can thus help one's own academic and scientific research whilst simultaneously spreading one's own publications since interested parties may find books with the help of a full text search that they would not otherwise have discovered with a conventional search for title, author or key word. ================================================= 4.2 Amazon Upgrade ================================================= Amazon presented its latest program, Amazon Upgrade, at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Readers who buy a book from the Upgrade program can also acquire access to an online, full text version of the same title for a small extra charge. The digital documents can then be viewed from any computer with an Internet connection. You can search for certain terms and add bookmarks and comments. The edited pages can also be printed within certain limits. They cannot be downloaded, access must always be via the Amazon website. The Upgrade program has already been running for the past 18 months in the USA and its European launch is scheduled for Spring 2007. ... From: "Bernard Frischer" Subject: Help virtual heritage by taking the online SAVE survey! Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:48:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 387 (387) Dear Colleague, At last week's conference of Computer & Archaeology in Vienna, Austria, the final plenary session focused on defining the top priority for those of us engaged in developing virtual heritage. The answer: creating a means of publishing and preserving our work. It is high time that we had something like a traditional peer-reviewed journal for 3D models and scan data of cultural sites and monuments. It is the goal of the SAVE project to start such a journal--online, of course! With your help, we can take an important step toward realizing this goal. The Serving and Archiving Virtual Environments (SAVE) project has the goals of offering the creators of scientific 3D models of cultural heritage sites the opportunity to have an outlet for the peer-reviewed publication of their work over the Internet; to ensure that their work is preserved for future generations; and to protect the intellectual property rights of the creators as well as the integrity of the models themselves. The project is administered by a collaborative group of computer scientists and humanists and is funded by the National Science Foundation. Our work is presently in the initial phase of feasibility and needs assessment study. We have made this posting because we need your help to answer two essential questions: * Do scholars creating 3D computer models of cultural heritage sites perceive the need for a peer-reviewed, central online repository for archiving and distributing their work? * Do scholars perceive a need for improved security for 3D models, particularly models such as scans or hand-made reconstructions of cultural heritage sites and artifacts? We would be very grateful if you could take the time to fill out our survey, which contains 21 questions focused around these two main points. We estimate it will take up to 15 minutes of your time. The URL where you can find the survey is: <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/save/>http://www.iath.virginia.edu/save/ Thank you very, very much for your help! Yours, Bernard Frischer, Investigator SAVE Project c/o Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia, USA bernard.frischer_at_gmail.com -- Bernard Frischer, Director Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA, USA 22904-4115 <http://www.iath.virginia.edu>www.iath.virginia.edu office tel. +1-434-924-4873 home tel. +1-434-971-1435 US cell: +1-310-266-6935 --------------------------------- Italian cell: +39-349-473-6590 Rome tel.: +39-06-537-3951 --------------------------------- IMPORTANT: This email (and any attachments) is intended for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential. The recipient is obligated to maintain it in a safe, secure and confidential manner. Unauthorized redisclosure or failure to maintain confidentiality may subject you to legal penalties. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us by return email and delete this message from your computer. --------------------------------- From: Ruth Mostern Subject: job in World Heritage at UC Merced (California) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:49:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 388 (388) The following faculty position in World Heritage may be of interest to members of the HUMANIST community: **************************************************** The University of California is creating a dynamic new university campus and campus community in Merced, California, which opened in September 2006 as the tenth campus of the University of California and the first American research university built in the 21st century. In keeping with the mission of the University to provide teaching, research and public service of the highest quality, UC Merced will be providing new educational opportunities at the undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels through three academic schools: Engineering, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences/Humanities/Arts. World Heritage is an interdisciplinary area that include architecture, history, archeology, art history, geography, anthropology, planning, law and other disciplines. Applications from scholars in any relevant field are welcome. We seek applicants who specialize in international policy and preservation of world heritage resources, with interests in cultural studies and digital media preferred. Candidates with ongoing fieldwork or community partnership projects are also preferred. The University of California at Merced is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of diversity among its faculty, staff, and students. The University is supportive of dual career couples. Qualifications: Completion of Ph.D.; post-doctoral experience. Demonstrated research excellence and potential for future productivity in world heritage management, representation, or policy. Demonstrated experience working in or consulting with governments, NGOs, heritage sites, or other relevant institutions. 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Box 2039, Merced, CA 95344 Physical address: 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343 Office: COB 379 From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Re: 20.276 ethical & legal issues of historical simulation? Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:48:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 389 (389) Trust me folks, you don't want to miss this one. [deleted quotation] -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: ELO Releases the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 1 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:46:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 390 (390) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contacts: The Electronic Literature Organization http://www.eliterature.org Scott Rettberg Nick Montfort 847.230.4793 215.563.7939 scott_at_retts.net nickm_at_nickm.com Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One Released College Park, Maryland, October 26, 2006 =97 The Electronic Literature Organization today released the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One. The Collection, edited by N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, and Stephanie Strickland, is an anthology of 60 eclectic works of electronic literature, published simultaneously on CD-ROM and on the web at . Another compelling aspect of the project is that it is being published by the Electronic Literature Organization under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5), so readers are free to copy and share any of the works included, or for instance to install the collection on every computer in a school's computer lab, without paying any licensing fees. The Collection will be free for individuals. The 60 works included in the Electronic Literature Collection present a broad overview of the field of electronic literature, including selected works in new media forms such as hypertext fiction, kinetic poetry, generative and combinatory forms, network writing, codework, 3D, and narrative animations. Contributors include authors and artists from the USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Australia. Each work is framed with brief editorial and author descriptions, and tagged with descriptive keywords. The CD-ROM of the Collection runs on both Macintosh and Windows platforms and is published in a case appropriate for library processing, marking, and distribution. Free copies of the CD-ROM can be requested from The Electronic Literature Organization. The Collection will also be included with N. Katherine Hayles' forthcoming book, Electronic Literature: Teaching, Interpreting, Playing (Notre Dame University Press, 2007). The editors can be contacted to discuss the project via email: N. Katherine Hayles (hayles_at_humnet.ucla.edu), Nick Montfort (nickm_at_nickm.com), Scott Rettberg (scott_at_retts.net), and Stephanie Strickland (strickla_at_mail.slc.edu). Contributing authors will also be available for interviews. The Electronic Literature Organization (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 each other. The Electronic Literature Organization is a national organization based at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). --=20 Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Sorin Hermon Subject: Re: 20.256 but how healthy are we really? Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:47:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 391 (391) hello, as part of the Epoch's work (www.epoch-net.org) we prepared a first version of a report on the training offers and needs in Europe, regarding academic courses on IST applied to Cultural Heritage (indirectly linked with Digital humanities). the report is available on epoch's web site www.epoch-net.org (just search for the report and it will pop up, or, if not, go to the download area and type authors name - Franco Niccolucci). best, Sorin Hermon -- Sorin Hermon, Ph.D. Senior Researcher VAST-Lab, PIN, University of Florence Piazza Ciardi 25, Prato, Italy office: xx.39.0574.602578 mobile: xx.39.339.4281114 skype: sorinhermon From: Sorin Hermon Subject: Re: 20.256 but how healthy are we really? Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:47:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 392 (392) hello, as part of the Epoch's work (www.epoch-net.org) we prepared a first version of a report on the training offers and needs in Europe, regarding academic courses on IST applied to Cultural Heritage (indirectly linked with Digital humanities). the report is available on epoch's web site www.epoch-net.org (just search for the report and it will pop up, or, if not, go to the download area and type authors name - Franco Niccolucci). best, Sorin Hermon -- Sorin Hermon, Ph.D. Senior Researcher VAST-Lab, PIN, University of Florence Piazza Ciardi 25, Prato, Italy office: xx.39.0574.602578 mobile: xx.39.339.4281114 skype: sorinhermon From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar on Digital Text and Scholarship Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:04:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 393 (393) This is to announce the forthcoming events of the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for 2006-7, a description of which follows. All events take place at 5.30 pm in Senate House, Malet Street, unless otherwise noted. [2 November] Dr Peter Garrard (Royal Free and University College Medical School, London), "Textual Pathology". Room NG15. As we humans age, physical and functional changes are detectable in all organs of the body, yet it is the physical structure and performance characterisitics of the brain that excites more interest than any other. The reasons for this cognitive bias are diverse, but a major factor is undoubtedly the devastating and widespread phenomenon of senile dementia. Alzheimer's disease is now recognised as a major (though by no means the only) cause of dementia, and the changes that take place within the brain are easily recognised when the brain is examined at post mortem. By destroying the dense network of neuronal connectivity with which the brain achieves the highest levels of intellectual activity, Alzheimer's pathology disrupts the operation of a profoundly complex system. Moreover, because of the predilection of this pathology for some lobes of the brain rather than others, characteristic patterns of abnormal performance are observed in the early stages of the disease. These include a typical pattern of linguistic difficulty characterised by a shrinking vocabulary in the presence of apparently normal sentence structure. Using well-established techniques of digital textual analysis, Garrard and colleagues were able to demonstrate similar changes in the late work of Iris Murdoch, who began to exhibit signs of cognitive failure soon after publication of her final novel, Jackson's Dilemma (1995)*. Arising from the findings of this seminal work are a series of further questions concerning the relationship between the complex structure of a text and that of the brain in which it originated. Specifically, whether ageing is reflected in progressive changes to a higher order structure, which - just like physical ageing - may follow either a normal or a pathological trajectory. Similarly, might the presymptomatic phases of different cerebral pathologies give rise to distinct patterns of textual change in the same way that Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease, and vascular dementia are recognisable to the experienced clinician? Results of an approach to plotting such a trajectory through the final two decades of Murdoch's life will be presented, as will similar analyses using serially sampled bodies of spoken rather than written language output (a modality that is arguably more sensitive than the written word). [6 December] Professor Ian Lancashire (English, Toronto), "Cybertextuality by the numbers". Room NG15 Cybertextuality theorizes that idiosyncratic verbal patterns in documents such as poems -- the repetition and the variation of segments -- are constrained by working-memory (and an equivalent long-term memory, it may be) capacity; and that the unselfconsciousness that characterizes the cognitive uttering of such segments gives rise to a cybernetic phenomenon, an author's conscious mental feedback to hearing his own uttered segments. Self-reflection, anecdotes, and certain observed quantities give some support to this theory. The last include George Miller's "magical number" for working-memory capacity (7 +/- 2 chunks; since revised by Nelson Cowan to 4 +/- 2) and the still uncertain capacity of the working-memory chunk (perhaps also 3 - 4). Literary text analysis has neglected John B. Lord's observation, in 1979, that Miller's "magical number" ideally constrains line-length in verse. If the Miller-Cowan information limit is valid universally in humans, its numbers have unrealized explanatory power for our literary works and offer a literary and linguistic measurement that can be detected by what John Sinclair calls "concordance and collocation." [10 January] Dr John Lavagnino (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London), "Metaphors of digital and analogue". Room NG14. In the early twenty-first century, the view is commonplace that most of the things around us in everyday life are analogue but the class of digital things is rapidly growing. In fact, most things are neither: "digital" and "analogue" are not names for two categories that between them encompass the world, but refer to two types of system that we deliberately engineer. Most things aren't systematized rigorously enough to be either digital or analogue. But looser or metaphorical uses of the terms do have their uses: so Nelson Goodman and others have talked about the digital nature of writing systems, though such systems as actually used are not limited to digital coding, as writers and readers commonly extend them by expressive use of handwriting or other visual features. It is only in this looser sense that the everyday world can be seen as analogue, and that the categories of the digital and the artificial can be conflated -- a point of view particularly prevalent in recent films. In today's world, "digital" is the privileged term: it's the one that has an independent definition (since on this view analogue just reduces to "not digital"), and even if we're arguing against its dominance and assert our difference, we assume things are heading that way. This extends to very learned discourse: in cognitive science, for example, the view that the brain is actually digital, deep down, is widespread. In the mid-twentieth century, when the digital-and-analogue pair first became established in discussion of computing, it was by no means clear that digital computing would become the dominant form. It was a more difficult and expensive way to achieve comparable results at first; it became dominant only because of eventual economies of scale that analogue computing did not offer. The thinking about digital and analogue in the world of cybernetics up through the 1970s was influenced by a sense of the remarkable things done with information by the living body, not by computers, and it assumed the view of John von Neumann and others that the brain worked with a combination of analogue and digital representations. Each had its own distinctive logic, and neither could be fully replaced by the other. Just as with today's casual talk of digital and analogue, these discussions went beyond the engineering sense of the terms to metaphorical extensions that did not preserve the features that are actually required for systems to work. But in making metaphorical extensions of the terms cybernetics was more sophisticated than we are today. [8 February] Professor Peter Shillingsburg (Centre for Textual Studies, De Montfort), "The Work Implied, the Work Represented, and the Work Interpreted". Room ST275, Stewart House. (Stewart House adjoins Senate House at the rear; see http://www.london.ac.uk/stewart.html.) This three-part paper begins by (1) describing what might be the nature of literary works and texts (the "thing" that might be tranported into the electronic medium from a material one), (2) examining what is entailed in representing or re-representing a work in ways that might be more or less--preferably less--misleading, and (3) embracing the subjectivity of editing and exposing the chimera of objectivity in scholarly editing regardless of medium. The purpose is to emphasize the complexity of the task and suggest a collaborative way to address the idea of electronic scholarly editing. [22 March] Dr Mary Hammond (Literature and Book History, Open University), "The Reading Experience Database 1800-1945: New Directions". Room NG15. The Reading Experience Database (RED) is ten years old. Currently holding around 6,000 records of the reading experiences and practices of British subjects - including perhaps the largest single collection of experiences from the 'long' eighteenth century - it has recently been awarded a major AHRC grant which will speed up its growth and enable it to be placed live on the web for the first time. This paper explores the ways in which electronically-available data on reading drawn from a wide range of sources might augment studies of literature and the material book. [12 April] Drs Barbara Bordalejo and Peter Robinson (Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, Birmingham), "Electronic editions for everyone". Room NG14. Ten years of experience in the actual making and publication of electronic editions (ranging from the Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition, through the Canterbury Tales Project publications, the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, to Dante's Monarchia) has given us some sense of what electronic editions can do and how they can be made. But so far, we have no clear answers to two crucial questions: who can use these editions and how can they use them? Traditionally, critical editions have had a very narrow readership (usually, advanced scholars) and have been used in rather limited ways (typically, by scholars themselves making editions). The promise of electronic editions is that they might reach a far wider range of readers, who might use them for a far wider range of purposes, in many more contexts. As yet, this promise has not been achieved. We may ask: is this because of limitations of the technology to this point; to the time it takes to break down scholarly conservatism; or are we simply mistaken, in the belief that scholarly editions in electronic form might actually reach far wider audiences than their print predecessors? Or do we need a quite different model, of what a scholarly edition in digital form might be? In the course of this talk, we will draw upon the example of two digital editions which aim (in different ways, from different starting points) to be editions "for everyone": the Codex Sinaiticus project, and the publications of the Canterbury Tales Project. ----- The London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum in which to present its results. Although the forum is primarily for those working in textual and literary studies, history of the book, humanities computing and related fields, its mandate is to address and involve an audience of non-specialists. Wherever possible the issues it raises are meant to engage all those who are interested in a digital future for the book. The primary form of discussion is a yearly series of seminars by leading scholars and practitioners involved in the making of digital editions and scholarly textual resources, in reflecting on these productions and in examining the historical and material culture of written language as these inform practice. Running through and uniting the seminars is the single question, "What is to be done?" They are in that sense all meant to be practical investigations from which guiding theory will emerge, feed back into a revised practice and so help us to progress. The Seminar is deeply rooted in the history of textual production and its scholarship but is preoccupied with the future. It takes as its starting point Alan Turing's principle of computing as a scheme for constructing indefinitely many machines -- from which we derive the practice of constructing indefinitely many varieties of the digital book. Its question is not how to arrive at the best successors to this or that existing form or the best configuration of libraries to house and manage the products, rather how continuously to remake the digital book and its environment so that they serve "the living condition of the human mind" (Peirce). The Seminar explores through practical experiment the changing ways in which this continuous remaking is to be done and both the challenges it poses and the opportunities it offers to our institutions. The Seminar is sponsored by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King=92s College London, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Its convenor is Dr Willard McCarty (KCL). From: Willard McCarty Subject: Seminar in Humanities Computing 2006-7 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:25:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 394 (394) This is to announce 2006-7 Seminar in Humanities Computing, held by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. All events take place in the seminar room of the CCH, 7 Arundel Street, London, at 1 pm. Everyone is welcome. The complete list is to be found at http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/tmp/seminar/06-07/. 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: Lydia Horstman Subject: New Protocols in Electroacoustic Music Analysis - Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:39:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 395 (395) date confirmation The New Protocols in Electroacoustic Music Analysis workshop run by Leigh Landy at De Montfort University will now be held on Tuesday 12 June 2007 not Monday 13 June 2007. The workshop will form the first day of the four-day Electroacoustic Music Studies Network EMS07 conference at De Montfort University on 12 - 15 June. The workshop will be an opportunity for the electroacoustic music research community to discover some of the new protocols being developed and gain hands-on experience.This event will be open to anyone attending the conference and any other interested parties. For more information about the workshop, and other activities funded by the Methods Network, visit http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/ From: Lynda Williams Subject: Are we really simulating AI? Re: 20.283 ethical & Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:37:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 396 (396) Regarding the abstract below -- sounds a bit like the "Deep Thought" scenario explaining Earth's existence, from the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Universe. :-) And I'm suspecting a dose of "modest proposal" here, yes? Abstract: A future society will very likely have the technological ability and the motivation to create large numbers of completely realistic historical simulations and be able to overcome any ethical and legal obstacles to doing so. It is thus highly probable that we are a form of artificial intelligence inhabiting one of these simulations. To avoid stacking (i.e. simulations within simulations), the termination of these simulations is likely to be the point in history when the technology to create them first became widely available, (estimated to be 2050). Long range planning beyond this date would therefore be futile. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING 2006 Guide to the Okal Rel Universe - Fandom Press On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:06:25 +0100, willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU wrote: [deleted quotation]the Humanities, King's College London [deleted quotation]ht [deleted quotation]legal issues of simulation? [deleted quotation]Motivational, Ethical and Legal Issues" that appears in the [deleted quotation]century for reflective nostalgia, historical research, testing new forms of artificial intelligence, and backing-up civilization in perilous times. [deleted quotation]Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London 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: digital imaging in (U.S.) liberal arts education Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:23:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 397 (397) Willard: This report on how the use of digital images is affecting teaching in liberal arts education might be of some interest. It considers how strategies are changing both for those teaching image-based subjects and those trying images anew. There are forums (and a wiki) on Academic Commons for discussion of the many issues arising from the study. All best, David Green =AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD= =AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD= =AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD NITLE/Wesleyan Report on Digital Images Released Oct. 31 October 31, 2006. Digital images are changing the way professors teach at colleges and universities--although often at great personal expense of time and resources, according to a new study by David Green. "Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning: Perspectives from Liberal Arts Institutions," published today, details the results of an intensive study of digital image use by more than 400 faculty at 33 liberal arts colleges and universities in the Northeast. Commissioned by Wesleyan University and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), the study focuses on the pedagogical implications of the widespread use of digital formats. But, while changes in teaching and learning were at the core of the study, related issues concerning supply, support and infrastructure rapidly became part of its fabric. The report suggests how the teaching profession as a whole can better harness these new resources, and it makes recommendations for optimizing their deployment on campus. The full report and an executive summary are available at Academic Commons, an online forum for new technologies and liberal education: http://www.academiccommons.org/imagereport =AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD=AD David Green 170 Brooklawn Terrace Fairfield, CT 06825 203.345.3228 203.520.9155 (cell) redgen_at_mac.com Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Geography and the Humanities Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:21:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 398 (398) TO: Ray Siemens, President Consortium for Computers in the Humanities Call for Participation: Geography and the Humanities Symposium The Association of American Geographers, in conjunction with the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences and the American Council of Learned Societies, is organizing a symposium on geography and the humanities. The symposium will be held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville on June 22-24, 2007. The symposium will include a special event at nearby Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's historic estate. Thirty to fifty participants are sought, approximately one-third drawn from each of the following categories: 1) geographers who have engaged the humanities directly in their work; 2) scholars in the humanities who have integrated geography or GIS into their work; and 3) popular writers or artists who provide a geographically-informed view in works of fiction, art, or film. Those interested in participating in the symposium as presenters should submit a one-page summary of their proposed topic, describing relevant research conducted and previous directly-related publications, along with a brief resume or CV to: Geography and the Humanities Symposium Applications Committee, c/o Douglas Richardson at drichardson_at_aag.org. Applications for participation should be received no later than December 12, 2006. Earlier submission is encouraged. In order to defray the costs of participation, applicants in financial need who are accepted for participation in the symposium may apply for funding to support travel costs. For more information please see <http://www.aag.org/humanities>www.aag.org/humanities. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.42 Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:20:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 399 (399) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 42 October 31, 2006 =96 November 6, 2006) UBIQUITY ALERT: BANKA, MITRA, SALMERON Haider Banker and Sushmita Mitra are both with=20 the Indian Statistical Institute and Jose L.=20 Salmeron with the University Pablo de Olavide.=20 The Banka-Mitra paper is on "Evolutionary=20 Biclustering of Gene Expressions," and Salmeron=20 shares his thoughts on "Research Outlets for Management Information. Banker-Mitra:=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i42_sushmita.html>http://www.acm.org/ub= iquity/views/v7i42_sushmita.html Salmeron:=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i42_salmeron.html>http://www.acm.org/ub= iquity/views/v7i42_salmeron.html From: Joyce Lewis Subject: University of Southampton and MIT launch WWW Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:34:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 400 (400) research collaboration University of Southampton and MIT launch World Wide Web research= collaboration Joint initiative will analyse and shape Web's evolution CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 2. The University of Southampton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced the launch of a long-term research collaboration that aims to produce the fundamental scientific advances necessary to guide the future design and use of the World Wide Web. The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) will generate a research agenda for understanding the scientific, technical and social challenges underlying the growth of the Web. Of particular interest is the volume of information on the Web that documents more and more aspects of human activity and knowledge. WSRI research projects will weigh such questions as, how do we access information and assess its reliability? By what means may we assure its use complies with social and legal rules? How will we preserve the Web over time? Commenting on the new initiative, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and a founding director of WSRI, said, 'As the Web celebrates its first decade of widespread use, we still know surprisingly little about how it evolved, and we have only scratched the surface of what could be realized with deeper scientific investigation into its design, operation and impact on society. 'The Web Science Research Initiative will allow researchers to take the Web seriously as an object of scientific inquiry, with the goal of helping to foster the Web's growth and fulfill its great potential as a powerful tool for humanity. The joint MIT-Southampton initiative will provide a global forum for scientists and scholars to collaborate on the first multidisciplinary scientific research effort specifically designed to study the Web at all scales of size and complexity, and to develop a new discipline of Web science for future generations of researchers. Professor Wendy Hall, head of school at Southampton University School of Electronics and Computer Science and also, along with Professor Nigel Shadbolt of ECS, a founding director of WSRI, said: 'As the Web continues to evolve, it is becoming increasingly clear that a new type of graduate will be required to meet the needs of science and industry. Already we are seeing evidence of this, with major Internet companies and research institutions lamenting the fact that there are simply not enough people with the right mix of skills to meet current and future employment demands. In launching WSRI, one of our ultimate aims is to address this issue. WSRI will be headquartered at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT and at the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. Initial plans call for joint research projects, workshops and student/faculty exchanges between the two institutions. The initiative will have four founding directors: Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, senior research scientist at MIT and professor at the University of Southampton; Wendy Hall, professor of computer science and head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton; Nigel Shadbolt, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Southampton and director of the Advanced Knowledge Technologies Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration; and Daniel J. Weitzner, Technology and Society Domain leader of the World Wide Web Consortium and principal research scientist at MIT. About MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is dedicated to advancing knowledge and educating students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute has more than 900 faculty and 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. It is organized into five Schools -- Architecture and Urban Planning; Engineering; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Sloan School of Management; and Science.Current areas of research and education include neuroscience and the study of the brain and mind, bioengineering, the environment and sustainable development, information sciences and technology, new media, financial technology, and entrepreneurship. About the University of Southampton The University of Southampton is a leading UK teaching and research institution with a global reputation for leading-edge research and scholarship. It is one of the UK's top 10 research universities, offering first-rate opportunities and facilities for study and research across a wide range of subjects in humanities, health, science and engineering. The University has around 20,000 students and over 5000 staff. Its annual turnover is in the region of 310 million. With around 500 researchers, and 900 undergraduate students, the School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton is one of the world's largest and most successful integrated research groupings, covering Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics, and Electrical Engineering. ECS has unrivalled depth and breadth of expertise in world-leading research, new developments and their applications. _________________________________________________ Joyce Lewis Marketing and Communications Manager School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK T +44(0)23 8059 5453 E j.k.lewis_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk Get latest news, technology and research updates, people profiles and video podcast news on our website: <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk>www.ecs.soton.ac.uk From: "UCHRI" Subject: Residential Fellowships Academic Year 2007-08 Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:20:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 401 (401) The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) invites proposals for the following program. Application deadline for the program below is December 10, 2006: Residential Fellowships Academic Year 2007-08 <http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=message_link&fn=Key&id=bpusufgrlinsdcwzwwywjtwjdusjbli&link=brzhwcnexrfpzvmyqpvpskzcwopvbck>http://flatiron.sdsc.edu/projects/uchri/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=109 From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: Postdoctoral fellowships in Digital Humanities at HUMlab Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:21:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 402 (402) Postdoctoral fellowships in Digital Humanities at HUMlab Four postdoctoral fellowships in digital humanities are available at HUMlab, Umea University, Sweden from January 1, 2007 (the actual start date may be later). The postdoctoral fellowships are for one year with a possible extension of one year. Applicants will be expected to have a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline and a specialty in any of four research areas (see below). In exceptional cases, other areas and backgrounds can be of interest as well. HUMlab is an internationally recognized center for the humanities and information technology. The postdoctoral fellowships are part of a new large-scale initiative to support research in digital humanities at Ume=E5 University. The primary focus is on four research areas: participatory media, digital cultural heritage, digital art and electronic literature. As part of this initiative, the physical space of the lab will be nearly doubled during 2007 (total area of studio space: 6000+ square feet). Our long-term goal is to establish a national and international center of excellence in the humanities and information technology. HUMlab is a lively and convivial studio space with a wide variety of activities, research, technologies and cross-disciplinary interaction. It is expected that you will contribute to such an environment and that you also share our interest in working with traditional humanities disciplines and other related areas. All postdoctoral positions will be affiliated with both HUMlab and an appropriate department at the Humanities faculty. You must have a PhD degree in a humanities discipline from an international (non-Swedish) university. You will be expected to participate actively in any of the four research groups associated with the initiative. You will, therefore, need to live in Ume=E5 during the post doctoral period. The salary will be in the range of 15 500-17 000 SEK a month (tax free) depending on experience and family situation. Other benefits may be negotiated. The positions are open to applicants who do not have a Swedish citizenship. Accepted postdoctoral researchers will have full access to the facilities of HUMlab, special resources for the specified research area and different kinds of support. It is possible to start as early as on January 1, 2007, but the start date is negotiable. The postdoctoral fellowships have been made possible through generous support from the Kempe Foundations. Your application should be submitted by November 30, 2006. The application should include a complete CV, two letters of recommendation, and a letter of application with a description of your postdoctoral project, including alignment with the chosen research area, the purpose of the project and expected outcome (limit: 2,500 words). Your application should be sent to medel_at_diarie.umu.se (preferred) or by post to Registrator, Ume=E5 University, 901 87 Ume=E5, Sweden. Make sure to specify the following reference number: 315-3985-06. Please feel free to contact Dr. Patrik Svensson, Director of HUMlab Email: patrik.svensson_at_humlab.umu.se. Phone: Int + 46 90 786 7913. or Professor Kjell Jonsson, Chair of the HUMlab Steering Group Email: kjell.jonsson_at_humlab.umu.se. Phone: Int + 46 90 786 9680 for more information. See http://blog.humlab.umu.se/ for more information about HUMlab. More detailed information about the research initiative, associated research areas and practical matters can be found here: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/postdocs. From: Shuly Wintner Subject: Workshop on Machine Learning and NLP Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:12:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 403 (403) Machine Learning and NLP Tuesday, December 19, 2006 A Workshop presented by The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science University of Haifa and organized by Shalom Lappin and Ido Dagan. The full program is available at: http://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/events/2006/machine_learning/ machine_learning.php _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol From: Fomi Subject: FOMI Call for Participation Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:13:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 404 (404) *********************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Second International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi December 14-15, 2006 University of Trento ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized by: - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento - University of Trento - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi ******************************************************** Following the great success of the previous edition, we are glad to invite you to attend the second Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop (FOMI 2006). Information about registration, accommodation and=20 traveling is now available on our website: http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi ********************************************************************** Please notice: DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: November 30 ********************************************************************** For further information, send your requests to: fomi_at_loa-cnr.it We look forward to seeing you in Trento! The Organizing Committee of FOMI 2006 ... From: "FOCA_at_ESSLLI" Subject: 2nd Call for Contributions to Applied Ontology Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:16:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 405 (405) CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Following FOCA, workshop held at ESSLLI from July 31 to August 4, 2006 (http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/): Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents, special issue for the journal Applied Ontology (http://www.applied-ontology.org/) GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Roberta Ferrario Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR Trento (Italy) (ferrario at loa-cnr.it) Laurent Prevot Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan) (prevotlaurent at gate.sinica.edu.tw) PURPOSE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE : Following the workshop "Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents" that took place within the last ESSLLI summer school in Malaga, we would like to invite contributions for a special issue of the international journal ''Applied Ontology''. We especially invite the authors of the paper presented at FOCA 2006 to submit an extended version of their contribution. However, anyone is invited to submit a relevant contribution for the topic of the special issue described below. DESCRIPTION: In recent years lots of efforts have been devoted to formal studies of human and artificial agent communication. Research advancements have been achieved along three main lines: (i) agent's internal states and dynamics, (ii) social interaction and conventional communicative patterns, (iii) semantics-pragmatics interface - especially in the dialogue context (i.e. the interplay between the semantic content of messages and the communicative acts themselves). There is a recent trend of studies trying to integrate these approaches in many ways. On the other hand, formal ontology has been consecrated as a good solution for comparing and integrating information and thus its application to this specific domain is very promising . More precisely, an ontological analysis of the fundamental ingredients of interaction and communication will make explicit the hidden ontological assumptions underlying all these proposals. Ontology has also proven to be a very powerful means to address issues related to the exchange of meaningful communication across autonomous entities, which can organize and use information heterogeneously. The purpose of this special issue is therefore to gather contributions that (i) take seriously into account the ontological aspects of communication and interaction and (ii) use formal ontologies for achieving a better semantic coordination between interacting and communicating agents. MAIN TOPICS: We encourage contributions concerning the two main areas listed below with a particular attention to explore the interplay between ontological analysis and its applications in practical cases. * Ontological aspects of interaction and communication - Ontological analysis of interaction and communication - Studies on the structure and coherence of interaction - Logical models for communicative acts - Primitives of interaction and communication - Formal semantics of dialogue (dealing with ontological issues) *Semantic coordination through formal ontologies - Dialogue semantics and formal ontology - Dynamic ontology sharing - Ontological primitives for meaning negotiation, ontological alignment and semantic interoperability - Ontology evolution through communication - Concrete problems and experiences in terminological disambiguation and integration ABOUT THE JOURNAL: Although a formal contribution is not an absolute requirement for contributing to Applied Ontology, the contributors should keep in mind the aim and scope of Applied Ontology, an interdisciplinary journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling. Applied Ontology is a new journal whose focus is on information content in its broadest sense. As the subtitle makes clear, two broad kinds of content-based research activities are envisioned: ontological analysis and conceptual modeling. The former includes any attempt to investigate the nature and structure of a domain of interest using rigorous philosophical or logical tools; the latter concerns the cognitive and linguistic structures we use to model the world, as well as the various analysis tools and methodologies we adopt for producing useful computational models, such as information systems schemes or knowledge structures. Applied Ontology is the first journal with explicit and exclusive focus on ontological analysis and conceptual modeling under an interdisciplinary view. It aims to establish a unique niche in the realm of scientific journals by carefully avoiding unnecessary duplication with discipline-oriented journals. For this reason, authors will be encouraged to use language that will be intelligible also to those outside their specific sector of expertise, and the review process will be tailored to this end. For example, authors of theoretical contributions will be encouraged to show the relevance of their theory for applications, while authors of more technological papers will be encouraged to show the relevance of a well-founded theoretical perspective. Moreover, the journal will publish papers focusing on representation languages or algorithms only where these address relevant content issues, whether at the level of practical application or of theoretical understanding. Similarly, it will publish descriptions of tools or implemented systems only where a contribution to the practice of ontological analysis and conceptual modeling is clearly established. ... From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Library Related Conferences Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:21:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 406 (406) Extensive list of Library Related Conferences is available at: <http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/CONF.HTM>http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/CONF.HTM Marian Dworaczek University of Saskatchewan marian.dworaczek_at_usask.ca From: Willard McCarty Subject: call for papers: Digital Americanists at the Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:36:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 407 (407) American Literature Association's annual meeting The Digital Americanists--a new professional organization created to support the study of American literature and culture using digital media--invite proposals for 20-minute papers to be presented at the American Literature Association's annual meeting in Boston, MA, May 24-27, 2007. Panel Title: The Changing Profession in the Digital Age As scholars become increasingly interested in using digital media to do innovative research, and as humanities funding agencies begin to prioritize digital publications, the study of American literature is increasingly becoming an electronic enterprise. And yet, the institutional infrastructure necessary for practioners of digital research, one which encourages collaborative teams and rewards young scholars who concentrate on such research, does not exist on most campuses. This panel invites proposals that reflect on how the professional study of American literature will or should alter in this new publishing environment. Proposals may reflect on professional practices, theoretical shifts, or any other pervasive impact digitization has on American literary study; proposals grounded in personal experience with digital research--either as a user or a creator--are particularly welcome. Some sample topics include: the users of digital technology--both sophisticated and unsophisticated--and the impact on traditional print research; the challenge of peer reviewing digital research; the shift from the autonomous scholar to the research team; the reformation of the canon in the digital age; or rethinking textual scholarship within the discipline. Proposals should take the form of a 250-500 word abstract submitted electronically (as an email attachment in Word or RTF format) to Amy Earhart, Texas A&M University, aearhart_at_tamu.edu and Andrew Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, ajewell2_at_unl.edu Deadline for proposals is December 20, 2006; acceptances will be finalized by the end of January 2007. From: Lisa Spiro Subject: De Lange Conference on Emerging Libraries Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:37:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 408 (408) De Lange Conference on Emerging Libraries Dates: March 5-7, 2007 Host: Rice University Web site: http://delange.rice.edu/conferenceVI.cfm The traditional concept of a library has been rendered obsolescent by the unprecedented confluence of the Internet, changes in scholarly publication models, increasing alliances between the humanities and the sciences, and the rise of large-scale digital library projects. Such rapid and overwhelming changes to a millennia-old tradition pose significant challenges not only to university research libraries but also to every citizen. More information has been produced in the last several years than in the entire previous history of humanity, and most of this has been in digital format. Libraries are not storage places any more; they are less and less a place. If the traditional library is undergoing a profound metamorphosis, it is not clear what new model will take its place. The critical issues now include: How can information be efficiently accessed and used? How do we extract knowledge from such an abundance of often poorly organized information? How might enormous digital resources affect our concept of identity, our privacy, and the way we conduct business in the new century? Insight from many disciplines and perspectives is requisite to begin to understand this phenomenon and to identify ways to help chart a future course. The De Lange Conference on Emerging Libraries will examine the transformations that libraries are undergoing. The conference will feature presentations by and dialogue with leading thinkers, including: * Noha Adly, Director, Information and Communication Technology Department and the International School of Information Science Bibliotheca Alexandrina * Daniel E. Atkins, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation * James Boyle, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law * Lynne J. Brindley, Chief Executive, The British Library * John Seely Brown, formerly Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); author, Digital Age * James Johnson Duderstadt, founder, Millennium Project; President emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan * Paul Ginsparg, Professor, Physics, Cornell University and creator of arXiv.org * Brewster Kahle, founder, director, digital librarian of the non-profit Internet Archive * Michael A. Keller, Director, Academic Information Resources, Stanford University * Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science; President emeritus and Professor emeritus, Stanford University * Steve Kessel, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Digital Media, Amazon.com * Neal Lane, Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Senior Fellow, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University * David Leebron, president, Rice University * Deanna B. Marcum, Associate Librarian, Library Services, The Library of Congress * Michael S. Turner, Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago * Harold E. Varmus, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Co-founder, PLoS * William A. Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering More information is available at http://delange.rice.edu/conferenceVI.cfm. This conference is supported by the De Lange Endowment at Rice University, given by C. M. Hudspeth and wife, Demaris, in memory of her parents, Albert and Demaris De Lange. Conference Co-Chairs (Rice University): Charles J. Henry, Vice Provost & University Librarian, Fondren Library and Moshe Y. Vardi, George Professor, Computational Engineering, Director, Computer & Information Technology Institute From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: digital instincts: youth springs eternal Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:35:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 409 (409) Dear Willard, The recent thread about the health of the field or discipline was weaving a tendril in my mind and that drifting thread snagged a button. The shiny button is in this case a snippet of discourse on the pros and cons of the results of packaging information using presentation software. See mom set the stage: Liz Lawley, Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, devotes a blog entry on mamamusings to the joyful antics of her young son. http://mamamusings.net/archives/2006/10/06/preteen_rebellion_in_the_digital_= age.php Friday, 6 October 2006 preteen rebellion in the digital age It's one thing to know that your kids are likely to reject your basic ideas about what's good and what isn't. It's another to watch it unfold in front of your eyes. Lane scored a home run in the rejection of parental values category with his Powerpoint paean to bullet points. (The link is to his blog entry, which in turn links to the Quicktime version of the actual presentation.) See son set the stage: http://www.isowantone.com/2006/10/powerpoint_bullets.html And then see the slide deck done as movie: http://www.isowantone.com/Bullets.mov Lane's presentation "Why Power Point Bullets Are Good" produces three linked arguments: Neatness (praise for parsing and anchoring) Coolness (celebration of nominalism) Customization (ode to the joys of form morphing) Lane's presentation illustrates what it argues for =AD there is a perceptible change in size in the bullets it uses which provides (to me) a pleasing aesthetic effect in the rolling of the movie. The argument is sophisticated in its appeal to experience and then build upon that experience. The bullet becomes a synecdoche for technology in general: once you know what it does (provide anchor points to control parsing) and you have a name for it (common names make concepts sharable) you then have a path to potential future applications and innovation Lane has some solid design principles at work/play in the presentation. These principles also characterize many a humanities computing project: Observe. Name. Vary. As Lane says: "Cool!" From: Charles Ess Subject: Information ethics lecture Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:34:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 410 (410) Dear Humanists, if you or anyone you know is interested in intercultural information ethics, please send along the following to them (from Elizabeth Buchanan, Director of the Center for Information Policy Research, and chair, AoIR ethics working group): The Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is pleased to announce Dr. Charles Ess, Distinguished Research Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University will lecture on "An Impending Global ICE Age?: East-West Perspectives on Information and Computer Ethics," as part of his 2006-07 CIPR Information Ethics Fellowship. A prominent philosopher and information ethics scholar, Dr. Ess is Co-chair, CATaC conferences, Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers, and Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published extensively in the areas of History of Philosophy, Ethics, Culture, Technology, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Online research ethics. Dr. Ess was selected as a CIPR Information Ethics Fellow to honor his prestigious contributions to the field of information and computer ethics, and in particular, his work on East-West perspectives on ethics. While in residence at the CIPR, Dr. Ess will also lecture to SOIS graduate students on different cultural values and communicative preferences and their impact on effective web design. Dr. Ess=B9s work will be highlighted in the CIPR Occasional Papers, available at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/research_papers.html Please join us Monday, November 13, 2006, 11:30, Bolton Hall, 521, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee campus. The lecture is also available via live video stream at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/index.html many thanks! - charles Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee Co-chair, CATaC conferences Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: Melissa Terras Subject: new book: Image to Interpretation Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:37:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 411 (411) Melissa Terras (2006) "Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts" Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents, Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN13: 9780199204557 ISBN10: 0199204551 The ink and stylus tablets discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are a unique resource for scholars of ancient history. However, the stylus tablets in particular are extremely difficult to read. This book details the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts in the process of reading an ancient document, exploring the extent to which techniques from Artificial Intelligence can be used to develop a system that could aid historians in reading the stylus texts. Image to Interpretation includes a model of how experts read ancient texts, a corpora of letter forms from the Vindolanda text corpus, and a detailed description of the architecture of the system. It will be of interest to papyrologists, researchers in Roman history and palaeography, computer and engineering scientists working in the field of Artificial Intelligence and image processing, and those interested in the use of computing in the humanities. Product Details 264 pages; 86 in-text illustrations _______________________________________________ Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE Lecturer in Electronic Communication School of Library, Archive and Information Studies Henry Morley Building University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax) Email: m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts Available now through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at: <http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557>http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557 From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- October 2006 Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:12:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 412 (412) TL INFOBITS October 2006 No. 4 ISSN: Not Yet Assigned About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL'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. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitoct06.php You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/ ...................................................................... Open Source in Higher Education Adaptive Hypermedia How Faculty Search for Electronic Publications What Do Video Games Teach? New Journal on IT and Organizations Halloween Link: IT Horror Stories Recommended Reading Infobits RSS Feed ...................................................................... OPEN SOURCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION The October/November 2006 issue (vol. 3, issue 1) of INNOVATE is devoted to open source and the "potential of open source software and related trends to transform educational practice." Papers include: "Getting Open Source Software into Schools: Strategies and Challenges" by Gary Hepburn and Jan Buley "Looking Toward the Future: A Case Study of Open Source Software in the Humanities" by Harvey Quamen "Harnessing Open Technologies to Promote Open Educational Knowledge Sharing" by Toru Iiyoshi, Cheryl Richardson, and Owen McGrath The complete issue is available at http://www.innovateonline.info/. Innovate [ISSN 1552-3233] is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and government settings. Readers can comment on articles, share material with colleagues and friends, and participate in open forums. For more information, contact: James L. Morrison, Editor-in-Chief, Innovate; email: innovate_at_nova.edu; Web: http://www.innovateonline.info/. ...................................................................... ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA The JOURNAL OF DIGITAL INFORMATION (JoDI) has recently published a special issue focusing on adaptive hypermedia. "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." These systems have the potential for tailoring online learning experiences to the individual student. The complete issue (vol. 7, no. 1, 2006) is available at http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/issue/view/29. The Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) [ISSN: 1368-7506] is a peer-reviewed Web journal, supported by Texas A&M University Libraries. Current and past issues are available at http://journals.tdl.org/jodi. See also: "Adaptive Hypermedia: A New Paradigm for Educational Software" By H. Spallek ADVANCES IN DENTAL RESEARCH, vol. 17, December 2003, pp. 38-42 http://adr.iadrjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/1/38 [Note: online access available via a subscription by your institution.] Although this paper discusses how adaptive hypermedia was used in dental education courses, it's findings can be applied to other disciplines. ...................................................................... HOW FACULTY SEARCH FOR ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS Is the increasing availability of documents diminishing our reliance on colleagues for resource information? In 2004, Pertti Vakkari and Sanna Talja surveyed 900 faculty members and PhD students in Finnish universities to answer the question, "How are academic status and discipline associated with the patterning of search methods used by university scholars for finding materials for teaching, research, and keeping up to date in their field?" They report their findings in "Searching for Electronic Journal Articles to Support Academic Tasks. A Case Study of the Use of the Finnish National Electronic Library (FinELib)" (INFORMATION RESEARCH, vol. 12 no. 1, October 2006). One interesting discovery was that, in contradiction to earlier studies, colleagues were considered "unimportant sources for discovering needed [electronic] materials." However, the authors believe that, while this role for colleagues is diminishing, their role as "discussion partners concerning matters of research is considerably more important than their role as providers of information about literature." The paper is available online at http://informationr.net/ir/12-1/paper285.html. Information Research [ISSN 1368-1613] is a freely available, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. It is privately published by Professor T.D. Wilson, Professor Emeritus of the University of Sheffield, with in-kind support from the University and its Department of Information Studies. For more information, contact: Tom Wilson, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; tel: +44 (0)114-222-2642; fax: +44 (0)114-278-0300; email: t.d.wilson@shef.ac.uk; Web: http://informationr.net/ir/. ...................................................................... WHAT DO VIDEO GAMES TEACH? "The important thing to find out about video games isn't whether they are teachers. The question is . . . what do they teach?" In "Are Video Games Evil?" (THE WILSON QUARTERLY, Summer 2006), Chris Suellentrop looks at the range of ideas and beliefs associated with video games and those who play them. A prevailing opinion is that the games teach violence and other anti-social behaviors. However, he points out that even the U.S. military is "fashioning games that impart specific skills, such as parachuting and critical thinking," as well as games that teach traditional combat skills. Because of the inflexibility built into the structure of video games, the more important lesson that they teach players is "that the best course of action is always to accept the system and work to succeed within it." In that respect, Suellentrop writes that they may teach conforming to the rules than practicing innovative behaviors. The essay is available online at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=193155. The Wilson Quarterly [ISSN 0363-3276] is published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. It covers "issues in politics and policy, culture, religion, science, and other fields that bear upon our public life." For more information, contact: Wilson Quarterly, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20004-3027 USA; tel: 202-691-4200; email: wq_at_wilsoncenter.org; Web: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.welcome. ...................................................................... NEW JOURNAL ON IT AND ORGANIZATIONS The purpose of the JOURNAL OF INFORMATION, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND ORGANIZATIONS is "to encourage authors to develop and publish quality papers that address in a balanced manner all three entities signified in its title: information, information technology (IT), and the organizational context." The online version [ISSN 1557-1327] is available free of charge at http://www.jiito.org/. The peer-reviewed journal is published by the Informing Science Institute. For more information contact: Informing Science Institute, 131 Brookhill Court, Santa Rosa, California 95409 USA; tel: 707-531-4925; fax: 480-247-5724; Web: http://informingscience.org/. ...................................................................... HALLOWEEN LINK: IT HORROR STORIES "Not for the squeamish." This year's annual Halloween link revisits some recent major IT catastrophes. They're more frightening than a horror movie or a ghost story because they really happened. "25 Terrifying Information Technology Horror Stories" CIO Special Report, October 31, 2006 http://www.cio.com/specialreports/horror.html ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "Emerging Leadership Roles in Distance Education: Current State of Affairs and Forecasting Future Trends" By Lisa Marie Portugal ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP, vol. 4, issue 3, Summer 2006 http://www.academicleadership.org/volume4/issue3/student_research/portugal_lisa_marie2/article.html "This paper discusses the enormous impact distance learning has had on traditional higher education and leadership roles within those constructs. . . . [It focuses] on transformational leadership qualities that are necessary for current and future successful distance education programs." From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Changes Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:17:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 413 (413) I have resigned my position as Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development at the University of Houston Libraries effective 1/31/07. Effective immediately, there are several important changes to the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB), Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (SEPR), and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) that users should be aware of: 1. These publications have been moved to my domain: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ SEPB http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepb.html SEPR http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepr.htm SEPW http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepw.htm 2. While the UH Libraries will archive SEPB versions up to version 64, no new versions will be published on their Website. If you maintain a catalog record for SEPB, I would ask that you update it with the new address. Next Monday's SEPW will be published at the new site. 3. A transition version of SEPB (65) has been published at the new site. There are no content changes. This version simply makes a number of HTML coding adjustments needed for the new location. A Google Custom Search Engine replaces the prior search capability. Once Google starts indexing the new site, search results will be from that site. 4. The SEPW mailing list will be discontinued at the end work today. You can continue to get an e-mail version from FeedBurner. I'm sorry for the inconvenience of your having to sign up again; all that is required is your e-mail address. http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 5. The SEPW RSS feed remains the same: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss 6. You can continue to follow my digital publishing activities at my domain and at DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Thanks for your patience during this transition. -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. E-Mail: cwbailey_at_digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others.) From: "Vika Zafrin" Subject: Please help improve Humanist! (a short survey) Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:19:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 414 (414) [With the support of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and of its constituent associations, work will soon commence on Humanist to fix serious bugs and infelicities in the software, implement features long wished for and make Humanist altogether easier to manage, both for the editor and for the reader. As a first step in this process, Vika Zafrin, whose note follows, has designed a survey to see what you think about possible improvements. Please give us your valuable input! Many thanks. WM] Dear all, Humanist will soon be substantially improved. To help with this process, won't you please fill out a short (ten-question) survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=337232822899 The more responses we get, the better the list will be, etc. Please fill it out whether you're a regular poster or not, and as soon as you can so that it doesn't fall through the cracks of the everyday. We really appreciate your help with this. Best regards, -Vika Zafrin (I'm just the messenger.) From: "Hamid R. Arabnia" Subject: cfp: Worldcomp'07 Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:22:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 415 (415) Call For Papers and Call For Session Proposals The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP'07 (composed of 24 Joint Conferences) June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA Dear Colleagues: You are invited to submit a draft paper and/or a proposal to organize a session/workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The Academic Co-sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include: MIT Media Lab, MIT; Harvard University's Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Lab; Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin; Statistical and Computational Intelligence Lab of Purdue University; and University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab. A more complete list of sponsors can be found below. The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'07) is composed of the following 24 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: June 25-28, 2007, USA). o The 2007 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'07) o The 2007 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'07) o The 2007 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'7) (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07 - the site is currently under construction. See also: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org) General Chair And Coordinator: H. R. Arabnia, PhD Professor, Computer Science Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 E-mail: hra_at_cs.uga.edu Purpose / History: This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Many of the 24 joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective fields. We anticipate to have 2000 or more attendees from over 75 countries participating in the 2007 joint conferences. The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact. The model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication among researchers from all over the world in different fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Both inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the conferences. Proposal for Organizing Sessions/Workshops: Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books. Proposals to organize sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, the name of the conference the session is submitted for consideration, and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). E-mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address is given above). We would like to receive the proposals by December 1, 2006. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Knowledge and Information Systems 10.4 Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:27:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 416 (416) Knowledge and Information Systems, Volume 10 Number 4 Efficient string matching with wildcards and length constraints Author(s) Yu He, Xingquan Zhu, Abdullah N. Arslan, Gong Chen, Xindong Wu XCQ: A queriable XML compression system Author(s) Mark Levene, Wai-Yeung Lam, Wilfred Ng, Peter T. Wood Using discriminant analysis for multi-class classification: an experimental investigation Author(s) Tao Li, Shenghuo Zhu, Mitsunori Ogihara Applying language modeling to session identification from database trace logs Author(s) Aijun An, Qingsong Yao, Xiangji Huang Finding centroid clusterings with entropy-based criteria Author(s) Tianming Hu, Sam Yuan Sung Mining user access patterns with traversal constraint for predicting web page requests Author(s) Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Choochart Haruechaiyasak Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: John Unsworth Subject: international scholar bursary for DH2007 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:58:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 417 (417) The Institute for Computing in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (CHASS), a co-sponsor of Digital Humanities 2007, will provide $2500 as a need-based bursary for an international scholar with a paper or poster accepted for the conference, to cover registration and travel expenses. Interested applicants should mention the bursary in their submission; decision will be by the DH2007 progam committee and CHASS. Thanks to Vernon Burton for this important contribution. Deadline for submission of proposals for papers or posters is NOVEMBER 15th. Submissions can be made at http:// www.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ John Unsworth (local organizer, DH2007) Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.43 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:57:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 418 (418) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 43 (November 7, 2006 =96 November 13, 2006) UBIQUITY ALERT: ANDREAS PFEIFFER & BABU K. MOHAN ANDREAS PFEIFFER ON USER INTERFACE FRICTION: In 2005 and early 2006, Pfeiffer Consulting=20 conducted an extensive research project=20 collecting information about Macintosh and Windows operating systems. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i43_pfeiffer.html>http://www.acm.org/ub= iquity/views/v7i43_pfeiffer.html BABU K. MOHAN ON GLOBALIZATION AND OFFSHORING OF SOFTWARE: The 'World is Flat' mantra has become almost=20 clich=E9d in the business and technology world,=20 thanks in part to the bestseller written by New=20 York Times columnist Tom Friedman. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i43_mohan.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiqu= ity/views/v7i43_mohan.html From: "Guizzardi, G. (Giancarlo)" Subject: CFP: Journal of Applied Ontology Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:58:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 419 (419) CALL FOR PAPERS [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] Journal of Applied Ontology: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling http://www.applied-ontology.org/ IOS Press (Editors-in-Chief: Nicola Guarino and Mark A. Musen) Special Issue on **** ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR CONCEPTUAL MODELING **** Expected publication: Winter 2007 Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2007 GUEST EDITORS OF SPECIAL ISSUE =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =95 Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp=EDrito Santo, Vit=F3ria, Brazil & Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Trento, Italy =95 Terry Halpin, Neumont University, South Jordan, Utah, USA OBJECTIVES OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role played by formal ontology, and more generally, by areas such as philosophy, logics, cognitive sciences and linguistics in the development of theoretical foundations for conceptual modeling in computer science. As it has been shown in a large number of recent publications, so-called foundational ontologies such as BWW, GFO, DOLCE, UFO, BFO, and Chisholm=92s have been successfully applied to the evaluation of conceptual modeling languages and frameworks (e.g., UML, ORM, ER) and to the development of engineering tools (e.g., methodological guidelines, modeling profiles, design patterns) that contribute to the theory and practice of conceptual modelling. The purpose of this special issue is to collect innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding the role played by the aforementioned areas to the theoretical foundations of conceptual modeling. This issue should be of interest of several academic communities, including those working on database design, requirements engineering, knowledge engineering, enterprise modeling, agent and object orientation, information systems, software engineering (in particular domain engineering), natural-language processing, business rules and model-driven architectures. We thus solicit contributions in several areas related to Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling. Topics of interest include: =95 Philosophical and Cognitive Foundations for Conceptual Modeling =95 Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling: Methodologies, Tools, and Case= Studies =95 Psychological Experiments Evaluating the Cognitive Adequacy of Conceptual Modeling Primitives =95 Ontological Analysis of Existing Conceptual Models (including Reference Models) =95 Role of Ontology-driven Conceptual Modelling for Semantic= Interoperability =95 Ontological Design Patterns =95 Linguistic theories and Natural-Language Semantics in Conceptual= Modeling =95 Formal Semantics of Conceptual Modeling Languages =95 Comparison between existing Foundational Ontologies for the purpose of Conceptual Modeling SUBMISSION GUIDELINES =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Submissions, that will undergo a peer-reviewing process, must be sent electronically through the journal's website (http://www.applied- ontology.org/) by the deadline listed below. Detailed instructions for authors are available from the same website. IMPORTANT DATES =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Submissions Deadline March 1st, 2007 Notification of Authors April 15th, 2007 Camera-ready Version May 15th, 2007 Special Issue Publication Winter 2007 ABOUT THE JOURNAL =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Although a formal contribution is not an absolute requirement for contributing to Applied Ontology, the contributors should keep in mind the aim and scope of Applied Ontology, an interdisciplinary journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling. Applied Ontology is a new journal whose focus is on information content in its broadest sense. As the subtitle makes clear, two broad kinds of content-based research activities are envisioned: ontological analysis and conceptual modeling. The former includes any attempt to investigate the nature and structure of a domain of interest using rigorous philosophical or logical tools; the latter concerns the cognitive and linguistic structures we use to model the world, as well as the various analysis tools and methodologies we adopt for producing useful computational models, such as information systems schemes or knowledge structures. Applied Ontology is the first journal with explicit and exclusive focus on ontological analysis and conceptual modeling under an interdisciplinary view. It aims to establish a unique niche in the realm of scientific journals by carefully avoiding unnecessary duplication with discipline-oriented journals. For this reason, authors will be encouraged to use language that will be intelligible also to those outside their specific sector of expertise, and the review process will be tailored to this end. For example, authors of theoretical contributions will be encouraged to show the relevance of their theory for applications, while authors of more technological papers will be encouraged to show the relevance of a well-founded theoretical perspective. Moreover, the journal will publish papers focusing on representation languages or algorithms only where these address relevant content issues, whether at the level of practical application or of theoretical understanding. Similarly, it will publish descriptions of tools or implemented systems only where a contribution to the practice of ontological analysis and conceptual modeling is clearly established. From: Willard McCarty Subject: discrete knowledge Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:16:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 420 (420) Here is some unintended humour with revolting aftertaste. And a question: how do we revolt? Yours, WM [deleted quotation]Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: hdivinny_at_gmail.com Subject: First Volumn of the Electronic Literature Collection Released Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:57:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 421 (421) College Park, Maryland, October 26, 2006 =97 The=20 Electronic Literature Organization today released the Electronic Literature Collection , Volume One. The Collection , edited by N. Katherine Hayles,=20 Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, and Stephanie Strickland, is an anthology of 60 eclectic works of electronic=20 literature, published simultaneously on CD-ROM and on the web at=20 . Another compelling aspect of the project is that it is being published by=20 the Electronic Literature Organization under a Creative Commons License= (Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 2.5), so readers are free to copy and=20 share any of the works included, or for instance to install the collection on every=20 computer in a school's computer lab, without paying any licensing fees. The Collection will be free for individuals. The 60 works included in the Electronic=20 Literature Collection present a broad overview of the field of electronic literature, including=20 selected works in new media forms such as hypertext fiction, kinetic poetry, generative and combinatory forms,= network writing, codework, 3D, and narrative animations.=20 Contributors include authors and artists from the USA, Canada, UK, France,=20 Germany, and Australia. Each work is framed with brief editorial and author descriptions, and=20 tagged with descriptive keywords. The CD-ROM of the Collection runs on both Macintosh and Windows platforms and is published in a case appropriate for library=20 processing, marking, and distribution. Free copies of the CD-ROM can be requested from=20 The Electronic Literature Organization. The=20 Collection will also be included with N. Katherine Hayles' forthcoming book, Electronic Literature: Teaching, Interpreting,=20 Playing (Notre Dame University Press, 2007). The editors can be contacted to discuss the=20 project via email: N. Katherine Hayles (hayles_at_humnet.ucla.edu), Nick Montfort (nickm_at_nickm.com), Scott Rettberg (scott_at_retts.net), and Stephanie Strickland=20 (strickla_at_mail.slc.edu). Contributing authors will also be available for interviews. The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is a=20 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the=20 writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. Since its formation, the=20 Electronic Literature Organization has worked to assist writers and publishers in=20 bringing their literary works to a wider, global readership and to provide them with the=20 infrastructure necessary to reach each other. The Electronic Literature Organization is=20 a national organization based at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Contacts: The Electronic Literature Organization http://www.eliterature.org Scott Rettberg Nick Montfort 847.230.4793 215.563.7939 scott_at_retts.net nickm_at_nickm.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 11.1 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:18:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 422 (422) Volume 11 Number 1 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Experiences in developing mobile applications using the Apricot Agent Platform Author(s) Arto Koskela, Juha Röning, Henri Löthman, Petteri Alahuhta, Heli Helaakoski The reflective mobile agent paradigm implemented in a smart office environment Author(s) T. Ungerer, J. Petzold, H. Schick, F. Bagci, W. Trumler A file system for system programming in ubiquitous computing Author(s) Till Riedel, Michael Beigl, Christian Decker, Albert Krohn Automated context aggregation and file annotation for PAN-based computing Author(s) Alexandros Karypidis, Spyros Lalis Design for emergence: experiments with a mixed reality urban playground game Author(s) Bas Raijmakers, Josephine Reid, Yanna Vogiazou, Erik Geelhoed, Marc Eisenstadt Improving service matching and selection in ubiquitous computing environments: a user study Author(s) Jasper Lindenberg, Kim Kranenborg, Wouter Pasman, Mark A. Neerincx, Joris Stegeman 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: Matt Jensen Subject: Re: 20.310 discrete knowledge Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:15:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 423 (423) Hello Willard, [deleted quotation]What's even sadder than diploma mills is that they're not even that; they're just credit card scams. There is no Areobindus Online University (Google). The number above has a Jacksonville, FL prefix, so if you're inclined you could forward the spam to the Jacksonville Police Department. (I could do it, but I didn't receive the spam. However, I do get a handful of "diploma" spams every day, starting a few months ago.) Cheers, Matt Jensen NewsBlip Seattle From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Digital Humanities Summer Institute, 2007 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:14:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 424 (424) [Please redistribute / please excuse cross-posting] Announcing the 2007 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 18-22, 2007 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ * Mandate The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to share ideas and methods, and to develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to activities that impact teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. * Host and Sponsors The institute is hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and has been sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Malaspina University-College, Acadia University, the Society for Digital Humanities / Soci=E9t=E9 pour l'=E9tude des m=E9dias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others. * Curriculum Institute Lectures (to be confirmed): Hugh Craig (U Newcastle, NSW), France Martineau (U Ottawa), David Hoover (NYU), Chad Gaffield (U Ottawa), and Bertrand Gervais (UQAM). 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 Allison Benner [U Victoria]) Intermediate offerings: [3] Edition Production (instructed by Dot Porter [U Kentucky]) [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 [U Victoria], with seminar speakers TBA. [6] Advanced Consultations in Text Encoding (led by Susan Schreibman [U Maryland]) [7] Textual Analysis, A Masterclass (led by Hugh Craig [U Newcastle]). * Registration Fees ($ CDN) Early registration fees for the institute are $950 for faculty and staff, and $450 for students. Standard fees will apply as of April 30th. * Website For further details -- such as the list of speakers, a tentative schedule, the registration form, and accommodation information -- see the institute's website, at this URL: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/. Karin Armstrong Co-coordinator, Digital Humanities Summer Institute karindar_at_uvic.ca Phone 250-472-5401 Fax 250-472-5681 Scott Gerrity Co-coordinator, Digital Humanities Summer Institute sgerrity_at_uvic.ca From: "Jose Abdelnour Nocera" Subject: Sociotechnical Research Groups for Interaction Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:23:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 425 (425) Design: Invitation to Join List Dear Friends: This is an invitation to join and participate in this new list on sociotechnical issues surrounding interaction design. This list focuses on how diverse qualitative areas of the social sciences (e.g. Sociology of Technology, Discourse Analysis, Critical Theory, Actor Network Theory, Communication Theories, Activity Theory, Cultural Models such as Hofstede's, Hermeneutics, among others) can contribute to create better IT for people. The space enabled by this list will contribute to the translation of interesting insights provided by these disciplines into actionable recommendations and guidelines for: * The conception, design and evaluation of interactive systems as social proxies. * A feasible integration of user-centred design with novel development methodologies. * Improved methods for the gathering and elicitation of sociocultural requirements. * The identification of adequate technology policies for settings in which technology is deployed. The list's key interests are the ubiquitous, pervasive and social proxy dimensions of interactive systems and how its usefulness is socially constructed and culturally shaped. It is hoped this list will foster dialogue between academics in different disciplines (e.g. HCI, CSCW, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Marketing, Software Engineering, Ergonomics, Education, Information Systems, among others) interested in this topic. An initial question and point of discussion is the following: Is this attempt at 'translation' really feasible despite the epistemological differences between disciplines whose main interest is understanding social phenomena and disciplines whose main interest is the design of interactive systems? You can join the list here: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=sociotech-interactiondesign&A=1 Thanks for reading! Dr. Jose Abdelnour Nocera Senior Lecturer Institute for Information Technology Thames Valley University Wellington Street Slough - England SL1 1YG Tel [work] +44(0)1753697887 / [home] +44(0)1908648376 Fax +44 (0)1753 697750 http://sirius.tvu.ac.uk/~abdejos/ -------------------------------------------------------- Associate Lecturer and Visiting Research Fellow Computing Department, The Open University =20 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Litteraria Pragensia publications Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:28:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 426 (426) RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA BOOKS WWW.LITTERARIAPRAGENSIA.COM INFO @ LITTERARIAPRAGENSIA . COM --------------------------------------- LITERATE TECHNOLOGIES (LANGUAGE, COGNITION, TECHNICITY) by Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-138-5 (paperback). 250pp. Publication date: October 2006 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/lit_tech.html Price: Euro 12.00 (not including postage) Why is there consciousness and not nothing? What is the meaning of discourse? What would it mean if machines could think? It is a basic contention of the present volume that only on such a basis of generalised technology can we begin to approach the phenomenon of literacy in its broadest sense--as concerning any system of sign operations in which an event of transmission or transcription can be said to take place. This universalising of literacy bridges the entire field of discourse--from atomic and molecular structures to the transcriptive coding and decoding processes of DNA; from the evolving neural structures of the human brain to computing programmatics and artificial intelligence; from simple binary procedures to the most complex topologies. Consciousness, mind and cognition are in this way seen to be formal aspects of a signifying system, describing a LITERATE TECHNOLOGY. This volume treats the work of Walter Ong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Norbert Wiener, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Nicholas Rescher, Roman Jakobson, Alan Turing, Claude Levi-Strauss, Thomas Sebeok, Juri Lotman, Sigmund Freud and Claude Shannon. Louis Armand is director of the Intercultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other. For more titles: http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/armand.html --------------------------------------- OTHER TITLES recently published by LPB: Avant-Post ed. Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-123-7 (paperback) 300pp Publication date: September 2006 Price: Euro 12.00 (postage not included) http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/avant_post.html Global Ireland eds. Ondrej Piln=FD & Clare Wallace ISBN 80-7308-103-2 (paperback) 200pp Publication date: January 2006 Price: Euro 12.00 (postage not included) http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/global_ireland.html Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of the Other eds. Louis Armand & Clare Wallace ISBN 80-239-5046-0 (paperback) Revised, enlarged edition 360pp, includes index Publication date: June 2006 Price: Euro 17.00 (postage not included) http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/giacomo_joyce.html --------------------------------------- HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: Michael Hancher Subject: deadline Nov. 30 for SHARP 2007 call for papers Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:16:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 427 (427) Reminder of approaching deadline: November 30, 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS SHARP 2007 Conference: Open the Book, Open the Mind * Plenary speakers will include Adrian Johns and Louise Erdrich * The fifteenth annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) will be held in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota on July 11-15, 2007. SHARP is the leading international association for historians of print culture, enlisting more than 1,200 scholars world-wide; its members study "the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print, including newspapers, periodicals, and ephemera," as well as the history of books. The forthcoming conference is organized in cooperation with the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota; University of Minnesota Libraries; Minneapolis Public Library; Minnesota Historical Society, and Minnesota Center for Book Arts -- a part of Open Book. The conference theme, "Open the Book, Open the Mind," will highlight how books develop and extend minds and cultures, and also how they are opened to new media and new purposes. However, individual papers or sessions may address any aspect of book history and print or manuscript culture. The conference organizers invite proposals for individual presentations, and also for complete panels of three presentations on a unifying topic. As is the SHARP custom, each session of 90 minutes will feature three papers of up to 20 minutes, providing time for substantive discussion with members of the audience. Proposals should be submitted via the online conference website by November 30, 2006: please go to http://purl.oclc.org/NET/SHARP2007proposals and follow the directions provided there. Each individual proposal should contain a title, an abstract of no more than 300 words, and brief biographical information about the author or co-authors. Session proposals should explain the theme and goals, as well as include the three individual abstracts. In keeping with the theme of the conference, a "pre-conference" of practical workshops and a plenary session devoted to book arts and artists' books will be held at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts at Open Book, near the University of Minnesota campus, on Tuesday, July 10, 2007. Details about that pre-conference and about the main conference program, registration, and housing arrangements will be made available early in 2007 at the general conference web site, http://www.cce.umn.edu/conferences/sharp. Much information about SHARP 2007 and its location, including hotel-reservation information, is already available there. From: "Irith Ben-Arroyo Hartman" Subject: CRI workshop on Machine Learning in Natural Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:20:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 428 (428) Language Processing The Caesarea Rothschild Institute, University of Haifa, will host a Workshop of invited presentations on Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing, on Tuesday, December 19, 2006. The workshop program and abstracts are listed below. There is no registration fee. Please pre-register at the website http://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/events/2006/machine_learning/machine_learning.php [...] From: Subject: conference announcenemt ESTS2006 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:21:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 429 (429) The Institute of English is hosting the 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship on 23-25 November 2006. The theme of the conference is "Textual Scholarship and the Material Book: Comparative Approaches". Please visit the website for more details: <http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2006/ESTS/index.htm>http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2006/ESTS/index.htm. I would be grateful if you could circulate/print and post the attached in your institution. Kind regards, (Dr) Wim Van Mierlo Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU <http://ies.sas.ac.uk/>http://ies.sas.ac.uk From: Enrico Franconi Subject: CfP: ESWC 2007 - 4th European Semantic Web Conference Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:29:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 430 (430) CALL FOR PAPERS ESWC 2007 4th European Semantic Web Conference 3 - 7 June 2007 Innsbruck (Austria) The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (Ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various specialized reasoning subsystems to accomplish complex tasks. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Databases, Multimedia Systems, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision. The 4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007) will present the latest results in research and application of Semantic Web technologies, including knowledge mark-up languages, Semantic Web services, and ontology management. ESWC 2007 will also feature a special industry-oriented event, a forum for gaining a better understanding of these new technologies and their business aspects. The conference will offer a tutorial program to get up to speed with European and global developments in this exciting new area. Several distinguished scientists will give an invited talk at the conference; among them, prof. Stefano Ceri (Tech. Univ. of Milan, Italy), prof. Georg Gottlob (Oxford Univ., UK), prof. Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan). ESWC 2007 is sponsored by ESSI - a group of European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects. Together these projects aim to improve world-wide research and standardisation in the area of the Semantic Web. For more information on ESSI, please visit www.essi-cluster.org. Submissions ESWC 2007 welcomes the submission of excellent original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of the Semantic Web, particularly those related to the subject areas indicated by the topics below. We particularly encourage the submission of papers on industrial efforts and experiences with Semantic Web projects. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications papers. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer=92s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper submission and reviewing for ESWC 2007 will be electronic, via the conference Web site: http://www.eswc2007.org/. Papers, due 15 December, 2006, should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in Springer LNCS format. Papers may be accepted as (i) full papers, or as (ii) short papers with poster presentation. [...] From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: November 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:16:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 431 (431) Greetings: The November 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, a commentary, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month's featured collection is "Digital Library at Villanova University" contributed by Michael Foight, Villanova University. The articles include: The Core: Digital Library Education in Library and Information Science Programs Jeffrey Pomerantz, Sanghee Oh, and Barbara M. Wildemuth, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; and Seungwon Yang and Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives Peter B. Hirtle, Cornell University Download Statistics - What Do They Tell Us?: The Example of Research Online, the Open Access Institutional Repository at the University of Wollongong, Australia Michael Organ, University of Wollongong, Australia E-Content Awards: An Initiative for Bridging the Digital Divide in India and Worldwide Mangala Hirwade, Shivaji Science College and D. Rajyalakshmi, RTM Nagpur University The commentary is: Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy Elaine Peterson, Montana State University From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Two Open Literature Positions at the University of Lethbridge Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:18:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 432 (432) Apologies for cross-posting. I'd like to call members of this list's attention to two vacancies at the University of Lethbridge: http://www.uleth.ca/hum/Services/career_fac/English_Academic_Assistant_November_2006_Web_Site.htm I believe these are quite unusual positions and they may be of great interest to some on this list. They are probationary teaching positions focusing entirely on English literature. The probationary period is for two years at which point successful candidates will be given a continuing (i.e. permanent) contract. The rank is Academic Assistant (Instructor). The positions are still subject to budgetary approval. We expect the focus of the positions will be junior-level (first and second year) literary and genre courses. Candidates with a PhD will be eligible to teach senior level courses in their area of specialisation. We do not anticipate any composition component (composition is handled by a different unit), there is no research requirement, and the course load is 3:3:1 or equivalent. We are willing to consider almost any area of specialisation; among the areas where we could accommodate senior level teaching is textual criticism and the History of the Book. What we are looking for in these positions are people who are enthusiastic and innovative post-secondary teachers. The jobs would be particularly well suited to PhD holders who love to teach but are less interested in maintaining an active research program. We will expect the successful candidates to stay current with contemporary developments in pedagogy and their discipline. The position is open to all qualified applicants including those without Canadian citizenship or residency although preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Application details can be found by following the link above. The closing date is February 15th, 2007. But please feel free to contact the chair of the department informally if you'd like to discuss the positions. The Department Chair is Daniel Paul O'Donnell (i.e. me). -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ From: "UCHRI" Subject: Calls for Proposals, Residential Fellowships & Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:19:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 433 (433) Residential Research Groups The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) invites proposals for the following programs: Residential Fellowships Academic Year 2007-08 Application deadline is December 10, 2006: <http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=message_link&fn=Key&id=busgesbyqizbzqvdepgamzwevnenbif&link=bkucavjsudrcmotbpflrjwbemskebfh>http://flatiron.sdsc.edu/projects/uchri/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=109 Residential Research Groups Academic Year 2008-09 Application deadline is December 15, 2006: <http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=message_link&fn=Key&id=busgesbyqizbzqvdepgamzwevnenbif&link=bnekziwglsgibioryqovnruuvpnvbob>http://flatiron.sdsc.edu/projects/uchri/main.php?nav=sub&page_id=108 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Programmer position at the University of Maryland Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:20:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 434 (434) Libraries University of Maryland Libraries TITLE: Coordinator (Digital Libraries Developer) CATEGORY: Exempt Staff, Full-Time, Contract Appointment SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Minimum salary starting at $68,000. Excellent Benefits. Opportunity for an innovative and service-oriented individual to join a dynamic team environment at The University of Maryland Libraries. This new position will support the office of Digital Collections and Research (DCR) http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr, a new initiative at the Libraries. The success of this initiative depends on the development of a technical infrastructure based on open source software integrated with vendor products, including Fedora, Lucene, and Helix. The successful candidate will interact with a variety of individuals in the library including curators, metadata specialists, and other IT staff. This position will be jointly managed by the Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections and Research, and Manager of Library Systems Development in the Information Technology Division (ITD). UM Libraries web site: http://www.lib.umd.edu Responsibilities: Participation in and support of Digital Library projects including work across the spectrum of services needed to support a digital library initiative (web services, repository configuration, staff administration tools, metadata crosswalking, indexing/search engine); ongoing support of existing services, as well as developing new ones; creation of technical documentation; keeping apprised of new technologies and solutions; participation in Library-wide and Campus-wide committees and teams as appropriate. Qualifications: Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with two years relevant experience or MS in Computer Science or related field and at least one year work experience. Demonstrated ability to program in Java, Significant experience working in a UNIX/LINUX environment. Self-motivated individual, able to work in a team environment, and service-oriented. Preferred: Strong consideration will be given to candidates with experience in providing programming support in a digital library, digital publishing, tools development, or digital humanities environment. Experience with C/C++/XML/XSLT/SOAP/PERL/PHP/ and related technologies is highly desired. Applications: Electronic applications are preferred. For full consideration, submit cover letter, resume, and names/addresses of three references by January 5, 2007. Applications accepted until position is filled. Send resume to Johnnie Love, jlove1_at_umd.edu or by fax to (301) 314-9960 or by mail to Johnnie Love, Library HR Office, 6115 McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011. For more details see full job description at http://www.lib.umd.edu/PASD/LPO/LibJobs/111875.html The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. -- 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 http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org From: "John A. Bateman" Subject: position for modularizing/structuring axiomatized ontologies Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:22:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 435 (435) Bremen University, Germany. SFB/TR8: www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de 1 Doctoral Research Assistant / Postdoctoral=20 Researcher SFB/TR 8 project I1-[OntoSpace],=20 Universit=E4t Bremen (TVL 13, approx. =80 35,000 to =80 50,000 p.a. gross) The research project I1-[OntoSpace]=20 (Bateman/Mossakowski) employs logical=20 specification languages and tools=20 for constructing and delivering logically=20 consistent ontological submodules for spatial=20 objects, spatial relationships, functional=20 spatial roles (e.g., landmarks) and=20 motion-in-space. The currently announced position=20 is concerned with techniques for the large-scale=20 and heterogeneous structuring of ontology=20 modules, formal foundations for inter-ontology=20 mappings, and integrated reasoning with formally=20 specified ontologies. This in particular means=20 proving intended consequences as well as showing=20 consistency of formal ontologies, applying a=20 variety of tools that are developed elsewhere in the SFB/TR. The applicant should have a degree in computer=20 science or in a related field (diploma, master=92s,=20 or Ph.D.). Strong interest in cognitive science=20 research and in interdisciplinary collaboration is expected. Especially, the applicant should have=20 qualifications and/or interests in the following fields: =95 Ontologies and semantic web =95 Knowledge representation and reasoning =95 Formal methods and theorem proving We offer the opportunity to gain research=20 experience in a modern and enthusiastic research=20 environment with strong interdisciplinary and=20 international links. Responsibilities include=20 project work and research, publication of=20 research results, supervision of student=20 projects, participation in the activities of the=20 SFB/TR 8, and contribution to research proposals. The position is available immediately / from=20 January 2007 until the end of 2010. Extension is=20 possible. Application deadline: 01 December 2006=20 (or until a suitable candidate is found).=20 Universit=E4t Bremen is an equal opportunity=20 employer. Women are especially encouraged to=20 apply. Handicapped applicants with equal=20 qualifications will be given preferential treatment. More information about this project can be found=20 at http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de. Please address questions about the position and=20 send your application (preferably by email) to: Dr. Till Mossakowski =20 SFB/TR 8 - Spatial Cognition Universit=E4t Bremen P.O. Box 330 440 28334 Bremen / Germany From: "Paul Spence" Subject: Analyst/programming job at CCH, King's College London Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:26:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 436 (436) Project Research Officer The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London CCH is both a department with responsibility for its own academic programme and a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research. In its latter capacity, it is looking for someone to assist with the technical development work in research projects. The projects cover a wide range of humanities disciplines, including medieval studies, history, literature and linguistics, and music, and also include a number of more general information management projects in both humanities and the social sciences. The successful candidate to this position would be required to analyse a wide variety of humanities materials and to model them using XML-related technologies; to design, write and modify programs to search, query, retrieve and display them; and to collaborate in the creation of integrated HTML-based interfaces to publish them. Experience in creating and manipulating XML documents in a range of XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs, XPath, XSLT) is essential, as is familiarity with standards-compliant XHTML and CSS. Awareness of the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines and/or of emerging XML technologies (XSLT 2.0, XQuery and Schemas) is highly desirable. Proven experience in creating dynamic XML-based applications using technologies such as Cocoon and/or native XML databases would be a significant advantage. In addition you will need to have a good understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. The successful candidate should have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English. This appointment is on the RA1A scale, currently ranging from =A320,645 to =A330,902 per annum plus of =A32,323 London Allowance. For further details and an application form, please contact Personnel Department, King's College London: strand-recruitment_at_kcl.ac.uk. Closing date for receipt of applications is 14 December 2006. The interview date is to be confirmed. Please quote reference W1/AAV/159/06. From: Brent Nelson Subject: SDH-SEMI 2007 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:24:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 437 (437) Society for Digital Humanities Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs *Call for Papers* */Bridging Communities: making public knowledge--making knowledge public/* 2007 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 2007 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Saskatchewan, from 28-30 May. The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress­“Bridging Communities”­or its sub-theme­“making public knowledge/making knowledge public.” Computing in the humanities already has a strong history of fostering collaboration in areas of research that have traditionally been built on the model of the solitary scholar. Digital technology has enabled networking and collaboration where logistics were previously prohibitive, and the digital medium has accelerated dissemination of knowledge and enriched means for delivering complex and diverse forms of data. The Internet has further taken much scholarly work out of the confines of university libraries and made it readily accessible to an extensive reading public. While this year’s Congress theme is well suited to the interests of SDH/SEMI, we encourage submissions on all topics relating to both theory and praxis in the evolving discipline of humanities computing. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: • Humanities computing as an means of bridging disciplinary communities • The public and the proprietary in electronic publication • Virtual communities • The computer as a generative or analytical tool in humanities research • Humanities computing and pedagogy • Digitizing material culture • Computer supported collaboration • Computer modeling in humanities research • The history and future of humanities computing • Computing in the fine, performing and new media arts • Facility and large project management The conference will also present a number of joint sessions with several national societies, including the Canadian Society of Medievalist/Société canadienne des médiévistes (CSM/SCM), the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/Sociéte canadienne d'études de la Renaissance (CSRS/SCER), and the Association for the Study of Book Culture/Association canadienne pour l’étude de l’histoire du livre (ASBC/ACEH), as well as the international society, Association of Digital Humanities Organisation (ADHO). Proposals should specify any preference for inclusion in a joint session. Selected papers from the conference will appear in a special collection, jointly published by /Computing in the Humanities Working Papers/, and /Text Technology/. In collaboration with CSM/SCM and ASBC/ACEH we will also host a half-day symposium on “Reassembling Disassembled Books,” featuring a keynote talk by Professor Peter Stoicheff (associate dean of humanities and fine arts, University of Saskatchewan) on the Otto Ege manuscripts and a project for digitally reconstructing parts of the collection. 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, 2006. 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: Brent Nelson, Conference Committee Chair and Local Coordinator, (University of Saskatchewan) nelson_at_arts.usask.ca or Department of English 9 Campus Dr. Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 We hope you consider joining us in Saskatoon for this year’s meetings of SDH/SEMI at Congress. In addition to the excellent slate of papers that we expect this year, the local organizing committee for Congress 2007 has several cultural events planned, including an aboriginal round dance and film festival, an Alice In Wonderland croquet match in the university commons, complete with costumes and flamingo mallets (will President McKinnon be the Queen of Hearts?) and a repeat performance of /Songs of a Prairie Girl/, a musical review featuring the songs of Joni Mitchell. The picturesque university campus sits upon the banks of the Saskatchewan river valley, which offers an extensive system of trails and parks ideal for evening walks. There will also be excursions available to local historical sites, including Fort Carleton, Duck Lack, Batoche, and Waneskewin Heritage Park. *Appel de communication* */Le partenariat entre communautés : la création et la diffusion du savoir public/* Réunion annuelle 2007 de la Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs / Society for Digital Humanities La Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SEMI / SDH) invite les spécialistes ainsi que les étudiants et étudiantes de deuxičme et troisičme cycles ŕ soumettre des propositions d’atelier ou de communication pour la réunion annuelle de la Société, dans le cadre du Congrčs des sciences humaines et sociales, les 28, 29 et 30 mai 2007, ŕ l’Université de Saskatchewan. La Société aimerait encourager en particulier les soumissions qui se rapportent ŕ une discussion du thčme central du Congrčs, c’est-ŕ-dire le partenariat entre communautés, ou du sous-thčme, la création et la diffusion du savoir publique. En pratique, l’informatique dans les sciences humaines s’est toujours bien prętée ŕ encourager la collaboration entre les spécialistes de différents domaines qui, traditionnellement, se limitaient au travail individuel et isolé. La technologie digitale permet maintenant le travail en réseau alors que dans le passé, la logistique nécessaire ŕ la collaboration rendait cette activité quasi impraticable. Ce nouveau support digital permet la diffusion accélérée du savoir et demeure un véhicule privilégié pour la transmission de données complexes et diverses. L’internet encourage l’accessibilité du savoir en permettant les ouvrages académiques, jusqu’alors restreints aux habitués des bibliothčques universitaires, d’ętre ŕ la portée d’un public élargi. Męme si le thčme du Congrčs cette année correspond bien aux intéręts de la SEMI/SDH, nous voulons encourager des soumissions qui se rapportent ŕ la fois ŕ la théorie et ŕ la praxis dans le domaine dynamique des médias interactifs. Voici quelques suggestions de sujets pertinents dont le but est de favoriser la réflexion et non de limiter l’inspiration: • Les médias interactifs comme moyen d’encourager le partenariat interdisciplinaire • Le savoir public et les droits d’auteurs dans le monde de la publication électronique • Les communautés virtuelles • L’informatique comme outil génératif ou analytique dans le domaine des sciences humaines • Les médias interactifs et la pédagogie • L’adaptation de la culture matérielle un support digital • L’informatique comme soutien la collaboration • La création de mod les informatisés d’aide la recherche dans le domaine des sciences humaines • Le développement historique et l’avenir des médias interactifs • Les médias interactifs dans les domaines du théâtre, des beaux-arts, et des arts médiatiques • La gestion de structures et de projets importants Dans le cadre de la réunion annuelle, un certain nombre de colloques seront organisés en collaboration avec des sociétés nationales, dont la Société canadienne des médiévistes/the Canadian Society of Medievalists (SCM/CSM), la Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance/the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (SCER/CSRS), et l’Association canadienne pour l’étude de l’histoire du livre/the Association for the Study of Book Culture (ACEH/ASBC), ainsi que la Digital Humanities Organisation (ADHO). Nous encourageons les participants ŕ préciser, dans leur proposition, s’ils entendent participer ŕ l’un de ces colloques conjoints. Certaines communications présentées au congrčs seront incluses dans un collectif publié spécialement pour la conférence et produit conjointement par /Computing in the Humaities Working Papers /et par /Text Technology/. Nous présenterons aussi, en collobaration avec la SCM/CSM et l’ACEH/ASBC, un symposium d’une demi-journée intitulé Ť Reassembling Disassembled Books ť (Le rassemblement des livres désassemblés). Le discours-programme du symposium sera prononcé par le professeur Peter Stoicheff (doyen associé, Faculté des sciences humaines et des beaux-arts, Université de Saskatchewan) et aura pour thčme les manuscrits Otto Ege et un nouveau projet qui vise ŕ reconstruire digitalement certaines parties de la collection. Les ressources disponibles pour financer une séance d’étudiants et d’étudiantes de deuxičme et troisičme cycle sont limitées. Les candidats et candidates intéressé(e)s doivent se renseigner auprčs des responsables. Voir l’adresse ci-bas. La date limite pour l’envoi de résumés de communication ou de propositions d’atelier est le 15 décembre 2006. Veuillez noter que tous les présentateurs et présentatrices doivent devenir membres de la SEMI/SDH avant la date de la conférence. Les résumés et propositions doivent inclure les renseignements suivants en haut de la premičre page : titre de l’article, nom de l’auteur, adresse postale complčte, adresse de courriel, affiliation institutionnelle et rang professoral, s’il y a lieu. Veuillez de plus nous indiquer quels seront vos besoins informatiques et audio-visuels. Les résumés ne doivent pas dépasser 300 mots. Ils doivent indiquer clairement la thčse soutenue, et la méthodologie. Les résumés ainsi que les questions sont envoyés de préférence par courrier électronique, mais ils peuvent aussi ętre transmis par courrier traditionnel. On achemine le tout ŕ : Brent Nelson, président du comité du congrčs et coordonnateur local Department of English 9 Campus Dr. Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 Nous espérons que vous vous joindrez ŕ nous ŕ Saskatoon pour la conférence annuelle du congrčs de la SEMI/SDH. Nous nous attendons ŕ des présentations excellentes cette année et nous vous proposons aussi des divertissements captivants. Le comité d’organisation local du congrčs 2007 a planifié des événements culturels intéressants comprenant un spectacle de danse aborigčne, un festival de films, un match de croquet ŕ la Alice au pays des merveilles avec costumes et maillets en forme de flamants sur le campus de l’université (est-ce que le président McKinnon jouera le rôle de la reine de cœur?) et un spectacle intitulé Ť Songs of a Prairie Girl ť, une revue musicale qui met en vedette les chansons de Joni Mitchell. Le campus universitaire pittoresque sur les bords de la rivičre Saskatchewan offre un accčs ŕ plusieurs parcs et pistes de randonnés pédestres idéales pour ces promenades en soirées. Des excursions vers quelques sites historiques de la région, y compris Fort Carleton, Duck Lake, Batoche et Waneskewin Heritage Park, seront aussi disponibles. From: Ross Scaife Subject: Chicago Statement Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:25:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 438 (438) A working group that met immediately after the recent Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science has now issued a position paper, Classics in the Million Book Library. This paper is available in pdf and doc formats from the Stoa site at http://www.stoa.org/?page_id=516 or via the link under "Pages" at the upper right corner of the Stoa's gateway blog. We hope there will be some discussion of this document here on the Digital Classicist list, and also that some paper proposals may be forthcoming from some of you by December 15. with best wishes, Ross Scaife From: John Unsworth Subject: Dec. 1 deadline for submissions to HASTAC conference Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:29:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 439 (439) Call for Papers International HASTAC Conference "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface" April 19-21, 2007 www.hastac.org We are now soliciting papers and panel proposals for "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface," the first international conference of HASTAC ("haystack": Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). The interdisciplinary conference will be held April 19-21, 2007, in Durham, North Carolina, co- sponsored by Duke University and RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute). Details concerning registration fees, hotel accommodations, and the full conference agenda will be posted to www.hastac.org as they become available. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface" is one of the culminating events for the In|Formation Year that began in June 2006 and extends through May of 2007. (See the HASTAC website for a calendar of In|Formation Year events, plus open source archived materials suitable for downloading for courses or campus events.) The keynote address will be delivered by visionary information scientist John Seely Brown (The Social Life of Information) at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke. Other events include a talk by legal theorist James Boyle (co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Science Commons), a conversation among leaders of innovative digital humanities projects led by John Unsworth (chair of the ACLS "Cyberinfrastructure and the Humanities and Social Sciences" commission), and a presentation by media artist and research pioneer Rebecca Allen. The conference will also include refereed scholarly and scientific papers, multimedia performances, an exhibit hall of innovative software and hardware, plus tours of art and scientific installations in virtual reality, learning-game, and interactive sensor space environments. CALL FOR PAPERS Six sessions will be devoted to panels with refereed papers on aspects of "interface" spanning media arts, engineering, and the human, social, natural, and computational sciences. Panels will be topical and cross-disciplinary; they will be comprised of papers that are themselves interdisciplinary as well as specialized disciplinary papers presented in juxtaposition with one another. We will consider proposals for full panels (three or four papers), for paired cross-disciplinary papers on a shared topic, or for single papers. Topics: Panels might address interfaces between humans and computers, mind and brain, real and virtual worlds, science and fiction, consumers and producers, text-archives and multi-media, youth and adults, disciplines, institutions, communities, identities, media, cultures, technologies, theories, and practices. Other possible topics: the body as interface, neuroaesthetics and neurocognition, prosthetics, mind-controlled devices, immersion, emergence, presence, telepresence, sensor spaces, virtual reality, social networking, games, experimental learning environments, human/ non-human situations and actors, interactive communication and control, access, borders, intellectual property, porosity, race and ethnicity, difference, Afro-Geeks and Afro-Futurism, identity, gender, sexuality, credibility, mapping and trafficking, civic engagement, social activism, cyberactivism, plus all of the other In| Formation Year topics: in|common, interplay, in|community, interaction, injustice, integration, invitation, innovation. Proposal Submissions: Please send 500-1000 word paper and/or panel proposals to info_at_hastac.org. Deadline for Proposals: December 1, 2006. Full-length papers or power-point presentations will be posted on the HASTAC website prior to the conference. The sessions themselves will be devoted to synopses of the work, followed by a response designed to elicit audience participation. Attendees whose papers are not accepted will be encouraged to display their work at a digital poster session. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Registration will be limited to 150 people. HASTAC will announce a priority registration period for HASTAC In|Formation Year site leaders, followed by open registration. SCHOLARSHIPS Some scholarship funding will be available to graduate students to help defray fees and conference costs. For additional information as well as copies of the In|Formation Year poster, contact Jonathan Tarr, HASTAC Project Manager (info_at_hastac.org or call 919 684-8471). HASTAC uses Creative Commons licenses for all of its endeavors. All conference sessions will be webcast, archived, and made available for non-profit educational purposes. From: Kalina Bontcheva Subject: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:40:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 440 (440) (RANLP'2007) - First Call for Papers First Call for Papers "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING" International Conference RANLP-2007 September 27-29, 2007 Borovets, Bulgaria http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007 Supported by the European Commission through project BIS-21++, INCO grant 016639/2005 Further to the successful and highly competitive 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th conferences 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' (RANLP), we are pleased to announce the sixth RANLP conference to be held in September 2007. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus peer-reviewed individual papers. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition, volumes of RANLP selected papers are traditionally published by John Benjamins Publishers; currently the volume of Selected RANLP-05 papers is under print. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. The conference will be preceded by tutorials (23-25 September 2007) and workshops (26 September 2007). TOPICS We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP). We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; mathematical models and complexity; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation memory systems, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval; information extraction; text summarisation; term recognition; text categorisation; question answering; textual entailment; visualisation; dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS The list of conference keynote speakers includes: Ellen Riloff (University of Utah) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Seminars in London Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:45:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 441 (441) This is to alert anyone within range of London to three seminars, this month and next, on or related to topics in humanities computing : 23 November (Thursday), 1 pm, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Margaret Boden (Cognitive Science, Sussex), "What can AI teach us about the arts and letters?" http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/tmp/seminar/06-07/seminar_boden.html 6 December (Wednesday), 5.30 pm, NG15, Senate House, Malet Street Ian Lancashire (English, Toronto), "Cybertextuality by the numbers" http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/visitor_areas.php?page=ies_series, London Seminar on Digital Text and Scholarship 7 December (Thursday), 1 pm, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Catelijne Coopmans (Innovation Studies, Imperial College London), "Data relations -- linking images, numbers and audiences in digital models" http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/tmp/seminar/06-07/seminar_coopmans.html All welcome. 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: "Vika Zafrin" Subject: Survey reminder Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:56:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 442 (442) Dear Humanists, Many thanks to those of you who have already filled out the survey about the list, found here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=337232822899 We have gotten 104 responses so far -- not bad! Of course, the more responses we get, the better a feel we will have for how to improve Humanist. The survey, which only has ten questions, will be up until this Friday 1 December. If you haven't contributed yet, please give us three minutes of your time, regardless of whether you post regularly or just read. I heard of three cases where people have had trouble filling out the survey. In one case, some Firefox extensions were found to be the culprit. So if you have technical trouble, try turning off plug-ins/extensions/add-ons -- or using a different browser. Again, please fill it out before Friday 1 December. After that the survey will be closed. Yours, -Vika From: Willard McCarty Subject: speed matters? Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:14:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 443 (443) Dear colleagues, Years ago I read a psychometric study of how people use computing systems as a function of the time between a user-initiated action and the system's response. The conclusion of the study was that if more than ca 1.5 seconds elapsed, the delay would begin to affect what the user then did. For example, this study suggested, if I put a query to a system and more than the threshold delay occurs, then I will begin to censor subsequent queries based on some assessment or other that I make of the probability of a useful response. The conclusion seems quite plausible. Consider, for example, unavoidable delays in conversation between saying something and getting a response. Spontaneity goes. My question is, can anyone here give me a reference to this or any similar study? 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: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: MITH Podcasting Now Live! Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:55:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 444 (444) MITH is pleased to announce that we have begun regular Podcasting of our popular Digital Dialogues seminar series: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/programs/digitaldialogue/podcasts.php We have three Podcasts from recent Digital Dialogues already available, including talks by Rice University's Chuck Henry on scholarly electronic publishing, Brown's Vika Zafrin on collaboration in the digital humanities, and game studies from internationally renowned media theorist and author Stuart Moulthrop. A "Podcast" is an MP3 digital audio recording. You can access and listen to them in a variety of ways. First, by going to the URL above and clicking on the session you want to hear, the MP3 audio file will open and play using your browser's standard audio plug-in. You can also subscribe to an RSS feed of the Digital Dialgoues Podcast right from MITH's front page (http://www.mith2.umd.edu/). Simply click on the buttons for the RSS options as they appear at the bottom of the right-hand column. (Firefox users can also click the orange radio wave icon that appears in their address bar.) Subscribing to the RSS feed means you will automatically receive new Podcasts as they become available through your RSS reader, and you can also synch them to your portable music player to hear Digital Dialogues on the go. We plan to make this a regular feature of Digital Dialogues, pending the approval of individual speakers. Of course you'll still have to come to MITH Tuesday's at 12:30 to see any visuals associated with a talk, participate in the conversation, and share some of our coffee and cookies. Enjoy! -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.46 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:14:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 445 (445) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 46 November 28, 2006 =96 December 4, 2006) UBIQUITY ALERT: SOFTWARE FAULT AVOIDANCE This short article by G. Saha reviews various=20 issues of software fault avoidance, which aims to=20 produce fault free software through various=20 approaches having the common objective of=20 reducing the number of latent defects in software programs. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i46_fault.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiqu= ity/views/v7i46_fault.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: apologies for Humanist survey blips Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:22:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 446 (446) Apologies to those who have experienced difficulties with the Web interface for the Humanist survey. We're looking into the problem and will report back as soon as possible. Sorry for any frustration. 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: Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2007 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:57:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 447 (447) International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks =AD ICANN 2007 9-13 September 2007, Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal 1st Call for Papers The 17th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2007, will be held from September 9 through September 13 at the Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal. ICANN is an annual conference organized by the European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society, and is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2007 welcomes contributions on the theory, algorithms and applications in the following broad areas: * Computational neuroscience; * Connectionist cognitive science; * Data analysis and pattern recognition; * Graphical network models, Bayesian networks; * Hardware implementations and embedded systems; * Intelligent Multimedia and the Semantic Web; * Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms; * Neural control, planning and robotics applications; * Neural dynamics and complex systems; * Neuroinformatics; * Real world applications; * Self-organization; * Sequential and structured information processing; * Signal and time series processing, blind source separation; * Vision and image processing. From: Subject: LATA 2007: paper submission deadline extended Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:15:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 448 (448) PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 7, 2006 !!!!! 2nd Call for Papers 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND=20 AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2007) Tarragona, Spain, March 29 - April 4, 2007 http://www.grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2007/ AIMS: LATA 2007 intends to become a major conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications that is being developed at the host institute since 2001, it will reserve significant room for young computer scientists at the beginning of their career. LATA 2007 will aim at attracting scholars from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: - words, languages and automata - grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.) - grammars and automata architectures - combinatorics on words - language varieties and semigroups - algebraic language theory - computability - computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized complexity - patterns and codes - regulated rewriting - trees, tree languages and tree machines - term rewriting - graphs and graph transformation - power series - fuzzy and rough languages - cellular automata - DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing - quantum, chemical and optical computing - biomolecular nanotechnology - automata and logic - automata for verification - automata, concurrency and Petri nets - parsing - weighted machines - foundations of finite state technology - grammatical inference and learning - symbolic neural networks - text retrieval and pattern recognition - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and= bioinformatics - mathematical evolutionary genomics - language-based cryptography - compression - circuit theory and applications - language theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial= life STRUCTURE: LATA 2007 will consist of: - 3 invited talks - 2 invited tutorials - refereed contributions - open sessions for discussion in specific subfields - young sessions on professional issues INVITED SPEAKERS: Volker Diekert (UStuttgart), Equations: From Words to Graph Products= (tutorial) Nissim Francez & Michael Kaminski (Technion), Extensions of Pregroup Grammars and Their Correlated Automata Eric Graedel (RWTH Aachen), Infinite Games (tutorial) Neil Immerman (UMass, Amherst), Nested Words Helmut J=FCrgensen (UWestern Ontario), Synchronization [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: 1st Synthese Annual Conference: the future of Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:18:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 449 (449) formal methods in philosophy 1st Synthese Annual Conference Synthese hosts its first annual conference at the Carlsberg Academy in Copenhagen, October 3- 5 , 2007. The conference is sponsored by PHIS - The Danish Research School in Philosophy, History of Ideas and History of Science and Springer. This first Synthese Annual Conference is the venue for discussing the future of formal methods in philosophy. Title Between Logic and Intuition: David Lewis and the Future of Formal Methods in Philosophy Abstract David Lewis is one of the most important figures in contemporary philosophy. His approach balances elegantly between the use of rigorous formal methods and sound philosophical intuitions. The benefit of such an approach is reflected in the substantial impact his philosophical insights have had not only in many core areas of philosophy, but also in neighboring disciplines ranging from computer science to game theory and linguistics. The interplay between logic and intuition to obtain results of both philosophical and interdisciplinary importance makes Lewis' work a prime example of formal philosophy. Lewis' work exemplifies the fruitful interplay between logic and intuition that is central to contemporary philosophy. This conference serves as a tribute to Lewis and as a venue for adressing questions concerning the relationship between logic and philosophical intuition. Call for Papers Synthese invites papers on the work of David Lewis and formal philosophy in accordance with the conference abstract. The final papers should be submitted electronically directly to editor-in-chief Vincent F. Hendricks, vincent_at_ruc.dk, classified as a "SAC"-submission in the subject entry. The deadline for submitting a paper for consideration is April 1, 2007. Notification of acceptance for presentation at the conference is August 1, 2007. Submit to Editor-in-Chief: Vincent F. Hendricks Invited Speakers: John Collins, Alan Hajek, Hannes Leitgeb, Rohit Parikh and L.A. Paul Program Committee and Conference Chairs: Johan van Benthem, Vincent F. Hendricks, John Symons (SYNTHESE) and Stig Andur Pedersen (PHIS) Conference Manager: Pelle Guldborg Hansen Publication A selection of the best papers will be published as an anthology in the Synthese Library book series. We hope you will contribute to this conference. In order for your colleagues and friends to also take part, please feel free to forward this message to others interested in the field. Last but not least, we look forward to seeing your contribution in one of the future issues! Yours sincerely, Jasper de Vaal Product Manager Human Sciences Springer jasper.devaal_at_springer.com Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: CoLIS 2007: Conceptions of Library and Information Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:19:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 450 (450) Science: "Featuring the Future" ************* CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science: "Featuring the Future" Swedish School of Library and Information Science University College of Boras & Goteborg University Boras, Sweden 13-16 August 2007 www.hb.se/colis ************* Aim of CoLIS CoLIS is a series of international conferences for which the general aim is to provide a broad forum for the exploration and exchange of ideas in the field of library and information science (LIS). To be examined at CoLIS 6 are theoretical and empirical research trends in LIS, together with socio-cultural and technical issues relating to our understanding of the various roles, natures, uses and associated relationships of information, information systems, information processes, and information networks. As in previous conferences in the series, this one, too, promotes an interdisciplinary approach to research. In connection to the main conference, both educational and doctoral forums are provided. ************* Focus of the conference Important areas to be addressed at this conference are the efforts that are being made to increase the impact in, and of, LIS research in the knowledge society. Thus, the focus of the conference will be on the development of the LIS research field, as well as on the influence of LIS research efforts in the society at large. Conference contributions such as theoretical and methodological discussions are welcomed, to aid in the efforts of forming a foundation of LIS research approaches. Reports of successful examples are also valued submissions, to help gain an understanding of the features that can make LIS research prosper alongside contemporary research fields in the knowledge society. CoLIS 6 encourages submissions that explore the conference topic from different perspectives in LIS. The overall theme covers areas such as theoretical growth; methodological practices; conceptual frameworks; empirical settings; interdisciplinary relationships; impact on, and of, professions; and other related topics. Submissions from other disciplinary backgrounds (science, technology, humanities, and social sciences) are also welcomed. ************* CoLIS 6 has four general themes: * Reframing LIS from Different Perspectives This sub-theme examines LIS research from a different or neighbouring perspective. Papers submitted in this sub-theme should clearly outline and describe the perspective being investigated, how it compares with traditional or main-stay perspectives found in LIS research, and how it can extend or influence this view. What does this new perspective add or contribute to the LIS field? Where is this new perspective taking the field in the future? * LIS in Contemporary Society This sub-theme examines the LIS field in today*s contemporary society. How well does LIS practice and research correspond with changes in today*s information society? Recent technical advances in computing and communications are revolutionizing the way people need, seek, and use information. Papers submitted to this sub-theme will explore and discuss the degree to which the LIS field has responded to such changes and advances. Is the traditional LIS field still relevant in today*s contemporary society? How will contemporary society change or influence LIS research and practice in the future? * LIS versus New Research and Professional Fields This sub-theme explores the rise and development of new research and professional fields that traditionally would not have been associated with the LIS field. Are these new fields really that different? How should the LIS field respond? Is traditional LIS research and practice informing these new fields? Is the LIS field recognized for its contributions to these new fields? How should the LIS field react in the future to the rise and development of these new fields? * New Research Methods in LIS This sub-theme explores new research methods in the LIS field. What are these new methods? Why are they needed? How do they differ from past traditional research methods? What types of research methods are needed in LIS in the future? ************* Submissions: We invite authors to submit research papers, short papers, panels and posters. Important dates: Deadline for all submissions: March 1, 2007 Notification to authors: April 20, 2007 Final version of paper due: June 15, 2007 All accepted research papers will be published by the electronic journal Information Research as a supplement to the October 2007 issue. Information Research is a peer-reviewed, ISI-indexed journal. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Peter Arthur Subject: PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Announcement Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:20:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 451 (451) and Call for Papers First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Vancouver, July 11-13, 2007 WEBSITE: http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/493 The Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University is pleased to announce that the first international PKP conference will be held from July 11=AD13, 2007 in Vancouver. The conference will provide opportunities for those involved in the organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies (such as Open Journal Systems) can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale. The conference will appeal to all those with an interest in the future of scholarly publishing community: software developers and technical support specialists; journal publishers, editors, and staff; librarians; and researchers in scholarly publishing. CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract Deadline (required): January 15, 2007 Paper and PowerPoint Submission (desired but not required for public posting): July 1, 2007 This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public Knowledge Project, enables participants to submit abstracts online at http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/submit.php. Presentations can include: =95 Single papers (abstract max of 500 words) =95 Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) Call for Papers Announcement The conference stream for those involved in the practices and study of journal publishing will focus on the following themes and topics: *Scholarly publishing in developing countries; *Open access and the academy: reforming and opening the peer review process, implications for academic freedom; *New journals, new models: the how and why of starting a new journal, new economic models for old journals, encouraging open data and related practices; *Promotion and growth: building readership, authorship, and reviewership; open access is public access - challenges and benefits; *Improving the features and design of publishing software The conference stream for librarians and information specialists will focus on the following themes and topics: *The role of libraries in supporting and developing emerging or alternate forms of scholarly communication, e.g., the library as publisher, implications for collections budgets and policies; *Incorporating and supporting open access publications as part of current collections and related services; *Using PKP software and related open source tools in libraries, e.g., 'best practices' or case studies. The conference stream for open source software developers and other technical experts working with PKP software will address the following: *Understanding and working with PKP software and its 'plug-in' architecture; *Building a PKP developers' community including software contributions and collaborative projects; *PKP software development priorities and plans. Peter Arthur peter.arthur_at_ubc.ca From: "Economou Daphne" Subject: Call for applications for the "M.Sc. in Multimedia Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:55:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 452 (452) Systems for Cultural Heritage" The University of Westminster, UK and the University of the Aegean, Greece announce a call for applications for the M.Sc. in Multimedia Systems for Cultural Heritage (title subject to approval) for the Academic year 2007-2008, application deadline 16/03/07, course starting July 2007. Call for application The Harrow School of Computer Science (HSCS) at the University of Westminster and the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication (DCTC) at the University of the Aegean, announce a call for applications for the MSc in Multimedia Systems for Cultural Heritage=94, to run the academic year 2007-2008. This degree is a one year full-time or two years part-time programme and attempts to include in its subjects the latest developments in the field of the field of information and communication technologies influencing the transformation mechanisms in the domains of Culture and Communication. It is an accredited partnership programme which will run partly at the University of Westminster, UK and partly at the University of the Aegean, Greece, where both institutions contribute modules which they are already delivering. The course and its intermediate awards operate in accordance with Westminster University's Academic Regulations, including the Modular Framework for Postgraduate Courses and the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland published by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) in the UK. Application deadline for the course is 16 March 2007 and the course will start in July 2007. General information The MSc in Multimedia Systems for Cultural Heritage seeks to provide an academic, creative and professional experience of both a theoretical and practical nature in the area of cultural studies, museology and interactive multimedia and draws together theory and knowledge from the disciplines of information and computer science, art and graphic design and museum studies. This broad understanding is stimulated by the course=92s strategy of accepting students from a wide range of disciplines, such as archaeology, media and information and computer science, and by organising the curriculum so that there is a provision for diverse range of experiences, skills, and critical debate to expose students to new disciplines, as well as to allow them to apply their own expertise in a new medium or discipline. Based on these premises, the content of the course is organised around three major themes: -- Interaction design and multimedia systems - the students are exposed to the theories of Interaction Design and techniques of Human Computer Interaction, as well as to the software, hardware and network advances related to the development and use of multimedia applications -- Heritage Computing - the students are educated on both the theoretical framework and practical considerations related to the use of Information and Communication Technologies in Museums, Libraries and Archives -- Digitisation of collections and content management - the students gain knowledge on the content and methods of digitisation and management of museums=92 and other institutions=92 collections Modules and modes of study The MSc in Multimedia Systems for Cultural Heritage comprises of seven taught modules. These modules are designed to provide the foundational skills and knowledge required for the discipline as a whole. -- 2MLS7H1 Digital Applications for the Presentation of Exhibits -- 2MLS7H2 Issues of Interaction Design -- 2MLS7H3 Digitisation of Collections -- 2MLS7H4 3D Digitisation and Visualisation -- 2MLS7H5 Content Management Systems -- 2MLS7H6 Multimedia Design and 3D Animation -- 2MLS78H Research Methods and Transferable Skills -- 2MLS79H Multimedia in Cultural Heritage Projects The course is offered in intensive block mode teaching, with the taught part of each of the seven 20-credit modules ? [20 level 7 credit module] delivered in =91week-release=92 mode followed by a self-study week that includes surgeries. While at a module level there is no distinction between full-time and part-time studying, full-time students must take 7 modules and complete a [dissertation? final?] project within a year. Students who are expected to complete the course in a period longer than a year -- normally classified as part-time students -- are expected to take 3-4 taught modules in their first year of study followed by the remaining taught modules and the final project in the second year of their study. A unique feature of the course is that it brings together two institutions: the Harrow School of Computer Science (HSCS) at the University of Westminster and the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication (DCTC) at the University of the Aegean, with a great portfolio of courses covering cultural heritage computing, artificial intelligence, creative multimedia, computer games, music informatics, business computing, computer networks and communications, museology, and Cultural Studies. Specialised experts from both Universities provide students with an in-depth understanding of the issues involved in the design and implementation of virtual museums and libraries, cultural digital products, information kiosks and mobile devices for museums and sites, and websites, taking into consideration both technical and conceptual issues. The block mode delivery of the course is planned to address professionals' needs in getting specialised in an area of their interest without having to quit work commitments for a whole year to attend a postgraduate course. Admission requirements The course is open to computer literate graduates with a first or second-class Honours degree in either: a) an arts or humanities or related discipline (e.g. Archaeology, History, History of Art, Cultural Studies, Social Sciences) or b) a technology-based course with a 'creative' component such as multimedia or web development and/or industrial experience within a creative industry (such as multimedia or games). An open-minded attitude will be taken towards entry requirements and it will be possible to relax the formal educational requirements for those employed in an industrial or academic context that is intimately related to Multimedia, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies. Where necessary, the relevance of the applicant's first degree or industrial experience will be determined at the interview and by the portfolio. Candidates are required to show competence in both written and spoken English to university standard. International students will be required to have obtained one of the following qualifications (other equivalent English language qualifications may be accepted): -- British Council/Cambridge International English Language Testing Service (IELTS) (minimum score of= 6.5) -- American Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score of 600. (The minimum overall score for the computer-based test is 250) -- Cambridge Proficiency Test in English (minimum grade C) Admission Procedure Application forms are assessed on the basis of the above minimum requirements and those who meet these criteria are invited for interview. The purpose of the interview is to assess the candidates on perceived ability to deal with the academic demands of the course and assurance that they will benefit from the course and are likely to complete it= satisfactorily. To Apply: Admissions & Marketing Office University of Westminster Harrow Campus Watford Road Northwick Park HA1 3TP, UK Phone: +44 (0) 207 911 5903 Fax: +44(0) 207 911 5955 Email:harrow-admissions_at_wmin.ac.uk URL: <https://webmail.aegean.gr/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=3Dhttp://www.wmin.ac.uk= />http://www.wmin.ac.uk Application deadline 16/03/2007 For Academic Advice: Dr Daphne Economou Course Leader Email: D.Economou_at_ct.aegean.gr or D.Economou_at_wmin.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: AI & SOCIETY 21.1-2 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:54:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 453 (453) Volume 21 Number 1-2 of AI & SOCIETY is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Guest Editorial Parthasarathi Banerjee Editorial Preface Karamjit Gill Concrete knowledge, the conversational turn, and translation Probal Dasgupta Private language: recognizing a useful nonsense Laxminarayan Lenka Action and reason in the theory of ?yurveda A. Singh What do we do with knowledge? Chinmoy Goswami Building a pedagogy around action and emotion: experiences of Blind Opera of Kolkata Biswatosh Saha, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay Knowledge, power and action: towards an understanding of implementation failures in a government scheme Biswatosh Saha, Ram Kakani A sketch of blissful actions and democracy based upon rasa Parthasarathi Banerjee Dialogues from the land of love and death Sanjoy Mukherjee Unplanned effects of intelligent agents on Internet use: a social informatics approach Alexander Serenko, Umar Ruhi, Mihail Cocosila Questionnaire-based social research on opinions of Japanese visitors for communication robots at an exhibition Tatsuya Nomura, Takugo Tasaki, Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita Work in the virtual enterprise-creating identities, building trust, and sharing knowledge Lauge Rasmussen, Arne Wangel The teacher, the learner and the collective mind Jon Dron The influence of people's culture and prior experiences with Aibo on their attitude towards robots Christoph Bartneck, Tomohiro Suzuki, Takayuki Kanda, Tatsuya Nomura Michael Marmot (2004) Status Syndrome: How Your Social Standing Directly Affects Your Health and Life Expectancy Richard Ennals 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: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 20.330 speed matters, but who says? Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:03:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 454 (454) Dear Willard, Jakob Nielsen talks about response times for web sites in _Designing Web Usability_ (New Riders: 2000, pages 42-51. He references the following study: Miller, Robert B. (1968). Response Time in Man- Computer Conversational Transactions. Proceedings Fall Joint Computer Conference 33(part 1). AFIPS Press, 1968. 267-277. Neilsen has an excerpt from _Usability Engineering_ on "Response Times" at http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html Searching for this in the ACM Portal I came across the following paper by T. W. Butler that suggests that Miller's guidelines were based on anecdotal evidence: Butler, T. W. 1983. Computer response time and user performance. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, Massachusetts, United States, December 12 - 15, 1983). A. Janda, Ed. CHI '83. ACM Press, New York, NY, 58-62. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/800045.801581 Abstract: " Nearly everyone agrees that computer response time is very important to the users of interactive systems. Many papers have been written describing the bad effects of computer response times that are too long or too short, and many sets of "guidelines" for appropriate human-engineered computer response times in human-machine systems have been published, as well. Nearly all these sets of guidelines are direct descendants of the set published by Robert Miller (1968) about 15 years ago. When Miller wrote his guidelines, he was quite open in describing them as based only on his experience, and he called for experimental data that would allow for the formulation of better, empirically-based rules for setting computer response time for optimal human performance. About fifteen years later, these studies are still missing, for the most part. Aside for the problem-solving studies of Grossberg, et al. (1976), Goodman and Spence (1981), Bergrnan, et al. (1981), and others, the literature is sadly lacking in empirical data to support the simplest assertions about how computer response time affects computer users. Though there is only the sparsest data to support them, several assertions about computer response time and user performance have become accepted as common knowledge." Ben Shneiderman has a survey article from 1984 that might also be what you were looking for: Shneiderman, B. 1984. Response time and display rate in human performance with computers. ACM Comput. Surv. 16, 3 (Sep. 1984), 265-285. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2514.2517 This can be read off the ACM Portal if you have access as can the Butler article. Yours, Geoffrey R. On 29-Nov-06, at 1:34 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: good times for philosophy Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:18:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 455 (455) Some recently created journals done by Springer Verlag: Dao, A Journal of Comparative Philosophy ISSN: 1540-3009 (print version), ISSN: 1569-7274 (electronic version) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry ISSN: 1176-7529 (print version), ISSN: 1872-4353 (electronic version) Nanoethics: Ethics for Technologies that converge at the nanoscale ISSN: 1871-4757 (print version), ISSN: 1871-4765 (electronic version) 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: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Talk at McMaster Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:02:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 456 (456) Dear Humanist, Announcing a talk by Patrik Svensson Director of HUMlab, Umea University, and Senior lecturer in the humanities and information technology Friday, December 1 4:00pm to 5:00pm Togo Salmon Hall 203 McMaster University Title: Visualizing the (Digital) Humanities Abstract: In this seminar I will start out from a general discussion of the visual in the humanities and in the digital humanities, and a critique of traditional 'humanities computing' which tends to be predominantely textual. I will base my further investigation on several projects from different areas including art history, history, antrophology and linguistics. Key points of discussion include the materiality of interfaces, added values, innovation strategies, and the role of the visualization. Among relevant technologies are geographical information systems, multi-spectral analysis and virtual worlds. Digital culture also gives us highly visual study objects such as computer games, social software and electronic literature, and these will be considered. The final part of the talk deals with physical lab and studio spaces for the digital humanities. How is the visual articulated in such collaborative work spaces? It will be suggested that the humanities may benefit from working with many, individual screens in collaborative settings rather than immersive environments such as CAVEs. HUMlab at Ume=E5 University will be used a case study and I will describe a planned (and funded!) expansion of the lab which will add thirteen new screens to the studio space. http://www.humlab.umu.se/patrik http://blog.humlab.umu.se/ http://blog.humlab.umu.se/patrik All are welcome, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Willard McCarty Subject: attracting students Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:59:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 457 (457) Dear colleagues, I'd be very pleased if we could have a discussion here on the subject of attracting students, esp at the MA-level, to programmes in the digital humanities or humanities computing. In my case, wanting this discussion is motivated by a programme that could easily take more students, and an administration that would like to see fatter programmes. In the case of those who are thinking about creating such programmes -- this should be *everyone* in any sort of position to do so -- it would be a question of design rather than redesign. What do students apt for an MA want from a (post)graduate programme in the digital humanities? What sort of language would communicate to them that a programme offers what they want, or will want once they think about it? Is promising or suggesting that an MA in the digital humanities will make them more employable a good idea? (Is there any evidence that in fact such an MA has or would have such a result?) How idealistic are such candidates likely to be? Are they likely to be inflamed with the love of learning or possessed by overmastering curiosity? Or are they likely to be shrewd, calculating, pension-securing-at-age-18 sorts? If somewhere in between, then where along the spectrum from vision to bank account? Should the appeal be more to the theoretical or more to practical work -- or to a combination of both, or to theory-in-practice? What sorts of techno-methodological approaches are the most attractive these days? PLEASE do say what you think, even if it's only what you think as an individual. The worst that can do is to push discussion along, I would hope, and that's no mistake. 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: Methnet Subject: Call for participation: Workshop on Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:23:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 458 (458) Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities Call for Participation: Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities (SOCH) Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities (SOCH) A joint workshop of the EPSRC Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNet) and the AHRC ICT Methods Network King=EDs College London, UK, 18-19 December 2006 We are pleased to invite participants to the above workshop. Participants should register by downloading the form from the SOSoRNet website (http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk) and returning it to Kiarash Mahdavi (Kiarash.Mahdavi_at_kcl.ac.uk) by 8th December 2006. Registration is free but places at the workshop are strictly limited to the first 50 participants. The draft programme is as follows: 18th December 2006 ----------------- 12:30 Arrival, registration, and lunch 13:30 Welcome 13:35 Introduction to SOSoRNet and the Methods Network 13:45 Keynote Address: Allen Renear, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 14:45 Service-Oriented Architecture in Archaeology: a joined up approach to the past: Stuart Dunn, King's College London 15:15 Coffee 15:45 Demonstration of the IBHIS System, Mark Turner, Keele University 16:30 A service-oriented workflow for the ingest and preservation of complex digital objects at the Arts and Humanities Data Service: Andreas Mavrides, Mark Hedges, Tobias Blanke, King's College London 17:00 Questions/Plenary Discussion 18:00 Buffet Reception 19:30 Close 19th December 2006 ----------------- 09:30 Coffee 10:00 Keynote Address: David De Roure, University of Southampton 11:00 Coffee 11:30 "Why Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Needs A 'Do-It-Yourself' Service Framework", J.= Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 12:00 "A Scalable Framework for Multimedia Knowledge Management", Yves Raimond, Samer Abdallah, Mark Sandler, Mounia Lalmas 12:30 Questions/Plenary Discussion 13:00 Lunch and Close We look forward to seeing you there! Nicolas Gold and Lorna Hughes Directors (respectively) of SOSoRNet and the Methods Network About SOSoRNet -------------- SOSorNet (http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk) is an EPSRC-funded network to bring together people working in the various communities associated with service-oriented software e.g. Grid, web services, application service provision etc. The aim is to promote the cross- fertilisation of ideas between these communities. SOSoRNet is organised by: * Nicolas Gold, King's College London (network director) * Pearl Brereton, Keele University * Keith Bennett, David Budgen, Durham University * Christos Tjortjis, Nikolay Mehandjiev, John Keane, Paul Layzell, Manchester University * Jie Xu, Leeds University To join SOSorNet please email nicolas.gold_at_kcl.ac.uk or kiarash.mahdavi_at_kcl.ac.uk. What is SOSoRNet for? - To share best-practice and research in service-oriented software systems - To bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners - To promote cross-fertilisation of ideas between communities Who is it for? Anyone involved in service-oriented software development and use e.g. - Grid researchers - Application service providers - Users and developers of web services About AHRC ICT Methods Network ------------------------------ The Methods Network is a multi-disciplinary partnership providing a national forum for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for arts and humanities research. The aims of the Methods Network are: - To promote, support and develop the use of advanced ICT methods in arts and humanities research and to support the cross-disciplinary network of practitioners from institutions around the UK. - To develop a programme of activities and publications on advanced ICT tools and methods and to ensure the broadest participation of the community by means of an open call for proposals for Methods Network activities. Further information about the Methods Network can be found at: http:// www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk From: Ville Nurmi Subject: ESSLLI 2007 Student Session - Second Call for Papers Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:24:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 459 (459) [Our apologies for multiple postings of this announcement.] ESSLLI 2007 STUDENT SESSION CALL FOR PAPERS August 6-17 2007, Dublin, Ireland Deadline: February 11, 2007 http://www.loria.fr/~sustreto/stus07/ We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 19th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which will be held in Dublin, Ireland on August 6-17, 2007. We invite submission of papers in the areas of Logic, Language and Computation for presentation at the Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. AIM Student Session exists to bring together young researchers to present and discuss their work in progress with a possibility to get feedback from senior researchers. SUBMISSION Only original publications are accepted, previous published works are not allowed. All authors of the paper must be students: undergraduate (before the completion of the Masters degree) or graduate (before the completion of the PhD degree). Papers can be submitted either for oral (20min talk+10 min discussion), or poster presentation. There are three subject areas: Logic and Language (lola), Language and Computation (laco) and Logic and Computation (loco). The submissions should be sent by email before 11 February 2007 to dmitry.sustretov_at_loria.fr (the message should have subject "ESSLLI STUS submission") along with an identification file in plain text of the following format: Title: title of the submission First author: firstname lastname Affiliation: affiliation of the first author E-mail: e-mail of the first author ...... Last author: firstname lastname Affiliation: affiliation of the last author E-mail: e-mail of the last author Abstract: (5 lines) Subject area: Logic and Language or Language and Computation or Logic and Computation Modality: Poster or Oral The submission should be in one of the following formats: PostScript, PDF or RTF. (In case of acceptance, the final version of the paper will have to be submitted in LaTeX format.) The papers must use single column A4 size pages, 11pt or 12pt fonts, and standard margins, and may not exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. The paper and identification file should be named by the following convention: category-modality-last name(s) of author(s) (for example, "loco-oral-martin.pdf" and "loco-oral-martin.txt"). At least one of the authors of the paper must register as a participant of ESSLLI. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings which will be available during ESSLLI. TIMELINE Submission deadline: February 11, 2007 Notification of authors: April 20, 2007 Full paper deadline: May 20, 2007 ESSLLI: August 6-17, 2007 [...] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Saussure - 100th Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:25:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 460 (460) Willard, The winter season of 06-07 marks the hundreth anniversary of the first of three courses that Saussure gave, which became the foundation of the influential Cours de linguistique general published by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye. Why might one want to signal this to group involved in ongoing conversations about the scope and nature of humanities computing? By pausing to contemplate beginnings, to invite contemplation of a perhaps incisive analogy. The first chapter of the Cours de Linguistique generale offers a quick survey of developments in the language arts. It dwells upon comparative philology: Mais cette ecole, qui a eu le merite incontestable d'ouvrir un champ nouveau et fecond, n'est pas parvenue a constituer la veritable science linguistique. Elle ne s'est jamais preoccupee de degager la nature de son objet d'etude. Or, sans cette operation elementaire, une science est incapable de se faire une methode. I ask myself if the only route to method is through science and a preoccupation with the object of study. Does humanities computing offer a method without objects or rather without objects whose nature has been completed elucidated? Just what is a computable object? The introduction to the Cours de Linguistique generale goes on to describe the principle error of comparative philology as an exclusive focus on comparative rather than on historical relations and to praise the neogrammarians (Junggrammatiker): Grace a eux, on ne vit plus dans la langue un organisme qui se developpe par lui-meme, mais un produit de l'esprit collectif des groups linguistiques. Still work remains... Cependant, si grands que soient les services rendus par cette ecole, on ne peut pas dire qu'ell ait fait la lumiere sur l'ensembel de la question, et aujourd'hui encore les problemes fondamentaux de la linguistique general attendent une solution. And so I return to the computable object. It is compatible to what type of probing? Is it like an organism? Is it a component in a body of evidence? What probabilies does it expose? What niche disclose? These biological terms -- organism, body, niche -- appeal to me because they capture the sociological and cognitive dimensions of digitalwork. They also appeal because of their resonance with emergence and gradual decay. Somewhat like the comparative philogists reconstructing indo-european roots, in a rather poetic grasping, in a most unscientific manner, I am striving to understand a neologism: computible. So much of humanities computing is a training in discerning what is passable, what it is possible to pass through a given machine-process. Its object of study may be compatible with computability without being computable by a given machine-process -- like so many creatures of the wild. Humanities computing involves fieldwork: observing "computing in the wild" (a phrase I came across with gleeful relish in reading Wendell Piez's contributions to the TEI discussion list). This type of fieldwork is the art or participant-observer domain of humanities computing. An other area of activity is the lab. Site of controlled experiment. Its object of study crosses lab and field. Its object of study is mobile. It has the quality of locomotion. What is exposed to computability is not the object in and of itself but one of its phases observed in a site-specific location open to a given machine-process. Back in April 2004, Adrien Miles and Jeremy Yuille composed a creative computing manifesto in which one of the key statements that has inspired this recreation via Saussure is that computer literacy is synonymous with network literacy. I am venturing the suggestion that network literacy deals with "computible" objects. Such objects are indeed computable they are also as often remarked fungible. And yet I am totally unhappy with this ible/able play I have initiated if it doesn't keep in mind that there is a material substratum. The digital technologies allow us to play with faithful copies. Replication is at the heart of the matter. And an ethics in its structure. Yuille and Miles, in the context of their manifesto and from the perspective of teaching students who work with the soft artifacts of the creative industries, place _praxis_ between _knowledge transfer_ and _learning_. Under the rubric of praxis is the following single sentence: "Breaking, gleaning and assembling is a theory of praxis for these literacies." Sure if you are dealing with the breakible copies, the gleanible copies and the assemblible copies -- morphs on the computible. Morphiblia -- the object of study of humanities computing. :) -- Francois Lachance, Scholir-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Visual Computer 22.12 Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:40:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 461 (461) Volume 22 Number 12 of The Visual Computer is now=20 available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Introduction Guest editor=92s introduction Hock Soon Seah Cyberworlds: architecture and modeling by an=20 incrementally modular abstraction hierarchy Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Kenji Ohmori Online and off-line visualization of meeting information and meeting support Anton Nijholt, Rutger Rienks, Job Zwiers, Dennis Reidsma Function-defined shape metamorphoses in visual cyberworlds Qi Liu, Alexei Sourin Storing user experiences in mixed reality using hypermedia Nuno Correia, Luis Romero Adaptable visual presentation of 2D and 3D=20 learning materials in web-based cyberworlds Luca Chittaro, Lucio Ieronutti, Roberto Ranon Cybercampuses: design issues and future directions Ekaterina Prasolova-F=F8rland, Alexei Sourin, Olga Sourina Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: EMLS 12.2 Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:41:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 462 (462) To whom it may concern, The latest issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (12.2) is now available online at http://purl.org/emls/emlshome.html The table of contents follows, below. EMLS invites contributions of critical essays on literary topics and of interdisciplinary studies which centre on literature and literary culture in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Contributions, including critical essays and studies (which should be accompanied by a 250 word abstract), bibliographies, notices, letters, and other materials, may be submitted to the Editor by email at M.Steggle_at_shu.ac.uk or by regular mail to Dr Matthew Steggle, Early Modern Literary Studies, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. As of last month, the main site of EMLS has moved from http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls to http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls. This doesn't affect the official addresses of items in the journal, which still all start http://purl.org/emls; nor does it adversely affect existing citations or hotlinks which begin http:/ www.shu.ac.uk/emls, since all such links redirect seamlessly to the new site; nor does it affect any of the journal's numerous mirrors, archives, and syndicated versions such as those captured by LOCKSS (www.lockss.org). In taking seriously the long-term preservation of its data, EMLS is and intends to remain at the forefront of open-access humanities ejournals. Articles: The Prince of Rays: Spectacular Invisibility in Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Lisa Dickson, University of North British Columbia. "Headdie Ryots" as Reformations: Marlowe's Libertine Poetics. Helga Duncan, Stonehill College. Beggary/Buggery and Oedipal Conflict in Thomas Middleton's The Phoenix. Patrick J. Cook, George Washington University. The Banality of History in Troilus and Cressida. Andrew Griffin, McMaster University. Marketing Luxury at the New Exchange: Jonson's Entertainment at Britain's Burse and the Rhetoric of Wonder. Alison Scott, Macquarie University. Signifying Nothing? A Secondary Analysis of the Claremont Authorship Debates. Gray Scott, University of California, Riverside. 'My Souls Anatomiste': Richard Baxter, Katherine Gell and Letters of the Heart. Alison Searle, Queen Mary, University of London. Reviews: Douglas A. Brooks, ed. Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Alison Searle, Queen Mary, University of London. Arielle Saiber. Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Matthew C. Hansen, Boise State University. Stephen B. Dobranski. Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Katrin Ettenhuber, Christ's College, Cambridge. Verna A. Foster. The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Lucy Munro, Keele University. William M. Hamlin. Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England. Early Modern Literature in History Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Dermot Cavanagh, University of Edinburgh. Gerard Kilroy. Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Jason Scott-Warren, University of Cambridge. Arthur F. Marotti. Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England Notre Dame, Indiana: U of Notre Dame P, 2005. Alison Shell, University of Durham. Charles Martindale and A.B. Taylor, eds. Shakespeare and the Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Nicholas Moschovakis, Reed College. Paola Pugliatti. Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2003. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard, eds. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: Volume 1, the Tragedies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Chris Fitter, Rutgers University at Camden. Richard Wilson. Secret Shakespeare: studies in theatre, religion and resistance. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004. James Ellison, University of Dundee. Reviewing Information and Books Received for Review. Theatre reviews: Review of Cambridge Shakespeare, Summer 2006. Reviewed by Michael Grosvenor Myer. The Course of True Love. Reviewed by Annaliese Connolly, Sheffield Hallam University. Hamlet, presented at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 4 March - 7 May 2006. M. G. Aune, North Dakota State University, and Seth Archer, North Dakota State University. From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Re: 20.336 attracting students? Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:45:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 463 (463) Willard et al, I've been working hard to create and run a humanities computing option (not even as well positioned as a program) at a primarily undergraduate institution for four years now. I know your question is aimed mostly at graduate-level studies, but I wonder if there might be some advantage to all if we could conceive of a multi-institutional model, wherein students here, for example, are guided to take undergraduate courses that will prepare them for, for example, your program at the MA level. You might have a list of preferred majors (criterion A), with a list of other courses they should take (criteria B). If they satisfy criteria A & B, you and we can promise them acceptance into your program. In my experience, a lot of students would jump at the chance to have their student experience last 5 or 6 years instead of 4 or 5, but know that a Bachelors degree that they take longer to complete can be intellectually rewarding but financially inexcusable. I'm not sure this is a workable idea, but thought I'd throw it out for discussion. It seems to me that your school and mine have an extra advantage in that we are in a (painfully) rural setting and you are in an urban setting, and we are in Canada while you're in the UK. This could be potentially attractive to students who want to experience city life, but not yet, and who want to live abroad. As I said, it may not work, but might help start some other lines of discussion. Cheers, Richard http://cunningham.acadiau.ca From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2007: Program On-line Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:42:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 464 (464) Museums and the Web 2007 April 11 - 14, 2007 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ the 11th annual international gathering of the best in culture and heritage on the Web - Preliminary Program Available - http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/sessions/ Full abstracts of all accepted papers, workshops mini-workshops, and interactions are now on the MW2007 Web site, along with biographies of presenters. We owe a vote of thanks to the members of the MW2007 International Program Committee (listed below). They helped us review over 215 submissions, and select the 43 papers, 14 mini-workshops and 4 Professional Forums that make up the core of the MW2007 program. [...] -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2007 produced by April 11 - 14, 2007, San Francisco, CA Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2007_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2007 Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:49:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 465 (465) International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks =AD ICANN 2007 9-13 September 2007, Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal Web page: http://www.icann2007.org 1st Call for Papers The 17th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2007, will be held from September 9 through September 13 at the Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal. ICANN is an annual conference organized by the European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society, and is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2007 welcomes contributions on the theory, algorithms and applications in the following broad areas: -- Computational neuroscience; -- Connectionist cognitive science; -- Data analysis and pattern recognition; -- Graphical network models, Bayesian networks; -- Hardware implementations and embedded systems; -- Intelligent Multimedia and the Semantic Web; -- Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms; -- Neural control, planning and robotics applications; -- Neural dynamics and complex systems; -- Neuroinformatics; -- Real world applications; -- Self-organization; -- Sequential and structured information processing; -- Signal and time series processing, blind source separation; -- Vision and image processing. [...] Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: Brent Nelson Subject: Reminder: deadline for SDH-SEMI conference Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:46:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 466 (466) This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for paper proposals for the SDH-SEMI meetings at Congress 2007, December 15, is fast approaching. See the full CFP at http://www.sdh-semi.org/SDHCallforPaper2007COMPLETE.pdf. Please disseminate freely and widely! This promises to be a memorable Congress. Hope to see you all there. For more information contact: Brent Nelson Conference Committee Chair and Local Coordinator University of Saskatchewan nelson_at_arts.usask.ca or Department of English 9 Campus Dr. Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 -- Dr. Brent Nelson, Assistant Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 From: Willard McCarty Subject: emergence online? Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:10:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 467 (467) After a recent lecture, an historian of chemistry gave me good advice: that someone interested in the relations between the humanities and the sciences should enlarge his scope of vision beyond a history and philosophy of science that, as she said, has been written primarily with physics in mind. Her suggestion was, of course, chemistry as the focus, and she gave me good indication of the rewards that might follow. Later on I ran into a biological anthropologist, Terrence Deacon, who brought biology, specifically evolutionary theory, into view. With a particular passage in mind, I'd like to draw your attention to his essay, "Emergence: The Hole at the Wheel's Hub", in The Re-Emergence of Emergence, ed. Clayton and Davies (Oxford, 2006): 111-50. Deacon begins with the puzzle of how, given the inevitable increase in entropy, we explain the complex adaptive functions of living organisms. He notes that the elimination of all end-directed explanations in modern science has yielded spectacular successes. The greatest triumph, he says, is Darwinian evolution, which gives us the organization of living creatures from preserved chance variation. But a problem remains, one of those problems over in the corner that, once worried, begins to change everything. In this case, it's the problem of positing organisms as mechanisms, like watches, as Darwin does -- because this implies order from the outside, and is very much unlike the way organisms are. The result is a telos ex machina world that shows up the limitations of the machine metaphor. What Deacon does is to direct attention to processes that share some of the features of ends-determining-means logic, looking for a middle ground that avoids dependence on an actual pull from the future while doing more than a push from the past can do. He works out a three-level theory of emergent order, whose parts he calls thermodynamic, morphodynamic and teleodynamic. The argument is quite complex, but the essence of it is that in some systems we can observe chance variation resulting in the reinforcement of a self-maintaining dynamic through which the system develops emergent form. In the highest, teleodynamic kind (characteristic of organisms), the presence of something like memory or information vastly extends the developing system's ability to develop this emergence. What emerges is, as he says, a "least dissonant remainder" after everything that does not fit has been eliminated. Incompleteness and self-realization give us that middle ground. It is at the point at which emergence extends into culture that our practice becomes relevant: [deleted quotation]levels. In [deleted quotation]One would think that as a cultural phenomenon, the Web exhibits properties of emergence that might direct our efforts to deal with its vast messiness. Perhaps PageRank (the algorithmic process at Google's heart) works so well because it depends on emergent patterning behaviours. It directs our attention to how meaning is made by a kind of self-organizing. Perhaps a "semantic web" such as is much talked about is not an emergent entity -- it's hard to see how the online world's buzz of activity will notice your dental appointment or bring a train schedule to the fore. But what does emergence mean for digital libraries? Can we usefully distinguish a third phase in the development of the idea of the library, from private collection (ordered by a single person), to public (ordered for unpredictable access through a published scheme), to a semiotic web of self-forming, multi-dimensional clusters? Are the problems one encounters in constructing a *world-wide* digital library a consequence of being locked into the wrong structural metaphor? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Guizzardi, G. (Giancarlo)" Subject: CFP: Journal of Applied Ontology Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:47:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 468 (468) CALL FOR PAPERS [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] Journal of Applied Ontology: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling http://www.applied-ontology.org/ IOS Press (Editors-in-Chief: Nicola Guarino and Mark A. Musen) Special Issue on **** ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR CONCEPTUAL MODELING **** Expected publication: Winter 2007 Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2007 GUEST EDITORS OF SPECIAL ISSUE Giancarlo Guizzardi, Computer Science Department, UFES, Brazil & Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Trento, Italy Terry Halpin, Neumont University, South Jordan, Utah, USA OBJECTIVES OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role played by formal ontology, and more generally, by areas such as philosophy, logics, cognitive sciences and linguistics in the development of theoretical foundations for conceptual modeling in computer science. As it has been shown in a large number of recent publications, so-called foundational ontologies such as BWW, GFO, DOLCE, UFO, BFO, and Chisholm=92s have been successfully applied to the evaluation of conceptual modeling languages and frameworks (e.g., UML, ORM, ER) and to the development of engineering tools (e.g., methodological guidelines, modeling profiles, design patterns) that contribute to the theory and practice of conceptual modelling. The purpose of this special issue is to collect innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding the role played by the aforementioned areas to the theoretical foundations of conceptual modeling. This issue should be of interest of several academic communities, including those working on database design, requirements engineering, knowledge engineering, enterprise modeling, agent and object orientation, information systems, software engineering (in particular domain engineering), natural-language processing, business rules and model-driven architectures. We thus solicit contributions in several areas related to Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling. Topics of interest include: --Philosophical and Cognitive Foundations for Conceptual Modeling --Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling: Methodologies, Tools, and Case= Studies -- Psychological Experiments Evaluating the Cognitive Adequacy of Conceptual Modeling Primitives --Ontological Analysis of Existing Conceptual Models (including Reference Models) -- Role of Ontology-driven Conceptual Modelling for Semantic= Interoperability -- Ontological Design Patterns -- Linguistic theories and Natural-Language Semantics in Conceptual= Modeling -- Formal Semantics of Conceptual Modeling Languages -- Comparison between existing Foundational Ontologies for the purpose of Conceptual Modeling [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: what (not) to get someone Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:13:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 469 (469) For Christmas, or on any other occasion calling for gifts to be given, and for a person for whom a book would be just right, the cataloguing service www.librarything.com, offers the Unsuggester, www.librarything.com/unsuggester/, to which John Lavagnino has drawn my attention. For any book that at least 75 members of LibraryThing own a copy, the Unsuggester will give you a listing of books least likely to share a library with the one you pick. So, for example, you can ask someone what books they hate, avoiding suspicion that you're angling for gift ideas.... and so forth. Using Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls as my example (313 copies in the members' database) I received a listing of 75 titles. What's interesting about this list is that I can well imagine some individuals in whose library Susann's book -- long ago given to me while I was recovering from a serious operation, and being the only source of distraction in the room I actually read it.... -- is found with the unlikely matches. Interesting thoughts certainly do occur about the complexities of taste. Now if one found Valley of the Dolls next to The Works of Josephus, perhaps one would conclude that the owner of the library was just waiting for you or someone similar to come along and snoop. But next to The Dragonriders of Pern? Rich Dad, Poor Dad? Royal Assassin? The Unsuggester folks have given us some unlikely pairs for encouragement, e.g. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason against Confessions of a Shopaholic, or Ann Brashares' Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants against Michel Houellebecq's Atomised, which is a very interesting conjunction. But those are handpicked from the raw list. Perhaps we require a much larger database. But it does help you think, and perhaps find just the right gift, unless you get lost in thought and so never act. Unfortunately the Unsuggester does nothing with imaginary titles, or I'd enter In Praise of Short Battery Life. 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: Virtual Reality 10.3-4 Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:52:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 470 (470) Volume 10 Number 3-4 of Virtual Reality is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Guest Editorial Nick Hedley "Making it real": exploring the potential of augmented reality for teaching primary school science Lucinda Kerawalla, Rosemary Luckin, Simon Seljeflot, Adrian Woolard Gender differences in spatial navigation in virtual space: implications when using virtual environments in instruction and assessment Shelley P. Ross, Ronald W. Skelton, Sven C. Mueller Applying virtual reality in medical communication education: current findings and potential teaching and learning benefits of immersive virtual patients Benjamin Lok, Richard E. Ferdig, Andrew Raij, Kyle Johnsen, Robert Dickerson, Jade Coutts, Amy Stevens, D. Scott Lind Presence: a unique characteristic in educational virtual environments Tassos A. Mikropoulos Multi-modal virtual environments for education with haptic and olfactory feedback E. Richard, A. Tijou, P. Richard, J.-L. Ferrier The virtual playground: an educational virtual reality environment for evaluating interactivity and conceptual learning Maria Roussou, Martin Oliver, Mel Slater Virtual reality and its role in removing the barriers that turn cognitive impairments into intellectual disability P. J. Standen, D. J. Brown A model of (en)action to approach embodiment: a cornerstone for the design of virtual environments for learning Daniel Mellet-d'Huart The gain and pain in taking the pilot seat: learning dynamics in a non immersive virtual solar system Elhanan Gazit, Yoav Yair, David Chen Virtual realia: maneuverable computer 3D models and their use in learning assembly skills William A. Kealy, Chitra P. Subramaniam The impact of haptic augmentation on middle school students' conceptions of the animal cell James Minogue, M. Gail Jones, Bethany Broadwell, Tom Oppewall Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.46 Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:15:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 471 (471) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 46 December 5, 2006 - December 11, 2006) UBIQUITY ALERT: REFLECTING ON THE PAST In "FORTRAN DAYS," John Stuckey recalls his experiences as an IT administrator at various institutions of higher learning: Carnegie-Mellon, Northeastern, Washington & Lee, and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/reflections/v7i47_fortran.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/reflections/v7i47_fortran.html From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- November 2006 Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:45:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 472 (472) TL INFOBITS November 2006 No. 5 ISSN: Not Yet= Assigned About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. You can read this issue on the Web at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitnov06.php. ...................................................................... Editor's Note: Infobits Issues Now Searchable Laptops Change Students' Work Habits The $100 Laptop Revisited Course Redesign Planning Resources Higher Education IT Best Practices Recommended Reading Infobits RSS Feed ...................................................................... EDITOR'S NOTE: INFOBITS ISSUES NOW SEARCHABLE You can now perform a simple search of all the issues of Infobits by using the search tool at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. Just type a word or phrase in the search box and press the Enter key. ...................................................................... LAPTOPS CHANGE STUDENTS' WORK HABITS "It's not that laptops are good or bad for learning. It depends on how they are used." A two-year study of the use of laptop computers by students in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design "was designed to investigate how students use laptops inside and outside the classroom and how these practices enrich or diminish their university experience. . . . The study examined whether laptops affect the nature of the instructor-to-student or student-to-student interactions in and out of the classroom; how students conduct their out-of-class work in terms of location, time-on-task, and physical and social setting; and the process and quality of student work." Some of the findings of the study showed that while students with laptops may spend more time on assignments, the time is not reflected in higher grades. Students with laptops tended to work more from home and were more likely to work alone. Read more about the study on the Carnegie Mellon website: Press release: http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2006/november/Nov.%2020%20-%20Laptop%20Study= .shtml Draft report of study: http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/LaptopStudyReport-2006.pdf ...................................................................... THE $100 LAPTOP REVISITED In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte announced that beginning in 2006 he would build 100-200 million units of the Hundred-Dollar Laptop, or HDL (http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitaug05.php#7) and distribute them to children across world. According to a November 30, 2006, NEW YORK TIMES article (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/technology/30laptop.html), the projected distribution date is mid-2007 and the projected cost is closer to $150 per computer. Now that the project is nearing realization, detractors (including Intel, which is marketing its own low-cost computer, and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system is not part of the HDL software load) are voicing reservations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#Criticism). See also: "Part I: Philanthropy's New Prototype" By James Surowiecki TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, November 13, 2006 http://www.techreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=3D17722&ch=3Dbiztech One Laptop per Child Video: http://www.technologyreview.com/player/video/video_compact_leader.aspx?id=3D= 336122058 ...................................................................... COURSE REDESIGN PLANNING RESOURCES Using the experience gained from large-scale course redesign projects, the National Center for Academic Transformation has developed a collection of materials to help institutions starting their own course redesign projects. The materials include planning resources, recommended readings, and forms and worksheets. Resources are available online at http://www.thencat.org/R2R/R2R_Planning_Resources.htm. The National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) is an "independent, not-for-profit organization that provides leadership in using information technology to redesign learning environments to produce better learning outcomes for students at a reduced cost to the institution." For more information, contact: The National Center for Academic Transformation, PO Box 5077, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 USA; tel: 518-695-5320; fax: 518-695-5633; email: info_at_theNCAT.org; Web: http://www.thencat.org/. See also: "Formative Evaluation: A Practical Guide" By Lisa Neal ELEARN MAGAZINE, November 20, 2006 http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=3Dtutorials&article=3D25-1 "When designing an online course, countless decisions need to be made if the course is to meet its objectives for the target audience. Formative evaluation provides an easy-to-learn approach for verifying design decisions in order to increase effectiveness." ...................................................................... HIGHER EDUCATION IT BEST PRACTICES The theme for the December issue of CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY is "best practices." Projects from over one hundred colleges and universities around the U.S. are cited as exemplars in the areas of smart classrooms, connectivity, and administrative IT. The complete list is available online at http://campustechnology.com/. 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://campustechnology.com/. ...................................................................... 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. I am pleased to feature as this month's recommended reading a viewpoint article by one of my colleagues in the UNC-Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. "Making a Difference?" By Robert (Bob) G. Henshaw EDUCAUSE Quarterly, no. 4, 2006, pp. 11-13 http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0642.pdf "It is not uncommon today to hear university leaders and students lament higher education's failure to more fully capitalize on its investments in information technology (IT), especially in support of residential instruction. While instructional technology's potential is being realized in isolated pockets of innovation, its impact at the institutional level has been marginal on most campuses. To avoid a similar assessment 10 years from now, what changes must occur? How should instructional technologists--often charged with promoting effective use of IT=97respond to the challenge?" ...................................................................... From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: 2007 SDH/SEMI Award Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:15:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 473 (473) Dear Humanists, The Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs are pleased to announce the 2007 Award for Outstanding Achievement for Computing in the Arts and Humanities has been a awarded to Jean-guy Meunier. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell (English to follow) SEMI/SDH Prix 2007 Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs / Society for Digital Humanities 10 décembre 2006 La SEMI/SDH, principale association canadienne de chercheurs dans le domaine des arts et des lettres en mode numérique, vient de rendre public le récipiendaire de son prix pour réalisations exceptionnelles dans ce domaine. Le prix 2007 est attribué ŕ Jean-Guy Meunier, professeur au Département de philosophie ŕ l’Université du Québec ŕ Montréal. Cette distinction est accordée annuellement depuis 2003. Les récipiendaires antérieurs sont Willard McCarty, Jean-Claude Guédon, Ian Lancashire, Paul Fortier, Elaine Nardocchio et, derničrement, Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, et Isobel Grundy du Projet Orlando. Le prix honore ceux et celles qui ont fait une contribution significative en matičre d’informatique appliquée aux arts et lettres, ou dans la mise en place de réseaux. Jean-Guy Meunier a été retenu ŕ l’unanimité pour son exceptionnelle contribution au domaine. Au cours d’une carričre remarquable, Meunier a travaillé avec succčs sur les aspects contextuels de la lecture et de l’analyse de texte assistée par ordinateur (CARAT), en contribuant ŕ en faire un domaine de recherche en soi. L’approche de Meunier se distingue notamment par le fait qu’elle prend en compte et intčgre, non seulement les dimensions techniques essentielles d’un domaine en évolution rapide, ainsi que les aspects théoriques et méthodologiques qui évoluent tout aussi rapidement, mais aussi le contexte plus général fourni par une longue tradition de réflexion philosophique sur notre compréhension des rapports entre le langage et la pensée. Geoffrey Rockwell (président), Ray Siemens, et Christian Vandendorpe du Comité du prix de la SDH/SEMI. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------- SDH/SEMI Award 2007 Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs December 10th, 2006 SDH/SEMI, the leading academic society in Canada in the field of digital humanities, has awarded its 2007 Award for Outstanding Achievement for Computing in the Arts and Humanities to Jean-Guy Meunier of the Département de philosophie at Université du Québec ŕ Montréal. This award has been presented annually since 2003. Previous recipients include Willard McCarty, Jean-Claude Guédon, Ian Lancashire, Paul Fortier, Elaine Nardocchio and, most recently Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy of the Orlando Project. The award acknowledges those who have made a significant contribution to computing in the arts and humanities whether theoretical, applied, or in the area of community building. Meunier was selected unanimously for his exceptional contributions to the field. Over a notable career, Meunier has worked with significant success on the contexts and pragmatics relating to determining what underlies the computer-assisted reading and analysis of text (CARAT), playing an integral part himself in establishing CARAT as an area of inquiry unto itself. Most notable and highly commendable in Meunier's approach is that it is so widely informed -- not only by essential and quickly-evolving computational matters, as well as the immediately-associated and equally evolving theory and methodology, but, also, by the long tradition of philosophical thought associated with our understanding of language and mind. Geoffrey Rockwell (chair), Ray Siemens, and Christian Vandendorpe of the Award Committee of SDH/SEMI From: Willard McCarty Subject: 2006 Lyman Award lecture Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:27:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 474 (474) [sent on behalf of Phillip Barron, pbarron_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us] Dear fellow Humanists, As most of you are well aware, Willard McCarty was the recipient of the 2006 Richard W. Lyman award, which recognizes scholars who have advanced scholarship of both the humanities and technology. In November of this year, Willard flew out to the National Humanities Center to deliver the Lyman Award lecture. You can view the lecture at the National Humanities Center's website. http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/newsrel2006/prmccartywebcast.htm More about the Lyman Award: The Richard W. Lyman Award recognizes scholars who have advanced humanistic scholarship and teaching through the innovative use of information technology. The award may recognize work that creates new knowledge in some domain of the humanities; that embodies technological innovation that has broad application in scholarship and teaching; that addresses social, cultural, and/or economic issues in the creation and dissemination of scholarly work in the contemporary world; and/or work that uses technology in new ways to bring the results of humanistic scholarship to student and public audiences. In recent years, scholars in the classics, English and American literature, history, and other humanistic disciplines have increasingly used information technology to make available facsimiles of rare manuscripts; to archive, index, and annotate literary, artistic, and scholarly materials; to link text, visual images, and sound in new ways; and to create new social arrangements that will bring scholars and students together to blur the boundaries between learning, teaching, and research. The National Humanities Center presents the Lyman Award to individuals and teams who break new ground by exploiting information technology toward these ends. The award honors Richard W. Lyman, who was president of Stanford University from 1970­80 and of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1980­ 88, and is made possible through the generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation. Each recipient receives a prize of $25,000. -- Phillip Barron Digital Media Producer pbarron_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us National Humanities Center 7 Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:12:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 475 (475) and Promotion Dear Willard, Humanists concerned about digital scholarship and tenure will like the new report from the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion. http://www.mla.org/tenure_promotion The Executive Summary reports, "Even more troubling is the state of evaluation for digital scholarship, now an extensively used resource for scholars across the humanities: 40.8% of departments in doctorate-granting institutions report no experience evaluating refereed articles in electronic format, and 65.7% report no experience evaluating monographs in electronic format. (p. 3)" The 4th recommendation of the report is that, "Departments and institutions should recognize the legitimacy of scholarship produced in new media, whether by individuals or in collaboration, and create procedures for evaluating these forms of scholarship. (p. 3)" Bravo! As Scott Jaschik puts it in a story on "Rethinking Tenure - And Much More" (http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/12/08/mla>), departments should' "Accept "the legitimacy of scholarship produced in new media," ending the assumption that print is necessarily better. (And to the extent that some professors and departments don't know how to evaluate quality in new media, "the onus is on the department" to learn, not on the scholar using new media, Stanton said.)" Donna Stanton chaired the MLA task force and provided the briefing for the quote. Yours, Geoffrey R. From: "Christian Sturm" Subject: CfP: IWIPS 2007 - The 9th International Workshop on Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:16:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 476 (476) Internationalisation of Prodcuts and Systems ********************************************************************** 2nd Call for papers ********************************************************************** IWIPS 2007 9th International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems 28th - 30th of June, 2007 Merida, Mexico www.iwips2007.org ********************************************************************** Deadline: 31rst of January, 2007 ********************************************************************** NOTE: The conference location has changed from Oaxaca to Merida What is IWIPS? ************** IWIPS is an interdisciplinary forum of professionals from industry, academia and government working on issues related to globalisation and localisation of products and systems. It is unique in that it appeals to a variety of delegates working in various areas of internationalisation, supporting the effective transfer of information and technology to different cultures, countries and markets. IWIPS is organized by the non-profit organisation Product & Systems Internationalisation, Inc. (P & SI), which is based in the United States (EIN 38-3653207). www.iwips.org. Submission topics ***************** Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Business and academic perspectives on the topic of internationalisation and localisation. - The influence of culture on user requirements and behaviour. - Networked communities: Culture and Computer Mediated Communication. - Addressing the cultural divide: Can technology overcome cultural boundaries? - Mobile devices: Issues concerning international and local use. - Adaptive interfaces: Adapting for culture. - Methodologies and best practices in international product development beyond translation. - Cross-cultural user research: Findings and innovative methods. - Theory, methods, and assessment techniques for international product and system evaluation. [...]=20 From: Fomi Subject: FOMI 2006 call for participation Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:20:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 477 (477) *********************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Second International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi December 14-15, 2006 University of Trento ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized by: - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento - University of Trento - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi ******************************************************** Following the great success of the previous edition, we are glad to invite you to attend the second Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop (FOMI 2006). Information about registration, accommodation and traveling is now available on our website: http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi [...] From: "cec2007" Subject: IEEE CEC 2007 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:22:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 478 (478) IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) September 25-28, 2007 Swiss=F4tel The Stamford, Singapore Website: http://www.cec2007.org CALL FOR PAPERS We would like to invite you to attend the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and co-sponsored by the Evolutionary Programming Society and the IET, the CEC 2007 will be held in Singapore, September 25-28, 2007. The annual IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation is one of the leading events in the area of evolutionary computation. It covers all topics in evolutionary computation, including, but not limited to: * Ant colony optimization * Artificial immune systems * Artificial life * Autonomous mental & behavior development * Bioinformatics & bioengineering * Coevolution & collective behavior * Cognitive systems & applications * Combinatorial & numerical optimization * Computational finance & economics * Constraint & uncertainty handling * Evolutionary data mining * Evolutionary design * Evolutionary games * Evolutionary intelligent agents * Evolutionary learning systems * Evolutionary robotic & control systems * Evolvable hardware & software * Evolving neural networks & fuzzy systems * Memetic & hybrid algorithms * Molecular & quantum computing * Multiobjective optimization * Particle swarm-intelligence * Real-world applications * Representation & operators * Theory of evolutionary computation CEC 2007 will feature a world-class conference that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionary computation and computational intelligence from all around the globe. Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass keynote speeches, over 30 special sessions, over 10 tutorials and workshops, panel discussions as well as poster presentations. On top of these, participants will be treated to a series of social functions, receptions and networking sessions, which will serve as a vital channel to establish new connections and foster everlasting friendship among fellow counterparts. [...] From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: New Media Poetics and Poetry Chat Transcripts Avalable! Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:11:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 479 (479) Please feel free to distribute this widely. Dear Colleague: It is with great pleasure we announce the success of the the *New Media Poetics and Poetry Discussion and Live Chat Forum*. The Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD) accompanies selected Special Issues. A live chat session with authors/artists and a moderated discussion list for readers to engage with authors. Access the Sandy Baldwin's overview and live chats with authors/artists at: http://leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/nmp/index.asp **Moderator's Note* * :: Discussion, as in dispersion, setting free, and shaking http://leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/nmp/cbaldwin.asp by Sandy Baldwin **LEAD Chat Transcripts** :: John Cayley http://leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/nmp/jcayley.asp 9 Oct 2006 @ 1400hrs EST :: Loss Glazier http://leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/nmp/lglazier.asp 10 Oct 2006 @ 1900hrs EST :: MEZ http://leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/nmp/mez.asp 17 Oct 2006 @ 0300hrs EST :: Stephanie Strickland http://leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/nmp/sstrickland.asp 20 Oct 2006 @ 1300hrs EST :: Manuel Portela http://leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/nmp/mportela.asp 23 Oct 2006 @ 1600hrs EST :: Jason Nelson http://leoalmanac.org/resources/lead/nmp/jnelson.asp 24 Oct 2006 @ 1300hrs EST What is the **LEA New Media Poetics* *Special? Guest edited by Tim Peterson, the issue features Loss Pequeo Glazier, John Cayley with Dimitri Lemmerman, Lori Emerson, Phillippe Bootz, Manuel Portela, Stephanie Strickland, Mez, Maria Engberg and Matthias Hillner. Don't forget to scurry over to the equally exciting gallery, exhibiting works by Jason Nelson, Aya Karpinska, Daniel Canazon Howe, mIEKAL aND, CamillE BacoS, Nadine Hilbert and Gast Bouschet. View *archives* of the LEA New Media Poetics Discussion Forum: http://groups.google.com/group/leanmp *About the moderator* Sandy Baldwin (Ph.D , New York University) is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University. warm rgds nisar keshvani editor in chief, Leonardo Electronic Almanac: http://leoalmanac.org From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.48 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:21:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 480 (480) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 48 December 12, 2006 - December 18, 2006) UBIQUITY ALERT: Mobile IP: Enabling User Mobility This review paper gives a brief insight about Mobile IP, its features and entities constituting a Mobile IP environment. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i48_mobileip.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i48_mobileip.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: Firth's semi-Aesopian aphorism Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:54:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 481 (481) For the benefit of those who like to use the British linguist's famous aphorism, "You shall know a word by the company it keeps!", I can confirm these as the exact words and the precise bibliographical reference: Firth, J. R. 1957. "A Synopsis of Lingistic Theory, 1930-1955". In Studies in Linguistic Analysis. Special volume of the Philological Society. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Firth's aphorism is quoted in many places, often not accurately, frequently without a citation to the source, and that sometimes incorrectly. But I've tracked it to its lair and have the lair's address, so one source of anxiety is no more. Firth was alluding, of course, to a sentence from wisdom literature, e.g. in Aesop's "The Ass and its Purchaser", which is an instance of an ancient legal notion, noscitur e sociis. (If anyone has a reference to the legal side of this matter, please do let me know.) Firth gives it an interesting twist, however. Aesop's fable is all about discovering the real nature of someone by seeing who his mates are. Firth is talking about meaning evoked from possibilities by collocation -- the sort of thing a parent might say to his or her teenage offspring, fearing contamination. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Knowledge Management position in SLIS at U of Alberta Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:14:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 482 (482) The School of Library and Information Studies is advertising a new position in the general area of Knowledge Management. Specifically, the School is looking for expertise in either strategic or technical aspects of KM such as: * strategic information management or systems * competitive intelligence * intellectual capital and asset management * knowledge discovery, e.g. data and text mining, knowledge visualization We look forward to preliminary interviews at ALISE on Wednesday, January 17th. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2007. Qualified candidates should hold a doctoral degree in LIS or a related area and must demonstrate a commitment to research and teaching. Effective interpersonal skills for participation in a collegial academic environment are essential. The salary range for this position is commensurate with experience at the level of Assistant Professor. Applicants should send a brief statement of teaching and research interests, curriculum vitae, a sample of published work, and the names and contact information for three referees to: Anna E. Altmann, Director, School of Library and Information Studies, Room 3-20 Rutherford South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J4, anna.altmann_at_ualberta.ca The review of applications will begin February 1, 2007, and will continue until the position is filled. For the full advertisement please go to the University of Alberta's website at http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Opportunities/index.aspx?Page=47&CompNo=1120 Anna E. Altmann, Director School of Library and Information Studies 3-20 Rutherford South University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2J4 (780) 492-3932; fax: (780) 492-2430 anna.altmann_at_ualberta.ca From: AHRC ICT Methods Network Subject: AHRC ICT Methods Network, call for funding applications Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:19:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 483 (483) Apply for Funding from the AHRC ICT Methods Network - Final Call - Deadline 31 December 2006 This is the final call for applications for the current round of AHRC ICT METHODS NETWORK activities funding =AD DEADLINE 31 DECEMBER 2006 The AHRC ICT Methods Network invites the arts and humanities Higher Education community in the UK to submit proposals for Methods Network activities. Activities may include workshops, seminars, focused workgroups, postgraduate training events and publications. The Methods Network is keen to support both single and cross-disciplinary proposals and those that encourage new collaborative frameworks between technical specialists and arts and humanities scholars. The primary emphasis is on the use and reuse of digital resources. Proposals for hybrid activities such as workshop/seminar/workgroup combinations are also welcomed, as are proposals for any other activity which falls within the Methods Network remit to support and promote the uses of advanced ICT methods in academic research. Funding of up to =A35000 is available for workshops and hybrid activities. Workshops provide training in advanced ICT methods for community members within academic institutions. They engage with issues such as: formal methods in analysis of source data and the creation of technical models; working with multiple technologies; and other matters of vital practical interest to the community. Funding of up to =A32000 is available for seminars. These may concentrate= on highly-defined topics of interest and also problem areas within the community or may have a more general focus. For information on eligibility and how to apply for funding see the Methods Network website (www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk). For further information about submitting a proposal contact Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk). Forthcoming and Ongoing Methods Network Funded Activities We welcome applications from individuals who would like to attend Methods Network workshops and seminars, but must emphasise that registration is essential for these activities. Participants are also expected to make an active contribution to the activity. Occasionally a Methods Network event will be by invitation only, but all resulting materials, including (where appropriate) podcasts, wikis, training workbooks, reports and publications will be made freely available to the community via the Methods Network website. All enquiries about registration for the Methods Network activities listed below should be sent by email to methnet_at_kcl.ac.uk. For further information about the following activities see the Methods Network website. Visualization and Remote Sensing for the Arts and Humanities: An Access Grid Support Network - A workshop organized by Vince Gaffney, Institute for Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham (October 2006 =AD= October 2007). Advanced Technologies for Collaborative Performance - A workshop run by Alan Blackwell, Computer Laboratory, University of=20 Cambridge (20 =AD 21 December 2006). Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities (SOCH) - A workshop jointly organized by the EPSRC Service-Oriented Software Research Network. (SOSoRNet) and the AHRC ICT Methods Network, Kings College London. (18-19 December 2006). Approaches to the Forensic Investigation of Primary Textual Materials - A workshop run by Andrew Prescott, Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield (January 2007). Theoretical Approaches to Virtual Representations of Past Environments - A workshop run by Kate Devlin, Goldsmiths College, University of London (March 2007). New Protocols for Electroacoustic Music Analysis - A workshop run by Leigh Landy, De Montfort University, Leicester (12 June 2007). Recent activities sponsored by the Methods Network Technical Innovation in Art Historical Research: Opportunities and Problems - A seminar run by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, The Courtauld Institute of Art and King's Visualization Lab, CCH, King's College, London and Tim Benton, Open University (20 November 2006). Film, Visualization, Narrative - A seminar run by Adam Ganz, Royal Holloway, University of London (17 November 2006). Open Source Critical Editions - A workshop run by Juan Garces, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King=92s College, London (22 September 2006). Development of Skills in Advanced Text Encoding with TEI P5 - A workshop run by Lou Burnard, Sebastian Rahtz and James Cummings, Oxford University (18-20 September 2006). The Future of Information Technology in Music Research and Practice - A workshop run by Dave Meredith, Goldsmiths College, University of London (8 September 2006). Historical Text Mining - A workshop organized by Paul Rayson, Lancaster University and Dawn Archer, University of Central Lancashire (20-21 July= 2006). Digital Restoration for Damaged Documents - A workshop organized by Julia Craig-McFeely, DIAMM, Royal Holloway, University of London (29 June 2006). Large-Scale Manuscript Digitization - A workshop organized by Peter Robinson, Institute of Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, Birmingham University and Marilyn Deegan, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, (5 June 2006). Corpus Approaches to the Language of Literature - A workshop organized by the Oxford Text Archive, Oxford University (17-18 May 2006). Digital Visibility: A Workshop on Neglected Digital Resources - A workshop co-sponsored with the LAIRAH project at University College London (26 April 2006). Making 3D Visual Research Outcomes Transparent - A symposium co-sponsored by the Methods Network, King's Visualization Lab, and PIN, Prato, Italy/EPOCH (23-25 February 2006). =20 From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 20.340 attracting students Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:13:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 484 (484) Richard Cunningham's idea sounds exciting. Innovative solutions make sense to people like me who want to gravitate in the humanities direction in mid-life. I'm currently doing a Masters in English at the university where I work as an ed-tech coordinator and have an M.Sc. in Applied Computing. I am also a novelist. Part time is the best I could do but I would be very interested in finding ways to be involved in research or projects that combined scholarly goals and computing expertise. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) All About Amel fansite (http://www.allamel.co.nr) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 07:47:43 +0000, willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU wrote: [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) All About Amel fansite (http://www.allamel.co.nr) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: December 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:21:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 485 (485) Greetings: The December 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains three articles, an opinion piece, three conference reports, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month's featured collection is "The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online" contributed by John van Wyhe, University of Cambridge. The articles include: Using the Audit Checklist for the Certification of a Trusted Digital Repository as a Framework for Evaluating Repository Software Applications: A Progress Report Joanne Kaczmarek, Patricia Hswe, Janet Eke, and Thomas G. Habing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Digital Library as Network and Community Center: A Successful Model for Contribution and Use Cathryn A. Manduca, Sean Fox, and Ellen R. Iverson, Carleton College The Melvyl Recommender Project: Developing Library Recommendation Services Colleen Whitney and Lisa Schiff, California Digital Library The opinion is: Jean-Noel Jeanneney's Critique of Google: Private Sector Book Digitization and Digital Library Policy David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics The conference reports include: Snapshots of the National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting: October 18 - 20, 2006, Washington, DC Brad Edmondson, ePodunk.com, and Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IPRES 2006 Conference Report: Digital Preservation Takes Off in the E-Environment Cindy Boeke, The American Society for Cell Biology From: Willard McCarty Subject: Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland online Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:22:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 486 (486) Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland online - free access: <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en>www.cesg.unifr.ch - high resolution digital images: over 52'000 facsimile pages - regularly updated: now 131 complete manuscripts - manuscript descriptions and many search options - accessible in <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/de>German, <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/fr>French, <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en>English and <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/it>Italian Please recommend it to your colleagues and put a link to CESG on your homepage. CESG - Codices Electronici Sangallenses Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ From: TEI by example Subject: TEI by example: CALL FOR EXAMPLES Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:20:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 487 (487) The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) <http://www.kantl.be/ctb/> of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/> of King's College London, and the School for Library, Archive, and Information Studies (SLAIS) <http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/> of University College London, are involved in the joint project "TEI by Example". Featuring freely available online tutorials walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org>), these online tutorials will provide examples for users of all levels. Examples will be provided of different document types, with varying degrees in the granularity of markup, to provide a useful teaching and reference aid for those involved in the marking up of texts. Eight tutorial modules will address a wide range of issues in text encoding with TEI: 1. Introduction to text encoding with TEI 2. The TEI header 3. Prose 4. Poetry 5. Drama 6. Manuscript Transcription 7. Scholarly Editing 8. Customizing TEI, ODD, Roma To build as much as possible on available sources of existing practice in the field and to be able to present a broad view on the wide variety of encoding practices, we warmly welcome you to contribute TEI-encoded examples (either fragments or complete texts) that are applicable to any of these subjects. Examples are preferably encoded as TEI P5 XML texts, but also texts encoded in TEI P4 XML, other XML formats, or other (documented) electronic formats are of interest. Even examples of less-ideal encoding practices are welcome, since the idea of learning by error is a valuable didactic principle. Please do provide some indication of the errors or controversies in such examples when appropriate. After selection and editing, the example fragments will be incorporated in the freely available online deliverables, which will be issued under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives licence (see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/>). All contributors will be credited. The examples can be sent (preferably compressed in .zip format and with an indication of applicability and credits due) to teibyexample_at_kantl.be. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any inquiries regarding copyright issues or any more general issues. Kind regards, The project team: Ron Van den Branden, Melissa Terras, Edward Vanhoutte From: Peter Arthur Subject: Second Call for Papers: PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:04:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 488 (488) First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Vancouver, July 11- 13, 2007 WEBSITE: http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/493 The Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University is pleased to announce that the first international PKP conference will be held from July 11-13, 2007 in Vancouver. The conference will provide opportunities for those involved in the organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies (such as Open Journal Systems) can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale. The conference will appeal to all those with an interest in the future of scholarly publishing community: software developers and technical support specialists; journal publishers, editors, and staff; librarians; and researchers in scholarly publishing. CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract Deadline (required): January 15, 2007 Paper and PowerPoint Submission (desired but not required for public posting): July 1, 2007 This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public Knowledge Project, enables participants to submit abstracts online at http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/submit.php. Presentations can include: -- Single papers (abstract max of 500 words) -- Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) Call for Papers Announcement The conference stream for those involved in the practices and study of journal publishing will focus on the following themes and topics: * Scholarly publishing in developing countries; * Open access and the academy: reforming and opening the peer review process, implications for academic freedom; * New journals, new models: the how and why of starting a new journal, new economic models for old journals, encouraging open data and related practices; * Promotion and growth: building readership, authorship, and reviewership; open access is public access - challenges and benefits; * Improving the features and design of publishing software The conference stream for librarians and information specialists will focus on the following themes and topics: * The role of libraries in supporting and developing emerging or alternate forms of scholarly communication, e.g., the library as publisher, implications for collections budgets and policies; * Incorporating and supporting open access publications as part of current collections and related services; * Using PKP software and related open source tools in libraries, e.g., =93best practices=94 or case studies. The conference stream for open source software developers and other technical experts working with PKP software will address the following: * Understanding and working with PKP software and its plug-in architecture; * Building a PKP developers -- community including software contributions and collaborative projects; * PKP software development priorities and plans. Peter Arthur peter.arthur_at_ubc.ca From: Enrico Franconi Subject: European MSc in Computational Logic - scholarships available Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:04:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 489 (489) *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.computational-logic.eu The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (FUB), in Italy (at the heart of the Dolomites mountains in South-Tyrol), is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer (Laurea Specialistica). The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is an international distributed Master of Science course, in cooperation with the computer science departments in the following universities: * Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria * Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain This program, completely in English, involves studying one year at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and possibly completing the second year with a stay in one of the partner universities. After this, the student will obtain, together with the European degree, two Master of Science degrees: the Laurea Specialistica degree from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, with legal value in Italy, and the respective Master of Science degree from the visited university, with legal value in its country. APPLICATION DEADLINES: - * 10 FEBRUARY 2007 *: deadline for non-European students requesting an Erasmus Mundus scholarship (notification of acceptance: 10 March 2007) - 15 June 2007: deadline for all European and non-European students (notification of acceptance: 15 July 2007) - 24 August 2007: last deadline only for European students starting at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (notification of acceptance: 10 September 2007) ** NOTE **: 10 FEBRUARY 2007 is the final deadline for requesting an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for non-European students! SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: In 2007 the European Masters Program in Computational Logic will offer several new Erasmus Mundus scholarships for non-European citizens (in 2004, 2005 and 2006 more than 50 Erasmus Mundus scholarships were given). Each scholarship for each student amounts to 21,000 EUR per academic year; this includes 10 monthly grants of 1,600 EUR and a fixed amount of 5,000 EUR for fees, travel expenses, relocation costs, etc. The 10th of February 2007 is the final deadline for requesting an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for non-European students. European citizens or non-European citizens with residence in Italy can apply to scholarships which are granted purely on the basis of the yearly income of the applicant and of her/his parents or husband/wife. Scholarships amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, including facilities on the accommodation and total reimbursement of the enrolment fees. The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano has a tuition-waiver budget for reimbursing the total tuition/enrolment fees to all the applicants studying in Bozen-Bolzano and who do not have already a scholarship; so, applicants studying in Bozen-Bolzano are entitled not to pay any tuition/enrolment fees. Check the web page for detailed info on applications and scholarships: http://www.computational-logic.eu THE STUDY PROGRAMME: The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in this rapidly growing area. Based on a solid foundation in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and declarative programming students will acquire in-depth knowledge necessary to specify, implement and run complex systems as well as to prove properties of these systems. In particular, the focus of instruction will be in deduction systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, formal specification and verification, syntax directed semantics, logic and automata theory, logic and computability. This basic knowledge is then applied to areas like logic and natural language processing, logic and the semantic web, bioinformatics, information systems and database technology, software and hardware verification. Students will acquire practical experience and will become familiar in the use of tools within these applications. In addition, students will be prepared for a future PhD, they will come in contact with the international research community and will be integrated into ongoing research projects. They will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea triennale) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is part of the Master in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica in Informatica) and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Italian and European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * Other specialisations with streams in the hottest Computer Science areas, such as Web Technologies, Information and Knowledge Management, Databases and Software Engineering. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is one of the few European Masters awarded by the European Union's Erasmus Mundus programme from its first year of existence in 2004. The Erasmus Mundus programme is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education which promotes the European Union as a centre of excellence in learning around the world. It supports European top-quality Masters Courses and enhances the visibility and attractiveness of European higher education in third-countries. It also provides EU-funded scholarships for third-country nationals participating in these Masters Courses, as well as scholarships for EU-nationals studying in third-countries. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is sponsored scientifically by the European Network of Excellence on Computational Logic (CoLogNET), the European Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), the Italian Association for Informatics (AICA, member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications (AILA), and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, founded in 1997, boasts modern premises in the centre of Bozen-Bolzano. The environment is multilingual, South Tyrol being a region where three languages are spoken: German, Italian and Ladin. Studying in a multilingual area has shown that our students acquire the cutting edge needed in the international business world. Many of our teaching staff hails from abroad. Normal lectures are complemented with seminars, work placements and laboratory work, which give our students a vocational as well as theoretical training, preparing them for their subsequent professional careers. Studying at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano means, first and foremost, being guided all the way through the student's educational career. Bozen-Bolzano, due to its enviable geographical position in the centre of the Dolomites, also offers our students a multitude of opportunities for spending their free-time. The city unites the traditional with the modern. Young people and fashionable shops throng the city centre where ancient mercantile buildings are an attractive backdrop to a city that is in continual growth. To the south there is the industrial and manufacturing area with prosperous small and medium-sized businesses active in every economic sector. Back in the 17th century Bozen-Bolzano was already a flourishing mercantile city that, thanks to its particular geographic position, functioned as a kind of bridge between northern and southern Europe. As a multilingual town and a cultural centre Bozen-Bolzano still has a lot to offer today. Its plethora of theatres, concerts with special programmes, cinemas and museums, combined with a series of trendy night spots that create local colour make Bozen-Bolzano a city that is beginning to cater for its increasingly demanding student population. And if you fancy a very special experience, go and visit the city's favourite and most famous resident - "Oetzi", the Ice Man of Similaun, housed in his very own refrigerated room in the recently opened archaeological museum. Bozen-Bolzano and its surroundings are an El Dorado for sports lovers: jogging on the grass alongside the River Talfer-Talvera, walks to Jenesien-S.Genesio and on the nearby Schlern-Sciliar plateau, excursions and mountain climbing in the Dolomites, swimming in the numerous nearby lakes and, last but not least, skiing and snowboarding in the surrounding ski areas. FURTHER INFORMATION: Prof. Enrico Franconi at info_at_fub.computational-logic.eu European Masters Program in Computational Logic Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Domenicani, 3 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy Phone: +39 0471 016 000 Fax: +39 0461 173 9006 Email: info_at_fub.computational-logic.eu Web site: http://www.computational-logic.eu From: Willard McCarty Subject: puzzled by the Evangelium Longum & by the Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:03:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 490 (490) Astronomical Clock of Pacificus of Verona After spending an inordinate amount of time looking at the Codices Electronici Sangallenses recommended by Dr McCarty, I have two questions that are going to be the end of me. The first regards the cover of the Evangelium Longum. Out of all the encrusted stones, one is different, it appears to me to be an intaglio. Why? I can't believe because it was close by and some fellow simply picked it up. The second involves the illustration of the Astronomical Clock of Pacificus of Verona...what is that instrument in his hand? Thank you, Jean J. M. Shepherd Charlotte, North Carolina Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "FOCA_at_ESSLLI" Subject: Special issue of ''Applied Ontology'' Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:32:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 491 (491) PLEASE NOTICE: DEADLINE EXTENDED!!!! ************************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions January 19, 2007 Notification March 19, 2007 Camera-ready May 18, 2007 Special Issue Winter 2007 ************************************************************************ CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ************************************************************************ Following FOCA, workshop held at ESSLLI from July 31 to August 4, 2006 (http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/): Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents, special issue for the journal Applied Ontology (http://www.applied-ontology.org/) ************************************************************************ GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Roberta Ferrario, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento (Italy) (ferrario at loa-cnr.it) Laurent Prevot, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (prevotlaurent at gate.sinica.edu.tw) ************************************************************************ PURPOSE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE : Following the workshop "Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents" that took place within the last ESSLLI summer school in Malaga, we would like to invite contributions for a special issue of the international journal ''Applied Ontology''. We especially invite the authors of the paper presented at FOCA 2006 to submit an extended version of their contribution. However, anyone is invited to submit a relevant contribution for the topic of the special issue described below. ************************************************************************ DESCRIPTION: In recent years lots of efforts have been devoted to formal studies of human and artificial agent communication. Research advancements have been achieved along three main lines: (i) agent's internal states and dynamics, (ii) social interaction and conventional communicative patterns, (iii) semantics-pragmatics interface - especially in the dialogue context (i.e. the interplay between the semantic content of messages and the communicative acts themselves). There is a recent trend of studies trying to integrate these approaches in many ways. On the other hand, formal ontology has been consecrated as a good solution for comparing and integrating information and thus its application to this specific domain is very promising . More precisely, an ontological analysis of the fundamental ingredients of interaction and communication will make explicit the hidden ontological assumptions underlying all these proposals. Ontology has also proven to be a very powerful means to address issues related to the exchange of meaningful communication across autonomous entities, which can organize and use information heterogeneously. The purpose of this special issue is therefore to gather contributions that (i) take seriously into account the ontological aspects of communication and interaction and (ii) use formal ontologies for achieving a better semantic coordination between interacting and communicating agents. ************************************************************************ MAIN TOPICS: We encourage contributions concerning the two main areas listed below with a particular attention to explore the interplay between ontological analysis and its applications in practical cases. * Ontological aspects of interaction and communication - Ontological analysis of interaction and communication - Studies on the structure and coherence of interaction - Logical models for communicative acts - Primitives of interaction and communication - Formal semantics of dialogue (dealing with ontological issues) *Semantic coordination through formal ontologies - Dialogue semantics and formal ontology - Dynamic ontology sharing - Ontological primitives for meaning negotiation, ontological alignment and semantic interoperability - Ontology evolution through communication - Concrete problems and experiences in terminological disambiguation and integration ************************************************************************ ABOUT THE JOURNAL: Although a formal contribution is not an absolute requirement for contributing to Applied Ontology, the contributors should keep in mind the aim and scope of Applied Ontology, an interdisciplinary journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling. Applied Ontology is a new journal whose focus is on information content in its broadest sense. As the subtitle makes clear, two broad kinds of content-based research activities are envisioned: ontological analysis and conceptual modeling. The former includes any attempt to investigate the nature and structure of a domain of interest using rigorous philosophical or logical tools; the latter concerns the cognitive and linguistic structures we use to model the world, as well as the various analysis tools and methodologies we adopt for producing useful computational models, such as information systems schemes or knowledge structures. Applied Ontology is the first journal with explicit and exclusive focus on ontological analysis and conceptual modeling under an interdisciplinary view. It aims to establish a unique niche in the realm of scientific journals by carefully avoiding unnecessary duplication with discipline-oriented journals. For this reason, authors will be encouraged to use language that will be intelligible also to those outside their specific sector of expertise, and the review process will be tailored to this end. For example, authors of theoretical contributions will be encouraged to show the relevance of their theory for applications, while authors of more technological papers will be encouraged to show the relevance of a well-founded theoretical perspective. Moreover, the journal will publish papers focusing on representation languages or algorithms only where these address relevant content issues, whether at the level of practical application or of theoretical understanding. Similarly, it will publish descriptions of tools or implemented systems only where a contribution to the practice of ontological analysis and conceptual modeling is clearly established. ************************************************************************ SUBMISSION DETAILS: Submissions, that will undergo a peer-reviewing process, must be sent electronically through the journal's website (http://www.applied-ontology.org/) by the deadline listed below. Detailed instructions for authors are available from the same website. From: TEI by example Subject: TEI by example: CALL FOR EXAMPLES, revised license Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:30:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 492 (492) All, [======================================================================] | A fruitful discussion following our initial call for examples on the | | TEI-L mailing list [1] informed us that the initially proposed | | license scheme for the tutorials was inadequate for our purposes. | | Therefore, we decided to adopt a more liberal Creative Commons | | Attribution ShareAlike license | | (<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/>). | [======================================================================] | In order to avoid confusion, here follows a revised call for examples| [======================================================================] The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) <http://www.kantl.be/ctb/> of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/> of King's College London, and the School for Library, Archive, and Information Studies (SLAIS) <http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/> of University College London, are involved in the joint project "TEI by Example". Featuring freely available online tutorials walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org>), these online tutorials will provide examples for users of all levels. Examples will be provided of different document types, with varying degrees in the granularity of markup, to provide a useful teaching and reference aid for those involved in the marking up of texts. Eight tutorial modules will address a wide range of issues in text encoding with TEI: 1. Introduction to text encoding with TEI 2. The TEI header 3. Prose 4. Poetry 5. Drama 6. Manuscript Transcription 7. Scholarly Editing 8. Customizing TEI, ODD, Roma To build as much as possible on available sources of existing practice in the field and to be able to present a broad view on the wide variety of encoding practices, we warmly welcome you to contribute TEI-encoded examples (either fragments or complete texts) that are applicable to any of these subjects. Examples are preferably encoded as TEI P5 XML texts, but also texts encoded in TEI P4 XML, other XML formats, or other (documented) electronic formats are of interest. Even examples of less-ideal encoding practices are welcome, since the idea of learning by error is a valuable didactic principle. Please do provide some indication of the errors or controversies in such examples when appropriate. After selection and editing, the example fragments will be incorporated in the freely available online deliverables, which will be issued under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license (see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/>). 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The Committee is especially interested in proposals that explore the applicability of Peirce's thought to current questions and problems in various disciplines. The conference will include special sessions on Peirce and * logic * abductive reasoning * communication and rhetoric Other suitable topics include the use and applicability of Peirce's thought in * contemporary philosophical debates * mathematics * artificial intelligence * cognitive science * linguistics * literary studies * the study of fine arts and design * physics * biology * psychology * sociology * anthropology Keynote and plenary speakers include Nathan Houser (Peirce Edition Project, IUPUI) and Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University). In addition to contributed papers, the Conference will include invited talks, special sessions and a workshop on the editing of Peirce's writings. SUBMISSION DETAILS Deadline for abstracts of 300-500 words is 15 February 2007. Submissions are made electronically by email attachment to peirce-research_at_helsinki.fi, and must include two files: * A file titled Abstract, including the title and abstract of the paper, set up for anonymous review. * A separate file titled Author including the title and author information, including email address. Please include a note on any AV= needs you may have in this file. The file formats .pdf, .rtf and .doc are preferable. You will be sent a confirmation note after your submission has been received. If you have not received a confirmation in seven days after your submission, please= resend, if possible, using an alternative email address. All persons making a submission will be notified of the acceptance to the Conference program by 31 March 2007. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Vincent Colapietro (Chair) Andr=E9 De Tienne Leila Haaparanta Risto Hilpinen Robert Innis J=F8rgen Dines Johansen Lorenzo Magnani Cheryl Misak Ilkka Niiniluoto Jaime Nubiola Mar=EDa Lucia Santaella John Sowa ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Chair) Henrik Rydenfelt (Secretary) Merja Bauters Mats Bergman Erkki Kilpinen Tarja Knuuttila Pentti M=E4=E4tt=E4nen Sami Paavola Sami Pihlstr=F6m The conference is arranged by the Helsinki Peirce Research Centre and sponsored by the Charles S. Peirce Society and the Philosophical Society= of Finland. For more information, please email to= peirce-research_at_helsinki.fi. Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Department of Philosophy; P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014; University of Helsinki; Finland). From: Michael Fraser Subject: Job: Intute: Arts and Humanities Manager Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:18:01 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 494 (494) From http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/intute.xml Service Manager (part-time, 0.5 FTE) Intute: Arts and Humanities Grade 8 Salary: 32,471 - 38,772 The Research Technologies Service at Oxford University Computing Services is seeking to appoint a Service Manager for the Intute: Arts and Humanities subject group, a key part of the national Intute online resource discovery service (http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/). Intute: Arts and Humanities assists the higher and further education communities to find and evaluate Internet resources for teaching and research within the arts and humanities. The service, working in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University and a distributed network of subject experts, provides an online database of websites, tutorials, featured collections, and a news service. The Service Manager provides team leadership for the group, controls the annual budget, develops and maintains partnerships within the humanities communities, contributes to strategic development, and represents the service to local and national organisations. The successful candidate will be educated to postgraduate level, have excellent team management and communications skills and be able to apply these to running a distributed, national online service. A good understanding of the resource discovery requirements of the arts and humanities academic community is essential. Printed further details of the jobs and application forms are available from: The Personnel Office, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, tel: 01865-283289, email: recruitment_at_oucs.ox.ac.uk Alternatively you can download further details and an application form from the main jobs page (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/). Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 19th January 2007. Interviews will be held at the beginning of February 2007 --- Dr Michael Fraser Co-ordinator, Research Technologies Service Director, Intute: Arts and Humanities 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.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/ From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 66, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:29:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 495 (495) Version 66 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,830 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. The SEPB URL has changed: http://sepb.digital-scholarship.org/ or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html There is a mirror site at: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepb.html The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog URL has also changed: http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/ or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm There is a mirror site at: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm The SEPW RSS feed is unaffected. 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* 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 searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the HTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/ http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://sepr.digital-scholarship.org/ (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The 2005 annual PDF file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 210 pages long. The PDF file is over 560 KB. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/60/sepb.pdf 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. E-Mail: cwbailey_at_digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others.) From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.49 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:29:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 496 (496) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 49 December 19, 2006 - December 27, 2006) UBIQUITY ALERT: A LIFE WITH COMPUTERS Responding to Ubiquity Associate Editor John Stuckey's essay on his early experiences in computing, Dick Swenson reflects on his life with computers. Swenson says, "I have now retired, but I maintain an avid interest in computing. My general feeling is that little of real significance has changed in the human aspects of the profession, though of course, the engineering changes have been huge. People just take longer to change, I guess." <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/reflections/v7i49_memoir.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/reflections/v7i49_memoir.html From: Fomi Subject: Networks 6 now online Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:33:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 497 (497) E' online il numero 6 di Networks dedicato all'ontologia e curato da Roberta Ferrario e Margherita Benzi. The Issue nr.6 of the electronic journal "Networks", edited by Margherita Benzi and Roberta Ferrario is now online. http://lgxserve.ciseca.uniba.it/lei/ai/networks/ =========== CONTRIBUTI: =========== *MARGHERITA BENZI, ROBERTA FERRARIO: Introduzione (Italiano) *ROBERTA DE MONTICELLI: Subjectivity and Essential Individuality - A Dialogue with Peter Van Inwagen and Lynne Baker (English) *MAURIZIO FERRARIS: Ontologia sociale e Documentalitŕ (Italiano) *EMANUELE BOTTAZZI, ROBERTA FERRARIO: Primi elementi di una DOLCE ontologia delle organizzazioni (Italiano) *ROBERTA CUEL: Le ontologie in azienda come strumento di coordinamento (Italiano) *MATTEO BALDONI, GUIDO BOELLA, LEENDERT VAN DER TORRE: I fondamenti ontologici dei linguaggi di programmazione orientati agli oggetti: i casi delle relazioni e dei ruoli (Italiano) *RICHARD DAVIES: Come fare cose con le cose: un esercizio di ontologia ingenua (Italiano) *BARRY SMITH : Ontologia e sistemi informativi (Italiano) From: textodigital_at_cce.ufsc.br Subject: Texto Digital Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:36:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 498 (498) Prezados, Vimos divulgar o lançamento do terceiro número da Revista Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288), no endereço http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Publicada apenas em formato eletrônico, essa revista é um espaço destinado ŕ publicaçăo de textos (artigos científicos, palestras, etc) cuja temática envolva a Literatura e o Texto no Meio Digital, assim como as implicaçőes de escrita, leitura, ensino e aprendizagem, que esse suporte proporciona. Dear Friends, The third number of Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288) has been released at the address http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Published only in electronic format, this magazine means to be a space for publishing texts (scientific articles, lectures, etc) who’s thematic regard Literature and Texts in the Digital Medium, also the implications of writing, reading, teaching and learning provided by this digital support. Chers amis, Le troisičme numéro de Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288) vient de paraître, ŕ l’adresse http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Cettte revue, qui n’est publié qu’en version numérique, sur le web, propose un espace de publication en ligne ouvert ŕ des travaux portant sur la littérature et et les textes dans le numérique, ainsi que l’écriture, la lecture et l’apprentissage de littérature ŕ l’aide des ordinateurs. Amigos, Venimos a divulgar el número 3 de la revista Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288), en la dirección http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Publicada solamente en formato electrónico, esa revista es un espacio para publicación de textos (artículos científicos, ponencias, etc.) acerca de la literatura y de los textos en el medio digital, y también las implicaciones de escrita, lectura, enseńanza y aprendizaje en ese medio. Att. Comissăo Editorial da Revista Texto Digital Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Centro de Comunicaçăo e Expressăo Núcleo de Pesquisas em Informática, Literatura e Lingüística Prédio B - Sala 509 Telefone(48) 3331-6590 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Software and Systems Modelling 5.4 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:41:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 499 (499) Volume 5 Number 4 of Software & Systems Modeling is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Editorial Five years of modeling in SoSyM Robert France, Bernhard Rumpe MDI: A Rule-based Multi-document and Tool Integration Approach Alexander Königs, Andy Schürr Matters of (Meta-) Modeling Thomas Kühne More matters on (meta-)modelling: remarks on Thomas Kühne’s “matters” Wolfgang Hesse Clarifying matters of (meta-) modeling: an author’s reply Thomas Kühne Integration of DFDs into a UML-based Model-driven Engineering Approach Joăo M. Fernandes, Johan Lilius, Dragos Truscan UML specification of access control policies and their formal verification Manuel Koch, Francesco Parisi-Presicce TURTLE-P: a UML profile for the formal validation of critical and distributed systems Ludovic Apvrille, Pierre Saqui-Sannes, Ferhat Khendek Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: good cheer for your solsticial hibernatory Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:26:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 500 (500) Dear colleagues, In the Oxford English Dictionary there is one recorded instance of the word "hibernatory" -- not an adjective, as I had hoped, but a noun meaning "A place for keeping plants in during the winter", used in 1852, in Beck's Florist. I thought I had been feeling rather hibernatory, but now, respecting grammar, can do no better than to be "hibernal", namely, "1. Of, pertaining to, or proper to winter; appearing in winter.... 2. fig. Pertaining to the winter of life; late." The former is supported by 4 quotations (including one from Sir Thomas Browne), the latter merely by one, and that from a mid-19C sermon -- reason enough for me to prefer being wintry in the seasonal sense only, my study a hibernatory and I a flowering plant lovingly carried in doors for the winter. In this one instance I won't hold with figuration -- [deleted quotation]"Save breed". Here is a powerful, profligate force of nature. But figuratively is our concern. A great scholar whom I count as friend compared publication of a book of his to dropping a rose petal into a deep canyon and waiting for the splash. I know what he means, but the splash is none of our concern -- except when we get splattered from the impact of someone else's rose petal. Then we really should write to the spasher and say thanks. Again I quote Terrence Deacon: [deleted quotation]or Shakespeare's near contemporary, Basho (1644-94), [deleted quotation]But back to the OED. The lesson about "hibernatory", as it happens, curiously coincides with a discovery, via a review in the Times Literary Supplement (for 15 December, p. 36), of the persistent delusion known as "hollow earth". In the book under review, David Standish's Hollow Earth: The long and curious history of imagining strange lands, fantastical creatures, advanced civilizations, and marvellous machines beneath the Earth's surface (Oxford: Da Capo), the author recounts the dream-vision of one Cyrus Teed in 1869. "As he dreamed, God appeared in the form of a beautiful woman.... Gently, God explained, we do not live, as mankind had previously believed, on the exterior of the globe, but rather on its inner concave surface, kept from tumbling into the depths by centrifugal force." (Teed's story is a fascinating one -- he founded a commune in Florida and had at one time more than 200 followers -- but for more on it, you'll have to get the book, or at minimum read the review, at http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25549-2501663,00.html.) The reviewer, Jon Barnes, being not unaware of the Internet, concludes his article by noting that its "clammier reaches... have proved fertile ground for similar speculation". He claims 12 million hits via Google for "hollow earth". I get only 1, 690,000 -- but even this smaller number is true only if one omits the quotation marks; with them one gets, as of now, a mere 275,000. Thus the Internet is, in fact, only 2.275% as fertile for hollow-earth nutters as he says, or at least the kind who stick to the exact phrase, as they tend to do in their "pugnacious dreaminess". When, o when, will the the TLS and similar high-profile publications start asking those who actually know how to use the tools? (In oracular practice world-wide, has it been the case generally that a skilled intermediary stands between the person with the question and the source of the oracular pronouncement? So much depends -- I suppose always has depended -- on how the question is put, what part of the oracle bone is put into the fire etc.) I must admit more than a little sympathy for Teed's vision, feeling strongly inclined to imagine myself in a cozy cosmic hibernatory -- with broadband, of course -- rather than on the surface of a whirling ball, however apparently stationary. Nothing but dark, cold, mostly empty space out there. Enough of the dark and cold here -- and, here in London, dense fog. Being inside my own hibernatory, with my thoughts and my computer, I catch myself now wondering, thanks to a pointed question from Jan Christoph Meister: what, exactly, is data? Ok, "that which has been given" -- but by whom? "That which has been given" leaves us with the impression of a comforting finality, a nothing-but-the-facts-ma'm simplicity and purity -- as if God were the immediate giver of the data-horse into whose mouth one need not look. But not so. If I want to compute my Christmas tree, say, or (a seemingly easier case) a book of carols, I need to render them "as data", which means, among other things, deciding what concerning them I will ignore, what I will pay attention to and then how I will translate the chosen ones into digital form. So, I am the giver of "that which has been given" as well as the receiver -- and (here's the rub) because of that, the gift is subjectively delimited even if not subjectively interpenetrated with (meta)data. In humanities computing at least, giver and receiver talk to each other and discover that some aspects of the Christmas tree or the carols have been omitted or are significantly warped in the digitization, which then leads to interesting questions about how we know this or that about Christmas trees and carols. But, in such an epistemologically rich comparison, what's being compared? Two views of something, both reductions, both interpretative. We create both ruler and ruled, so what can we possibly learn? You'll perhaps tell me that it's time to settle down on the sofa with whisky and Wittgenstein. I have both but can communicate only the latter. His Philosophical Investigations, not entirely oracularly opened to the neighbourhood of Satz 100 and following (again thanks to Chris Meister), give me 114: "One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing's nature over and over again, and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it." Gregory Bateson is also good on such occasions. Quoting Alfred Korzybski's famous aphorism, "The map is not the territory", he writes in "Form, Substance and Difference" (Steps to an Ecology of Mind, pp. 460-1), [deleted quotation]Fortunately for us, with our practical bent, such things, like those rose petals, are of the mind. So they get into us and are there, working away in our "rational unconscious" (for which see Helmholtz's 1877 essay, "On the sensations of tone"; Daston, "Řrsted and the rational unconscious", in Brain and Knudsen, forthcoming), working their magic. Or so I hope, since we need it badly! Wait until January, please, to take a close look at your institution of supposed "higher education". For now, sip and muse and be fortified. To the whisky, Wittgenstein, family and friends! All the best, from me to you, inner warmth and inner light as well as the outward kind, for Christmas (in 4 or 17 days), Hanukkah, Eid Al-Adha and all the rest. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Gerhard Brey Subject: Re: 20.358 puzzled by the Evangelium Longum & by Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:34:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 501 (501) the Astronomical Clock of Pacificus of Verona The Astronomical Clock is supposed to be a Horologium Nocturnum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_(instrument) There is an article by Joachim Wiesenbach about this clock and this illustration in: Butzer, P.L.; Lohrmann, D. (Eds.): Science in Western and Eastern Civilization in Carolingian Times. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhaeuser Verlag, 1993. Pp. 605. ISBN 3-7643-2863-0 In the manuscript the area of the circle was cut out after the text on this page and the verso was written. Gerhard -- *********************************************************** Gerhard Brey / Centre for Computing in the Humanities Kay House / 7 Arundel Street / London / WC2R 3DX / England email: gerhard.brey_at_kcl.ac.uk / gerhard.brey_at_gmail.com tel.: +44 (0)20 7848 1493 On Mon December 18 2006 06:08, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Poesis and Praxis 4.4 Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:20:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 502 (502) Volume 4 Number 4 of Poiesis & Praxis is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Manned space travel as a cultural mission Carl Friedrich Gethmann Scientific autonomy and planned research: the case of space science Torsten Wilholt Erkundung und Erforschung: Alexander von Humboldts Amerikareise Eberhard Knobloch Modern technology as a denaturalizing force Robert Albin Is informatics a design discipline? Peter Purgathofer Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: getting in touch, 27-30 December Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:24:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 503 (503) Anyone wishing to get in touch with me by e-mail from 27-30 December, inclusive, should write to me at the following address: willard[at]mccarty[dot]me[dot]uk. The equipment at this end of my usual College address will not be functioning for the next few days. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: ruy_at_cin.ufpe.br Subject: WoLLIC'2007 - 2nd CFP Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:16:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 504 (504) Call for Papers 14th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC'2007) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 2-5, 2007 WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The Fourteenth WoLLIC will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 2 to July 5, 2007, and sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2007/instructions.html A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 23, and the full paper by March 2 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 13, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by April 27 (firm date). PROCEEDINGS Proceedings, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting. Publication venue: Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. INVITED SPEAKERS: Veronique Cortier (LORIA Nancy) Martin Escardo (Birmingham) Georg Gottlob (Oxford) Achim Jung (Birmingham) Louis Kauffman (U Illinois Chicago) Sam Lomonaco (U Maryland Baltimore) Paulo Oliva (London/QM) John Reif (Duke) Yde Venema (Amsterdam) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC'2007 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant (deadline: April 1, 2007). See www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details. IMPORTANT DATES February 23, 2007: Paper title and abstract deadline March 2, 2007: Full paper deadline (firm) April 12, 2007: Author notification April 26, 2007: Final version deadline (firm) [...] WEB PAGE www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2007 --- Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Paulius V. Subacius" Subject: ESTS Conference 2007 Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:17:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 505 (505) Textual scholarship and THE canon the fourth international conference of the ESTS at Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania 22-24 November, 2007 Call for Papers The conference website:= <http://www.ests.flf.vu.lt/>http://www.ests.flf.vu.lt Textual Scholarship is mostly concerned with authors and texts which belong to a cultural canon, but at the same time it is also engaged in the formation and reformation of that canon itself. Most of the stages and aspects of the emergence of the canon is directly related to the issues of transmission, editing, publication, and dissemination of the texts =96 the issues that are also crucial to Textual Scholarship. The literary canon of the Western European nations was influenced by the old tradition of editing Classical, Biblical, and Patristic literature in which canonization is an everlasting question. In respect to this, the canon of the nations of Central and East Europe developed relatively late in the context of the mass dissemination of books and of modern philology. Both comparisons and analyses of the models of interaction between those literatures are promising. The notion of the canon is one aspect among others in which Textual Scholarship is impacted by the theories that call into question hierarchies of value, as well as by the new media that influence the way canon and the modes of its existence are viewed. On the other hand, electronic editing and especially internet publishing are important factors in terms of the reformed or the reforming canon, insofar as they change the nature and scope of the accessibility of literary works and of their particular versions. The different nature of literary works held to be the pride of national literature was important in determining the differences between the Anglo-Saxon, German, French, and other schools of Textual Scholarship. At the same time one should raise the question as to how the different emphasis of these schools on certain aspects of the texts and their distinct editorial strategies could have helped to focus the attention of the reading public on certain authors and works in exclusion of others. Controversies regarding =91canonical texts=92, its synonyms or euphemisms (=91standard text=92, =91stable text=92 etc.) and antonyms (=91polytext=92, =91multiple text=92, =91fluctuating text=92) also attest that the issue of canon is relevant for discussions in the field of Scholarly= Editing. Textual Scholarship, just as any other area of scholarship, has a canon of its own, which underwent major upheavals in the recent decades. It also has its own =91canonised=92 scholars, scholarly works, and the evolution within the canon. Establishment of the most novel tendencies in this area is also a worthwhile goal. Finally, the discussion of the concept of CANON itself, its scope and application in the context of Textual Scholarship seems to be a meaningful undertaking in its own= right. Topics for discussion may include, but are not limited to: * =91We are what we read=92 =96 but you read what we edit: Textual Scholarship and the reading public * The impact of Textual Scholarship on the canon of national literature (and vice versa). * Issue of canonical edition * Un-canonical editions of canonical works * Notion of canon and the new media: Textual Scholarship approach * The canon and the canonised within Textual Scholarship * Methods in Textual Scholarship: between national schools and international canon * Textual Scholarship and the CANON Organizers: The European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), Vilnius University, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Please send inquiries and proposals for 20-minute papers (abstracts of 300=96350 words) by 15 April, 2007 to the Programme Chair Prof. Michael Stolz: michael.stolz_at_germ.unibe.ch , Cc: Paulius Subačius: pvsu_at_takas.lt , using "ESTS proposal" as the subject line in your email. Proposals may also be sent to: Prof. Michael Stolz Institut für Germanistik Länggass-Strasse 49 Postfach CH-3000 Bern 9 Switzerland Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 66, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:15:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 506 (506) Version 66 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,830 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. The SEPB URL has changed: http://sepb.digital-scholarship.org/ or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html There is a mirror site at: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepb.html The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog URL has also changed: http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/ or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm There is a mirror site at: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm The SEPW RSS feed is unaffected. 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* 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 searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the HTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/ http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://sepr.digital-scholarship.org/ (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The 2005 annual PDF file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 210 pages long. The PDF file is over 560 KB. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/60/sepb.pdf 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. E-Mail: cwbailey_at_digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others.) Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Paul Scifleet" Subject: Markup Analysis Project (MAP) - Invitation to Participate Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:18:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 507 (507) Invitation to participate in the Markup Analysis Project, Text Encoding Initiative Survey 2006-2007 Dear colleagues I'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in the Markup Analysis Project. The project is a markup usage study and survey, undertaken by the Information Policy & Practice Research Group at the University of Sydney, Australia, that has been designed to further our understanding of the use of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines in scholarly communication and electronic publishing. Although there are a large and growing number of TEI practitioners involved in digital library, e-publishing and scholarly communication projects, to date very few studies have focussed on a community wide study that explores our understanding of electronic text encoding at an aggregate or shared level of experience for most practitioners. Our aim here is to do just that. The project combines a survey of practitioners (questionnaire) with a content analysis of the documents that are encoded (through a study of tag usage). You will be invited to complete the posted questionnaire and contribute encoded text for markup analysis. We have anticipated that many responses will require a richer explanation than can be achieved in a questionnaire and we would also like to follow through with an interview (by phone or online) following the preliminary analysis. All up this study will take about three hours of your time across an extended period. We have scheduled the study to commence in December 2006 and close at the end of March 2007. We hope you will find the time to participate in all parts of this important study. By reporting back on our findings to the community we are aiming to support a wider understanding of practice. All publicly registered TEI projects listed at http://www.tei-c.org have been sent an Invitation to participate and a Project survey package by air mail (that includes reply paid post envelops). All project documentation is also available from the project website: http://ipprg.econ.usyd.edu.au/projects/map . A pdf-form version of the questionnaire will be available soon from the project website shortly for those who prefer to complete and return an electronic version. All electronic texts submitted for this study will be used only for the purposes set out in the study and will not be made accessible over the Internet, reproduced or published in any form. All rights and permissions relating to works held by custodial institutions will be respected at all times. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. With your help, this study will achieve its aim for a clearer understanding of digital content development that will support the ongoing work of all practitioners. If you would like to participate in this study, are not currently listed on the TEI project list, or have changed address and contact details since your listing please contact me at any time to join the study. Yours sincerely Paul Scifleet Paul Scifleet Research Coordinator Markup Analysis Project Information Policy & Practice Research Group p.scifleet_at_econ.usyd.edu.au Room 406/Building H69 The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Phone: +61 2 9036 6238 Fax: +61 2 9351 6638 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: help locate utility Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:15:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 508 (508) Willard, The following excerpt put me in mind of some of the discussions about the value of learning to program and the place of services in field. I thought it would appeal to a few of the subscribers of Humanist. The passage is fictional but very functional for its truth value. Pat Cadigan Tea from an Empty Cup (1998) p. 167 The guitar-player smiled. "What you want is simple. All you had to do was state it in the proper place at the proper moment. In the proper form, of course. That's just elementary programming." "Programming," Konstantin said, giving a short, not terribly merry laugh. "I should have known. You're the locator utility and the help utility, aren't you?" "Avatar of both, but yeah, that's about what it comes down to," he said agreeably. "And I only had to ask." "[...] The usual players don't want anything so simple. The usual players come down here to look for the secret subroutine to the Next Big Scene, or even the mythical Out Door. Then my job becomes something different. Then my job is to give them a little thrill here and there, play to their curiosities and their fondest wishes and desires, without actually promising anything impossible to deliver." "But still making them spend more billable hours." "The more hours people spend in here doing complicated things, the more interesting the Sitty becomes for everyone." "Why don't you just tell people that, then? [...]" "It's not my job to explain the business plan. It's my job to answer questions. I can only answer what I know. [...] I'm a utility avatar, I wasn't created to determine whether my universe is finite or not." From: Willard McCarty Subject: New Year's greeting Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:10:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 509 (509) Dear colleagues, Ordinarily I don't send a New Year's greeting to round out the hopeful banging of pots in the night and the muttering of resolutions the next morning. But a kind gift of a URL brought into my computer the collected works of John Stuart Mill (from http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/Author.php?recordID=0172), and so his "Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews". It seemed to me, reading Mill's words, that at least this particular looking into the past would be a far better way of resolving for the future than a futile swearing off of delights. It seems to me that we have sworn off, or rather tragically let slip, the very qualities of a university that delighted Mill as he formally took up his honourary duties. These are the subject of the following paragraph. No more his "tolerably general agreement about what a University is not". The more we widen access, as we have been widening it, the poorer we get. The relationship between Mill's 19th-century England and the ideal he articulates is complex, which I take to mean neither non-existant nor deterministic. The masculine pronoun is there to remind us that we have made social progress in some respects, and few, none here, would argue that a monopoly of men in Victorian higher education had a causal relationship to its admirable qualities. Dickensian visions, in movies resurrected for Christmas, have recently reminded us that Victorian lower education could be very low indeed. But still the past, Mill's past, makes for the finest sort of resolution that we should rebuild what is being torn down, don't you think? So, to the inspiring words: [deleted quotation]All the best for 2007! Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:12:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 510 (510) 31.4 (December 2006) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 31.4 (December 2006) Editorial Cattermole, Howard pp. 289-289(1) Isaac Newton and the mystery of the major sixth: a transcription of his manuscript 'Of Musick' with commentary Pesic, Peter pp. 291-306(16) Physics and music in nineteenth-century Prussia: Wilhelm Eduard Weber and precision measurement Jackson, Myles W. pp. 307-322(16) Listening to machines: industrial noise, hearing loss and the cultural meaning of sound Bijsterveld, Karin pp. 323-337(15) The death and life of digital audio Sterne, Jonathan pp. 338-348(11) Sounds sequential: sonification in the social sciences Daye, Christian; de Campo, Alberto pp. 349-364(16) Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Carlos Areces Subject: ASAI 2007 - IX Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:21:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 511 (511) CALL FOR PAPERS ASAI 2007 - IX Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence Mar del Plata, Argentina - August 27-28, 2007 Website: http://www.exa.unicen.edu.ar/asai2007/ Introduction ASAI, the Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, is an annual event intended to be the main forum of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community in Argentina. The symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers and AI community members to discuss and exchange ideas and experiences on diverse topics of AI. Previous ASAI editions stimulated presentations on both applications of AI and new tools and foundations currently under development. The Ninth Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ASAI 2007) will be held during August 27-28 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. ASAI 2007 will be part of the 36th JAIIO, the 36th Argentine Meetings on Informatics and Operations Research organized by SADIO, the Argentine Society for Informatics and Operations Research. Topics of particular interest include (without being limited to): - AI Development, Tools and Methodologies - AI Foundations (Philosophy, Epistemology, Economics, etc.) - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Evolutionary Computation - Human-Computer Interaction - Hybrid Systems (Fuzzy, Evolutionary, Neural, Symbolic, etc.) - Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Education, Internet, Law, Music, etc.) - Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - Intelligent Information Retrieval - Knowledge Engineering - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Machine Learning - Natural Language Processing - Planning and Scheduling - Robotics [...] Contact For further information, please send an e-mail to: asai2007_at_exa.unicen.edu.ar or visit: http://www.exa.unicen.edu.ar/asai2007/ ================================================================== Carlos Areces phone : +33 (0)3 54 95 84 90 INRIA Researcher fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 e-mail: carlos.areces_at_loria.fr INRIA Lorraine. www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces Equipe LED - Batiment B 615, rue du Jardin Botanique 54600 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.1 Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:14:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 512 (512) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 1 January 4, 2007 - January 15, 2007) UBIQUITY ALERT: WHAT IF THE EXPERTS ARE WRONG? DENISE CARUSO INTERVENES In her important new book, Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet, Caruso takes a critical look at the risks to society presented by innovation and technology. Commenting on this work, Peter G. Neumann recently wrote in RISKS DIGEST: "Although Denise's book might seem to be less computer related than many other topics discussed in RISKS, I think there are many problems and lessons to be learned from what we have in common. It is important for everyone to see that these problems are generic and relevant to essentially all technologies, not just computer systems." A well-known figure in computer circles, Denise Caruso is a seasoned technology analyst and journalist, and was the Digital Commerce columnist for the New York Times before confounding and serving as executive director for the Hybrid Vigor Institute, a not-for-profit research and consulting practice. One focus of the Institute is the development of new methods for assessing the risks of innovations in science and technology. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i01_chapter.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i01_chapter.html From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: cfp: Internet Research 8.0 Let's Play Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:14:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 513 (513) [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Methods Network seminar 7 March Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:18:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 514 (514) THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO VIRTUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF PAST ENVIRONMENTS **Please note this seminar will be held on 7 March 2007** A seminar run by Kate Devlin, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Computer graphics have become a popular way of interpreting past environments, for educational and entertainment value, and also as an aid to research, but they are not subject to the same scrutiny that text invites. Without supporting data to indicate the motivations for particular representations of data, the images may merely be one subjective picture of the past. Something that proves particularly difficult when creating 3D computer-generated representations of past environments is how to provide context of an intangible nature, such as a social, temporal or even emotional interaction with the representation. For example, many representations are sterile, empty spaces, devoid of the people who would have built and used them. We need to look at ways that allow us to convey the information outside of the physical structure of a scene. This seminar will address the issues above and other questions including: Why are virtual representations being created and are they really being used? How do we reconcile the work of computer scientists with the work of archaeologists? How do we introduce non-visual and intangible elements to our representations? For more information about the seminar visit http:// www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/ The AHRC ICT Methods Network exists to promote and support the application of advanced ICT methods in the arts and humanities. Please see the Methods Network website for details about further activities that are being run by, or in conjunction with, the Methods Network. The Methods Network funds seminars, workshops and other activities which demonstrate the impact on and value to arts and humanities research of advanced ICT methods. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: John Unsworth Subject: Companion to Digital Humanities online Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:34:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 515 (515) I'm pleased to announce that the complete text of _A Companion to Digital Humanities_, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) is now freely available online, at http:// www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ -- please forward this announcement to other lists and communities who may be interested in the news. Thanks very much to Blackwell for agreeing to this arrangement, and to Jonathan Gorman of the UIUC libraries (and the UIUC Gradaute School of Library and Information Science) for modifying XTF (from the California Digital Library) so that it works with the Blackwell DTD. The editors encourage you to consider buying the paperback when it comes out in the fall of 2007. Also, if you spot typos or other errors in the text, please send them to John Unsworth unsworth_at_uiuc.edu From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Save the Date! May 2-3 MITH/ELO Symposium on the Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:49:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 516 (516) Future of Electronic Literature MITH and the Electronic Literature Organization are pleased to announce a public symposium on the Future of Electronic Literature, May 2 and 3 at the University of Maryland, College Park, with co-sponsorship from the University Libraries and Department of English. The keynote speakers will be KATE HAYLES (John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature at UCLA) and KENNETH THIBODEAU (Director of Electronic Records Archives Program, National Archives and Records Administration). In addition to the keynotes and associated panels, we are planning an electronic literature slam on the evening of May 2. A number of ELO Board members and other writers and artists will be in attendance; watch this Web site for more details: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/elo2007/ In the meantime save the date! Best, Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Mark Rankin Subject: history of the book seminar Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:55:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 517 (517) John N. King and James K. Bracken of The Ohio State University will direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on continuity and change in the production, dissemination, and reading of Western European books during the 250 years following the advent of printing with movable type. In particular, they plan to pose the governing question of whether the advent of printing was a necessary precondition for the Protestant Reformation. This seminar will also explore the related problem of whether the impact of printing was revolutionary or evolutionary. Employing key methods of the still-emerging interdisciplinary field of the History of the Book, our investigation will consider how the physical nature of books affected ways in which readers understood and assimilated their intellectual contents. This program is geared to meet the needs of teacher-scholars interested in the literary, political, or cultural history of the Renaissa nce and/or Reformation, the History of the Book, art history, women's studies, religious studies, bibliography, print culture, library science (including would-be rare book librarians), mass communication, literacy studies, and more. This seminar will meet from 18 June until 20 July 2007. During the first week of this program, we shall visit Antwerp, Belgium, in order to draw on resources including the Plantin-Moretus Museum. It preserves the world's only surviving early modern printing and publishing house. During four weeks in Oxford, where we shall reside at St. Edmund Hall, we plan to draw on the resources of the Bodleian Library and other institutions. In addition, we shall make an overnight trip to London in order to visit other rare book collections. Those eligible to apply include citizens of USA who are engaged in teaching at the college or university level and independent scholars who have received the terminal degree in their field (usually the Ph.D.). In addition, non-US citizens who have taught and lived in the USA for at least three years prior to March 2007 are eligible to apply. NEH will provide participants with a stipend of $3,600. Full details and application information are available at http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/king2/Reformationofthebook/. For further information, please contact rankin.86_at_osu.edu. The application deadline is March 1, 2007. From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar tomorrow: John Lavagnino on digital Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:04:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 518 (518) Tomorrow at 5.30 pm Dr John Lavagnino, Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing at King's College London, will talk on "Metaphors of Digital and Analogue" in the The London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, NG14 (North Block), Senate House, Malet Street, London. All are cordially welcome. For more information on the series, see http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/, Seminars, London Seminar. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Ken Ladd Subject: Fwd: Indigenous Studies Portal Team Leader position Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:20:14 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 519 (519) Saskatchewan To: CACUL-L_at_LISTSERV.UNB.CA Hello Everyone: I would appreciate it if you could bring the attached posting to the attention of interested librarians. Apologies for cross-postings. Ken Ken Ladd (ken.ladd_at_usask.ca) Associate Dean University of Saskatchewan Library (306) 966-5946 (306) 966-5932 fax ----- University of Saskatchewan Library Indigenous Studies Portal Team Leader The University of Saskatchewan Library invites applications for the position of Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) Team Leader. Working closely with the iPortal Technical Leader, the Team Leader will be responsible for leadership of the iPortal initiatives on and off campus, development of collections, and management of the iPortal team. Within the Library's organizational structure, the Team Leader reports to the Head of the Research Services Division. This organizational structure is currently under review. The Library is committed to establishing the best portal in Canada for the discovery and presentation of relevant scholarly resources for indigenous studies. The iPortal will serve as a community-building resource for faculty, staff and students who are active in this area. The iPortal will aggregate resources and services in support of First Nations/Aboriginal scholarship and teaching, provide innovative tools for scholarship and collaborative activities, present links to existing scholarship, and provide scholarly resources in digital form. Desired Core Competencies: Demonstrates a knowledge of information management; exhibits leadership skills including critical thinking, risk taking, and creativity; establishes relationships at all levels and across department and functional lines to achieve optimum results; demonstrates a strong commitment to excellent customer service; looks for opportunities to apply new and evolving ideas, methods, design and technologies; responds to changes in direction and priorities and accepts new challenges, responsibilities and assignments; earns trust and respect of others by coaching, inspiring, and empowering teams of people to achieve strategic objectives. Specific Responsibilities: __ iPortal planning, including: budgeting, staffing, promotion and marketing, grant application and fundraising __ Collaborating with the Technical Leader to identify and develop, metadata standards, user interface design, information and retrieval systems and specialized tools __ Assessing user needs for indigenous resource information and services __ Coordinating selection, harvesting, and addition of appropriate retrospective and current content to the iPortal, including digitization activities as appropriate __ Fostering strong relationships on campus with other post secondary institutions, First Nations communities and organizations, government agencies, research centers and groups, and digital projects to expand the support, usage and content of the iPortal __ Developing specialized controlled vocabularies and thesauri to facilitate discovery of and access to iPortal materials An active program of research and scholarly work is required of all librarians at the University of Saskatchewan. Required Educational Qualifications: An MLS/MAS or equivalent from a university/institution recognized by the University of Saskatchewan. This position will be of interest to individuals with experience in native studies, humanities computing, or other relevant disciplines within the humanities and social science fields. Desired Professional Experience: Demonstrated supervisory and management skills, ideally in an academic and/or research library environment. Experience managing complex projects in a team environment, with a knowledge of emerging trends in digital libraries, information technology and scholarly communication, developing thesauri and controlled vocabularies. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with several different constituencies. Knowledge of Cree, Dene or another indigenous language, and/or French, would be considered an asset. Structure of the Position: This is a tenure track appointment at the University of Saskatchewan Library, subject to a probationary period of three years to five years. Salary and Rank: Librarians and archivists are members of the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association and terms and conditions of work are determined by the Collective Agreement between the Association and the University. The position is available immediately and will be filled at the rank of Librarian II or III. The salary range is $57,352 to $78,128, and is currently under review. Actual salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University of Saskatchewan offers an excellent benefits plan (http://www.usask.ca/hrd/benefits/faculty_in_scope_perm.html) and research start-up support for new faculty. About the U of S Library: The University of Saskatchewan Library (http://library.usask.ca/), one of Canada's leading research libraries, is a member of ARL, CARL, and COPPUL. The Library participates in national and provincial consortia, including CRKN, Consortia Canada, and the Saskatchewan Multitype Database Licensing Program. Consisting of seven branches, the Library has a staff of 156, including 40 librarians, and an acquisitions budget of $7.9 million. The collection consists of approximately 2 million printed volumes, 3.3 million items in microform and approximately 500,000 government documents and pamphlets. The Library currently provides access to nearly 300 electronic databases and over 28,000 serial titles, including 18,000 in electronic format plus 10,000 serials in print and microform. The University has articulated in its Emerging Trends and Themes document that one of its themes will be to enhance aboriginal programming and scholarship. The Library's new strategic directions, developed through its strategic plan (2007-2012) have core strategies and priority actions which support the theme: 1. Learner and Teacher 2. Researcher, Scholar and Practitioner 3. Relationships and Engagement About the University of Saskatchewan: Founded in 1907, the University of Saskatchewan (http://www.usask.ca) has a history of academic excellence and is the leading research institution and largest university in the province. The academic community is comprised of more than 15,000 full-time and 4,000 part-time students (both graduate and undergraduate), 1,000 faculty, and 3,650 full-time staff. The University of Saskatchewan is a medicaldoctoral institution offering 58 degrees, diplomas, and certificates in over one hundred areas and disciplines. The 14 colleges, including one virtual college, provide an impressive array of discipline-based, inter-disciplinary, and professional programs. The institution is publicly funded with annual consolidated revenues of $566 million, including $268 million operating and $107 million research. The University is home to the Canadian Light Source synchrotron, one of the largest science projects in Canada. About the City of Saskatoon: Saskatoon (http://www.tourismsaskatoon.com) is centrally located in the province of Saskatchewan and is Saskatchewan's largest city with a population of 226,000 and growing. Saskatoon is situated on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River, which is crossed by seven bridges within the city limits and includes over 120 hectares of riverbank parklands. Saskatoon's cost of living is well below the North American average because of the low housing, utility, and health care costs. With high quality and affordable residential areas located within a few minutes of the University, there is no need to spend long hours commuting between home and work. Saskatoon is one of the sunniest cities in Canada, receiving an average of 2,381 hours annually. Several events and activities are celebrated annually, including Folkfest, the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival, the International Fringe Festival, the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival and the Saskatoon Exhibition. The Saskatoon Symphony and several live theatre groups entertain many year-round. To Apply: Applicants should send a complete resume and the names of three referees and a statement outlining their knowledge, experience and abilities related to the specific responsibilities by January 31, 2007 to: Ken Ladd, Associate Dean, University of Saskatchewan Library, Room 156 Murray Library, 3 Campus Drive, Saskatoon SK S7N 5A4 Fax: 306-966-5932 E-mail: library.jobs_at_usask.ca All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University is committed to Employment Equity. Members of Designated Groups (women, aboriginal people, people with disabilities and visible minorities) are encouraged to self-identify on their applications. ----- ----- End forwarded message ----- Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Expected 2005 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Best of Technology Writing 2007 Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:53:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 520 (520) The University of Michigan Press and the University of Michigan Library is proud to announce the publication of the first annual The Best of Technology Writing 2006 and the opening of nominations for The Best of Technology Writing 2007. The Best of Technology Writing 2006 is a collection of "sparkling and imaginative pieces of journalism" (James Fallows) that covers the world of technology from multiple angles. Whether touching on sushi prepared on an inkjet printer, the future of e-books, or the ups and downs of jetpacks, The Best of Tech serves up a broad array of issues and topics, from the odd to the everyday, the playful to the profound, that illuminate the technological landscape of today and tomorrow. Taking our cue from the open source movement, these essays in Best of Tech were selected through an open, online nominating process. The nominations were then reviewed by a small panel of judges, and the final selections were made by this year's Guest Editor, Brendan I. Koerner. Koerner is a contributing editor for Wired, a columnist for both the New York Times and Slate, and a fellow at the New America Foundation. The result is a diverse collection of important, timely, and just plain readable writing from publications including The New Yorker, Wired, Salon, Slate, The Columbia Journalism Review, and Japan Today. It is published by digitalculturebooks, a new imprint of the University of Michigan Press and Library, which will officially launch in Fall 2007. In the meantime, the print version of The Best of Technology Writing 2006 is available from retail stores and from the Press directly. And, the online version is available, FREE, at our website, http://www.digitalculture.org. We are pleased to announce that the Guest Editor for the Best of Technology Writing 2007 will be Steven Levy. Levy is a Senior Editor at Newsweek, where he writes "The Technologist" column, and the author of six books on technology and culture, including the recently published The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Culture, Commerce and Coolness. To nominate an article, essay, or blog posting for The Best of Technology Writing 2007, please visit us at http://www.digitalculture.org. We will be accepting nominations through January 31, 2006. Maria S. Bonn Director, Scholarly Publishing Office University of Michigan, University Library Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 20.081 the machine metaphor Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:52:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 521 (521) Willard, It dawned upon me that Spam is Maps spelt backwards. This came to me as I was composing some html files in the style of the days when unsolicited email respected a certain etiquette and was not designed as as a dodge around filters to dump a curious sort of poetry. Days that predate the dot.com bubble where one could view the source of html rendered in a browser and readily find in the head something like: If you used a browser like Lynx you could with a few keyboard strokes invoke a routine to compose and send a message.* Few if any other browsers provide such functionality. They have tended to rely on hypertext anchors nested in the element to trigger mail utilities. Common practice is to now use natural languages to resist the harvesting of email addresses for bulk mailings. I have never removed elements from any html files I have published to the World Wide Web. And I have seen the patterns that indicate that the tides of unsolicited material are declined. [Aside: ELM is an excellent client for tagging message for deletion without reading them -- it is a feature that would be nice to incorporate in other email clients (I find it irritating to have a program designed to not take advantange of the batch processing power of the machine).] I am listening to the great Bob Marley and the Wailers sing on Burnin' "Pass it on" Be not selfish in your doings, pass it on Help your brothers in their needs, pass it on [...] while I compose this. Very fitting since I have been thinking about adding some noise to clog the harvesters that generate the lists that the spammers use to push their wares. I was thinking about the impact of some industrious script writers to produce what amount to bollards. Or even a test exercise for teaching HTML coding. Innocuous by their small size such files distributed in many millions of little pockets might produce such gunk as to enrobe the span in the sweat sticky fermentation of natto. However I don't like the pseudo semantics. So I envision any number html files chock full of pseudo email addresses located in a set of hypertext anchors. Bonus: the exchange-value of search engines ceases to be a case of idolatry. With a critical mass of gunk on the WWW, users become even more savvy and selective in the search strings they will employ. Librarians become everyone=E2=80=99s best friend. Of course such gunk needs a nice nerdy word to catch on and propagate as a meme that some folks tag some taxonomists with the slogan "Tax the spammers". If spam is maps backwards, anti-spam gunk, low-tech style is "knug". A special type of kludge to nudge along an etiquette of recognition, respect, sharing and responsability. Anti spam poetry. Knug. A whole new genre with a simple composition rule: must contain bogus email addresses. I suspect after a while the rule could be shortened: must contain one or more email addresses. Happy between the New Years (Civic and Chinese) :) And now having come to the end of my composing I'm grooving to Marley's "Small Axe" *I have yet to test how Lynx works with more than one element whose "HREF" attribute takes as a value a mailto protocol followed by an email address. I suspect it defaults to invoking the mail utility for the first address listed. Other addresses would be read and copied by consulting the source html and elegantly jumping to a shell to invoke a mail utility. Can some kind subscriber of Humanist enlighten me on or off list? Thanks. [deleted quotation]Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 81. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London [deleted quotation] www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html [deleted quotation] which [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Everyone is a little bit crazy; everyone at some time has a learning disability; No one is ever a little bit positive. From: "J. Trant" Subject: MW2007 Best of the Web Deadline: Monday, January 8, 2007 Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:35:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 522 (522) Museums and the Web 2007 April 11 - 14, 2007 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ the 11th annual international gathering of the best in culture and heritage on the Web ** BEST OF WEB NOMINATION DEADLINE: MONDAY JANUARY 8, 2007 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/best/ For the past eleven years a panel of=20 professionals has reviewed sites and made awards=20 that track achievements in interpreting art,=20 science, history, culture and nature on-line.=20 Help us recognize the best in cultural and=20 heritage web design, by nominating your favourite=20 site for a Best of the Web Award. The Categories for 2007 are: * On-line Exhibition * E-Services or E-Commerce * Innovative or Experimental Application * Museum Professional's Site * Research Site * Education Site * Best Overall Museum Site (selected by the judges from all of the sites nominated) New in 2006 was explicit recognition of work from=20 smaller institutions: Judges may once again make=20 a separate award in each category for small museums/budgets in 2007. See=20 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/best/nominate.html=20 and propose a site for the Judges' review before=20 Monday's deadline. There are no nomination fees.=20 We strongly encourage nominations of sites other than your own. Happy New Year! jennifer and David Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web 2007 - MW2007 Best of the Web Judging Panel - * Jim Angus, National Institutes of Health, USA * Pat Barbanell, Schenectady City Schools, USA * Ana Carr, University of Guadalajara, Mexico * Ericka Chemko, Inuit Heritage Trust Inc., Canada * Jim Devine, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland * Ian Edelman, Hampshire County Council, United Kingdom * Karen Elinich, Franklin Institute, USA * Zorana Ercegovac, Marlborough School, USA * David Greenfield, Pepperdine University, USA * Kate Haley Goldman, Institute for Learning Innovation, USA * Katherine Burton Jones, Harvard University, USA * Brad Larson, Brad Larson Media, Inc., USA * Jonathan Lathigee, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada * Norm Lownds, Michigan State University, USA * Marjo M=E4enp=E4=E4, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland * Susannah McGowan, Georgetown University, USA * Lawrence Monda, National Museums of Kenya, Kenya * Delphin Muise, Carleton University, Canada * Leighann Neilson, Carleton University, Canada * Carsten Tage Nielsen, Roskilde University, Denmark * Jerry Powell, Winterthur Museum, USA * Craig Rosa, KQED | Public Radio, TV and Interactive, USA * Solimar Salas, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, USA * Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia * Osamu Takahashi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA * Marcia Tiede, Center for Creative Photography, USA * Bruce Wyman, Denver Art Museum, USA --=20 Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2007 produced by April 11 - 14, 2007, San Francisco, CA Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2007_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- December 2006 Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:37:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 523 (523) TL INFOBITS December 2006 No. 6 ISSN: Not Yet Assigned About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ...................................................................... Instructional Design Bibliography Updating Blended Learning Resources What Makes Online Students Stay the Course? CMS/LMS Readings V&A Museum Makes Digital Images Free to Scholars MLA Report on Scholarly Publishing for Tenure Recommended Reading Infobits RSS Feed ...................................................................... INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN BIBLIOGRAPHY UPDATING The "Instructional Design Bibliography" resource guide (http://its.unc.edu/tl/guides/irg-22.php) maintained by this newsletter's editor is in need of updating. If you are involved in ID and have recommendations for additions to this bibliography, please email your suggestions to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu. Thank you! ...................................................................... BLENDED LEARNING RESOURCES Blended learning is a combination of face-to-face instruction with online components. In response to the increasing use of blended learning experiences in higher education, Sloan-C has launched a website with free resources for blended-learning educators. "Sloan-C Blended Learning" includes discussion forums, chapters from the book BLENDED LEARNING: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES, and videos of the Sloan-C Online Seminar Series "Blended Learning: What the Research Says." The website is at http://www.blendedteaching.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. For more information go to http://www.aln.org/. ...................................................................... WHAT MAKES ONLINE STUDENTS STAY THE COURSE? While much has been written about why students drop out of online courses, the authors of "Surviving the Shipwreck: What Makes Online Students Stay Online and Learn?" (by Johannes C. Cronje, et al., JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY, vol. 9, issue 4, 2006) wanted to know what keeps students in these courses. For their study of the issue they set up a six-week, graduate-level course using a game metaphor based on the television program "Survivor." "Twenty-four students were put into tribes and allowed to vote one another off the island at the end of each week. Students who were voted out of their tribes, were still on the course, but could no longer rely on the support of their peers." Fifteen students completed the entire course. The researchers concluded this was due to three factors: "the game metaphor, the roles and competencies of the facilitator, and the affective dimensions of peer support in a non-contact environment." Their paper is available online at http://www.ifets.info/journals/9_4/16.pdf. The Journal of Educational Technology and Society [ISSN 1436-4522]is a peer-reviewed, quarterly publication that "seeks academic articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such systems." The journal is published by the International Forum of Educational Technology & Society. Current and back issues are available at http://www.ifets.info/. ...................................................................... CMS/LMS READINGS "Peer Comparison of Course/Learning Management Systems, Course Materials Life Cycle, and Related Costs. Final Report" Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 19, 2006 http://web.mit.edu/emcc/www/MIT-WCET-C-LMS-Final-Report-07-19-06.pdf "MIT contracted with WCET's EduTools to survey ten selected peer institutions regarding their use and support of C/LMS products and the Course Materials Life Cycle used by each institution. The data gathered in this survey is intended to benchmark these services at peer institutions and to collect information that will inform future decision-making." "Considering Open Source: A Framework for Evaluating Software in the New Economy" by Lois Brooks EDUCAUSE, 2007 http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ERB0701 "Open source software and the community source movement are raising questions for administrators about whether and when to adopt or devote resources to software development projects, provoking questions of sustainability, future directions, and total cost of ownership. This research bulletin frames the issues an institution should consider with respect to adding community source products to the portfolio of software, infrastructure, and services that constitute the IT environment." [Please note that you will need to register with EDUCAUSE to read the paper. There is no cost for registration.] "Slightly Tongue in Cheek Presentation on 'The Future of CMS'" WCET 2006 Conference presentation by Scott Leslie EdTechPost, November 6, 2006 http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/000828.html "In a presentation involving the Magic 8 Ball, Leslie makes the argument that CMS software may have been a false start and that the future lies in the Web 2.0/social software realm." [Editor's note: Thanks to Lori Mathis for pointing out this collection of information. Lori Mathis is a former colleague of this newsletter's editor. For many years she has reviewed my drafts of Infobits, and she continues to catch my typos, grammatical errors, and confusing phrasing before I send it out. Lori currently works for the University of North Carolina General Administration's Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative (http://www.unctlt.org/).] ...................................................................... V&A MUSEUM MAKES DIGITAL IMAGES FREE TO SCHOLARS Beginning in early 2007, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London drops their fees for reproduction of its collections' images in scholarly books and magazines. Part of the rationale for this move is because, although reproduction fees have brought more then 250,000 Pounds annually, administration costs eat heavily into these revenues. The upside for scholars is access to more than 25,000 of the museum's images online (http://www.vam.ac.uk/). It is hoped that V&A's move will encourage other museums to also afford the same privileges to scholars. ...................................................................... MLA REPORT ON SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING FOR TENURE "In 2004 the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association of America created a task force to examine current standards and emerging trends in publication requirements for tenure and promotion in English and foreign language departments in the United States. The council's action came in response to widespread anxiety in the profession about ever-rising demands for research productivity and shrinking humanities lists by academic publishers, worries that forms of scholarship other than single-authored books were not being properly recognized, and fears that a generation of junior scholars would have a significantly reduced chance of being tenured. The task force was charged with investigating the factual basis behind such concerns and making recommendations to address the changing environment in which scholarship is being evaluated in tenure and promotion decisions." The MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion report is available online at http://www.mla.org/tenure_promotion/. ...................................................................... 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. "Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers" By Jakob Nielsen ALERTBOX, December 18, 2006 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/film-ui-bloopers.html Movie makers take liberties with computer usability and features to enhance audience entertainment. The downside is when viewers expect the same design in real-life computers. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: is editing obsolete? Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:56:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 524 (524) From an Intl Herald Trib article on the future of Time magazine: "At Time, Stengel has moved swiftly. In the past six months, the huge rate base of Time magazine has been cut by almost 20 percent, the street date has been moved, and at the end of the month, the standard editorial model -- a centralized, well-paid cadre processing every bit of copy that appears in print -- will be kaput, replaced by a leaner enterprise built on star voices who will presumably get less editing." May I offer what I might call a "Willard wonder" -- is editing obsolete? Do we believe that the disintermediation of instant publishing is so powerful that we can do without intrusive, expensive, fact-checking, fussbudgets? If the blogosphere at one end of the spectrum and Time, once upon a time certainly a very aggressively edited magazine to the point that it had a recognizable and highly parody-able voice, can do without, who can and will afford to retain the practice? I say this hoping there will be a good answer. I think of the classic benefits of editors, and was indeed remarking to myself just the other day that the Economist sustains a highly effective editing hand, one that never dumbs down but always clarifies and makes reasonable. There are other famous examples and practitioners, but who will pay for them? When might it become again a competitive advantage to be better-written than the next website? Jim O'Donnell Georgetown U. From: "Diane Brennan" Subject: eLincoln Prize Submissions Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:28:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 525 (525) Call for Nominations: eLincoln Prize The electronic Lincoln Prize consists of $10,000. The Prize is given for the finest scholarly work on the era of the American Civil War produced in digital format on the World Wide Web, on CD-ROM, on DVD, or on other forms of electronic distribution. Preference will be given to candidates that make the most of the digital environment in terms of materials, format, and access. The prize favors originality over the dissemination of information but does try to reward projects that target a broad audience. When competing work shows similar merit, preference is given to work on Lincoln or the common soldier. Individuals, groups, or institutions may compete for the Prize. No site or product shall win the Prize more than once, but achievement over time might be honored independently of previous awards. To submit a nomination for consideration, please email tgrim_at_gettysburg.edu NO LATER THAN MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2007. You may nominate your own work, but please submit no more than one nomination per year. The 2007 eLincoln Prize winner will be announced in April 2007. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Diane C. F. Brennan, Administrative Assistant Civil War Institute Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College The Michael Shaara Award 300 North Washington Street Campus Box 435 Gettysburg, PA 17325 P: 717-337-6590 F: 717-337-6596 E: dbrennan_at_gettysburg.edu CWI Web Site: http://www.gettysburg.edu/civilwar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "hinton_at_springnet1.com" Subject: Re: 20.384 is editing obsolete? Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:14:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 526 (526) Jim, Time -- at least traditionally , I haven't read one in years -- offered a particular problem, since all the writing was processed into "TIMEspeak", with its peculiar high instance of VSO sentences, plethora of adjectives, and adverbs. etc. ("backward ran sentences till reeled the mind"- I think it was F. P. Adams who said it.) And editorial slants snuck in grammatically -- someone once said that Eisenhower would be described as "striding purposefully" even if he were simply going to brush his teeth. Individual style, even when people like Agee were writing, turned into a sort of Velveeta cheese for the mind. From: Willard McCarty Subject: obsolescence Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:28:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 527 (527) Jim O'Donnell, in Humanist 20.384, asks "is=20 editing obsolete?" and hopes for a good answer.=20 Here are some thoughts at least, and some questions. As I recall, in the great rush of enthusiasm for=20 the ability of digital editions to offer up=20 images of all source material and their promise=20 of automatic tools, scholarly editing was=20 declared dead. Although the idea of a digital=20 edition is still forming, it seems clear that the=20 reports were greatly exaggerated. Another recollection. Humanist was created and=20 its manner in large measure determined by a=20 reaction against the aggressively sloppy=20 editorial practices (if they could be called=20 that) of some "bulletin boards" then sending out=20 whatever bits and scraps of information about=20 computing could be found. Humanist's editorial=20 practice was and is to set the kind of tone that=20 a scholarly publication should have and so to=20 invite the same. As it happened, people then gave=20 it their best and continue to do so. Two of such swallows do not make a summer, but=20 they suggest an answer. Perhaps it's best to be=20 cautious about generalizing from Time Magazine's=20 example. Perhaps we should consider what sort of=20 publication Time is, what social function(s) it=20 has performed and whether, these having changed=20 or moved to other venues, the editors of Time are=20 responding in consequence. The impact of the=20 Internet on publishing we know to be huge, but we=20 also know it to be complex. What about other=20 publications of the newsy and gossipy nature,=20 such as US News and World Report, Newsweek,=20 Private Eye or Der Spiegel? What's happening with=20 them? Does the socio-economic status of their=20 readerships make a difference -- i.e. are the=20 changes being clearly felt by publications whose=20 readers can be assumed to be intimate with the=20 Internet? Do reactions vary by national culture? Geoffrey Nunberg, in "Farewell to the Information=20 Age"=20 (http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/farewell.pdf),=20 observes that with the Internet discussion groups, [deleted quotation]It's that "bubbling up" that's rocking the boat=20 whose instability Jim's observation is interestingly pointing to. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Ken Friedman Subject: Subscribe FREE to Design Research News Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:29:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 528 (528) Dear Colleagues, Design Research News is a free monthly email letter that provides information on design and design research to 7,000 subscribers around the world. The Design Research Society publishes the newsletter as a professional and educational service. Prof. David Durling of Middlesex University edits DRN. 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To subscribe simply go to this URL: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/design-research.html and click on the line Join or leave the list (or change settings) Yours, -- Ken Friedman Professor Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Oslo Center for Design Research Denmark's Design School Copenhagen +47 46.41.06.76 Tlf NSM +47 33.40.10.95 Tlf Privat email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 20.384 is editing obsolete? Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:57:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 529 (529) Groping here, Jim, but I think it might be a case of post-publication editing rather than pre. Easy and fast "first editions". Seminal (vs. ephemeral) work compiled and collected and edited. Cost benefit analysis. With so much to produce (assimilate, process) so fast, there has to be greater tolerance of bugs. But watch out for islands of stability, like uncontested articles in Wikipedia, that get plenty of editing. Probably be a case of the 80/20 rule. Twenty per cent of the material (or less) will get 80 per cent of the attention, over all. --------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) All About Amel fansite (http://www.allamel.co.nr) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING --------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) All About Amel fansite (http://www.allamel.co.nr) 2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING From: "Stephen Fletcher" Subject: Re: 16.479 Kelvin's "if ye canna, ye dinna!" ? Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:58:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 530 (530) Hello, I don't know if this posting has died of old age, but if it is still alive, you might like to note (or may be aware already) that a stenographer was present at Kelvin's Baltimore lectures, which is a possible source for the quotation. The clue is in the full title of the published book, which is Baltimore lectures on molecular dynamics and the wave theory of light / founded on Mr. A.S. Hathaway's stenographic report of twenty lectures delivered in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in October 1884: followed by twelve appendices on allied subjects by Lord Kelvin. C.J. Clay and Sons ; Baltimore : Publication agency of the Johns Hopkins University, 1904 The whereabouts of the stenographer's report is, alas, unknown to me. If the stenographer is indeed the source of the quotation, then the published version is another example of the scottish language being "rectified" by some dull editor. Best wishes, steve. Prof Stephen Fletcher Professor of Physical Chemistry Department of Chemistry Loughborough University Ashby Road Loughborough Leicestershire LE11 3TU UK Tel: 01509 222 561 Fax: 01509 223 925 Email: stephen.fletcher_at_lboro.ac.uk http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/cm/staff/fletcher.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: Feynman's version of Kelvin's declaration Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:37:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 531 (531) Whatever the exact words Kelvin used to proclaim the importance of model-building, much the same was written out by another physicist, Richard Feynman, on his chalkboard: "What I cannot create I do not understand." According to Davis Baird, in Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments (Univ of California Press, 2004), citing Gleick's The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1993), this declaration was discovered after his death. Baird remarks, [deleted quotation]content of this [deleted quotation](p. 16) I suppose that the job for us is as different as a model made of software is different from a model made of less word-like material. I suppose that there is a genuine puzzle here, not simply a curiosity. This puzzle seems to me to lie at the root of some quite practical and even political problems we have, for example establishing the software creations of humanities computing as communicable humanities research rather than as the serviceable cogs that allow the PI of a project to carry out research. It is well known that for many of us research happens in the actual writing of what we write, that, to paraphrase Feynman, "What I cannot write I do not understand." Perhaps some part of the puzzle to which I refer is due as much to our misunderstanding of the verbal medium as to our failure to grasp the epistemic nature of made things. Do we have any idea how words and what we call "meaning" are related? Northrop Frye wrote at the beginning of Anatomy of Criticism that poems are dumb as statues, and that criticism is required to give them discursive voice. And it seems that after criticism more words are needed, the need being in proportion to the greatness of the criticism -- to its fruitfulness, as Frye said. Perhaps a big part of the puzzle is that we focus on the golden egg rather than the goose who lays it, and another, and another. Perhaps Feynman's sentence is clearer if written, "What I am not creating, I do not understand." Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 20.391 Feynman's version of Kelvin's declaration Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:20:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 532 (532) Since I create software every day, I think the comparable statement for a software developer would be, "That which I cannot write code to perform, I do not understand". This has been a guiding principle for me in the fields of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. Theory is fine, but if you can't construct a program that performs as the theory claims things work, then the theory is insufficient as an understanding of the phenomenon. Writing also has an aspect of this. Research results seem to be incomplete until they are written up, and in the writing comes new insights into the work that you didn't have when you were performing it. Language structures thought through rhetorical conventions which stimulate additional thought. Research activity proceeds in a fairly linear fashion, whereas language poses problems of explanatory necessity to complete its statements. You can often DO something immediately following a prior action, but you often cannot SAY something following a previous statement without setting the background for its understanding. I suppose the missing component is that when writing you understand that you cannot assume the reader had your same state of mind, whereas as the actor DOING things, you knew your state of mind. From: "hinton_at_springnet1.com" Subject: Re: 20.391 Feynman's version of Kelvin's declaration Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:21:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 533 (533) [deleted quotation]Oh, Willard ! I know you know that the words poet and poetry come from Greeks words for "maker", "making", and that at least as late as Dunbar, poets were referred to in Scottish as 'makirs'.....(compare OE 'scop'). Which brings us to Auden: "How can I know what I think till I see what I say ?" From: Willard McCarty Subject: Feynman's version of Kelvin's declaration Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:37:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 534 (534) Whatever the exact words Kelvin used to proclaim the importance of model-building, much the same was written out by another physicist, Richard Feynman, on his chalkboard: "What I cannot create I do not understand." According to Davis Baird, in Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments (Univ of California Press, 2004), citing Gleick's The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1993), this declaration was discovered after his death. Baird remarks, [deleted quotation]content of this [deleted quotation](p. 16) I suppose that the job for us is as different as a model made of software is different from a model made of less word-like material. I suppose that there is a genuine puzzle here, not simply a curiosity. This puzzle seems to me to lie at the root of some quite practical and even political problems we have, for example establishing the software creations of humanities computing as communicable humanities research rather than as the serviceable cogs that allow the PI of a project to carry out research. It is well known that for many of us research happens in the actual writing of what we write, that, to paraphrase Feynman, "What I cannot write I do not understand." Perhaps some part of the puzzle to which I refer is due as much to our misunderstanding of the verbal medium as to our failure to grasp the epistemic nature of made things. Do we have any idea how words and what we call "meaning" are related? Northrop Frye wrote at the beginning of Anatomy of Criticism that poems are dumb as statues, and that criticism is required to give them discursive voice. And it seems that after criticism more words are needed, the need being in proportion to the greatness of the criticism -- to its fruitfulness, as Frye said. Perhaps a big part of the puzzle is that we focus on the golden egg rather than the goose who lays it, and another, and another. Perhaps Feynman's sentence is clearer if written, "What I am not creating, I do not understand." Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Guizzardi, G. (Giancarlo)" Subject: CFP: Journal of Applied Ontology Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:07:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 535 (535) CALL FOR PAPERS [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] Journal of Applied Ontology: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling http://www.applied-ontology.org/ IOS Press (Editors-in-Chief: Nicola Guarino and Mark A. Musen) Special Issue on **** ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR CONCEPTUAL MODELING **** Expected publication: Winter 2007 Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2007 GUEST EDITORS OF SPECIAL ISSUE =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =95 Giancarlo Guizzardi, Computer Science Department, UFES, Brazil & Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Trento, Italy =95 Terry Halpin, Neumont University, South Jordan, Utah, USA OBJECTIVES OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role played by formal ontology, and more generally, by areas such as philosophy, logics, cognitive sciences and linguistics in the development of theoretical foundations for conceptual modeling in computer science. As it has been shown in a large number of recent publications, so-called foundational ontologies such as BWW, GFO, DOLCE, UFO, BFO, and Chisholm=92s have been successfully applied to the evaluation of conceptual modeling languages and frameworks (e.g., UML, ORM, ER) and to the development of engineering tools (e.g., methodological guidelines, modeling profiles, design patterns) that contribute to the theory and practice of conceptual= modelling. The purpose of this special issue is to collect innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding the role played by the aforementioned areas to the theoretical foundations of conceptual modeling. This issue should be of interest of several academic communities, including those working on database design, requirements engineering, knowledge engineering, enterprise modeling, agent and object orientation, information systems, software engineering (in particular domain engineering), natural-language processing, business rules and model-driven architectures. We thus solicit contributions in several areas related to Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling. Topics of interest include: =95 Philosophical and Cognitive Foundations for Conceptual Modeling =95 Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling: Methodologies, Tools, and Case Studies =95 Psychological Experiments Evaluating the Cognitive Adequacy of Conceptual Modeling Primitives =95 Ontological Analysis of Existing Conceptual Models (including Reference Models) =95 Role of Ontology-driven Conceptual Modelling for Semantic Interoperability =95 Ontological Design Patterns =95 Linguistic theories and Natural-Language Semantics in Conceptual Modeling =95 Formal Semantics of Conceptual Modeling Languages =95 Comparison between existing Foundational Ontologies for the purpose of Conceptual Modeling [...]=20 From: Ville Nurmi Subject: ESSLLI 2007 Student Session - Final Call for Papers Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:05:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 536 (536) ESSLLI 2007 STUDENT SESSION FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS August 6-17 2007, Dublin, Ireland Deadline: February 11, 2007 http://www.loria.fr/~sustreto/stus07/ We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 19th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which will be held in Dublin, Ireland on August 6-17, 2007. We invite submission of papers in the areas of Logic, Language and Computation for presentation at the Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. AIM Student Session exists to bring together young researchers to present and discuss their work in progress with a possibility to get feedback from senior researchers. SUBMISSION Only original publications are accepted, previous published works are not allowed. All authors of the paper must be students: undergraduate (before the completion of the Masters degree) or graduate (before the completion of the PhD degree). Papers can be submitted either for oral (20min talk+10 min discussion), or poster presentation. There are three subject areas: Logic and Language (lola), Language and Computation (laco) and Logic and Computation (loco). The submissions should be sent by email before 11 February 2007 to dmitry.sustretov_at_loria.fr (the message should have subject "ESSLLI STUS submission") along with an identification file in plain text of the following format: Title: title of the submission First author: firstname lastname Affiliation: affiliation of the first author E-mail: e-mail of the first author ...... Last author: firstname lastname Affiliation: affiliation of the last author E-mail: e-mail of the last author Abstract: (5 lines) Subject area: Logic and Language or Language and Computation or Logic and Computation Modality: Poster or Oral The submission should be in one of the following formats: PostScript, PDF or RTF. (In case of acceptance, the final version of the paper will have to be submitted in LaTeX format.) The papers must use single column A4 size pages, 11pt or 12pt fonts, and standard margins, and may not exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. The paper and identification file should be named by the following convention: category-modality-last name(s) of author(s) (for example, "loco-oral-martin.pdf" and "loco-oral-martin.txt"). At least one of the authors of the paper must register as a participant of ESSLLI. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings which will be available during ESSLLI. [...] From: "Joergen Villadsen" Subject: CONTEXT'07, 2nd call for Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:08:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 537 (537) papers/posters/demos/workshop proposals CONTEXT'07: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS + workshop proposals + doctoral symposium Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'07) http://context-07.ruc.dk/ August 20-24, 2007 - Roskilde University, Denmark CONTEXT'07 includes a main conference, workshops, demonstration and poster sessions, and a doctoral consortium. It provides a forum for a wide range of disciplines involved in the modeling and use of context, including: Computer Science (especially Artificial Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing), Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Organizational Sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, Application areas (Medicine, Law, etc). Proceedings will be published in the Springer Verlag LNAI Series as for the previous conferences. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposal submissions January 31, 2007 Paper/poster/demo submission to the Main conference March 15, 2007 Doctoral symposium submission (provisional deadline) May 15, 2007 Workshop days August 20-21, 2007 Main conference (including poster and demo sessions) August 22-24, 2007 All the information, including latest updates, are on the Web site of the conference: http://context-07.ruc.dk/. [...] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 20.390 editing obsolete? Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:26:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 538 (538) Willard the Wizard and Lynda the Wonder Worker and all my friends in and through Humanist, the ultra alpha seminroar: Have you seen the capabilities of ELM? Very accessible now that i-Apples run on Linux. Headers guide the user through a tour of duty entering metadata (ammo for the librarians). Just like recycling: sort at source. Are we not a combo of pack rat and file clerk, we scholars at larger or entrapped? :)FL(: [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Everyone is a little bit crazy; everyone at some time has a learning disability; No one is ever a little bit positive. From: "Stephanie Chow" Subject: Call for Contributions: Journal of Database Management (JDM) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:59:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 539 (539) CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Database Management (JDM) Special Issue on "XML Data Services: Technology Evolution and Challenges" ---------- http://redmaple.hrl.uoit.ca/~jdmseiw2007 The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is used to represent fine-grained data that originates in repositories in machine readable format by providing structure and the possibility of adding type information, such as XML Schema. A Web service is a software system that supports interoperable application-to-application interaction over the Internet. Web services are based on a set of XML standards, such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI). Each service makes its functionality available through well-defined or standardized XML interfaces. The result of this approach is a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). XML is playing an important role in the data transport protocol for Web services. For example, SOAP messages are used both by service requestors to invoke Web services, and by Web services to answer requests. The interactions of SOAP messages between Web services form the theoretical model of SOAP Message Exchange Patterns (MEP). This workshop aims to explore and investigate various research issues of XML data that is encapsulated by Web services over the network. In particular, we call these networked services as XML data services. New challenges arise in the study of services engineering, an emerging research area devoted to the software engineering of service-oriented applications. Services engineering is an important area of the Services Computing Discipline, as promoted by the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, academia and industry. Its goal is to formulate effective solutions to the quality development, deployment and management of these applications. Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to: * Services engineering in XML data services * Models and languages of XML data services * Design and implementation of XML data services * Interoperability and integration of XML data services * Requirements engineering for XML data services * Generation of XML data from Web services * Data modeling concepts for XML data in Web services * Ontology and semantic Web services * Security, privacy and trust with XML data services * Transaction management in XML data services * BPEL and Web service orchestration with XML data * XML-related languages like XML Schema, XPath, XQuery for Web services * Convergence of Web services and XML database technology (queries, views, updates, integration, etc.) * XML-based middleware for Web services * SOAP Message Exchange Patterns * UDDI, WSDL and SOAP enhancements * Case studies for XML data services * Quality of XML data services and deployment issues * Dependability of XML data services * Technical architecture and framework of XML data services * Design tools and methodologies for XML data services * Usage and usefulness analysis of XML data services The goal of this proposed special issue is to crystallize the emerging XML data technologies and trends into positive efforts to focus on the most promising solutions in e-business services computing. The papers will provide clear proof that XML data technologies are playing an ever increasing important and critical role in supporting business service processes. It is also expected that the papers will further research new best practices and directions in XML data services. Author Instructions Submissions to this special issue will be required to have some theoretical/experimental/empirical results. Authors should create an account and submit via our online submission system at http://redmaple.hrl.uoit.ca/~jdmseiw2007 (available soon). Papers must be submitted as either a Word file or PDF. For detailed submission information, please refer to =E2=80=9CGuidelines for Submission=E2=80=9D at http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?ID=3D198&v=3Dguidelines Important Dates Submissions due: April 2, 2007 Review Outcome: July 2, 2007 Revision Due: October 1, 2007 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: November 5, 2007 Final Paper Due: November 26, 2007 Special Issue Co-Editors Patrick C. K. Hung Faculty of Business and Information Technology University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada Chengfei Liu Faculty of Information and Communication Technology Swinburne University of Technology, Australia For further information about submissions, please contact Patrick C. K. Hung by email at patrick.hung_at_uoit.ca. From: "Neil Grindley" Subject: CAA UK 2007 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:58:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 540 (540) **Conference Announcement** Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Meeting of the UK Chapter: January 24th - 26th 2007 Tudor Merchants Hall, Southampton The CAA UK chapter is intended as a forum for research in the area of archaeological computing and quantitative methods. In this the final meeting in a series of five hosted by the Archaeological Computing Research Group at the University of Southampton we have joined together with colleagues from Southampton City Museums. The conference will take place in the beautifully restored 15th century timber framed Tudor Merchants Hall. CAA UK meetings are intended to reflect the considerable breadth of computational activity within archaeological practice, whether in research, cultural resource management or private consultancy. In addition this year we also look towards our colleagues within museums for insights into the role of computational practice in that sphere. The programme for CAA UK 2007 (overleaf) includes more than 30 papers and posters drawn from a wide range of topics, including maritime and terrestrial GIS, archaeoacoustics, CAD and VR, field survey, multimedia technologies, heritage management, archiving, data standards and dissemination, mathematical modelling, archaeological theory, and landscape design. programme: http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/acrg/timetable2007.pdf registration: http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/acrg/registration.doc From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.2 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:57:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 541 (541) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 2 January 16, 2007 - January 22, 2007) UBIQUITY ALERT: A LOOK AT UBUNTU Ubiquity associate editor Ross Gagliano reviews Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks: A Pain-free, Project-based, Get-Things-Done Guidebook, a new book by Rickford Grant. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v8i02_ubuntu.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v8i02_ubuntu.html From: Computational Philosophy Laboratory - University of Subject: KES2007 - Session on Chance Discovery Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:12:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 542 (542) CALL FOR PAPERS KES2007 invited session on Chance Discovery http://ultimavi.arc.net.my/ave/KES2007/ 12, 13 & 14 September 2007 Vietri sul Mare, Italy Session Themes: [Chance Discovery: Genaration, evaluation, and suggestion of a Chance.] Session Subtitle: Chance: logical formalisation VS human factors. Phlosophical papers are welcome as well as computational papers. Of course papers from other field such as sociology, psychology etc. are welcome. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Bernard Williams via Simon Blackburn's "No easy answers" Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:11:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 543 (543) In The New Republic Online, 22 January 2007, Simon Blackburn reviews the philosophical life and works of Bernard Williams, who died in 2003. Blackburn's title refers to the puzzle that Williams left, "for he displayed a paradoxical combination of exhilaration and pessimism, of complete facility in the academic exercises of philosophy juxtaposed with an almost tragic sense of the resistance that the human clay offers to theory and analysis, let alone to recipes and panaceas". The article is a review of four books, the result of devoted editing by his wife and some friends. These books, Blackburn writes, [deleted quotation]The particular ways in which Williams exhibited these virtues in his philosophy I will leave to another time, or better, to someone able to discuss them intelligently. But I make an exception. In the essay that gives its title to the collection edited by his wife, Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Williams [deleted quotation]Williams opposes the fashionable account that celebrates, as Blackburn says, "the thickness of the spectacles, or paradigms, through which the scientist peers at nature. Williams, by contrast, commented dismissively on the 'remarkable assumption that the sociology of knowledge is in a better position to deliver truths about science than science is to deliver truths about the world.'" But as with any thinker worth celebrating, he bucked the placement of his questioning in a fixed position or stance -- in this case, as the opposite view that we can have "a description of the world without deploying our own language or employing or own concepts". If, as he argued, science has a title to knowledge that does not depend "on the history, culture, values, or interests of those engaged in it" -- the great moral argument that, if I am not mistaken, begins with Galileo -- then the humanities, including philosophy, are, Blackburn says, [deleted quotation]subject matter is [deleted quotation]view, albeit a [deleted quotation]Why all this here? Because, as I keep saying (I hope not tiresomely, thickly, annoyingly), because of our critical, self-conscious use of computers, we're in the midst of this difference between the sciences and the humanities -- being *of* the humanities but able to have truck with the sciences in a new and exciting way. Or, perhaps, in an old and exciting way. So Williams is someone we have to pay attention to -- alas too late to participate face-to-face. And this brings me to the disproportionate reason for rattling on about Blackburn's review of Williams' posthumous books. Disproportionate because I don't know how to say adequately what I want to notice here: the reminder, badly needed and punctuated by Williams' death, of why we have our institutions of higher education in the first place. Can we say that despite all the unspeakable but tirelessly speaking nonsense we're engulfed in, that we actually can justify the lot? Being forever Molly Bloom, I say YES. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: John Unsworth Subject: Fwd: NCSA Faculty Fellowships: Call for Proposals Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:14:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 544 (544) Begin forwarded message: [deleted quotation] From: Grazyna Cooper Subject: e-Learning events at Oxford Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:12:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 545 (545) ANNOUNCING: TWO E-LEARNING CONFERENCES, OXFORD UNIVERSITY 22nd and 23rd March Said Business School The Shock of the Old 6: The Shock of the Social One-Day Conference on Educational Technologies Said Business School, University of Oxford, March 22nd 2007 <http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock2007/>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock2007/ The Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing Services is pleased to announce its sixth annual one-day conference on educational technologies. Shock 6 will explore the issues arising from the rise of social networking tools, Web 2.0 software and related collaborative technologies, and how best to make use of these innovative tools in teaching, learning and research. For more information and online booking please visit <http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock2007/>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock2007/ Beyond the Search Engine Said Business School, University of Oxford, March 23rd 2007 <http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2007/>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2007/ Beyond the Search Engine continues the successful 'Beyond...' series of talks and debates hosted by the Learning Technologies Group at the University of Oxford. This year the theme is plagiarism and academic integrity in the modern world of social networking and private learning. * Does the ready provision of information in the public sphere detract from students' ability to develop their own knowledge? * Does the pressure to perform undermine students' academic integrity? The day will consist of talks by experts in the field, and two debates. This event follows on from the Shock of the Old conference on ICT in Teaching and Learning, 22nd March 2007, held at the same venue and with similar charging. For more details and online booking please visit: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2007/ Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interacting with Immersive Worlds Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:47:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 546 (546) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Interacting with Immersive Worlds An International Conference presented by the Interactive Arts and Science Program, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario JUNE 4-5, 2007 Focusing on the growing cultural significance of interactive media, IWIW invites submissions for papers on all scholarship in digital interactive media (games, immersive environments, mixed realities, interactive fiction and art) and on interactive media users (adults and children). Deadline extended! Deadline for submissions: February 16, 2007 The IWIW conference features 4 keynote speakers: -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Director of the Quality of Life Research Center at the Drucker School, Claremont Graduate University -- James Paul Gee, Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading, University of Wisconsin at Madison (sponsored by Owl Children's Trust and the Brock Research Institute for Youth Studies) -- Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Director of the Computing Culture group at the MIT Media Lab -- Denis Dyack, Director/President, Silicon Knights Selected papers will be considered in one of four broad conference streams: -- Theory of Immersive Worlds explores: i. the theory of interactivity, from perspectives such as narrative and gameplay=20 (ludology); ii. analyses of the cultural and psychological effects of immersive worlds. -- Creative Practices in Immersion examines interactive new media art, and its exploration of new idioms and challenges in immersive worlds. -- Immersive Worlds in Education examines the application of immersive technologies to teaching and learning. -- Immersive Worlds in Entertainment examines entertainment applications of immersive technologies. We welcome the submission of abstracts for a 20-minute presentation plus a 10-minute discussion. Send a 500-word abstract plus a brief biographical statement. Please include a separate cover page with the following: -- Author's name and institutional affiliation -- Email -- Mailing address -- Title of presentation Since all abstracts will be anonymously reviewed, include the title of the paper on the abstract, but not the author's name, affiliation, email or mailing address. Deadline extended! Deadline for receipt of abstracts is February 16, 2007. Please email your abstract to mitterer_at_brocku.ca Acceptance of your paper for presentation implies a commitment on your part to register and attend the conference. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by March 2, 2007. Visit the conference Web site for details www.brocku.ca/iasc/immersiveworlds Organizing Committee: -- Dr. Dale Bradley, Department of Communications, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 Dale.Bradley_at_brocku.ca -- Jean Bridge, Director, Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 Jean. Bridge_at_brocku.ca -- Denis Dyack, President, Silicon Knights, 1 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. denis_at_siliconknights.ca -- Dr. Barry Grant, Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 Barry.Grant_at_brocku.ca -- Dr. Dave Hughes, Department of Computer Science, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 hughesd_at_brocku.ca -- Dr. Kevin Kee, Department of History, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 Kevin.Kee_at_brocku.ca -- Dr. John Mitterer, Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 John.Mitterer_at_brocku.ca -- Dr. Teena Willoughby, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Jennifer A. De Beer" Subject: MLA flunks humanities in recognizing online scholarship] Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:47:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 547 (547) Jon Ippolito wrote: [deleted quotation]Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Subject: Second Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:45:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 548 (548) Second Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals As a response to the many requests we have received, the Organizing Committee of The 5th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2007 (Orlando, Florida, USA. July 12-15, 2007), has decided to extend the deadline for papers/abstracts submissions, as well as for Invited Sessions proposals. New deadlines: Abstract/paper draft submissions and Invited Session Proposals: February 22nd, 2007 Authors Notification: March 29th, 2007 Camera ready, full papers: April 19th, 2007 The registration fee of effective invited sessions organizers will be waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems". The market price of this package is US $ 295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at EISTA 2007 web page. For submissions or Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the web site: http://www.cyber-inf.org/eista2007 Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Best regards, EISTA 2007 Secretariat From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Color or Colour Blind or Bind Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:43:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 549 (549) Willard, Would you or the subscribers to Humanist or they people they might know have any experience with using Macintosh's ColorSync program to enhance viewing on screen for students that are challenged in discriminating colours? On a similar note: have computing humanists had any dealings with the ICC (International Color Consortium)? I am looking for anecdotal evidence that might not be captured in official publications. On and off list replies both appreciated. Please indicate if the material supplied can be attributed. thanks. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://q-ng.blogspot.com/2007/01/calorific.html Everyone is a little bit crazy; everyone at some time has a learning disability; No one is ever a little bit positive. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.3 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:44:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 550 (550) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 3 January 23, 2007 - January 30, 2007) UBIQUITY ALERT: PUBLISH AND PERISH Authors Fabio Casati, Fausto Giunchiglia, and Maurizio Marchese of the University of Trento explain how the current publication and review model "is killing research and wasting your money." See <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i03_fabio.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i03_fabio.html From: Enrico Franconi Subject: European MSc in Computational Logic - scholarships available Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:43:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 551 (551) *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.computational-logic.eu The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (FUB), in Italy (at the heart of the Dolomites mountains in South-Tyrol), is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer (Laurea Specialistica). The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is an international distributed Master of Science course, in cooperation with the computer science departments in the following universities: * Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria * Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain This program, completely in English, involves studying one year at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and possibly completing the second year with a stay in one of the partner universities. After this, the student will obtain, together with the European degree, two Master of Science degrees: the Laurea Specialistica degree from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, with legal value in Italy, and the respective Master of Science degree from the visited university, with legal value in its country. APPLICATION DEADLINES: - * 10 FEBRUARY 2007 *: deadline for non-European students requesting an Erasmus Mundus scholarship (notification of acceptance: 10 March 2007) - 15 June 2007: deadline for all European and non-European students (notification of acceptance: 15 July 2007) - 24 August 2007: last deadline only for European students starting at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (notification of acceptance: 10 September 2007) ** NOTE **: 10 FEBRUARY 2007 is the final deadline for requesting an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for non-European students! SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: In 2007 the European Masters Program in Computational Logic will offer 24 new Erasmus Mundus scholarships for non-European citizens (in 2004, 2005 and 2006 more than 50 Erasmus Mundus scholarships were given). Special scholarships are offered to students from India, China, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, and the African, Caribbean, Pacific ACP Group of States. Each scholarship for each student amounts to 21,000 EUR per academic year; this includes 10 monthly grants of 1,600 EUR and a fixed amount of 5,000 EUR for fees, travel expenses, relocation costs, etc. The 10th of February 2007 is the final deadline for requesting an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for non-European students. European citizens or non-European citizens with residence in Italy can apply to scholarships which are granted purely on the basis of the yearly income of the applicant and of her/his parents or husband/wife. Scholarships amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, including facilities on the accommodation and total reimbursement of the enrolment fees. The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano has a tuition-waiver budget for reimbursing the total tuition/enrolment fees to all the applicants studying in Bozen-Bolzano and who do not have already a scholarship; so, applicants studying in Bozen-Bolzano are entitled not to pay any tuition/enrolment fees. Check the web page for detailed info on applications and scholarships: http://www.computational-logic.eu THE STUDY PROGRAMME: The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in this rapidly growing area. Based on a solid foundation in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and declarative programming students will acquire in-depth knowledge necessary to specify, implement and run complex systems as well as to prove properties of these systems. In particular, the focus of instruction will be in deduction systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, formal specification and verification, syntax directed semantics, logic and automata theory, logic and computability. This basic knowledge is then applied to areas like logic and natural language processing, logic and the semantic web, bioinformatics, information systems and database technology, software and hardware verification. Students will acquire practical experience and will become familiar in the use of tools within these applications. In addition, students will be prepared for a future PhD, they will come in contact with the international research community and will be integrated into ongoing research projects. They will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea triennale) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is part of the Master in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica in Informatica) and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Italian and European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * Other specialisations with streams in the hottest Computer Science areas, such as Web Technologies, Information and Knowledge Management, Databases and Software Engineering. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is one of the few European Masters awarded by the European Union's Erasmus Mundus programme from its first year of existence in 2004. The Erasmus Mundus programme is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education which promotes the European Union as a centre of excellence in learning around the world. It supports European top-quality Masters Courses and enhances the visibility and attractiveness of European higher education in third-countries. It also provides EU-funded scholarships for third-country nationals participating in these Masters Courses, as well as scholarships for EU-nationals studying in third-countries. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is sponsored scientifically by the European Network of Excellence on Computational Logic (CoLogNET), the European Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), the Italian Association for Informatics (AICA, member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications (AILA), and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, founded in 1997, boasts modern premises in the centre of Bozen-Bolzano. The environment is multilingual, South Tyrol being a region where three languages are spoken: German, Italian and Ladin. Studying in a multilingual area has shown that our students acquire the cutting edge needed in the international business world. Many of our teaching staff hails from abroad. Normal lectures are complemented with seminars, work placements and laboratory work, which give our students a vocational as well as theoretical training, preparing them for their subsequent professional careers. Studying at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano means, first and foremost, being guided all the way through the student's educational career. Bozen-Bolzano, due to its enviable geographical position in the centre of the Dolomites, also offers our students a multitude of opportunities for spending their free-time. The city unites the traditional with the modern. Young people and fashionable shops throng the city centre where ancient mercantile buildings are an attractive backdrop to a city that is in continual growth. To the south there is the industrial and manufacturing area with prosperous small and medium-sized businesses active in every economic sector. Back in the 17th century Bozen-Bolzano was already a flourishing mercantile city that, thanks to its particular geographic position, functioned as a kind of bridge between northern and southern Europe. As a multilingual town and a cultural centre Bozen-Bolzano still has a lot to offer today. Its plethora of theatres, concerts with special programmes, cinemas and museums, combined with a series of trendy night spots that create local colour make Bozen-Bolzano a city that is beginning to cater for its increasingly demanding student population. And if you fancy a very special experience, go and visit the city's favourite and most famous resident - "Oetzi", the Ice Man of Similaun, housed in his very own refrigerated room in the recently opened archaeological museum. Bozen-Bolzano and its surroundings are an El Dorado for sports lovers: jogging on the grass alongside the River Talfer-Talvera, walks to Jenesien-S.Genesio and on the nearby Schlern-Sciliar plateau, excursions and mountain climbing in the Dolomites, swimming in the numerous nearby lakes and, last but not least, skiing and snowboarding in the surrounding ski areas. FURTHER INFORMATION: Prof. Enrico Franconi at info_at_fub.computational-logic.eu European Masters Program in Computational Logic Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Piazza Domenicani, 3 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy Phone: +39 0471 016 000 Fax: +39 0461 173 9006 Email: info_at_fub.computational-logic.eu Web site: http://www.computational-logic.eu From: Willard McCarty Subject: language vs the plain style Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:59:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 552 (552) Recently perusing George Miller's The Science of Words (Scientific American Library, 1991), I was struck by a number of statements he makes about language. His is a lucid explanation of what a science of it might be, or perhaps is. As you would expect from the master of WordNet and a scientist, Miller is noticing regularities, structures, forms of expression that are a certain way and are not any other way. In discussing the hierarchical structure of nouns, for example, he notices that comparatives are bound by a reflexive constraint, i.e. "a comparative adjective cannot be used between a noun and its hyponyms (subordinates) or superordinates", e.g. such sentences as "A monkey can be more active than an animal", or "Fruit tastes better than grapes do" makes no sense (p. 177). Assent comes easily and seems unproblematic. But wait.... All of us can easily imagine a poem that begins with either of those two examples; some among us, perhaps, could write that poem and make it wonderous to read. Indeed, Miller's statements remind me of others I have heard, such as John Sowa's (at a New OED conference, in Waterloo, Ontario, years ago), that while one can say "The man is eager to eat the food", it makes no sense to say that "The food is eager to be eaten by the man". In Sowa's case, a major episode in The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy concerned food eager to be eaten by a man. Or, to deepen the question, consider the deep-structure linguists, who tell us that certain formations are impossible. I wouldn't like to suggest, and won't, that such distinguished people, esp Miller, are being silly. Rather I want to ask, how are they being? How do we make sense of their restrictive statements, indeed all statements designed to delimit language (or anything else) in such a fashion as to make a science of it possible? It does seem to me that Miller's attempt at a science of language makes sense as a science of language of a particular kind. What goes unspoken (as far as I have seen in the book) is an opening conditional: IF we delimit ordinary language that people use in daily life to make sense in pragmatic situations, then thus-and-such propositions may be defended. When someone depicts a cow that seems eager to be eaten by a man in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, we know something special is happening -- in a novel. We know we're not reading a bit of today's news. Were a farmer to find us in his field, trying to persuade one of his cows to offer itself up to us for dinner, he'd be right in more than one way to chase us off, and if we had decided to assist the strangely speechless cow by killing it, he'd be right to summon the police, and they the folks with the white jacket that ties in the back. If, in a poem, we read that some trees, smitten by music, gathered around a musician to hear his music, we'd not think the poet wrong or linguistically perverse, and prima facie he or she would not be saying what one cannot say. We'd know we were reading poetry. Miller is an intellectually powerful ally of computing, as all who have used WordNet will know. The stronger a science of language is, the better we can compute it. My question is, how did it happen that poetic statements should so often be an afterthought, if thought at all, in such discussions as Miller's? How is it that propositional rhetoric so easily seems the right way to talk about language? Ok, Miller is writing a book clearly labelled The Science of Words, but why does it not occur to him that such a science is ever so much more powerful by at least recognizing what it is excluding? Permit be a sharp swerve in order to get to some related questions. Recently I came to contemplate why it is that the great chorus of historians who write about the Late Antique writer Martianus Capella (5th Century), knowing that he was all the rage among Carolingian intellectuals (9th Century), line obediently up in back of Joseph Scaliger to condemn his Latin, why even Martianus' editors cannot wait to condemn his work in the strongest possible terms without for one moment wondering about what those Carolingian intellectuals saw in him, especially why they saw him as they did. Historians, mind you. The hypothesis I formed is that between Martianus and us falls something we call "the plain style", the rise of Baconian science and so the eclipse of figurative language. Can it be said that we are still the children of the plain style, and that a science of language is a science in that style? Are we, in consequence of computing, better able to appreciate figurative language -- because we run into so much of it as residue from our computational processes? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Computational Philosophy Laboratory - University of Subject: Call for Papers - International Conference HBCP-07 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:12:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 553 (553) Deadline Febraury 16, 2007 ************************************************************************** 4th international conference HUMAN BEING IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTIONS Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia May 28 - 31, 2007 *************************************************************************** in collaboration with Stefan Cel Mare University of Suceava (Romania) International Simeon Frank Philosophical Society Russian Philosophical SOciety *************************************************************************** GENERAL INFORMATION AND RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS - Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology - Human Being in Social and Political Philosophy - Philosophical and Social/Cultural Anthropologies - Man in the Circle of Existentialism - Philosophical Anthropology, Psychology, Psychoanalysis - Humankind, Information Society, and High Technologies - Values of Modern Individuals - Globalization and Human Prospects - Philosophy of Man and Philosophy of Language - Humans in Communicative Environments - Phenomenology of Human Being - Philosophical Anthropology and Gender - Heuristic Potential of Philosophical and Religious Antropologies - New Approaches and Ideas in the Humanity Research - Problems of Evolutional Anthropology - The Possibility of anIntegral Philosophy of Human Being ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Oleg Inshakov (chairperson), Nikolay Omelchenko (co-chairperson), Viorel Guliciuc (co- chairperson, Suceava, Romania), Emilia Guliciuc (co-chairperson, Suceava, Romania), Alexander Chumakov (co-chairperson, Moscow). Vyacheslav Gulyaikhin (secretary), Vassily Friauf (Saratov), Alexander Pigalev, Alexander Strizoe. STEERING COMMITTEE Jean Salem (co-chairperson, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France), Vladimir Mironov (co- chairperson, Moscow State University by the name of M.V. Lomonosov), Yury Solonin (co- chairperson, Saint Petersburg State University), Diab Al-Badayneh (Al-Tafielah, Jordan), Sabina Finaru (Suceava, Romania), Lorenzo Magnani (Pavia, Italy), Kolawole Ogundowole (Lagos, Nigeria), Kuruvilla Pandikattu (Pune, India), Jozef Siv=E1k (Bratislava, Slovakia), Robert Timko (Mansfield, USA), Joao Vila-Cha (Braga, Portugal). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nikolay Omelchenko (chairperson), Oscar Brenifier (Paris, France), Alexander Chumakov (Moscow), Vladimir Dobrenkov (Moscow), Vassily Friauf (Saratov), Viorel Guliciuc (Suceava, Romania), Emilia Guliciuc (Suceava, Romania), Boris Markov (Saint Petersburg), Alexander Pigalev. SYMPOSIA "Mythology and the Human Images", devoted to the 100-anniversary of the Romanian scholar Mircea Eliade The main topics for discussions: - Mythology and Anthropology - Experiences in the Mystic Light of M. Eliade (1907-1986) - The Phenomenon of Human Mind and Cosmos - Humans and Their Beliefs - Philosophical Anthropology and Yoga - Problems of the Changed States of Concsiousness "Metaphysics and Anthropology of Simeon Frank" devoted to the 130-anniversary of the Russian thinker The main topics for discussions: - The Subject of Knowledge and the Unknowable of S.L. Frank (1877-1950) - Reality and Human Being - The Human Soul - The Spiritual Foundations of Society - Metaphysics and Ethics - The Predestination of Man and Meaning of Life Languages of the conference: Russian, English. CALL FOR PAPERS The organizing committee invites papers up to 5 pages. Texts should be typewritten in Times New Roman, 1,5-spaced. References are supposed to be listed at the end of the paper. The papers should be submitted both in hard and electronic versions. The registration fee ($75) will enable to cover publishing expenses of the conference proceedings, rent of the conference rooms, translation services. The registration fees are payable upon arrival. Deadline for the texts and registration forms is Febraury 16, 2007. All the documents are to be sent to: Vyacheslav Gulyaikhin, School of Philosophy and Social Technologies, Volgograd State University, 100 Universitetsky Prospect, Volgograd, 400062, Russia. Tel.: +7 (8442) 40-5523 Fax: +7 (8442) 46-0279 E-mail: gulyaich_at_yandex.ru Registration form The paper title_______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Surname, first name___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Academic degree_____________________________________________________________ Affiliation_________________________________________________________________= __ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Address_____________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Telephone (___________)______________________________________________________ Fax (___________)___________________________________________________________ E-mail______________________________________________________________________ From: Willard McCarty Subject: IEEE International Workshop on Software Patterns Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:17:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 554 (554) *The First IEEE International Workshop on **Software Patterns: Addressing Challenges **SPAC 2007 **Call for Papers* *Beijing, China, July 24-27, 2007 (in conjunction with COMPSAC 2007)* * * http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/ (COMPSAC 2007 Link) http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/workshops/SPAC (Workshop Link-1) http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/COMPSAC07 <http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/%7Efayad/workshops/COMPSAC07> (Workshop Link-2) http://www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SPAC07 (WorkshopLink-3)* * *THEME OF THE WORKSHOP* As software increases in size and becomes more complex and costly, the need for techniques to ease software development is likewise increasing. Over the last decade, pattern community has evolved and received more interest in both academia and industry. Developing software using patterns holds the promise to reduce the cost and condensing the time of developing software systems, while simultaneously maintaining the quality of these systems. However, the potential of using patterns in developing systems is not fully realized and we need to address many challenges. For example, developing pattern repositories and catalogs, from which patterns can be retrieved and reused, still forms a challenge to software engineering, knowledge engineering and information systems communities. In addition, the need for (semi-) automated approaches for patterns mining and integration poses several open research questions to the software engineering community. Many think these challenges and others preclude the realization of the benefit of patterns as a reuse approach. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are interested in resolving research challenges or who have practical experience with the different issues of patterns reuse and integration to discuss and advance the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice in patterns reuse. Patterns have emerged as a promising reuse technique for both improving the quality and reducing the cost and time of software development. However, there is an immense belief that patterns have not fulfilled the expectations software developers wanted. Nevertheless, this belief does not rebuff the fact that patterns, as a concept, have the potential to play a key role in developing systems in the near future. This near future will never come unless there are serious attempts from both developers and researchers to investigate and provide creative solutions to current challenges that hinder utilizing patterns in practice. Among these challenges, this workshop focuses on investigating how to develop systems using patterns. We are sure that this topic will attract many developers and researchers in the field to participate in this workshop. *WORKSHOP CHALLENGES* The workshop will address software patterns challenges and debate several issues related to the following questions. We want researchers, framework developers, and application developers to discuss and debate the following questions related to: *I. **Pattern Creation and Development* a. Leaving experience claim on the side, can you show how to create and develop patterns? b. What are the bases of creating patterns? c. Are there guidelines, methodologies, and/or processes for pattern creations and developments? d. Would you show an example or two? *II. **Patterns Selection Process: * a. How does one select analysis and design patterns to build any system? b. What is the basis for selecting these patterns? c. If someone would like to build a system from patterns, how does she select patterns? d. What kind of patterns should one select to build a system from patterns? e. Is there a guideline for the selection process? *III. **Patterns Composition* a. How does one integrate the selected patterns to build any system? or How does one compose any system from patterns? b. What are the various claims related to patterns composition? Are they true? c. Are there guidelines or techniques for patterns composition? Would you illustrate how to use them? *IV. **System of Patterns and General Reuse* a. What do we mean when we say "systems of patterns"? b. Are the various claims related to building any system from patterns reasonable? c. How to develop pattern repositories and catalogs, from which patterns can be retrieved and reused? d. Are there automated approaches for patterns mining and integration? e. What other concepts will help build any system from patterns? *V. **Impacts* a. What is the impact of software stability on the above issues? Check any of the following websites for all columns and accepted position papers: http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/workshops/SPAC (Main Link) www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad//workshops/COMPSAC07 <http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/%7Efayad//workshops/COMPSAC07> (Workshop Link 2) www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SPAC07 (Workshop Link 3 -- Under Construction) [...] Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Clai Rice" Subject: being of the plain style Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:18:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 555 (555) Uh-oh, Willard. Mucking about with colorless green ideas might generate an avalanche of replies. You are correct that Miller is talking about a mode of interpretation rather than, or as much as, a restriction on usage. I don't know about Miller, but Chomsky clearly is aware of the type of examples you describe. He said in _Aspects_, of "deviant" strings breaking subcategorization or selectional rules, that "it is necessary to impose an interpretation on them somehow--this being a task that varies in difficulty or challenge from case to case--whereas there is no question of imposing an interpretation in the case of ... strictly well-formed sentences" (149). So Chomsky sees two (or more) types of interpretation at work, one that involves the universal grammar and one that involves something else (later on 149 he mentions "analogy to well-formed sentences" for selectional violations, but throws up his hands for subcategorization violations). This problem at the syntax-semantics interface has dogged him throughout all later permutations of his theories, and is still largely ignored by many mainstream (American) linguists. But other approaches to language do not agree that there is one sort of dominant mode of interpretation for language (called "grammar") and other modes for poetic usage. In some brands of construction grammar, for example, your example from Miller would be handled by general inferencing at the level of the comparative construction (A is x-er than B). Constructions specify particular relations among the items involved. Just as there is a relation that specifies two items cannot be identical (try "John is taller than John"), other constructions specify two items must be hyponymic (X is a kind of Y). So if by chance you use nouns in the two slots that aren't usually understood as hyponyms, you find a way to adjust the understanding of the nouns to make them hyponyms anyway ("an idea is a type of virus"). So you can have a science of language I believe without backing yourself into this kind of corner. Whether the plain style is what gives rise to Chomsky and Miller's semantic blinders, I can't say, though it's a provocative idea. The usual whipping boy is "truth-conditional semantics", but that solution just begs that same question you ask. --Clai Rice From: "Ryder, Sean" Subject: Research Fellowships Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:13:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 556 (556) ** RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ** The Moore Institute for Humanities and Social Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway, currently hosts an EU-funded project entitled TEXTE (Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing). The project is seeking applicants for six research fellowships in the areas of textual editing, digital textuality and hypermedia construction: Postdoctoral Research Fellows (for 24 months) - three posts [closing date 1 April 2007] Senior Research Fellow (for 24 months) - one post [closing date 1 February 2007] Senior Research Fellows (for 6 months) - two posts [closing date 1 August 2007] For further details on all posts and application procedures, please email the project director, Sean Ryder, at: sean.ryder_at_nuigalway.ie Further information about the TEXTE project may be found on the Moore Institute website at: www.mooreinstitute.ie Dr Sean Ryder Department of English National University of Ireland, Galway Tel: +353-91-493009 Fax: +353-91-524102 email: sean.ryder_at_nuigalway.ie From: Willard McCarty Subject: where are we? Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:10:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 557 (557) Recently I referred via a review by Simon Blackburn, "No easy answers", to an essay by Bernard Williams, "Philosophy as a humanistic discipline". Having read the latter since then, I'd like to use its central argument once again as a kind of mirror for ourselves. Williams writes of the hope that human enquiry will be able to offer "an absolute conception of the world as it is independently of any local or peculiar perspective on it". He refers to the defense of the humanities by those "who think that they have to show that nobody has any hope of offering such a conception, including scientists: that natural science constitutes just another part of the human conversation, so that, leaving aside the small difference that the sciences deliver refrigerators, weapons, medicines and so on, they are in the same boat as the humanities are." He goes on to say the following: [deleted quotation]kind of reason [deleted quotation](in Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, ed. A. W. Moore, Princeton, 2006, pp. 188-9) If I understand him correctly, Williams argues, in effect, that there are two trajectories of thought, one that seems to be heading straight for "an absolute conception of the world as it is independently of any local or peculiar perspective on it" and another that concerns us as contingent, historical beings, and that we do ourselves no good to plop for one side or the other. We need both. Both have their own particular source of intellectual authority. The question I wish to raise is, where are we humanities computing folk in this? I suggest that we're situated closer to the middle than most of our colleagues in the humanities, except perhaps for philosophers like Williams, Hacking and some others. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Reminder of Resources: Pedagogical Participations Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:59:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 558 (558) Dear Willard et al. The call for papers / presentations reproduced below is certainly a model in the genre. [Note the apologies are for the reception of multiple copies not for cross-posting (nuance, eh)] The TCC conferences has always been very inviting for both newbie novice and seasoned experts alike. I last actively participated in 2003 with a piece "Of Drugs, Messages and Time" and have managed a bare peek at the offerings since thanks to the excellent archiving. (See more on access to the archives below). I know this sounds like an informational endorsement (it is). It is also a call for institutes of higher learning to pay attention to what has been happening in the community colleges. Humanists in particular can benefit from observing a rich exchange on the lore and learning of networked environments engaged in the work of pedagogy and access. F. [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Everyone is a little bit crazy; everyone at some time has a learning disability; No one is ever a little bit positive. From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Digital Librarian position at U of Maryland Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:59:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 559 (559) University of Maryland Libraries Title: Librarian (Digital Collections) Category: Non-Tenured Faculty, Full-Time (12-Month Appointment) Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience; comprehensive= benefits Exciting opportunity to help build a new and=20 dynamic program in digital collections and=20 research at the largest university library system=20 in the Washington DC-Baltimore area. The UM=20 Libraries serve the College Park campus, the=20 flagship of the 13-member University System of=20 Maryland. See http://www.lib.umd.edu/ for more information. RESPONSIBILITIES: The Digital Collections=20 Librarian will support and manage projects=20 coordinated by the office of Digital Collections=20 and Research. 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Full job description is at= http://www.lib.umd.edu/PASD/LPO/LibJobs/011807.html THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND IS AN EEO/AA employer. --=20 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 http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: The perfect language (was: RE: Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:57:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 560 (560) 20.409 being of the plain style) Willard wrote : [deleted quotation]... [deleted quotation]... [deleted quotation]Another strike against logical positivism. Or ... ? The dark side of 'the rise of Baconian science' was in my humble opinion much more extensive and fundamental than this. One might do well to contemplate Stephen Toulmin's pertinent manifesto in his _Return to reason_ (Harvard University Press, 2001), perhaps best in combination with his much older and better known _The uses of argument_ (updated ed. Cambridge University Press, 2003). But specifically on the language aspect : Something else that pops into one's mind is the Neurath/Carnap notion of a "physikalische Sprache". (E.g. : Rudolf Carnap, "Die physikalische Sprache als Universalsprache der Wissenschaft", _Erkenntnis_ 2.1 (1931), p.432-465.) See too, e.g., Eco's _La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea_ (Laterza, 1993 ; transl. as _The search for the perfect language_, Blackwell, 1995). On p.336 he writes : "E ancora legato all'ideale baconiano era l'ideale del positivismo logico, e la sua polemica contro la vaghezza del linguaggio metafisico, creatore di pseudo-problemi." (I was put onto this last reference by Roy Moxley in his "The modern/postmodern context of Skinner's selectionist turn in 1945" in _Behavior and philosophy_ 29 (2001), p.121-153.) More recent of possible interest on the matter is e.g. Angčle Kremer Marietti's "Auguste Comte et la science unifiée", in _Auguste Comte : trajectoires positivistes : 1798-1998_ (L'Harmattan, 2003). Fascinating subject, Willard, and well introduced by you, in my opinion. The perfect language is, of course, the one everybody would like to, but nobody knows how to, speak. - Laval Hunsucker Amsterdam, Universiteitsbibliotheek From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: RE: 20.412 being of the plain style Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:57:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 561 (561) Willard, it seems to me a foolish consistency to restrict "language" to propositional statements. That ignores the reality of our language having clear rules for constructing and understanding what one might call rhetorical statements, e.g., metaphoric and ironic statements. "The man flew out of the room" is interpreted differently as propositional (he had wings) and metaphorical (he walked out fast). Similarly, we have clear rules for distinguishing ironic statements. "He was knee-deep in toddlers" loses all force if we don't understand that "knee-deep" here is rhetorical (his legs aren't plunged into the children's bodies," or so we hope) and, unlike the metaphoric situation, less than accurate (that is, the rhetorical meaning of overwhelming involvement mismatches, unlike the fly/fast case, the little children's power with the adults). See Gulliver. Obviously the redefinitions of semantic elements of words and phrases needed to make sense of otherwise ungrammatical situations is itself a rule-driven enterprise. We know perfectly well what "all of the children are above average" means. And as Twain said when asked about infant baptism, "Believe in it? Why, I've seen it!" Yours, Eric ------------------------------------------------- Eric S. Rabkin 734-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 734-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 734-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin_at_umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/ [deleted quotation] From: "Perry Willett" Subject: OAIster reaches 10 million records Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:58:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 562 (562) ANN ARBOR, Mich. - OAIster Reaches 10 Million Records. <http://www.oaister.org/> We live in an information-driven world-- one in which access to good information defines success. OAIster's growth to 10 million records takes us one step closer to that goal. Developed at the University of Michigan's Library, OAIster is a collection of digital scholarly resources. OAIster is also a service that continually gathers these digital resources to remain complete and fresh. As global digital repositories grow, so do OAIster's holdings. Popular search engines don't have the holdings OAIster does. They crawl web pages and index the words on those pages. It's an outstanding technique for fast, broad information from public websites. But scholarly information, the kind researchers use to enrich their work, is generally hidden from these search engines. OAIster retrieves these otherwise elusive resources by tapping directly into the collections of a variety of institutions using harvesting technology based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. These can be images, academic papers, movies and audio files, technical reports, books, as well as preprints (unpublished works that have not yet been peer reviewed). By aggregating these resources, OAIster makes it possible to search across all of them and return the results of a thorough investigation of complete, up-to-date resources. Ann Devenish, Publication Services Project Manager at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, notes that "Harvesting by OAIster is a primary 'selling point' when we talk to scientists and researchers about the visibility, accessibility, and impact of their contributions in an institutional repository. From their own experiences they know that a search using one of the popular search engines can bring back thousands (if not, millions) of results which will require careful and time-consuming screening, with no guarantee that they will ever get to the content they seek. A search of OAIster, across hundreds of open and scholarly archives and millions of records, brings back results with the key metadata elements that allow for quick identification of, and easy navigation to, the content they seek." OAIster is good news for the digital archives that contribute material to open-access repositories. "[OAIster has demonstrated that]...OAI interoperability can scale. This is good news for the technology, since the proliferation is bound to continue and even accelerate," says Peter Suber, author of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. As open-access repositories proliferate, they will be supported by a single, well-managed, comprehensive, and useful tool. Scholars will find that searching in OAIster can provide better results than searching in web search engines. Roy Tennant, User Services Architect at the California Digital Library, offers an example: "In OAIster I searched 'roma' and 'world war,' then sorted by weighted relevance. The first hit nailed my topic-- the persecution of the Roma in World War II. Trying 'roma world war' in Google fails miserably because Google apparently searches 'Rome' as well as 'Roma.' The ranking then makes anything about the Roma people drop significantly, and there is nothing in the first few screens of results that includes the word in the title, unlike the OAIster hit." OAIster currently harvests 730 repositories from 49 countries on 6 continents. In three years, it has more than quadrupled in size and increased from 6.2 million to 10 million in the past year. OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. For more information about University of Michigan's OAIster Project, visit <http://www.oaister.org/>, or contact Kat Hagedorn at khage_at_umich.edu. ------------------ Perry Willett Head, Digital Library Production Service 300 Hatcher North University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109-1205 Ph: 734-764-8074 Fax: 734-647-6897 Email: pwillett_at_umich.edu From: Richard Cunningham Subject: job: assoc/full professor in humanities computing Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:50:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 563 (563) Associate or Full Professor - Senior Position in Humanities Computing Humanities Computing Programme, Faculty of Arts Competition Deadline: April 2, 2007 The Humanities Computing Programme (HuCo) and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta invite applications for a tenured appointment at the senior Associate or Full Professor level, commencing 1 July 2008. The Humanities Computing programme has developed a significant national and international reputation in digitally-enhanced teaching and research in the liberal arts. We welcome applicants who will extend and enhance this profile; assist in the establishment of a doctoral programme in Humanities Computing; initiate, develop, and lead substantial research projects at the national and international level; and strengthen interdisplinary links within and across faculties at the university. The successful candidate will be a leader in the Humanities Computing community with a national and international reputation for excellence in technologically-enhanced teaching and research in the Arts. A PhD is required. Applicants should be leaders in the conduct, reporting, and dissemination of research work on the application of leading-edge approaches to humanities computing disciplines, such as knowledge representation, visual communication design, new media, hypertext, text corpora, text encoding and analysis, computational linguistics, statistical models, and broad library and research-based work that focuses on significant issues of textuality, interfaces, and information browsing and retrieval. Candidates should have significant experience in curriculum development in communication and digital media programmes at the graduate and/or undergraduate level. We would specifically welcome applicants who have led the successful development of new degree programmes. Candidates will have a substantial track record of success in obtaining funding from national and international agencies in infrastructure and research development. Candidates will have significant successful experience teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level and will be expected to continue to do so in this position. Candidates should send the Director a letter of application, a complete curriculum vitae (with full contact information including phone numbers and an email address), a teaching dossier, an evaluation of teaching performance, and the names and institutional contact information of three referees invited to write on behalf of the applicant. Please arrange to have these supporting letters sent directly to the director. The department of appointment will be based on the area of specialization of the successful candidate. Salary is commensurate with experience and rank. The closing date for applications is 2 April 2007. All application material should be sent to the following address: Sean Gouglas, Director Humanities Computing Programme Office of Interdisciplinary Studies 1-59 Humanities Centre University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E5 Established in 1908, and locates in the city of Edmonton, the University of Alberta (<http://www.ualberta.ca>www.ualberta.ca) serves over 35,500 students in more then 200 undergraduate and 170 graduate programmes; the Faculty of Arts (<http://www.arts.ualberta.ca>www.arts.ualberta.ca) is the oldest and most diverse faculty on campus, with significant resources. The Humanities Computing programme (<http://huco.ualberta.ca>http://huco.ualberta.ca) is a unique, vibrant, and collegial unit with a reputation for innovative teaching, research, and service. For further information about the position or the programme, please contact the Director by email at sean.gouglas_at_ualberta.ca. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. From: Social Science Research Council Subject: SSRC's Albert O. Hirschman Prize -- Call for Nominations Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:50:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 564 (564) The Social Science Research Council invites nominations for the newly established Albert O. Hirschman Prize, to be awarded annually to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to international, interdisciplinary social science research, theory, and public communication. Nominations for 2007 are due by February 15. The Prize recognizes Albert Hirschman's pioneering role in the development of contemporary social science and public policy as well as his life-long commitment to international economic development. Exploring theory and practice, the history of ideas and the gathering of new knowledge, the transformation of Latin America and the shape of the modern world, Albert Hirschman has made scholarship effective. He has nurtured innovative approaches to fostering growth, given guidance to the pursuit of social change, and written in ways that help social science effectively inform public affairs. His work stands as an exemplar of the necessary knowledge that the Social Science Research Council seeks to develop and the interdisciplinary and international approach it encourages. A distinguished committee of former and current members of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council will select one recipient each year. The recipient will deliver the annual Albert O. Hirschman Prize Lecture at a ceremony in New York. The lecture will be published by the SSRC in the Albert O. Hirschman Lecture Series and posted on the Council's website. The Prize carries an award of US $10,000. Please send a nominating letter to Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council, 810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, NY 10019 or via email to president_at_ssrc.org no later than February 15, 2007. This is an advertisement message. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Name that Calendar :) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:52:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 565 (565) Willard I am appealing to our learned colleagues who have experience with calendars to help me track where the elements of the following calendarization may have come from: Mayan? Sino? Semitic? Scifi? Syncretic? In this calendar there are canonical hours. They number 6 not the usual medieval 8. The interval between them is 4 and not 3. 24 divided by 6 equals 4 In this calendar the minimum work day is 4 hours and the maximum is 8 hours. Shift work is done in cycles of 4 or 8 depending upon the intensity of the work 4 on 4 off or 8 on 8 off And no more than 8 in a 24 hour period. This calendar makes use of intercalary weeks. 365 divided by 6 equals 60.833 60 weeks per year with an interclary week on a biennial basis. 6 days per week (4 day work week) In this calendar there are 182.5 days between the solstices. Average number of lunations per solstice period is 6.5 A year has 13 months **** I kid you not when this message was being composed the earphones were sweetly conveying the acoustic stylings of Groove Armada good bye country (hello nightclub) track 4 "be where we really are" though I=E2=80=99m sure I was aware of a famous Beatles tune running a counterpoint (* days a week). All this calendar work was sparked by the notion that in Canada there is in banking terms are no statutory holidays in the month of February that are currency non-clearing days. Canadians generally have been keen for a while to mark some such day in the second month of the Gregorian (so-called civic) calendar. **** This may all be a very acute reaction to the pushiness found in some quarters for 24/7. But somewhere somehow some group has regulated collective and individuals lives in such a circardian-compatible fashion. Likely a group whose members in their mind's eye observe 11:55 on the face of the clock. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Everyone is a little bit crazy; everyone at some time has a learning disability; No one is ever a little bit positive. From: "William Cole" Subject: Re: 20.416 being of the plain style Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:48:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 566 (566) Since we are collecting references on this subject of 'plainness' in language, I'll recommend Hugh Kenner, "Science, Axel and Punning" (the appendix to his _The Mechanic Muse_ [New York: Oxford UP, 1987] 115-131). Beginning with Thomas Sprat's longing for the "Primitive Purity and Shortness" of language, in which we expressed "so many / Things/, in almost in an equal Number of /Words/," Kenner traces the thread of scientific plainness as it informed literary language from Swift to Joyce. Of course, Kenner ends with the conclusion that "there are no plain words." It's a good read in Kenner's inimitable style (indeed I recommend the whole volume, the other essays of which discuss technology's intersection with and impact on modernist literature). One related thought, I've been toying with for a while now. It strikes me that the contemporary exhortations regarding web standards and accessibility are founded, uncritically, on the same faith that language is at its best when it is most plain. HTML, for example, assumes that linguistic structures are simple and hierarchical (to say nothing of the fact that it has no way of even expressing the existence of figurative or rhetorical structures). And to follow the tangent a bit further, I've also been uneasy with the central accessibility tenet that one must separate structure from presentation, which seems to assume that meaning resides solely in the 'pure' form of plain text, while typography, layout, etc. are expendable decoration. (This last thought is not meant in any way to undermine the importance of accessible web design, just to express my concern that current practice may be founded on a debatable understanding of written language.) Cheers, Bill Cole -- William Cole Instructional Technology Director, College of Education Morehead State University 407 Ginger Hall || (606) 783-9326 http://people.moreheadstate.edu/fs/w.cole/ From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 20.416 being of the plain style Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:52:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 567 (567) On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:13:20 +0000, willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU [deleted quotation]Not sure if I'm entirely "on topic" here but in the intersection of figurative language and the science of language category -- I saw an article in this month's DISCOVER Magazine that gets at the neurological mechanisms of metaphor. Article is "Jaron's World" What light through yonder window breaks? It is a new theory of metaphors, and it may illuminate the nature of meaning. by Jaron Lanier. Fascinating and chilling. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) All About Amel fansite (http://www.allamel.co.nr) (seeking art work for Kaleidoscope Illustration project) 2006/7 Righteous Anger: Book #2 ORU Saga (from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing) 2007 (ETA) ORU Anthology #2 Personal Combat (from Windstorm Creative Fandom Press imprint) 2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING (from Red Deer Press edited by Julie E. Czerneda) From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 20.417 new on WWW: OAIster Reaches 10 Million Records Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:13:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 568 (568) Willard, Perry et al. [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation]Is this more about how a user uses the publicly available search engines i.e. ability to focus and narrow a search? Wouldn't a better selling point be complementarity? That is the proprietary data mining (metadata processing / harvesting) product in addition to or along with public search engines. There is many a time where a pre-post-secondary school project has provided insight. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Everyone is a little bit crazy; everyone at some time has a learning disability; No one is ever a little bit positive. From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: RE: 20.413 where are we? Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:16:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 569 (569) If I may be so bold : Maybe you all know something I don't -- and I'd be delighted to be enlightened on the matter, but I've never myself seen a single "source of intellectual authority" for the "trajectory of thought" that human enquiry can deliver "an absolute conception of the world as it is independently of any local or peculiar perspective on it". The very terms of expression here come down to an oxymoron. But more importantly and pragmatically : it seems to me that we'd all be much better off if we just accepted such a simple (and as far as I can see unavoidable) working assumption (I almost called it a "truth", but that would be irresponsibly unreflexive, wouldn't it ?), and proceeded to live with it the best we can. Indeed that's really the fun part, as far as I'm concerned. Beating dead horses can get quite tiresome, after all. You write of Williams' "hope" that the situation could become otherwise. A classic example of an idle hope. But I guess none of us is immune to that phenomenon, though we rightly tend to keep our idle hopes to ourselves. And, fortunately, idle hopes and other sorts of fantasies don't require any "source of intellectual authority". Let's keep it that way. Please note, I'm by no means an unreserved constructivist ; the above mustn't be taken to suggest that "the world as it is independently of any local or peculiar perspective on it" doesn't exist. That's not the point at all. There's not only good reason to hope that it does, but even good reason to think (even with intellectual authority) that it does. But a human "absolute conception" of it is a whole nuther kettle o' fish. A useless chimaera in fact. - Laval Hunsucker [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Seminar with Peter Shillingsburg, 8 February Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:27:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 570 (570) All within range of London are cordially invited to attend a seminar given by Peter Shillingsburg, Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Textual Studies, De Montfort University, on Thursday, 8 February, entitled "The Work Implied, the Work Represented, and the Work Interpreted". This event, in the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, will take place at 5.30 pm, in ST275 (Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/location.htm). Professor Shillingsburg's three-part seminar begins by (1) describing what might be the nature of literary works and texts (the "thing" that might be tranported into the electronic medium from a material one), (2) examining what is entailed in representing or re-representing a work in ways that might be more or less--preferably less--misleading, and (3) embracing the subjectivity of editing and exposing the chimera of objectivity in scholarly editing regardless of medium. The purpose is to emphasize the complexity of the task and suggest a collaborative way to address the idea of electronic scholarly editing. I hope to see you there. Yours, Willard McCarty Convenor London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 11.2 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:33:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 571 (571) Volume 11 Number 2 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com The case of sculpting atmospheres: towards design principles for expressive tangible interaction in control of ambient systems Philip Ross, David V. Keyson 69 - 79 Capturing the effects of context on human performance in mobile computing systems Leon Barnard, Ji Soo Yi, Julie A. Jacko, Andrew Sears 81 - 96 Interacting with mobile services: an evaluation of camera-phones and visual tags Eleanor Toye, Richard Sharp, Anil Madhavapeddy, David Scott, Eben Upton, Alan Blackwell 97 - 106 Sound, paper and memorabilia: resources for a simpler digital photography David Frohlich, Jacqueline Fennell 107 - 116 Uses of accelerometer data collected from a wearable system James F. Knight, Huw W. Bristow, Stamatina Anastopoulou, Chris Baber, Anthony Schwirtz, Theodoros N. Arvanitis 117 - 132 Yesterday's tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing's dominant vision Genevieve Bell, Paul Dourish 133 - 143 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: Extreme 2007 Call for Participation Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:03:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 572 (572) a friendly, technically challenging, intensive, thought-provoking, argumentative, welcoming, obstreperous conference on markup, managing information, and information structures CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EXTREME MARKUP LANGUAGES 2007(r) (a registered trademark of IDEAlliance) THE MARKUP THEORY & PRACTICE CONFERENCE Extreme is the leading international conference on markup theory and= practice. If you have interesting markup applications, difficult markup problems, or intriguing solutions to problems related to the design and use of markup, markup languages, or markup tools; if you want to know what the leading theorists of markup are thinking; if you are the house markup expert and want to spend time with your kind, then you should plan on attending Extreme Markup Languages(r) 2007. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Extreme is an open marketplace of theories about markup and all the things that they support or that support them: the difficult cases in publishing, linguistics, transformation, searching, indexing, and storage and retrieval. At Extreme, markup enthusiasts gather each year to trade in ideas, not to convince management to buy new stuff. At Extreme we push the edges of markup theory & practice. WHEN: August 7-10, 2007 WHERE: Montr=E9al, Canada HOST: IDEAlliance HOW TO PARTICIPATE You can participate in Extreme Markup Languages in several ways: - Talk: submit a conference paper. Submit full papers in XML to extreme_at_mulberrytech.com. Guidelines and details at http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/submissions.html - Review: serve as a peer reviewer. To apply to serve on the Peer Review panel, follow the instructions (yes, this is a test) at: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Peer/ReviewAppForm.html - Attend: come to the conference, listen to papers, learn about the latest and best techniques, the hottest and most pressing problems, the best and most promising solutions, and how the future of markup is shaping up. Meet the people who are shaping that future. Also, drink good coffee and eat great food in one of North America's greatest cities. TOPICS Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - XQuery, XSL-FO, XSLT, Pipelining, Topic Maps, RDF, TMQL, DSDL, OWL, SGML, XML, XSD, RELAX NG ... - markup for document production - markup for preservation and reuse of cultural artifacts - issues in the design and deployment of markup vocabularies - engineering tradeoffs in the design of markup-driven systems - overlapping structures and how to represent them - bias, objectivity, neutrality and ontological commitment in markup, markup design and software tools - trees, tuples, sequences, directed graphs, and other data structures for the representation of information - better markup as a tool for making the Web more useful - the future of multi-purpose content - the future of structured documents - designing, creating, using, mainipulating, and interpreting marked-up content - new markup-related tools - markup semantics - new approaches to old problems and new - things you can and can't do with XML - things it never occurred to you that anyone would want to do with XML - alternatives to popular specifications and techniques - treating non-XML data as if it were XML - treating XML data as if it were non-XML - implementation reports: love songs or horror stories IMPORTANT DATES 9 March 2007: Peer review applications due 20 April 2007: Paper submissions due 13 May 2007: Speakers notified of paper selection 6 July 2007: Revised papers due 7-10 August 2007: Extreme Markup Languages 2007, Montr=E9al QUESTIONS: Email to extreme_at_mulberrytech.com or call Tommie Usdin +1 301/315-9631 MORE INFORMATION as available: http://www.extrememarkup.com/ PROCEEDINGS of previous EXTREME MARKUP Conferences: http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme/proceedings/ The Extreme Markup Languages Conference, formerly a production of IDEAlliance, is now developed by Mulberry Technologies, Inc., which is solely responsible for its program. From: ruy_at_cin.ufpe.br Subject: WoLLIC'2007 - CfP Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:05:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 573 (573) Call for Papers 14th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC'2007) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 2-5, 2007 WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The Fourteenth WoLLIC will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 2 to July 5, 2007, and sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Logica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2007/instructions.html A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by February 23, and the full paper by March 2 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April 13, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by April 27 (firm date). [...] WEB PAGE www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2007 --- From: "Stephanie Chow" Subject: call for Contributions: Journal of Database Management (JDM) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:09:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 574 (574) Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks. CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Database Management (JDM) Special Issue on XML Data Services: Technology Evolution and Challenges ============================================================== http://redmaple.hrl.uoit.ca/~jdmseiw2007 The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is used to represent fine-grained data that originates in repositories in machine readable format by providing structure and the possibility of adding type information, such as XML Schema. A Web service is a software system that supports interoperable application-to-application interaction over the Internet. Web services are based on a set of XML standards, such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI). Each service makes its functionality available through well-defined or standardized XML interfaces. The result of this approach is a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). XML is playing an important role in the data transport protocol for Web services. For example, SOAP messages are used both by service requestors to invoke Web services, and by Web services to answer requests. The interactions of SOAP messages between Web services form the theoretical model of SOAP Message Exchange Patterns (MEP). This workshop aims to explore and investigate various research issues of XML data that is encapsulated by Web services over the network. In particular, we call these networked services as XML data services. New challenges arise in the study of services engineering, an emerging research area devoted to the software engineering of service-oriented applications. Services engineering is an important area of the Services Computing Discipline, as promoted by the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, academia and industry. Its goal is to formulate effective solutions to the quality development, deployment and management of these applications. Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to: * Services engineering in XML data services * Models and languages of XML data services * Design and implementation of XML data services * Interoperability and integration of XML data services * Requirements engineering for XML data services * Generation of XML data from Web services * Data modeling concepts for XML data in Web services * Ontology and semantic Web services * Security, privacy and trust with XML data services * Transaction management in XML data services * BPEL and Web service orchestration with XML data * XML-related languages like XML Schema, XPath, XQuery for Web services * Convergence of Web services and XML database technology (queries, views, updates, integration, etc.) * XML-based middleware for Web services * SOAP Message Exchange Patterns * UDDI, WSDL and SOAP enhancements * Case studies for XML data services * Quality of XML data services and deployment issues * Dependability of XML data services * Technical architecture and framework of XML data services * Design tools and methodologies for XML data services * Usage and usefulness analysis of XML data services The goal of this proposed special issue is to crystallize the emerging XML data technologies and trends into positive efforts to focus on the most promising solutions in e-business services computing. The papers will provide clear proof that XML data technologies are playing an ever increasing important and critical role in supporting business service processes. It is also expected that the papers will further research new best practices and directions in XML data services. Author Instructions Submissions to this special issue will be required to have some theoretical/experimental/empirical results. Authors should create an account and submit via our online submission system at http://redmaple.hrl.uoit.ca/~jdmseiw2007 (available soon). Papers must be submitted as either a Word file or PDF. For detailed submission information, please refer to Guidelines for Submission at http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?ID=198&v=guidelines Important Dates Submissions due: April 2, 2007 Review Outcome: July 2, 2007 Revision Due: October 1, 2007 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: November 5, 2007 Final Paper Due: November 26, 2007 Special Issue Co-Editors Patrick C. K. Hung Faculty of Business and Information Technology University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada Chengfei Liu Faculty of Information and Communication Technology Swinburne University of Technology, Australia For further information about submissions, please contact Patrick C. K. Hung by email at patrick.hung_at_uoit.ca. From: "Perry Willett" Subject: Middle English Dictionary now freely available Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:08:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 575 (575) Forwarding from Paul Schaffner: ----------- [Feel free to x-post.] The University of Michigan announces that under new arrangements worked out between the University Press and the University Library, all components of the online "Middle English Compendium," including the online version of the Middle English Dictionary, are now freely accessible without fee, password, or any other impediment to access: <http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/m/mec> The MED has hitherto been available only on a subscription or password-protected basis, till the Press recouped its substantial contribution to the original conversion costs. This has now been accomplished, and we are grateful for their agreement that the time has come to liberate it. It was always our hope and intention to open the MED when we could, both in the general interest of public access (to which as a public university library we are dedicated), and with the expectation that open access will facilitate eventual interlinking amongst sibling dictionaries and between MED and other projects (e.g. online editions, which are now free to link lexical lookups to the appropriate MED entry). The official press release is here: http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=3125 pfs -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Schaffner | PFSchaffner@umich.edu | http://www.umich.edu/~pfs/ 316-C Hatcher Library N, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1205 -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Willard McCarty Subject: methods for investigating a novel? Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:06:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 576 (576) Dear Humanist colleagues, I wonder if you could advise me which methods to use to investigate the authorship of Tihiy Don (The Quiet Don) by Mihail A. Sholohov? Some time ago there was a heated discussion on the authorship of Tihiy Don for which Mihail Sholohov received the Nobel Prize in literature. A. I. Solzhenitsyn, I.N. Medvedeva-Tomashevskaya, Z. Tomashevskaya, A. Zayats, V, Pravdyuk, R. Medvedev, A. Fomenko and M. Mezentsev are sure that M. Sholohov stole the text of Tihiy Don from Fedor Kryukov, who was the Don writer and died during the Russian Civil war in 1919. A. Fomenko studied the frequency of occurrence of the functional words and came to the conclusion that it was not Sholohov who wrote Tihiy Don (The Quiet Don) but Fedor Kryukov. However, the Norwegian Slavist Kjetso came to the oposite conclusion, using the statistical methods. Kjetso stated that it was Sholohov who wrote Tihiy Don. I wonder if there were any other investigations using math. statistical methods. I studied the use of the prepositions in the prose of Sholohov, Krykov, Tolstoy, Dostoevskiy, Goncharov, Turgenev, Bulgakov and some other writers. I wonder in which journal or magazine I may publish my results. I'd like to discuss my results with those interested. I am looking forward to hearing from you to my e-mail address: yutamb_at_mail.ru Sincerely yours Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 20.423 Peter Shillingsburg's London Seminar, 8 February Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:08:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 577 (577) Willard, In advance of the Feb 8 seminar, I have a few questions that arise from the description which may or may not be ascribable to Peter Shillingsburg himself (would they be words of yours?): [deleted quotation]Lovely neologism : tranported does it mean "mapping" or "transformationally porting" which in topological terms might be a sort of mapping? Is the conjunction betwee "work" and "text" meant to be a coordinationg (as opposed to disjunctive) conjunction? i.e. is the set of literary works and texts a union of various semiotic kinds? Or is the adjective literary modifying both texts and works as distinct categories? Sorry to worry this via grammatical niceities but the Kantian ghost captured with the scarequoted round the "thing" makes me wonder if there is a misplaced materialsim at play in the description. Of course these considerations lurk in and around the question of repetition and representation as well as whether an objective subjectivity can emerge form the process of electronic editing whether of aretfacts digitally approached (whether electricity is involved is moot). [deleted quotation]Close your eyes and you can imagine many many of us there... tranported in a collab way. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Everyone is a little bit crazy; everyone at some time has a learning disability; No one is ever a little bit positive. From: Charles Ess Subject: new volume on information ethics Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:07:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 578 (578) Dear Humanists, On behalf of my co-editor, Soraj Hongladarom (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand), and our collected authors, I'm very pleased to announce the following publication: Hongladarom, S. and Ess, C. (eds.). 2007. _Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives_. Hershey, Pennsylvania: Idea Reference. <http://www.idea-group.com/reference/details.asp?id=3D6336> Chapters from some of the most prominent scholars and philosophers in information ethics, both within and beyond traditionally Western domains, address a wide range of central ethical issues from both theoretical and culture-specific perspectives. Individually and collectively, the chapters will help readers develop a genuinely global approach to the diverse ethical issues created by information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their possible resolutions. The Introduction summarizes the contributions, connects them to the larger literatures in information and computing ethics, and sketches the requirements and characteristics of a possible _global_ information and computing ethics - an ethics, we argue, that will be increasingly urgent for all users of ICTs, as more and more citizens of the world (now ca. 1/6th of the world's population) encounter and engage one another cross-culturally. To our knowledge, this is the first anthology to approach information ethics from such a wide range of perspectives - including multiple Asian and African perspectives, as well as those of peoples marginalized in developed countries. Table of Contents: Section I -Theoretical Concerns Chapter I: The Moral Status of Information and Information Technologies: A Relational Theory of Moral Status / Johnny Hartz S=F8raker Chapter II: Online Communities, Democratic Ideals, and the Digital Divide / Frances S. Grodzinsky and Herman T. Tavani Chapter III: The Mediating Effect of Material Cultures as Human Hybridiation / Lorenzo Magnani Chapter IV: Culture and Technology: A Mutual-Shaping Approach / Thomas Herdin, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, and Ursula Maier-Rabler Chapter V: Mobile Phone and Autonomy / Theptawee Chokvasin Chapter VI: Ethics of Digitalization: Designing so as not to Hurt Others / Maja van der Velden Chapter VII: Privacy and Property in the Global Datasphere / Dan L. Burk Chapter VIII: Analysis and Justification of Privacy from a Buddhist Perspective / Soraj Hongladarom Section II - Specific Viewpoints Chapter IX: Information Privacy in a Surveillance State: A Perspective from Thailand / Pirongrong Ramasoota Rananand Chapter X; Interactions among Thai Culture, ICT, and IT Ethics / P. Bhattarakosol Chapter XI: We Cannot Eat Data: The Need for Computer Ethics to Address the Cultural and Ecological Impacts of Computing / Barbara Paterson Chapter XII: Current and Future State of ICT Deployment and Utilization in Healthcare: An Analysis of Cross-Cultural Ethical Issues / Bernd Carsten Stahl, Simon Rogerson, and Amin Kashmeery Chapter XIII: Business and Technology in Turkey: An Emerging Country at the Crossroad of Civilations / Gonca Telli Yamamoto Chapter XIV: The Existential Significance of the Digital Divide for America=B9s Historically Underserved Populations / Lynette Kvasny Yes, Amazon has it ... Cordially, - charles ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee <http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ethics.html> Co-chair, CATaC conferences Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: Willard McCarty Subject: MODELS AND SIMULATIONS 2 (11-13/10/07) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:16:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 579 (579) ********************************************************************* MODELS AND SIMULATIONS 2 Three-day conference at the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science 11-13 October 2007 <http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/fww/tilps/MS2/>http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/fww/tilps/MS2/ ********************************************************************* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ronald Giere (University of Minnesota), Margaret Morrison (University of Toronto), Stathis Psillos (University of Athens) and Paul Teller (UC Davis) ORGANISERS: Roman Frigg (LSE), Stephan Hartmann (LSE/Tilburg [from May 2007]), and Cyrille Imbert (IHPST/Paris I) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Robert Batterman (Western Ontario), Jacques Dubucs (IHPST/CNRS), Roman Frigg (LSE), Stephan Hartmann (LSE/Tilburg [from May 2007]), Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia), Cyrille Imbert (IHPST/Paris I), and Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida) PUBLICATION: Revised versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of Synthese. The deadline for submission of the final version of the paper is 1 March 2008. The conference is generously supported by the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science and the IHPST, Paris. The conference language is English. Computer simulations play an important role in many scientific contexts, and they are often based on a particular model of the phenomenon under investigation. This raises questions both about the nature and methodology of simulations themselves, as well as their relations to models. These issues have recently attracted some attention, and were also discussed at the 'Models and Simulations' conference in Paris in June 2006. The aim of the present conference is both to provide a forum to continue ongoing debates and to try to slightly shift the focus of attention. So far case studies played an important role in the debates over models and simulations and a lot has been learned from them. We are now also interested in theoretical approaches that attempt to rationalize these cases and help furthering our philosophical understanding of how models and simulations explain, how they are confirmed, how they relate to theories and other models, and how they represent. Please submit extended abstracts of 1000 words through our abstract submission system (see website) by 15 April 2007; decisions will be made by 15 May. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephan Hartmann Professor of Philosophy London School of Economics <http://www.stephanhartmann.org/>http://www.stephanhartmann.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "han han" <06conf_at_gmail.com> Subject: cfp: ICNC'07-FSKD'07 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:17:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 580 (580) The 3rd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'07) The 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'07) 24 - 27 August 2007, Haikou, China *** Submission Deadline: 15 March 2007 *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <http://www.hainu.edu.cn/htm/icnc-fskd2007>http://www.hainu.edu.cn/htm/icnc-fskd2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Papers & Special Session Proposals The joint ICNC'07-FSKD'07 will be held in Haikou, China. Haikou, the capital city of Hainan Province, is a pleasant modern city with a number of historical and cultural sights to see and to hold you for a few days before heading off to Hainan's beautiful beaches and inland villages. ICNC'07-FSKD'07 aims to provide an international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of intelligent methods inspired from nature, including biological, linguistic, ecological, and physical systems, with applications to data mining, manufacturing, design, reliability, and more. It is an exciting and emerging inter- disciplinary area in which a wide range of techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. Previously, the joint conferences in 2005 and 2006 each attracted over 3100 submissions from more than 30 countries. All accepted papers will be indexed by both EI (Compendex) and ISTP. Furthermore, extended versions of many good papers will be published in SCI-indexed journals, as well as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) that will be indexed in SCI-Expanded. In addition to regular sessions, participants are encouraged to organize special sessions on specialized topics. Each special session should have at least 4 papers. Special session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. For more information, visit the conference web page or email the secretariat at nc2007_at_hainu.edu.cn Join us at this major event in scenic Hainan !!! From: Willard McCarty Subject: where we are Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:10:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 581 (581) Laval Hunsucker, in Humanist 20.413, was at an unfortunate disadvantage with respect to Bernard Williams' argument concerning the sciences and the humanities, apparently having only my exceedingly crude version of it to go on. As A. W. Moore points out in the introduction to Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline (Princeton, 2006), this argument has remained one of the most controversial that Williams made. A sure indication of its philosophical fruitfulness. The question of whether an absolute conception of the world, free from all historically contingent points of view, is coherent is an open one, as he says -- and cites Moore's Points of View (1997) for discussion of it. In the essay his main effort is to argue that as a humanistic discipline philosophy isn't about attempting to gain such an absolute conception. Many scientists, as he says, think that the sciences are and have been making such an attempt -- hence their vindicatory style of explanation, as he calls it. He's attacking scientism in philosophy, which (insofar as I understand the argument) is pernicious because by nature philosophy (and the other humanities) are going in a different direction. Perhaps "trajectory" is the wrong metaphor, though it does seem to have much to recommend it, esp if the thing on it has humans aboard. What I wanted to suggest was that we have a genuine question of our own to consider: given the parting of the intellectual ways in these two divergent trajectories, where are we? Williams regarded it as a profound error for defenders of the humanities to go about their business by denying the success of the sciences in explaining the natural world, and so putting them and the humanities in the same boat. To do so is only to flip the coin whose other side has the humanities trying to become "scientific". Far better to leave two-sidedness alone, I'd think. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.4 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:17:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 582 (582) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 4 January 30, 2007 =96 February 5, 2007) THIS WEEK IN UBIQUITY Claiming that the superiority of the=20 microwave technology has demonstrated its power=20 and commercial values in telecommunications and=20 computer networks, Joseph Bih offers a quick=20 primer on the basic principles involved. Since=20 completing his graduate studies as the University=20 of North Texas, his research interests have=20 focused on secure networks, information systems=20 management and new technology applications. See=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i04_bih.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquit= y/views/v8i04_bih.html=20 From: Willard McCarty Subject: technological progress & de-skilling practice Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:06:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 583 (583) David Baird, in Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments (California, 2004), uses the history of analytical chemistry to show how the technological development of instruments tends to de-skill the fields of enquiry which these instruments are designed to serve (pp. 96-112). In its classical form, the analytical chemist uses his or her knowledge of chemical interactions to determine the constituent parts of a compound by separating them out. This, he shows, requires much subtlety and craft, though the process is often long and tedious, hence a problem not merely for the learned practitioner, who invests much time to get results, but also for the fields of application in which many such chemists work. (Think, for example, of industries in which the specific composition of a metal is crucial to manufacture. The speed at which a molten metallic compound is analyzed becomes a major bottleneck and the accuracy of analysis crucial. In the days of classical analysis, a 15% error rate was not uncommon.) To make a long but fascinating story short, what happened was that instruments were developed that more and more successfully embodied the craft-knowledge of the chemists, greatly speeding up the analysis and radically increasing its accuracy. Analysis by instrumentation won the day. The victory of instrumentalized analysis had social consequences. A new class of technicians arose -- those with sufficient skill to operate the instruments but not, by any means, chemists with the skills of former days. The practice of analysis had become de-skilled. In an editorial published in 1947, Walter Murphy described the situation: [deleted quotation]Murphy made strenuous efforts to change the perception of his field so that the demands made on the professional chemist would be properly appreciated, and so the status of the field raised. Apparently he was quite successful -- distinctions between chemists and technicians did develop; curricula were revamped; awards established. The profession rethought itself amidst much confusion about its nature -- like a pharmicist filling a prescription or a doctor planning a course of treatment? Another chemist, Ralph Mueller, promoted a science of instrumentation, for by this point instruments were themselves recognized as an independent medium in which knowledge was developed, discoveries made. Obviously our situation with computing is different. But there are lessons to be learned, choices to be made. What do you think these are? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 20.431 where we are Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:12:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 584 (584) Willard Why not take your cue from the subject line you provided? Where we are [deleted quotation]Are there really two cultures "where we are"? We whoever "we" may encompass can deny a global success in explaining the natural world without denying a lot of regional successes in explanation. And in so doing we don't have to be bound to a dual set of trajectories. We have truck with _events_. Recently (Jan 30, 2007 to be more exact) Italian philosopher Giani Vattimo spoke at U of Toronto on the myth of "Unity". He broached the topic by way of Foucault's "ontologie de l'actualite". his trip took him to Heidegger. Englishing the phrase one get the "ontology of current events" apt to describe the currents that flow from an event and in a sense an ontology inflected towards emanations. Unity with a capital U points the logical symbol for union; stood on its head, it is the symbol for intersection. It becomes possible to think unity in terms of connectedness and not merely as dominion. There is a way via Pierce to recoup the Thomastic transcendentals (Unity, Beauty, Goodness) of Being for a practice mindful of place and situation and co-federation. For Success read Unity. Take two-sidedness and fold again: [deleted quotation]Just how do you propose to leave recto/verso when the leaf of booklore maps so nicely to the before and later of a time series. We speack similar languages. It just takes a wee bit of imagination to effect the translations. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Everyone is a little bit crazy; everyone at some time has a learning disability; No one is ever a little bit positive. From: Willard McCarty Subject: technological progress & de-skilling practice Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:06:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 585 (585) David Baird, in Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments (California, 2004), uses the history of analytical chemistry to show how the technological development of instruments tends to de-skill the fields of enquiry which these instruments are designed to serve (pp. 96-112). In its classical form, the analytical chemist uses his or her knowledge of chemical interactions to determine the constituent parts of a compound by separating them out. This, he shows, requires much subtlety and craft, though the process is often long and tedious, hence a problem not merely for the learned practitioner, who invests much time to get results, but also for the fields of application in which many such chemists work. (Think, for example, of industries in which the specific composition of a metal is crucial to manufacture. The speed at which a molten metallic compound is analyzed becomes a major bottleneck and the accuracy of analysis crucial. In the days of classical analysis, a 15% error rate was not uncommon.) To make a long but fascinating story short, what happened was that instruments were developed that more and more successfully embodied the craft-knowledge of the chemists, greatly speeding up the analysis and radically increasing its accuracy. Analysis by instrumentation won the day. The victory of instrumentalized analysis had social consequences. A new class of technicians arose -- those with sufficient skill to operate the instruments but not, by any means, chemists with the skills of former days. The practice of analysis had become de-skilled. In an editorial published in 1947, Walter Murphy described the situation: [deleted quotation]division in the analytical laboratory between those of >professional and subprofessional training, experience and ability. Today >thousands of analytical procedures are carried on readily by laboratory [deleted quotation]administer, >and to pioneer research in analytical chemistry. He is therefore >required to be an organic chemist, and may, at times, be expected to be >a biochemist, a metallurgist, a specialist, if you will, in a dozen or >more highly specialized fields. He most certainly must be somewhat of an >expert in electronics -- he must be almost as much a physicist as >physicists themselves. In addition, he is usually expected to be >specially skilled in some field within the profession of analytical >chemistry. Murphy made strenuous efforts to change the perception of his field so that the demands made on the professional chemist would be properly appreciated, and so the status of the field raised. Apparently he was quite successful -- distinctions between chemists and technicians did develop; curricula were revamped; awards established. The profession rethought itself amidst much confusion about its nature -- like a pharmicist filling a prescription or a doctor planning a course of treatment? Another chemist, Ralph Mueller, promoted a science of instrumentation, for by this point instruments were themselves recognized as an independent medium in which knowledge was developed, discoveries made. Obviously our situation with computing is different. But there are lessons to be learned, choices to be made. What do you think these are? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: MITH Digital Dialogues Schedule Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:14:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 586 (586) Below please find MITH's spring 2007 Digital Dialogues schedule. We encourage all colleagues within reach of the University of Maryland, College Park, to drop by. MITH is located in the unviersity's McKeldin library. Matt Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Digital Dialogues and Speakers Schedule Spring 2007 Tuesdays @12:30 in MITH's Conference Room unless stated otherwise. Note: this semester MITH will be sharing several of its Digital Dialogue slots with events sponsored by the Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) Seminar Series, as indicated on the schedule below. For more information on those events, please see http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/about/events/seminar-series.shtml. 2.06 Jason Nelson, (Griffith University, Australia), "Odd and Wondrous Creatures: Jason Nelson's Traveling Digital Magicke Show." 2.13 Brandon Morse (Art), Artist's Talk. 2.20 @HCIL, Jeff Pierce, (IBM Almaden), "From Personal Computers to Personal Information Devices." 12:30, 3258 A.V. Williams Bldg. 2.27 Lisa Gitelman (Media Studies, Catholic University), "Xerographers of the Mind: The Lost Idea of the Photocopy." 3.06 Catherine Hays Zabriskie and Janel Brennan-Tillmann (ARHU), "Applying Web 2.0 tools to Instruction: Collaborative Website Development with Wikis and Managing Information Overload with RSS Feeds." 3.13 Dan Cohen (Center for History and New Media, George Mason), "Zotero and the Promise of Social Computing in Academia." 3.20 SPRING BREAK 3.27 Byron Hawk (English, George Mason), "Identifying Web 2.0: Remixing Institutional Identities." W 3.28 Brad Paley (Columbia, didi Esthetics), "Interaction Design as a Branch of the Humanities: A Healthier Fit than Technology or Computer Science?" 4:00 pm, 3258 A.V. Williams Bldg. Co-sponsored w/ HCIL. Th 3.29 Workshop w/ Brad Paley, "Domain- and Task-Specific Tools for the Humanities: We'll explore what's needed now, what's attainable." 10:00 am, @MITH. Co-sponsored w/ HCIL. 4.03 Randy Bass (American Studies, Georgetown), "Visible Evidence of Invisible Learning." 4.10 Kate Murray (University Libraries), "Developing Digital Curation Policies in a Local Context." 4.17 Angel David Nieves (Architecture), "The Politics of Race and 'Serious Gaming' in the Digital Humanities: SOWETO '76 and Post-Apartheid Archives in the 'New' South Africa," and Merle Collins (English and Comparative Literature), "Africa to the Caribbean: Saraka and Nation." 4.24 @HCIL, Stan Ruecker (University of Alberta), "The Research Potential of Transferability." 12:30, 3258 A.V. Williams Bldg. 5.01 @HCIL, Amy Bruckman (Georgia Tech), "Shaping the Age of User-Generated Content." 12:30, 3258 A.V. Williams Bldg. W 5.02 Open mic/mouse electronic literature slam-jam, featuring visiting writers and artists from the Electronic Literature Organization, Art/Soc 2203 6:15 pm -??. Th 5.03 Kenneth Thibodeau and Kate Hayles, MITH/ELO Symposium on "The Future of Electronic Literature" (http://www.mith2.umd.edu/elo2007/ for registration and other details). Neil Fraistat, Director University of Maryland McKeldin Library B0131 College Park, MD 20742 http://www.mith.umd.edu/ tel: 301.405.8927 fax: 301.314.7111 mith_at_umd.edu -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Shana Kimball Subject: JEP Volume 10.1 now online Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:11:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 587 (587) Editor's Note: Adjusting Our Sails --by Judith Axler Turner =93You can't control the wind, but you can adjust=20 your sails,=94 a salty proverb tells us. In the=20 world of electronic publishing, we=92ve been=20 frantically adjusting our sails for several years=20 now, and still the winds keep pushing us off in unexpected directions. This issue of JEP looks at some of those winds,=20 and is replete with suggestions for how to set=20 our sails to accommodate to them. Joseph Esposito writes about sail adjustment for=20 universities and university presses. His thesis=20 is that the new media makes it possible for every=20 institution to have its own university press, and=20 suggests in=20 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.103>The=20 Wisdom of Oz: The Role of the University Press in=20 Scholarly Communications that those university=20 presses should have the same status as any=20 academic department. That is, the press should be=20 as much of a profit center as, say, the=20 mathematics department, with as much involvement=20 in academic decisions, as much focus on quality,=20 and as much support. In essence, the university=20 press should not be a boat on its own bottom. Elsa Kramer explores the way barriers to protect=20 intellectual property sometimes become barriers=20 to accommodation. In=20 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.104>Digital=20 Rights Management: Pitfalls and Possibilities for=20 People with Disabilities, she cautions that the=20 same digital rights management that has allowed=20 publishers to expand their offerings in various=20 media has made that information less available to=20 disabled readers. Publishers need to avoid being=20 backwinded by =93protecting=94 their intellectual=20 property to the extent that it grounds them. This=20 paper was refereed by The Journal of Electronic Publishing's peer reviewers. Shawn Martin adds sheets to the sails in=20 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.105>Digital=20 Scholarship and Cyberinfrastructure in the=20 Humanities: Lessons from the Text Creation=20 Partnership to get greater control of texts that=20 are available electronically only in images (such=20 as handwritten texts). The Text Creation=20 Partnership, he writes, offers the possibility of=20 profit for publishers with long-term lower costs=20 for libraries, and creates a community of the scholars who use it. David Solomon is another returning author. David=20 is the editor of a sister e-journal, Medical=20 Education Online. In=20 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.107>The=20 Role of Peer Review for Scholarly Journals in the=20 Information Age, he writes about how he and other=20 editors are exploring new tacks for peer. He=20 evaluates what works and what is still to be=20 proven, thanks to the electronic wind in our sails. Roumen Vragov and Ilan Levine offer present an=20 open peer-review system in=20 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.104>Reviewing=20 and Revamping the Double-blind Peer Review=20 Process. Their system might avoid the lack of=20 interest noted by the journal Nature in its=20 experiment with open peer review: hardly=20 anyone=97author or reviewer=97took advantage of it.=20 Vragov and Levine=92s alternative could make open=20 peer reviewing a breeze: pay reviewers. This=20 paper was refereed by The Journal of Electronic Publishing's peer reviewers. Everett Wiggins crafted=20 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.102>JEP=92s=20 first book review, on Books in the Digital Age by=20 John Thompson. Thompson says that university=20 presses can be economic lazyjacks, safety nets=20 that can enhance a university=92s bottom line if=20 they start publishing upper-level texts. That=20 sail adjustment (also=97forgive me!=97=93sale=94=20 adjustment) was Thompson=92s conclusion after=20 studying 16 university presses in England and the=20 United States. Wiggins thinks Thompson=92s=20 suggestion makes a lot of sense, even though his=20 presentation leaves something to be desired. Kate Wittenberg is back on the pages of JEP with=20 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.101>Credibility=20 of Content and the Future of Research, Learning,=20 and Publishing in the Digital Environment.=20 Students today, she notes, enter our=20 institutions, receive their degrees, and move=20 into academe having known the Internet all their=20 scholarly lives. What does it mean that they have=20 not just electronic searching, but collaboration=20 made possible by options like Facebook, MySpace,=20 and wikis? These have the power to change the way=20 people learn, thus must change the way people=20 teach, and finally will influence the way people=20 do research. This is a gale, she writes, a perfect storm. Enjoy! From: Willard McCarty Subject: Hypermedia Joyce Studies 8.1 Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:15:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 588 (588) Announcing the release of the latest issue of Hypermedia Joyce Studies, under the new editorship of David Vichnar. HJS volume 8 issue 1 Editorial Notes I. "Hypertituitary joysis": Entropy and Technicity Semiotic Machines: Joyce & Pynchon Louis Armand http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/main/essays.php?essay=armand Reading Joyce Reading Duchamp Ian Hays http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/main/essays.php?essay=hays The Call of TelePhonics: Reading, Technology, and Literature_at_yes-yes.edu Gray Kochhar-Lindgren http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/main/essays.php?essay=kochhar Q.R.N, I.C.Q: Joyce, Radio Athone and the 3-Valve set Jane Lewty http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/main/essays.php?essay=lewty Entropy under Erasure: Ulysses and the Second Law of Thermodynamics Steve Pinkerton http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/main/essays.php?essay=pinkerton II. "Nightletter": Intertext, Punctuations, Synaesthesia Virtual Nudes Descending a Staircase:Giacomo Joyce and Strindberg's Le plaidoyer d'un fou William Sayers http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/main/essays.php?essay=sayers The Influence of Nora's Writing Style on Joyce's Construction of Molly's Monologue Elisabetta Cecconi http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/main/essays.php?essay=cecconi Looking for Evidence of Synesthesia in A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man Celia Munisteri http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/main/essays.php?essay=munisteri The next issue of HJS, which is due online in July, will focus upon the theme of the 3rd Prague James Joyce Colloquium (see bellow), to be held in May: "Literary Technologies, Archives and Authorisation." Essays dealing with any of the above themes will be particularly welcome. However, as has become a tradition at HJS (and as is represented by the "Nightletter" part of this issue), essays representing any critical approach (feminism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, pop culture, poststructuralism, media and technology, historicism, formalism, textual criticism, etc.) to any of Joyce's works are also welcome. HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz Programme in InterCultural Studies Philosophy Faculty, Charles University, Prague Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- January 2007 Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:14:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 589 (589) TL INFOBITS January 2007 No. 7 ISSN: Not Yet= Assigned About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL'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. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitjan07.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... Online Education Trends 2007 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies Social Software in Education Are Academic Libraries Still Necessary? Recommended Reading Infobits Subscribers -- Where Were We in 2006? ...................................................................... ONLINE EDUCATION TRENDS "Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States, 2006" is the fourth annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group and the Sloan Consortium. The report, based on responses from over 2,200 colleges and universities, addresses these questions: -- Has the growth of online enrollments begun to plateau? -- Who is learning online? -- What types of institutions have online offerings? -- Have perceptions of quality changed for online offerings? -- What are the barriers to widespread adoption of online education? For more information or to download the complete report, go to http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/pdf/making_the_grade.pdf. The Sloan Consortium (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. For more information, see http://www.sloan-c.org/. For a related article, see: "The Invisible Professor and the Future of Virtual Faculty" By Martha C. Sammons, Wright State University, and Stephen Ruth, George Mason University INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND DISTANCE LEARNING January 2007 http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Jan_07/article01.htm "Although the online teaching continues to grow in popularity, it places greater demands on faculty than traditional courses. The Sloan report found that this problem exists at all levels of postsecondary education, from doctoral-granting institutions to community colleges. A significant number of full-time professors are thus understandably reluctant to participate in distance learning, and faculty questions about online teaching continue. Traditional professors are disappearing from online classrooms as distance learning has altered their roles and responsibilities, as well as their professional status, job security, workload, rewards, and intellectual freedom. This article delineates some of the most significant challenges and suggests that distance learning has created new questions about the future of virtual faculty." ...................................................................... 2007 HORIZON REPORT ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES The 2007 Horizon Report is a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative that "seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education." Some key trends that the report calls attention to include -- Increasing globalization is changing the way we work, collaborate, and communicate. -- Information literacy increasingly should not be considered a given. -- Academic review and faculty rewards are increasingly out of sync with new forms of scholarship. -- The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are pushing the boundaries of scholarship. -- Students' views of what is and what is not technology are increasingly different from those of faculty. The complete report is available at http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf. The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an "international 501(c)3 not-for-profit consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies." For more information, go to http://www.nmc.org/. The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is a "strategic initiative of EDUCAUSE. While EDUCAUSE serves those interested in advancing higher education through technology, ELI specifically explores innovative technologies and practices that advance learning." For more information, go to http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?Section_ID=3D86. ...................................................................... SOCIAL SOFTWARE IN EDUCATION The growing popularity of social software (e.g., instant messaging, blogs, wikis, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube) among college students raises questions on how can these tools be used to support instruction. Here are some resources that address the topic and/or provide background information on the tools. "Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview" Pew Internet & American Life Project report http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp "More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites, according to a new national survey of teenagers conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The survey also finds that older teens, particularly girls, are more likely to use these sites. For girls, social networking sites are primarily places to reinforce pre-existing friendships; for boys, the networks also provide opportunities for flirting and making new friends." "Digital Rendezvous: Social Software in Higher Education" EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research Research Bulletin, vol. 2007, issue 2, January 16, 2007 http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=3DERB0702 (Registration required to access this report.) "The origins of social software -- from blogs to facebooks to instant messaging to wikis -- are firmly based in the information technologies of the past few decades. This research bulletin explores the genesis of some of the current social software products, helps define common characteristics, describes how the software is being used in higher education, and examines the implications for activities in colleges and universities." The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's "7 Things You Should Know About..." (http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495) series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies including briefings on YouTube http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=3DELI7018 Facebook http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=3DELI7017 Instant Messaging http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=3DELI7008 Blogs http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=3DELI7006 Wikis http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=3DELI7004 Social Bookmarking http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=3DELI7001 ...................................................................... ARE ACADEMIC LIBRARIES STILL NECESSARY? "Conventional wisdom among college and university students (and many of their parents) in early 2007 is that "everything needed for research is available free on the Web." Therefore, academic libraries are often viewed as costly dinosaurs=97unnecessary expenses in today's environment. This idea is uninformed at best and foolish at worst." In "If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist, Would We Have to Invent It?" (EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 42, no. 1, January/February 2007, pp. 6-7) Lynn Scott Cochrane argues that "if college and university libraries and librarians didn't exist, we would certainly have to invent=97better yet, re-invent=97them." The article is available at http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm07/erm0714.asp. EDUCAUSE Review [ISSN 1527-6619], a bimonthly print magazine that explores developments in information technology and education, is published by EDUCAUSE (http://www.educause.edu/). Articles from current and back issues of EDUCAUSE Review are available on the Web at http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. Infobits subscriber Arun-Kumar Tripathi (arun.tripathi_at_waoe.org) recommends DEMOCRATIZING TECHNOLOGY: BUILDING ON ANDREW FEENBERG'S CRITICAL THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY, edited by Tyler J. Veak (SUNY Press, 2006; ISBN: 0-7914-6918-2 pbk). The book is a festschrift honoring Feenberg, who is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. "Largely because of the Internet and the new economy, technology has become the buzzword of our culture. But what is it, and how does it affect our lives? More importantly, can we control and shape it, or does it control us? In short, can we make technology more democratic? Using the work of Andrew Feenberg, one of the most important and original figures in the field of philosophy of technology, as a foundation, the contributors to this volume explore these important questions and Feenberg responds." You can preview portions of the book online through Google Books: http://books.google.com/. ...................................................................... INFOBITS SUBSCRIBERS -- WHERE WERE WE IN 2006? Each January issue of Infobits includes an annual subscriber tally listing the countries represented by our subscribers. At the end of 2006, there were 7,422 subscribers. Here are some brief statistics about our current subscribers. The majority of the subscribers we could identify by country are in the United States (3,516) and other English-speaking countries: Canada (442), Australia (265), and the United Kingdom (162). Each of the following countries has between eleven and forty-two subscribers: Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden. Each of the following countries has 10 or fewer subscribers: Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Macedonia, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Phillipines, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia. In addition to subscribers whom we can positively identify by a geographic location, the following sites don't have a geographic designation: 1,696 subscribers from commercial (.com) sites, 192 subscribers from .org sites, and 625 subscribers from .net sites. Many thanks to all the subscribers for your support in 2006! ...................................................................... From: Willard McCarty Subject: semiotics, humanities computing and all the rest Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:10:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 590 (590) In the current editorial in Semiotix 7 (January 2007, www.semioticon.com/semiotix/semiotix7/sem-7-01.html), Paul Bouissac considers "The Challenge of Teaching Semiotics", reviewing the fate of several once vital centres (Indiana, Brown, Toronto). He asks the hard question, "whether semiotics, as it stands now, can truly afford the substantial and consistent curricula and research agenda it would take in order to operate as a discipline". He concludes that "Failures to succeed in doing so have been sufficiently numerous and widespread to suggest that today's semiotics is probably not epistemologically sustainable in the contemporary academic context worldwide." But his "heuristic diagnosis" of the situation gives hope -- and a plan that bridges the situation of semiotics to our own. The once strong but now defunct centres, he argues, were the work of influential semioticians who, having constructed theories or models of the discipline, imposed them top-down onto the questions that these theories and models were meant to answer. He writes, [deleted quotation]Bouissac goes on to argue for a bottom-up approach, starting with "an understanding of the problems as they were initially experienced and formulated" so that "the various existing theories and models simply appear as possible solutions to these problems, and can be evaluated in terms of the contemporary state of knowledge in other disciplines". Rather than download the teachings of great masters, such as Peirce, Sassure, Jakobson et al, and then run them on whatever comes to hand, it would be far better to pay attention to the intellectual worlds where the problems occur. "Semiotics, after all, can be first considered as a technique", he writes. "At a time when students are swamped with open sources of information, it may pay off just to look (and surf) around, confront real problems, and work out solutions (both practical and theoretical) by innovatively matching problems with available knowledge resources.... perhaps it should be taught in the way Rousseau wanted his student to acquire knowledge: first discover the problems, then, try to solve them." Semiotics is in much the same position as humanities computing, it would seem. Both are "interdisciplines" (as I argue) whose basic stuff belongs to others in the first instance, in the way that we tend to construct our epistemic situation. For that first-instance belonging, the imagery that I tend to favour these days -- as some will know from Literary and Linguistic Computing 21.1 (2006): 1-13 -- is that of the "archipelago of disciplines" among the epistemic islands of which we can be said to sail. In the second instance, once belonging has ceased to be a question, I shift to the "wild acre" (borrowed from David Malouf's "Jacko's Reach"), belonging to no one, into which we all venture at our peril, for our enlightenment. I wonder (to venture even further along those second lines) whether being an interdiscipline isn't the epistemic state into which we are all moving as we emerge, ever so slowly, from a way of thinking about the world of learning as if it were like the 19C European geopolitical scene. Consider, for example, philosophy as Ian Hacking does it. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Medieval Forum 6 Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:12:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 591 (591) We are pleased to announce Volume 6 of Medieval Forum. As in the past, there is a wide array of topics, this time ranging from Beowulf to hypertext. Since this is our last volume (at least for now), it is fitting to offer a collection that represents our initial vision of publishing articles that will appeal to a readership of varied interests and scholarly endeavors. Best wishes and thanks to all our readers, contributors and supporters. Fare now wele, my frende so dere, My dwellyng his no lenger here For sothe as Y the tell. Please share this message with your colleagues. -- George W. Tuma Dinah Hazell Medieval Forum http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: Digital Document Quarterly 5(4) is available Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:25:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 592 (592) Digital Document Quarterly 5(4) is available at <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_5_4.htm>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_5_4.htm. Its content list is: Digital Preservation On Designated Communities NDIIPP at Mid-Point East of England Digital Preservation Project A Misleading Analogy: Paper and Digital Preservation Digital Preservation of a Different Sort Inattention across the Boundaries of Professional Disciplines A Two Cultures Model: Stylistic Differences in R&D A New U.K. Research Emphasis: Memories for Life Coping with an Uncertain Future News Practical Matters: interesting Web sites, price watch Cheerio, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney From: Willard McCarty Subject: Bio-inspired Computing Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:14:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 593 (593) Dear colleague, We cordially invite you to attend the 2007 International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2007), which will be held on September 14=A8C17, 2007 in Zhengzhou Henan Province, China. The conference is organized by the Peking University, the Zhengzhou University of Light Industry as well as the Huazhong University of Science & Technology, and technically co-sponsored by the Zhongyuan University of Technology, the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, and financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Just like the name of the conference, the theme for this conference is Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications. Only original high quality papers related to this theme are especially solicited, including theories, methodologies, and applications in science and technology. Topics covering industrial issues/applications and academic research into bio-inspired computing will be welcome. All submissions will be thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts in the field based on originality, significance and clarity, only papers presenting novel research results or successful innovative applications are seriously considered for publication. A pre-proceedings volume will be available during the conference. The expanded and revised version of all accepted papers at BIC-TA 2007 will be published after the conference in international journals indexed by SCI-Expanded. Main Topics The conference includes, but not limited to the following topics. A. Theories and Methodologies A1 Neural Networks A2 Evolutionary Computing and Genetic Algorithms A3 DNA and Molecular Computing A4 Membrane Computing A5 Biological Computing A6 Swarm Intelligence A7 Autonomy-Oriented Computing A8 Cellular and Molecular Automata B. Applications B1 Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics B2 Computational Biology and Drug Design B3 Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology B4 Computational Genomics and Proteomics B5 Computational Neuroscience B6 Artificial Life and Artificial Immune Systems B7 Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition B8 Financial Engineering and Electronic Commerce B9 Data Fusion, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining B10 Natural Language Processing and Expert Systems B11 Computer Security and Computer Vision B12 Circuit Design and Signal Processing B13 Biological Implementation and Molecular Implementation B14 DNA Nanotechnology B15 Web and Network Application B16 Multi-Objective Optimization B17 Other Applications Important Dates Submission Deadline: 20 April, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: 10 June, 2007 Final Version for the Pre-proceedings: 25 June, 2007 Web Site: http://www.bic-ta.org/ E-mail: mailto:bicta2007_at_gmail.com; mailto:sec_at_bic-ta.org Tel: +86-(0)371-63627289 Fax: +86-(0)371-63556790 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "J. Trant" Subject: CFP: International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:25:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 594 (594) International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings October 24-26, 2007 Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2007 The bi-annual International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings (ICHIM) have --since 1991-- explored cultural heritage informatics on a global scale, with a strong focus on policy, infrastructure and economic issues. They are attended by senior cultural, governmental, academic and publishing professionals, including library, archives and museum directors and managers, and cultural policy advocates and analysts. You are invited to participate in the 2007 edition of the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings. Topics of interest include: Heritage Information & Society * Policy * Law * Economics and Funding * Convergence of Institutions Technologically Mediated Heritage * Resources * Public Programs * Services * Collaborations Cultural Knowledge * Acquisition * Retrieval * Preservation Digital Heritage * Digital Art * Representations * Delivery methods * Evaluation Organizational Policy * Best Practices * Impacts * Innovations Cultural Heritage Information Systems * Research * Prototypes and Models * Innovative Design * Applications * Architectures * Networks Education and Infrastructures * Cultural & Linguistic Diversity * Educating Cultural Heritage Informatics Professionals Session Formats ICHIM meetings include formal papers, round table discussions, seminars, workshops, project briefings and demonstrations. Those interested in participating are encouraged to describe what they wish to convey and to whom; if accepted, the Program Committee will suggest an appropriate delivery format. Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2007. Submit your proposal using our on-line form. See http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ ICHIM07 Program Committee Co-Chairs: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics * Maxwell Anderson, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA * David Arnold, University of Brighton, UK * Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland * Jean Fran=E7ois Chougnet, Berardo Museum of Contemporary Art,= Portugal * Susan Chun, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA * Costis Dallas, Panteion University, and PRC Group SA, Greece * David Dawson, MLA, UK * Wendy Duff, University of Toronto, Canada * Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage information Network, Canada * Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan, USA * Harald Kraemer, Universitry of Bern, Switzerland * Ottmar Moritsch, Technisches Museum Wien, Austria * Xavier Perrot, Biblioth=E8que Nationale de France, France * Peter Sigmond, Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands * Jane Sledge, National Museum of the American Indian, USA * Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia * Nicole Valli=E8res, McCord Museum, Canada * Christabel Wright, Dept of Communications, IT and Arts, Australia To learn more about ICHIM, see past papers on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/ichim.html -- __________ J. Trant jtrant_at_archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __________ From: Willard McCarty Subject: de-skilling computers: the end of CS? Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:27:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 595 (595) In the British Computer Society's "Future of Computing" column for 22 January, computer scientist Neil McBride (De Montfort) proclaims "The death of computing", i.e. the death of computer science (www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.9662). The problem is not merely dwindling student numbers, fixable by bringing in the marketing folks. [deleted quotation]McBride's analysis amounts to this: that (as in the case of scientific instrumentation described by Davis Baird in Thing Knowledge) the successful development of high-level tools has in large measure de-skilled computer science. For a discipline that from the early days was sold to students on its ability to guarantee lucrative employment, the fact that now "jobs are in the application of technology" sounds the death-knell. [deleted quotation]At De Montfort, McBride runs an ICT degree programme, which "focuses on delivering IT services in organisations, on taking a holistic view of computing in organisations, and on holistic thinking" and does not include programming as an essential skill. He argues that the future of the discipline is to become an "an inter-discipline, connecting with other spheres, working with diverse scientific and artistic departments to create new ideas. Its strength and value will be in its relationships." McBride's sentiments bear striking relationship to the recommendations of Rochard Hamming, in his 1968 Turing Award lecture (JACM 16.1, January 1969), where he focused on "the danger of getting lost in the details of the field" and the need "to prepare our students for the year 2000 when many of them will be at the peak of their career" (4). He recommends in the strongest possible terms a stress on the practical side of the subject. He argues first from what computer scientists mostly do -- finding a practical way of doing something with a reasonable expenditure of time and effort -- and second from the probable future, which has in fact become our present-day situation: [deleted quotation]One easily recognizes the voice of an engineer, who has no patience with "the bragging of uselessness and the game-playing that the pure mathematicians so often engage in". But Hamming is hardly anti-intellectual -- witness his brilliant theoretical piece from the American Mathematical Monthly "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics" (77.2, 1980, pp. 81-90) -- read it tonight! Rather, like McBride, he is dealing with the practical question of how, given a discipline's nature, it is to survive in a competitive world. All good advice for those of us attempting to build programmes and departments in humanities computing. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 20.433 technological progress & de-skilling practice Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:27:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 596 (596) Exciting question Willard. I've seen evidence of the infiltration of computing perturbing status hierarchies of skill in more than one discipline and experienced the "generational" phenomenon of new technology creating and eliminating high status/demand for skills within windows as short as a couple of years. For example, the skilled HTML coder was in hot demand for a short period before web editors wiped out their value. Now web editing of any kind is giving way to pod-casters and other audio/video talents. Investigating 2nd Life recently, and thinking about the rush to figure out how to teach university courses over cell phones, I wondered if we aren't merely "moving where the students are" and then figuring out how to set up shop in the new venues simply because it is only in these new venues that we can re-capture their attention. Which is, perhaps, just another way to say "old wine in new bottles" -- but it felt profound for a moment there. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) 2006/7 Righteous Anger Book #2 ORU Saga (from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing) On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:20:28 +0000, willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU wrote: [deleted quotation]ht [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org) 2006/7 Righteous Anger Book #2 ORU Saga (from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing) From: "Stephanie Chow" Subject: Call for Contributions: Journal of Database Management (JDM) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:28:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 597 (597) CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Database Management (JDM) Special Issue on XML Data Services: Technology Evolution and Challenges ================================================================== http://redmaple.hrl.uoit.ca/~jdmseiw2007 The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is used to represent fine-grained data that originates in repositories in machine readable format by providing structure and the possibility of adding type information, such as XML Schema. A Web service is a software system that supports interoperable application-to-application interaction over the Internet. Web services are based on a set of XML standards, such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI). Each service makes its functionality available through well-defined or standardized XML interfaces. The result of this approach is a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). XML is playing an important role in the data transport protocol for Web services. For example, SOAP messages are used both by service requestors to invoke Web services, and by Web services to answer requests. The interactions of SOAP messages between Web services form the theoretical model of SOAP Message Exchange Patterns (MEP). This workshop aims to explore and investigate various research issues of XML data that is encapsulated by Web services over the network. In particular, we call these networked services as XML data services. New challenges arise in the study of services engineering, an emerging research area devoted to the software engineering of service-oriented applications. Services engineering is an important area of the Services Computing Discipline, as promoted by the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, academia and industry. Its goal is to formulate effective solutions to the quality development, deployment and management of these applications. Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to: * Services engineering in XML data services * Models and languages of XML data services * Design and implementation of XML data services * Interoperability and integration of XML data services * Requirements engineering for XML data services * Generation of XML data from Web services * Data modeling concepts for XML data in Web services * Ontology and semantic Web services * Security, privacy and trust with XML data services * Transaction management in XML data services * BPEL and Web service orchestration with XML data * XML-related languages like XML Schema, XPath, XQuery for Web services * Convergence of Web services and XML database technology (queries, views, updates, integration, etc.) * XML-based middleware for Web services * SOAP Message Exchange Patterns * UDDI, WSDL and SOAP enhancements * Case studies for XML data services * Quality of XML data services and deployment issues * Dependability of XML data services * Technical architecture and framework of XML data services * Design tools and methodologies for XML data services * Usage and usefulness analysis of XML data services The goal of this proposed special issue is to crystallize the emerging XML data technologies and trends into positive efforts to focus on the most promising solutions in e-business services computing. The papers will provide clear proof that XML data technologies are playing an ever increasing important and critical role in supporting business service processes. It is also expected that the papers will further research new best practices and directions in XML data services. Author Instructions Submissions to this special issue will be required to have some theoretical/experimental/empirical results. Authors should create an account and submit via our online submission system at http://redmaple.hrl.uoit.ca/~jdmseiw2007 (available soon). Papers must be submitted as either a Word file or PDF. For detailed submission information, please refer to Guidelines for Submission at http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?ID=198&v=guidelines Important Dates Submissions due: April 2, 2007 Review Outcome: July 2, 2007 Revision Due: October 1, 2007 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: November 5, 2007 Final Paper Due: November 26, 2007 Special Issue Co-Editors Patrick C. K. Hung Faculty of Business and Information Technology University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada Chengfei Liu Faculty of Information and Communication Technology Swinburne University of Technology, Australia For further information about submissions, please contact Patrick C. K. Hung by email at patrick.hung_at_uoit.ca. From: Beryl Graham Subject: Curating New Media Art, Job and Studentships Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:05:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 598 (598) University of Sunderland School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture Curating New Media Art Since 1993 the School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture has had a special interest in issues for exhibiting new media art (including internet art, and interactive digital media). The CRUMB web resource for curators http://www.crumbweb.org is now an internationally acclaimed site, which complements the postgraduate work in Fine Art, Curating and Informatics at the University. A recent AHRC Research Grant enables the continued expansion of this research, with research partners Eyebeam (New York) and Lancaster University. RESEARCH ASSISTANT Fixed-term 3 years Ł20,119 - Ł23,187 pa To undertake research outputs, and assist the research of the CRUMB team, and to undertake research outputs in the field of curating new media art. You will hold special responsibility for online/print research outputs, and collaborative networking. Ref No: ADR017/1362 Closing date: 2 March 2007 An application form and Role Profile can be obtained by contacting Human Resources on 0191 515 2057 or http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/jobs RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS x 2 posts Curating New Media Art, and New Media Art & Programming Fixed-term 3 years AHRC grant of - Ł12,300 pa PhD proposals including practice-led artist/curator research are invited. Applicants should meet AHRC UK/EU residency regulations. Closing date: 2 March 2007 Further details can be found on http://www.crumbweb.org An application form and further details on the Research Studentships can be obtained by contracting Valerie Cornell on 0191 515 3725 or email: valerie.cornell_at_sunderland.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland Ashburne House, Ryhope Road Sunderland SR2 7EE Tel: +44 191 515 2896 beryl.graham_at_sunderland.ac.uk CRUMB web resource for new media art curators http://www.crumbweb.org From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 20.429 new on WWW (for free): Middle English Dictionary Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:26:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 599 (599) Willard et al, Is this liberation a first? Will there be others? How is the financing of library maintenance costs done? I can understand the accounting and the cost recovery model for creating a digital collection. I don't quite know how the business model works for maintenance of access. In Canada I suspect it could work as a portion of TVS (tax on value of service) for connectivity [i.e. some of the public funds are recouped from the carriers offering connectivity services]. It then becomes a civic and good government duty to maintain non-subscription access. "Free" access is for me something a bit different than non-subscription access. Free access is where the connectivity is deemed a public good and is offered via such institutions as public libraries. Non-sub or no fee access is what is within immediate institutional control. The number of stations offering free access is a matter of squeezing resources from funders (both governmental and non-governmental). There is a bricks and mortar aspect to creating free access (hardware and connectivity necessitate a material infrastructure). Congrats to the Univeristy of Michigan for a spirited and inspiring example!!! [deleted quotation]time has come [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Everyone is a little bit crazy; everyone at some time has a learning disability; No one is ever a little bit positive. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: TCC 2007 (April 17-19) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:25:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 600 (600) TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE (April 17-19, 2007) CALL FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS #2 [Our apologies to those receiving multiple copies of this message. -byk] Voyaging into a new decade! TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 17-19, 2007 Pre-conference dates: April 3-4, 2007 BLENDING REALITY AND MULTIMEDIA IN UBIQUITOUS LEARNING Submission deadline: January 26, 2007 Homepage: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu CALL FOR PROPOSALS. TCC 2007 invites faculty, support staff, librarians, counselors, students, administrators, and consultants to submit proposals for papers, discussions and other presentations that address this year's conference theme. http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/2007/tcc/proposals.html INTRODUCTION. E-Learning is pass=E9. U-learning is the new wave globally in higher education. Ubiquitous learning encompasses e- learning and emphasizes learning anytime, anywhere and anyway in both formal and informal lifelong learning environments. As u-learning and Web 2.0 technology evolve, social interaction, intercultural communications, and global collaboration increases in importance. Social networking and learning communities are integral components of u-learning. Through online social networks, young adults today gain a sense of community that is important in their daily and social life. How can we learn from this? How can we learn from our students? What is the status of social networking (Facebook, Mixi, etc.) and online learning communities today? Have they succeeded or have they withered away? How can we complement our students' prior experiences with interacting socially online? How can we assess learning in this new environment? Will mobile phones become synonymous with u-learning as proponents advocate? How do we train faculty and staff and engage them to support productive learning communities? Will learning communities help bridge the Internet divide? How do we "feed and weed" effective learning communities or social networking systems in the U-learning era? Will virtual worlds such as Second Life become a new learning environment? THEME. TCC will offer papers and presentations on the evolution, trends, successes, or failures of learning communities and social networking systems in higher education. The coordinators, however, are interested in a broad range of topics that highlight the use of educational technology, including but not limited to the following: * Online, hybrid, blended or other modes of technology enhanced learning * Distance learning including mobile learning * E-learning and ubiquitous learning * Student success factors in online learning * E-portfolios and other online assessment tools * Technology implementation and services in learner centered environments * Emerging technologies for teaching and learning (blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc) * Creating and delivering multimedia including learning objects * Building and sustaining learning communities * Student orientation and preparation * Open content and open source * Accessibility for persons with disabilities * Global learning and international education * Professional development for faculty and staff * Gender equity, the Digital Divide, and open access * Online student services (tutoring, advising, payments, etc) * Technology use to enhance communication and collaboration * Institutional planning and change catalyzed by technology advances * Educational technology use in Asia & the Pacific, Europe, South America, and Africa. PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS. General sessions may be in one of several formats including discussion, roundtable, and pre-conference activity. Proposals will be reviewed and notification of acceptance made by email. Submit proposals for general sessions online at: http://kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/proposals/index.php Papers must be submitted in full and will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings. Submit papers by email to Dr. Curtis Ho, . For details regarding papers and general session presentations, see: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/2007/tcc/presentation-format.html/ The deadline for submissions is January 26, 2007. [...]=20 From: "Marvin Stewart" Subject: Collectanea!: Collected Perspectives On Copyright Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:27:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 601 (601) The Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the University of Maryland University College is excited to announce the launch of a new blog portal addressing the cultural, political and legal context of copyright issues: (c)ollectanea! http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/ The new (c)ollectanea blog will serve as an online discussion platform for the current and future Center for Intellectual Property scholars. Today, join one of the leading copyright scholars in the country, GEORGIA HARPER as she provides insight and leads discussions with guest bloggers on issues relating to copyright generally, with a specific focus on issues facing the education and library communities. Georgia K. Harper serves as the CIP 2006-2008 Intellectual Property Virtual Scholar and the Scholarly Communications Advisor for the University of Texas at Austin Libraries. Previously, Ms. Harper specialized in copyright law and created the well known and widely used online publication, The Copyright Crash Course, for the University of Texas System CIP is one of the leading online educational centers providing training, and solutions on copyright issues affecting the higher education community. This new blog, (c)ollectanea, furthers the Center's mission to provide timely copyright resources for educators. Although the blog will address the needs of the education and library communities, all are welcome to engage in the discussion and contribute. Share your thoughts on copyright issues. Join the blog group (c)ollectanea, collected perspectives on copyright. http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/ Marvin Stewart Event Specialist Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Boulevard East Adelphi,MD 20783 T: 240.582.2966 mdstewart_at_umuc.edu From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.5 Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:28:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 602 (602) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 5 February 6, 2007 =96 February 12, 2007 THIS WEEK IN UBIQUITY: DEGREES THAT EXPIRE M.O. Thirunarayanan suggests that by granting=20 degrees that will expire (and thus need be=20 renewed), institutions of higher learning can not=20 only assure their own health but also the=20 continued value of the people who have attended=20 attend. Thirunarayanan is an associate professor=20 of learning technologies in the College of=20 Education and also a Fellow of the Honors College=20 at Florida International University, in Miami,=20 Florida. He earned his doctoral degree in 1990=20 from Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona. See=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i05_degrees.html>http://www.acm.org/ubi= quity/views/v8i05_degrees.html=20 From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.6 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:27:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 603 (603) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 6 February 13, 2007 =96 February 19, 2007 THIS WEEK IN UBIQUITY: SECURITY IN ELECTRONIC VOTING Abhishek Parakh and Subhash Kak of the=20 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering=20 at Louisiana State University consider the issues=20 involved in making electronic voting secure. See=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i06_kak.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquit= y/views/v8i06_kak.html =20 From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: getting and going was [Re: 20.440 technological Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:25:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 604 (604) progress & de-skilling practice] Willard and Lynda, I'm intrigued by a turn in the de-skilling thread. Lynda wrote: [deleted quotation]Has attention been lost? There is likely a rich store of anecdotal evidence to suggest otherwise. There is sustained attention and there is fleeting fascination. Is the task at hand one of joining the buzz or one of cultivating niches? There is a worthy metaphorics of "bringing the students to ..." that does not involve competing to capture market share of venues. Popularity and longivity are not synonymous [Lynda did not suggest this, if anything her musings bring the distinctions to the fore]. Institutions of higher learning are not just about teaching: they are also about broadcasting. How many institutions currently use webcasting to retrieve old and venerable practices such as public defences of dissertations? It may well serve the institutions to contemplate not outreach into novel venues but to re-invest in access to the theatre of scholarship. Journalists embedded with academics, anyone? From: Willard McCarty Subject: persistent inability to stay put Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:58:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 605 (605) In his book The Dilemma of Context (NYU Press, 1989), Ben-Ami Scharfstein explains his choice of subject. There are two reasons for his choice, he explains: an interest in comparative culture and philosophy -- he uses mainly anthropological examples -- and "a persistent inability to confine myself to philosophy in dealing with philosophical problems". He goes on: [deleted quotation]For obvious reasons, I suppose, I collect such statements and seek out such authors. We are not only in great need of help from wherever we can find it, but we are also (I keep arguing) by nature disciplinary vagrants. Be that as it may, who else of vagrant mind comes to mind? Any recommendations? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: David Prosser Subject: SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:21:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 606 (606) Scholarly Communications - 2007 Press Release SPARC Europe Announces Call-for-Nominations for the Second Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications February 12, 2007 For more information, contact: David Prosser, david.prosser_at_bodley.ox.ac.uk Oxford, UK =AD SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), a leading organization of European research libraries, today announced the opening of nominations for the Second SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. Launched in 2006, this annual Award recognises an individual or group within Europe that has made significant advances in our understanding of the issues surrounding scholarly communications and/or in developing practical means to address the problems with the current systems. The First Award, in 2006, was presented to the Wellcome Trust. Nominations are open to all who have made major contributions in the field of scholarly communications, and the judging panel, formed from members of the SPARC Europe Board of Directors, particularly wishes to receive nominations for individuals or groups working in any of the following areas: Research that helps illuminate the scholarly communications landscape Advocacy for new models of scholarly communications Development of new tools to aid scholarly communication (e.g. repository software) Interesting new projects or products Implementation of policies that promote new scholarly communication models. Nominations may come from any part of the world, but nominees should work mainly within Europe. (Self-nominations will not be accepted.) Preference will be given to activity within the past two years. Nominations (together with a short outline of the nominee's work) should be sent to David Prosser, Director of SPARC Europe no later than 23rd February 2007. The Award will be present at OAI5 - the 5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, (<http://oai5.web.cern.ch/oai5/>http://oai5.web.cern.ch/oai5/) to be held at CERN, Switzerland 18-20 April 2007. <http://www.sparceurope.org/>SPARC Europe is an alliance of 110 research-led university libraries from 14 European countries. It is affiliated with <http://www.arl.org/sparc/>SPARC based in Washington, D.C., which represents over 200 institutions, mainly in North America. SPARC Europe and SPARC work to develop and promote new models of scholarly communication that increase the access to and utility of the research literature. From: AHRC ICT Methods Network Subject: AHRC ICT Methods Network seminar: Theoretical Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:15:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 607 (607) Approaches to Virtual Representations of Past Environments There are some places available for this all-day seminar taking place at Goldsmith's College on 7 March. For further details, or to register, visit http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/workshops.html or email neil.grindley_at_kcl.ac.uk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO VIRTUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF PAST ENVIRONMENTS A seminar run by Kate Devlin, Goldsmiths College, University of London (7 March 2007) Computer graphics have become a popular way of interpreting past environments, for educational and entertainment value, and also as an aid to research, but they are not subject to the same scrutiny that text invites. Without supporting data to indicate the motivations for particular representations of data, the images may merely be one subjective picture of the past. Something that proves particularly difficult when creating 3D computer-generated representations of past environments is how to provide context of an intangible nature, such as a social, temporal or even emotional interaction with the representation. For example, many representations are sterile, empty spaces, devoid of the people who would have built and used them. We need to look at ways that allow us to convey the information outside of the physical structure of a scene. This seminar will address the issues above and other questions including: *Why are virtual representations being created and are they really being used? *How do we reconcile the work of computer scientists with the work of archaeologists? *How do we introduce non-visual and intangible elements to our representations? The AHRC ICT Methods Network exists to promote and support the application of advanced ICT methods in the arts and humanities. Please see the Methods Network website for details about further activities that are being run by, or in conjunction with, the Methods Network. The Methods Network funds seminars, workshops and other activities which demonstrate the impact on and value to arts and humanities research of advanced ICT methods. http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/ From: "=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Mats=20Dahlstr=F6m?=" Subject: CFP reminder: CoLIS 6 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:14:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 608 (608) *REMINDER - REMINDER - REMINDER - REMINDER * CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science: "Featuring the Future" Swedish School of Library and Information Science University College of Boras & Goteborg University Boras, Sweden 13-16 August 2007 www.hb.se/colis ************* Aim of CoLIS CoLIS is a series of international conferences for which the general aim is to provide a broad forum for the exploration and exchange of ideas in the field of library and information science (LIS). To be examined at CoLIS 6 are theoretical and empirical research trends in LIS, together with socio-cultural and technical issues relating to our understanding of the various roles, natures, uses and associated relationships of information, information systems, information processes, and information networks. As in previous conferences in the series, this one, too, promotes an interdisciplinary approach to research. In connection to the main conference, both educational and doctoral forums are provided. ************* CoLIS 6 has four general themes: Reframing LIS from Different Perspectives LIS in Contemporary Society LIS versus New Research and Professional Fields New Research Methods in LIS ************* Keynote Speakers: Dr. Andrew Dillon, USA Dr. Elizabeth Orna, UK Dr. P.F. (Paul) Wouters, The Netherlands Invited Speaker at Educational Forum Dr. Michael Seadle, Germany ************* Submissions: We invite authors to submit research papers, short papers, panels and posters. Deadline for all submissions: March 1, 2007 ************* For details, visit: www.hb.se/colis/ ************* Best regards, Katriina Bystr=F6m Conference Chair From: "alexandra" Subject: 2nd annoucement of ICANN 2007 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:19:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 609 (609) International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2007 9-13 September 2007, Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal Web page: http://www.icann2007.org 2nd Call for Papers Deadlines 16 Feb End of submission of special session and workshop proposals. 23 Mar End of submission of full papers. The 17th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2007, will be held from September 9 through September 13 at the Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal. ICANN is an annual conference organized by the European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society, and is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2007 welcomes contributions on the theory, algorithms and applications in the following broad areas: - Computational neuroscience; - Connectionist cognitive science; - Data analysis and pattern recognition; - Graphical network models, Bayesian networks; - Hardware implementations and embedded systems; - Intelligent Multimedia and the Semantic Web; - Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms; - Neural control, planning and robotics applications; - Neural dynamics and complex systems; - Neuroinformatics; - Real world applications; - Self-organization; - Sequential and structured information processing; - Signal and time series processing, blind source separation; - Vision and image processing. [...] From: Carlos Areces Subject: CFP: International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2007 (HyLo 2007) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:20:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 610 (610) ******************************************************************* THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2007 (HyLo 2007) http://hylomol.ruc.dk/HyLo2007 6 - 10 August, 2007 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2007 https://www.cs.tcd.ie/esslli2007 6 - 17 August, 2007 in Dublin ******************************************************************* ORGANIZERS: Torben Bra=FCner (Roskilde University, Denmark, torben_at_ruc.dk) - Chair J=F8rgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark, jv_at_imm.dtu.dk) WORKSHOP PURPOSE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic allowing direct reference to worlds/times/states. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on the grounds of applications as the additional expressive power is very useful. In addition, hybrid-logical machinery improves the behaviour of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes considerably simpler to formulate modal proof systems, and one can prove completeness and interpolation results of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. The topic of the HyLo workshop of 2007 is not only standard hybrid-logical machinery like nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder, but generally extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power. The workshop HyLo 2007 will be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic, most recently the LICS-affiliated HyLo 2006 (http://hylomol.ruc.dk/HyLo2006/). The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers who work in the broad subject areas represented at ESSLLI. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). [...]=20 From: "Marvin Stewart" Subject: CIP 7th Annual Symposium Copyright Utopia May 21-23, 2007 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:26:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 611 (611) The Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at University of Maryland University College is excited to announce its Seventh Annual Symposium, COPYRIGHT UTOPIA: Alternative Visions, Methods & Policies MAY 21-23, 2007 MARRIOTT INN & CONFERENCE CENTER ADELPHI, MARYLAND For centuries philosophers, writers and artists have dreamed of perfect worlds. Monarchs by fiat and legislative bodies by bills have attempted to engineer perfect societies. But it matters not to what corner of the globe you travel...no one believes we have yet arrived in that perfect place. Perhaps just one reason we have not yet attained utopia is that people have such divergent views on what utopia should look like, which means, of course, that it can be a very complex and messy business to create one. But, nevertheless, we want to ask the question: What would copyright utopia look like? Join the Center for Intellectual Property as we convene this conversation with noted scholars and practitioners as they discuss the current state of copyright nationally and internationally. Featured keynote speakers: * Fred Von Lohmann, Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation * William Fisher, Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School Register today at www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium Don't miss this one-of-a-kind event! COPYRIGHT UTOPIA: Alternative Visions, Methods & Policies MAY 21-23, 2007 MARRIOTT INN & CONFERENCE CENTER ADELPHI, MARYLAND Marvin Stewart Event Specialist Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Boulevard East Adelphi,MD 20783 T: 240.582.2966 mdstewart_at_umuc.edu From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Registration Now Open for the Future of Electronic Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:26:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 612 (612) Literature (May 3rd Symposium at Maryland) ------------------ Registration is now open for the Electronic Literature Organization and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities' Thursday, May 3rd public symposium at the University of Maryland, College Park on The Future of Electronic Literature: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/elo2007/index.php Registration is free for ELO members and University of Maryland students, staff and faculty; others, including members of the general public, are asked to pay a very modest fee. ALL ATTENDEES MUST, HOWEVER, REGISTER. Space is limited, so reserve early! Keynotes are N. KATHERINE HAYLES (UCLA) and KENNETH THIBODEAU (National Archives), but that's just the beginning of the list of terrific people who will be in attendance: * Sandy Baldwin (West Virginia University) * Laura Borras Castanayer (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) * helen DeVinney (University of Maryland) * Neil Fraistat (University of Maryland) * Bertrand Gervais (Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec =E0 Montr=E9al) * Juan B. Gutierrez (Flordia State University) * Rob Kendall (Independent Writer and Scholar) * Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland) * Mark Marino (University of Southern California) * Talan Memmott (Indepenent Writer and Scholar) * Nick Montfort (University of Pennsylvania) * Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen) * Susan Schreibman (University of Maryland) * Stepahnie Strickland (Independent Writer and Scholar) * Thom Swiss (University of Minnesota) * Joe Tabbi (University of Illinois-Chicago) * Jill Walker (University of Bergen) * Noah Wardrip-Fruin (UCSD) * Joshua Weiner (University of Maryland) Panels will be devoted to procedural or process-driven writing, the international electronic literature scene, and electronic literature in the 21st century. A complete schedule for May 3rd is available at the URL posted above. There will also be an open mic/mouse on the evening of Wednesday, May 2, starting at 6:15 in Art/Soc 2203. Many of the symposium attendees will be reading/performing from their current and favorite works of electronic literature, and everyone will be welcome to take a turn at the mic/mouse. A great way way to encounter this exciting body of writing for the first time. The open mic/mouse is free and open to the public. --=20 Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: "S.A.Rae" Subject: ALT-C 2007, paper submissions Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:27:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 613 (613) ALT-C 2007: Beyond control Learning technology for the social network generation <http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/>http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/ 4-6 September 2007, Nottingham, England Keynote speakers will be: Dr Michelle Selinger, Education Strategist, Cisco Systems, Dr Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google, and Professor Dylan Wiliam, Deputy Director of the Institute of Education. ALT-C 2007 will feature four areas, capturing the main strands of development current in the field: * Learning and internationalism: Learning across cultures, learning technology for a multicultural society; * Learning Technology for the social network generation: Learning with blogs, wikis and multiplayer games, new cultures of learning, integrating formal and informal learning; * Designing learning spaces: mobile, pervasive and embedded technologies for learning, technology-enhanced learning spaces; * Large-scale implementation: distance learning, networked learning, policy and infrastructure for technology-enhanced learning. Final call for papers and abstracts The online paper submission system for ALT-C 2007 is at: <http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/papers.html>http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/papers.html Please read the submission guidelines for Research Papers and for Abstracts - <http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html>http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html - and download the Research Paper Template if you wish to submit a research paper. Key deadlines: Research Papers and Abstracts - Last date for Research Papers: 23 February 2007 - Last date for Abstracts for short papers, symposia, workshops, demonstrations and posters: 28 February 2007 Booking by presenters - Main presenter to book by: 9 June 2007 - All other presenters to book by: 29 June 2007 Please contact us for queries as follows: - submitting proposals to ALT-C 2007: Rhonda Riachi (rriachi_at_brookes.ac.uk) - sponsoring ALT-C 2007: Seb Schmoller (sschmoller_at_brookes.ac.uk) - exhibiting at ALT-C 2007: Hayley Willis (h.willis_at_brookes.ac.uk) ALT-C 2007 Beyond control: learning technology for the social network generation 4-6 September 2007, Nottingham, England <http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/>http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/ ------------------end call----------------------------------- From: Ville Nurmi Subject: Deadline extended - ESSLLI 2007 Student Session Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:28:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 614 (614) -------------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENDED TO February 18, 2007 -------------------------------------- ESSLLI 2007 STUDENT SESSION August 6-17 2007, Dublin, Ireland Extended deadline: February 18, 2007 http://www.loria.fr/~sustreto/stus07/ We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 19th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which will be held in Dublin, Ireland on August 6-17, 2007. We invite submission of papers in the areas of Logic, Language and Computation for presentation at the Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. AIM Student Session exists to bring together young researchers to present and discuss their work in progress with a possibility to get feedback from senior researchers. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: fitting in of older interdisciplines Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:13:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 615 (615) [from Herbert Wender ] Willard, it would be interesting to see how some older 'interdisciplines' - logix, statistix et al. - and their succes to settle in the facultys - phil., econ., sciences - look in terms of your geographical imagery. Yours, HW [deleted quotation]Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Guizzardi, G. (Giancarlo)" Subject: CFP: Journal of Applied Ontology - Special Issue on Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:25:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 616 (616) "Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling" CALL FOR PAPERS [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] Journal of Applied Ontology: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling http://www.applied-ontology.org/ IOS Press (Editors-in-Chief: Nicola Guarino and Mark A. Musen) Special Issue on **** ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR CONCEPTUAL MODELING **** Expected publication: Winter 2007 Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2007 GUEST EDITORS OF SPECIAL ISSUE Giancarlo Guizzardi, Computer Science Department, UFES, Brazil & Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Trento, Italy Terry Halpin, Neumont University, South Jordan, Utah, USA OBJECTIVES OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role played by formal ontology, and more generally, by areas such as philosophy, logics, cognitive sciences and linguistics in the development of theoretical foundations for conceptual modeling in computer science. As it has been shown in a large number of recent publications, so-called foundational ontologies such as BWW, GFO, DOLCE, UFO, BFO, and Chisholm=92s have been successfully applied to the evaluation of conceptual modeling languages and frameworks (e.g., UML, ORM, ER) and to the development of engineering tools (e.g., methodological guidelines, modeling profiles, design patterns) that contribute to the theory and practice of conceptual= modelling. The purpose of this special issue is to collect innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding the role played by the aforementioned areas to the theoretical foundations of conceptual modeling. This issue should be of interest of several academic communities, including those working on database design, requirements engineering, knowledge engineering, enterprise modeling, agent and object orientation, information systems, software engineering (in particular domain engineering), natural-language processing, business rules and model-driven architectures. We thus solicit contributions in several areas related to Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling. Topics of interest include: -- Philosophical and Cognitive Foundations for Conceptual Modeling -- Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling: Methodologies, Tools, and Case Studies -- Psychological Experiments Evaluating the Cognitive Adequacy of Conceptual Modeling Primitives -- Ontological Analysis of Existing Conceptual Models (including Reference Models) -- Role of Ontology-driven Conceptual Modelling for Semantic Interoperability -- Ontological Design Patterns -- Linguistic theories and Natural-Language Semantics in Conceptual Modeling -- Formal Semantics of Conceptual Modeling Languages -- Comparison between existing Foundational Ontologies for the purpose of Conceptual Modeling SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions, that will undergo a peer-reviewing process, must be sent electronically through the journal's website (http://www.applied- ontology.org/) by the deadline listed below. Detailed instructions for authors are available from the same website. [...] From: Jerome McGann Subject: NINES: release of a new online research system Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:49:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 617 (617) NINES is pleased to announce the availability of a new online research system which will transform the practice of scholarship and publication in the humanities: http://www.nines.org/ NINES is powered by Collex, a custom-built, open-source tool designed by and for scholars: http://www.patacriticism.org/collex/ In NINES, you can: = search and browse more than 60,000 peer-reviewed texts and images in 19th-century studies; = build your own collections of documents, articles, images, and ephemera; = organize, tag, and annotate your work; = discover lines of critical inquiry related to your own; = and (coming soon!) create syllabi, annotated bibliographies, illustrated essays, and timelines. NINES integrates material from the following major research archives: British Women Romantic Poets Chesnutt Archive Collective Biographies of Women Dickinson Virtual Reference Shelf Letters of Christina Rossetti Letters of Matthew Arnold Romantic Circles Praxis Romanticism on the Net The Ambrose Bierce Project The Poetess Archive The Rossetti Archive The Swinburne Project The Walt Whitman Archive The Willa Cather Archive The William Blake Archive Victorian Studies Bibliography Whitman Bibliography Forthcoming are contributions from JSTOR, the Whistler Correspondence, the journal 19, the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition, Virginia's Victorian Literature and Culture Series, and the Wright American Fiction Project, as well as updated and expanded information from the Dickinson Project, Romantic Circles, and Romanticism on the Net. For more information and to get started, visit: http://www.nines.org/ Jerome McGann From: ROBIN SCHULZE Subject: cfp: Society for Textual Scholarship at MLA 2007 Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:43 pm X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 618 (618) SESSION FOR MLA 2007 [deleted quotation]practice, and textual [deleted quotation] From: Christopher Morrow Subject: Fw: Registration Open for Texas A&M Book History Workshop Date: Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:57 pm X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 619 (619) [deleted quotation] From: Hĺkan Carlsson Subject: Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:39:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 620 (620) Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication NCSC 2008 21-23 April 2008, Lund, Sweden Following up the success of the previous Nordic Conferences on Scholarly Communication, Lund University Libraries are proud to announce the Fourth Nordic Conference. In order to discuss, present and analyse the problems and challenges that arise within scholarly communication Lund University Libraries invite scholars, publishers, vendors, editors, librarians and other interested parties to the Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication 21 - 23 April 2008 in Lund, Sweden. The conference takes place every second year and aims to be an important contribution to the discussion and to the development within the Nordic countries and occurs in alternation with OAI - CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication. For more information, please use the conference webpage: <https://webmail.cfadm.lu.se/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc>http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc --------- Hĺkan Carlsson Biblioteksdirektionen / Head Office Lunds universitet / Lund University Libraries Box 134 221 00 LUND Tel. +46 46-222 15 30 Fax + 46 46-222 36 82 From: Subject: KCPR 2007: Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:08:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 621 (621) The 2nd Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing (KCPR 2007) will be held in Orlando, Florida on July 12-15, 2007 March 8th, 2007 is the deadline for paper/abstract submissions and invited session proposals. http://www.info-cyber.org/kcpr2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The registration fee of effective invited session organizers will be waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems". The market price of this package is US $ 295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at KCPR 2007 web page. The best 10%-20% of the papers will be published in Volume 6 of JSCI Journal (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI). 24 issues (volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4) of the Journal have been sent to approximately 200 universities and research libraries, Promotional, free subscriptions, for 2 years, are being provided to the organizations of the Journal's authors. All Submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal. Details are given in the conference web site. The three kinds of reviewing will support the acceptance process for the selection of the papers to be presented at the conference, as well as the selection of the best 10%-20% of the papers that will be included in the JSCI journal. All papers accepted for presentation in the conference will also be included in the conference proceedings. The papers selected, after their presentation, as the best ones of their regular or invited session, will also be considered for their inclusion in the Journal. The authors of the best 30%-40% of these papers will be invited to modify or extend their papers for its respective publication in the Journal. For those who are interested in organizing an invited session, please, fill the respective form provided in the conference web page, and we will send you a password (if it is pre-approved) so you can include and modify papers in your invited session. If the deadlines are tight and you need more time, let us know about a suitable time for you and we will inform you if it is feasible for us. Dr. Nagib Callaos KCPR 2007 General Chair From: Willard McCarty Subject: peer-reviewing? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:25:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 622 (622) Arriving in today's small batch of messages from Humanist is an invitation to attend KCPR2007, the 2nd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing, http://www.info-cyber.org/kcpr2007/. In the background statement for the conference strong statements are made against the process of peer-reviewing. Most if not all of these statements are made in the context of the physical or biomedical sciences, in which (I would assume) competition is far sharper than in the humanities, where getting there first is not much of an option. Perhaps, then, it is not surprising that my own experience with peer-reviewing, both as a reviewer and as one reviewed, is much more positive than the experiences which would appear to motivate KCPR 2007. Even so, I wonder if it is fair to put the blame on peer-reviewing, which is bound to turn up human failings and perversities. I also wonder if, given our greater diversity in ways to publish now that the Web provides them, a cogent solution to whatever problems is to use that diversity. J. Scott Armstrong (Warton School, Penn) argues, for example, [deleted quotation]("Peer Review for Journals: Evidence on Quality Control, Fairness, and Innovation", Science and Engineering Ethics 3 (1997): 63-84, http://cogprints.org/5197/01/peer_review_for_journals.pdf) Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Marvin Stewart" Subject: CIP Annual Symposium May 21-23 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:51:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 623 (623) Join the Center for Intellectual Property, your peers and colleagues as they convene for the Seventh Annual Symposium on copyright and information use. COPYRIGHT UTOPIA: Alternative Visions, Methods & Policies May 21-23, 2007 Marriott Inn & Conference Center www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium Adelphi, Maryland What would copyright utopia look like? Do you envision an island paradise surrounded by oceans of free content lapping at your feet? Is every piece of data or content freely and fully available--no restrictions, no fees, and no questions asked? Or is everything under lock and key with access granted only to a privileged membership? Or do you wish to live somewhere in between? As colleges and universities continue to make decisions managing third party copyrighted works, let's pause and ask difficult questions of our legal structure and human needs. What methods and policies would best serve students, faculty, publishers, and the academic enterprise? Some confirmed speakers and panelists include: *William Fisher, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law; *Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation; *Donna Ferullo, Purdue University; *Kenneth Crews, Indian University-Purdue University Indianapolis; *Patricia Aufderheide, Center for Social Media; *Heather Joseph, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition; *Tracy Mitrano, Cornell University; *Ann Bartow, University of South Carolina; *Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge; *Matt Skelton, Office of Policy and International Affairs, U.S Copyright Office; *Elizabeth Winston, Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law; *Miriam Nisbet, American Library Association; *Denise Troll Covey, Carnegie Mellon University; *Reed Stager, Digimarc Corporation; *Mike Carroll, Villanova University School of Law; *Brian Crawford, American Chemical Society Publications; *Karen Coyle, Digital Libraries Consultant; **And many more... Visit www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium for registration details and specials from our travel partners. The CIP is one of the leading centers providing training and solutions on the copyright issues that affect scholars and industry. =========== Marvin Stewart Event Specialist Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Boulevard East Adelphi,MD 20783 T: 240.582.2966 mdstewart_at_umuc.edu From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.7 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:52:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 624 (624) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 7 February 20, 2007 -- February 26, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: CYBERSPACE, COSMOLOGY AND THE MEANING OF LIFE Albert Borgmann, who has been described as as the most rigorous and original philosopher of technology in the world, says: "The world no longer has a central point, neither on this planet nor in the cosmos. Everyday life and especially festive occasions on earth still reveal traces and recollections of focal points, of the college we attended, the place we got married, the capital where a new president is installed. It's the universe that impresses radical pointlessness on us." And where do we go from there? We go to his fascinating article, "Cyberspace, Cosmology and the Meaning of Life," which you'll find in this week's Ubiquity, See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i07_borgmann.html From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: RE: 20.457 peer-reviewing? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:48:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 625 (625) [deleted quotation]OK. That's a nice rhetorical flourish of Armstrong's at the end (: not "whether", but "how") but one which may throw a too facile mantle of simplicity over a pretty complex matter. [One of his academic specialties *is* "persuasive advertising", I see :-).] Involving, for example, questions of transparency and legitimization and negotiation of that "how", vis-ŕ-vis the author but also the reader and the knowledge domain. There are also more mundane factors having to do, for instance, with stability, access, bibliographical control, preservation (I add, as one on the library side of things). Fresh from an experience "as one reviewed" in Willard's words, I have at the moment less than positive feelings about the matter. My contribution was positively and even enthusiastically judged by the anonymous reviewer and subsequently accepted. However, that reviewer's secondary comments suggested in my view a peculiar lack of sensitivity not only to the deeper import of my paper but even to certain fundamental problematics of the discipline itself. I'll not venture a guess whether both of Willard's two categries ("human failings and perversities") might be involved here. But apart from all of the above : if we really want to problematize the phenomenon in philosophical and ideological ways, I'd suggest laying the emphasis not only on the "review" part but certainly also on that "peer" part. What do we mean in fact by that concept in this day and age ? And if we get the concept clear in the postpositivist, transdisciplinary, holistic, genre-blurring context of today, how do we then operationalize it ?? And finally, Willard brings in again that natural sciences / humanities contrast (with which I in other respects have big problems, as previously said), in terms of competition and speed. But I'd invite you to consider also other factors that may enter into this picture. One is the varying emphasis put on matters of choice (and rigor) in methodology and for statistical processing approach (here I think first of the biomedical sector), and on the elimination of "bias" (formally defined). Related are the differing visions regarding the factor subjectivity. Not unimportant as well is the question of vested interests (economic, political, social). All of these factors can be very differently at play in the "exact" sciences (more) and the humanities (mostly much less) -- not least in the real-world- functioning of the "peer review" system, in the dissatisfaction with it, and in the criticisms leveled at it. All this endless ado about the virtues and vices of peer review tends to beg the actual question what one in fact wants to accomplish with such an instrument. But there are various legitimate while quite different answers to that question, differing in the disciplinary dimension but also in other dimensions -- and therefore no univocal solution available to the identified problems. We can be pretty sure that propositions like the nonsensical "Peer Reviewing is one of the means for knowledge verification" or the somewhat less idiotic "Peer Reviewing is one of the means for knowledge validation" (see the KCPR 2007 website) will get us nowhere at all. [As though all the efforts of all the epistemologists -- not to mention the poets -- of the last several generations have been for naught.] Knowledge has no need at all for this mechanism. What's at stake is not knowledge but in the first instance prestige (legitimate prestige, one likes to suppose), and all those good things that follow from that, and of which we are -- I feel confident in saying -- all in varying degrees the beneficiaries, directly or indirectly. All we really need is a perfect or at least a less deficient (and perhaps less pretentious) alternate device for safeguarding those "academic" amenities we so value. Just an off-the-cuff reaction. - Laval Hunsucker P.s.: And if I may be extremely nitpicking : It's "Wharton" with an "h" in there, which is also pronounced, no differently than in the word just following the first comma in this sentence. From: Michael Dunn Subject: Re: 20.457 peer-reviewing? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:48:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 626 (626) Dear Willard, The 2nd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing is one of the "spam conferences" organised by the infamous Nagib Callaos. His conferences are known for accepting computer generated gobbledygook (papers are published at a fee per paper accepted, no attendance required). There was a lot of discussion of it last year -- here are a couple of good summaries: http://3dpancakes.typepad.com/ernie/2005/04/sci_followup.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002067.html I can't see anything more to the kcpr2007 website than an attempt to defend the his business model from deserved mockery. Which reminds me of another contribution to the literature on peer review: http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4116&n=3 All the best, Michael Dunn -- Michael Dunn Center for Language Studies, Radboud University, and Language and Cognition Group, MPI Psycholinguistics PB 310, NL-6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands +31 (0)24 3521268 (wk) +31 (0)24 3521300 (fax) http://www.mpi.nl/Members/MichaelDunn From: "Jochen L. Leidner" Subject: Re: 20.457 peer-reviewing? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:50:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 627 (627) Hi, There's a good and entertaining article in the "Squibs & Discussions" section of a recent CL issue [1] on this topic. Surely double-blind peer review is limited, but the same applies in other realms of life: use the mediocre until you've got something better [2]. Democracy and capitalism have obvious flaws, however in the absence of better alternatives, we tend to stick with them. ;-) Regards, Jochen [1] Church, Ken (2005) 'Reviewing the Reviewers' Computational Linguistics 31(4): 575-578. Online: <http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1110825.1110831>. [2] Kassirer, Jerome P. and Edward W. Campion (1994) 'Peer Review: Crude and Understudied, but Indispensable' JAMA 272: 96-97. Online: <http://www.ama-assn.org/public/peer/7_13_94/pv3089x.htm> [deleted quotation]-- Jochen L Leidner Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellow Language Technology Group, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/~s0239229/ From: "Alex Murzaku" Subject: Re: 20.457 peer-reviewing? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:50:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 628 (628) I read a wonderful article from Ken Church on this issue a few years ago. I do remember that it had a lot of arguments, but I can't remember them and I can't locate my copy of Computational Linguistics. I found its reference though and I hope it can be useful to those that have access to CL's online archives: Church, K. 2005. Reviewing the Reviewers. Comput. Linguist. 31, 4 (Dec. 2005), 575-578. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/089120105775299131 Regards, Alex Murzaku [See the reference elsewhere in this issue of Humanist --WM] From: Katherine L Walter Subject: Nebraska Digital Workshop call for proposals Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:13:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 629 (629) Call for Proposals The Nebraska Digital Workshop October 5 & 6, 2007 The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska's Lincoln (UNL) will host the second annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 5 & 6, 2007 and seeks proposals for digital presentations by pre-tenure faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students working in the digital humanities. The goal of the Workshop is to enable the best early career scholars in the field of digital humanities to present their work in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased. Under the auspices of the Center, the Workshop will bring nationally recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to UNL to participate and work with the selected scholars. Selected scholars will receive full travel reimbursement and an honorarium for presenting their work at the Nebraska Digital Workshop. Selection criteria include: significance in primary disciplinary field, technical innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and creativity of approach. Please send proposed workshop abstract, curriculum vitae, and a representative sample of digital work via a URL or disk on or before May 1, 2007 to: Katherine L. Walter, Co-Director, UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, at kwalter1_at_unl.edu or 319 Love Library, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-4100. For further details, see the Center's web site at <<http://cdrh.unl.edu>http://cdrh.unl.edu>. Many thanks for your help in publicizing this event, Katherine L. Walter Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections Dept. University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln NE 68588-4100 voice: (402) 472-3939 fax: (402) 472-5131 kwalter1_at_unl.edu From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Historical newspaper archives: best practices? Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:14:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 630 (630) Dear all, could you point me toward what you consider to be examples of good online presentation of a historical newspaper archive collection / database (i. e. a newspaper, or parts of one, published long time ago, and now available, or searchable, over the internet). I conducted some Web searches, but I am interested in quality of presentation now --- something humans can assess better than search machines (and plures plura sciunt). Yours Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia From: "Dot Porter" Subject: Re: 20.462 historical newspaper archives: best practices? Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:14:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 631 (631) Dear Neven, You should have a look at the National Digital Newspaper Program, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress (http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html). The projects funded though this initiative are preparing historic newspapers for online presentation. The Library of Congress website is here: http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/ It looks like that one includes technical specs and maybe links to presentations. Though I'm not involved in the project, the University of Kentucky Digital Libraries was one of the first groups funded through this initiative, and is the only group (I am led to understand) that is doing all the work in-house rather than contracting out. The UKy NDNP site is here: http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NDNP/welcome.html I expect the project leader would be glad to answer any questions you might have. Dot Porter -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter_at_uky.edu 859-257-9549 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter_at_vis.uky.edu *************************************** On 2/21/07, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: tsd_at_kiv.zcu.cz Subject: TSD 2007 Call For Papers Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:23:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 632 (632) An International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS September 3-7, 2007 http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2007 Primavera Hotel & Congress centre Plze=F2 (Pilsen), Czech Republic ###################################################################### [Our apologies for possible duplicates of this message] [Our apologies if you are in our list by mistake, in this case please, simply reply STOP in the subject line] TSD 2007 is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. TSD 2007 is also supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). TOPICS Topics of the international conference will include (but are not limited to): Language modelling, text corpora and tagging, transcription problems in spoken corpora, sense disambiguation, links between text and speech oriented systems, parsing issues (especially parsing problems in spoken texts), multi-lingual issues (especially multi-lingual dialogue systems), information retrieval and information extraction, text/topic summarization, machine translation, semantic networks and ontologies, semantic web, speech modelling, speech segmentation, speech recognition, search in speech for IR and IE, text-to-speech synthesis, dialogue systems, development of dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues, emotions and personality modelling, user modelling, knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems, assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue, facial animation, visual speech synthesis. The keynote topic of TSD 2007 Conference is language modelling. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event will be English but papers on issues relating to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged. FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. A preliminary conference program will be published at the conference www pages. One day of the conference will be dedicated for tutorials and workshops. [...]=20 From: Willard McCarty Subject: newspaper archive services Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:29:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 633 (633) [from Wesley Raabe, wraabe_at_unlnotes.unl.edu] The following services (with powerful search tools such as full-text keyword search and highlighted results) are available: - Readex Early American Newspapers - ProQuest American Periodicals Series - Thomson-Gale 19th Century U.S. Newspapers I believe that all three are limited to institutional subscribers. Paperofrecord offers short-term individual subscriptions and a range of international papers (concentrated on Canada, but also some Europe, North and South America, and Australia). The following web sites, which include historical newspapers, are free: The Daily Eagle from the Brooklyn Public Library has full-text search and highlighted results: http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/ The Valley of the Shadow offers a selection of newspaper articles. http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/xml_docs/valley_news/html/opening.html The transcriptions and images are selective. My dissertation, which includes an electronic edition of the National Era version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is also available. http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/~wnr4c/index.htm. My transcription is quite selective--Stowe's text only. I'd be interested to know of other online newspaper resources. Wesley Raabe, Ph.D. CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library P.O. Box 884100 Lincoln NE 68588-4100 voice: US +1 4024724547 Call fax: (402) 472-5131 email: wraabe_at_unlnotes.unl.edu http://cdrh.unl.edu/about/faculty/raabe.php From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Library of Congress Online Collection: diplomatic history Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:15:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 634 (634) A new online collection of interviews with some of the most prominent diplomats of the 20th century is now available from the Library of Congress's American Memory Web site: < http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html >. "Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training" < http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/diplomacy/ > presents a window into the lives of American diplomats. Transcripts of interviews with U.S. diplomatic personnel capture their experiences, motivations, critiques, personal analyses and private thoughts. These elements are crucial to understanding the full story of the creation of a structure of stable relationships that maintained world peace and protected U.S. interests and values. Most of the interviews in the collection come from foreign service officers, but there also are some with political appointees and other officials. While some 1920s-, 1930s-, and World War II-era diplomacy is covered, most of the interviews involve post-World War II diplomacy, from the late 1940s to the 1990s. This collection captures the post-World War II period in vivid terms and intimate detail, documenting the way U.S. diplomacy defended the United States and its interests in a challenging world. The narratives span the major diplomatic crises and issues that faced the United States during the second half of the 20th century and, as new interviews are added, will include developments in the 21st century. The 1,301 transcripts of oral history interviews were donated by the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, a private, nonprofit organization. The collection includes extensive personal recollections from luminaries of American 20th century diplomatic history, including Alfred "Roy" Atherton (ambassador to Egypt), Zbigniew Brzezinski (national security adviser under President Carter), Frank Carlucci (ambassador to Portugal under Presidents Nixon and Ford; also served as secretary of defense under President Reagan), Julia Child (spouse of foreign service officer Paul Cushing Child), Lawrence Eagleburger (secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush), Averell Harriman (ambassador to the Soviet Union and England under President Franklin Roosevelt), Jeane Kirkpatrick (ambassador to the United Nations), Winston Lord (played a critical role in opening relations with China under President Nixon), Clare Boothe Luce (ambassador to Italy under President Eisenhower), Douglas MacArthur II (nephew of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and ambassador to Japan, Belgium, Austria and Iran), Charles H. Percy (senator from Illinois), Roza! nne Ridgway (ambassador to Finland and East Germany), Dean Rusk (secretary of state under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson), John S. Service (foreign service officer specializing in China before World War II), Cyrus Vance (secretary of state under President Carter) and Marion Post Wolcott (photographer, married to USAID official Lee Wolcott). The full text of the official press release is available at: < http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07-029.html >. For further information please contact the Library's Manuscript Division: < http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-mss2.html >. [deleted quotation]Laura Gottesman Digital Reference Team The Library of Congress < http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ > From: Willard McCarty Subject: time-machines and VR environments Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:11:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 635 (635) In The Landscape of History (2002), John Lewis Gaddis speculates on what historians might do if a time-machine were available. He expresses skepticism about how useful such a machine might turn out to be, especially because of the limited perspective that an historian would get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past. How paradoxically time-bound he or she would be if that machine were entirely to substitute for an historical imagination. Considering historical research, he notes how much more historians are able to do than is atttributed to time-machines in science fiction. Citing Macaulay and Adams, he notes that historians have the capacity for selectivity, simultaneity and shifting of scale: "they can select from the cacaphony of events what they think is really important; they can be in several times and places at once; and they can zoom in and out between macroscopic and microscopic levels of analysis" (p. 22). Consider the possible analogy brought forward by digital attempts to do printed editions of literary and artistic works one better by representing the material culture in which these works are embedded. One might conclude that given the right sort of equipment, what we should really be doing is creating an experientially realistic VR environment. So by this way of thinking, to study a Victorian novel properly, for example, what one should have is a virtual environment that reproduces as closely as possible the various sets of conditions under which it was read (dripping tallow candles, dancing shadows, rattling of shashes and so forth). A time-machine of a sort without the cosmological inconveniences. Does not Gaddis' criticism of naive time-machine historiography apply (changing what needs to be changed) to our contemporary ambition? And if it does, what then should our ambition with respect to editions be? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Wayne Hanewicz" Subject: cfp: Sustainable Transformations: Technology and Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:08:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 636 (636) Its Environments CALL FOR PAPERS Sustainable Transformations: Technology and Its Environments October 4-6, 2007 The theme of the 31st Annual Humanities and Technology Conference reflects the contemporary interest in the multiple interfaces of technologies and their environments. HTA invites individual papers and session proposals addressing the conference theme from the viewpoints of the humanities, the sciences, and engineering. In addition to the conference theme, papers on all other aspects of the interactions of technology, science, and the humanities are welcome. Next to innovations explicitly designed to protect the environment, modern technology creates new environments and alters existing ones, both natural and human-made. Whether it be with respect to aging, privacy, healthcare, education, transportation, or communication, new technologies keep redefining our environments for us. This conference (www.rose-hulman.edu/hta2007) invites contributions that explore, for example, developments in environmental technology, as well as the political, social, and economic challenges they pose the destruction and/or creation through technology of natural, human made, or virtual environments of all kinds aesthetic and artistic reactions to the destruction or creation of new environments the sustainability of natural or virtual environments human adaptations to technological environments philosophical and ethical dimensions of technological environments the ecology of environments Please submit a one-page proposal (200 words) by April 15, 2007 to Andreas.Michel_at_rose-hulman.edu, call 812-877-8221, or write to Andreas Michel, HTA Conference Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 5500 Wabash Ave, Terre Haute, IN 47803 From: Subject: LATA 2007: call for participation Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:09:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 637 (637) 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2007 Tarragona, Spain, March 29 - April 4, 2007 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2007/index.html [...] From: ian.lancashire_at_utoronto.ca Subject: MLA report on tenure and promotion Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:39:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 638 (638) Dear Willard In case I've missed this on Humanist, forgive me, but I just found out about the MLA report on tenure and promotion (Dec. 7, 2006). The figures on evaluating e-articles and e-monographs in doctoral institutions are astounding. 40.8% have no experience in evaluating e-articles, 65.7% have no experience in evalating e-monographs. MLA recommends a "more capacious conception of scholarship" and urges institutions to recognize the "legitimacy of scholarship produced in new media." See http://www.mla.org/pdf/tenure_summary.pdf Let's thank MLA. Ian From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: 20.468 time-machines and VR environments? Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:00:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 639 (639) Willard, In regards to aims and objectives and encounters with artifacts, you might read with avid interest a "trip report" by Matt Kirschenbaum about a recent gathering that focussed on the question of preservation in terms of the questions you are returning to and inviting us to turn to. See Shall These Bits Live? A Trip Report from New Media and Social Memory (Berkeley, January 18, 2007) http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000907.html [deleted quotation] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.8 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:42:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 640 (640) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 8 February 27, 2007 - March 5, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: Business Decision Making, Management and Information Technology V.Lalith Kumar, in the graduated program at ICFAI Business School in Bangalore, India, has crafted, with his coauthors, this interesting discussion of the relationship between business decision making and information technology. "The possibilities of IT in facilitating problem solving creativity are an important issue in itself; here the technology has some proven points -- idea generation, exchange and testing mechanisms; growing sophistication of work styles; support of teamwork and communication." See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i08_lalith.html From: Daniel Cohen Subject: Job Openings at CHNM Date: Feb 27, 2007 2:14 PM X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 641 (641) Openings at CHNM - Post-Doc, Digital History Associate, Summer Intern Post-Doc in History of Science & Technology and/or Digital History: This is a one-year position (with possible renewal) at the rank of Research Assistant Professor at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM), which is closely affiliated with the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. A PhD or advanced ABD in History or a closely related field is required. We are especially interested in people with some or all of the following credentials, but they are not all required for the position: 1. experience in digital history or digital libraries; 2. strong technical background in new technology and new media; 3. administrative and organizational experience; 4. background in the history of science, technology, and industry, broadly defined; 5. background in post-1945 U.S. history. Please send letter of application, CV or resume, and three letters of recommendation (or dossier) to chnm_at_gmu.edu or Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive MS 1E7, Fairfax, VA 22030. Electronic submissions encouraged. Please use subject line "Digital Historian." We will begin considering applications 15 March 2006. Digital History Associate: The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University is hiring two "Digital History Associates." We are seeking energetic, well-organized people who take initiative and work well collaboratively. We are especially interested in people with some combination of research experience, administrative experience, and web development and programming experience. These exciting, grant-funded positions are particularly appropriate for someone with combined interest in history and technology, but the only specific requirements are a BA by June 1, 2007, and a demonstrated interest in both history and the web. Please apply for position #10384Z online at jobs.gmu.edu and attach both a resume and a cover letter. We will begin considering applications on 3/15/07 and continue until the positions are filled. Summer Intern Humanitties Computing: The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University is seeking creative, energetic, well-rounded, and well-organized college/high school students for 8-12 week paid summer internships in 2007 at a leading digital humanities center. Ability to work in a team is very important. Strong grades are essential. Preference will be given to those with working knowledge of one or more of the following: web- database development in PHP and MySQL; JavaScript, XML, CSS, and other technologies critical for Firefox= development; and command-line Linux system administration. This is an especially good opportunity for someone with a combined interest in computing and history. Please send resume and cover letter with subject line: "humanities computing internship" to chnm_at_gmu.edu. We will begin considering applications on 2/15/07 and will continue until the position is filled. About CHNM: Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has used digital media and computer technology to change the ways that people=97scholars,, students, and the general public=97learn about and use tthe past. We do that by bringing together the most exciting and innovative digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship. We believe that serious scholarship and cutting edge multimedia can be combined to promote an inclusive and democratic understanding of the past as well as a broad historical literacy that fosters deep understanding of the most complex issues about the past and present. CHNM's work has been internationally recognized for cutting-edge work in history and new media. Located in Fairfax, Virginia, CHNM is 15 miles from Washington, DC, and is accessible by public transportation. From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: [SDH/SEMI Members] Digital Humanities Summer Institute Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:41:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 642 (642) [Please redistribute / Please excuse x-posting] Announcing Additional Scholarships and an Extended Deadline (March 8) for the 2007 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria June 18-22, 2007 <http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/>http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ We are pleased to announce that, due to the generosity of our sponsors, we are able to offer additional scholarships spots in our program. These will be awarded to faculty, staff, and students working in the digital humanities. We have extended the application deadline to March 8th, and the application form is available on line at: <http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/apply_scholarship.php>http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/apply_scholarship.php. Limited travel funding for graduate students is available via bursaries sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. You may apply for the this bursary at the same time as for Institute scholarships, by indicating on the scholarship application form that you are a graduate student member of the ACH and would like to be considered for the ACH bursary. This year, we are fortunate to be able to highlight several unique offerings, including the following: * Susan Schreibman (U Maryland Libraries) is offering an advanced Text Encoding Consultation. * Hugh Craig (U Newcastle, NSW) is leading a Master Class in Textual Analysis. * Dot Porter (U Kentucky) will be leading a seminar on Edition Production tools. * Lynne Siemens (U Victoria) will again be leading a consultation on Project Planning and Management, focusing on humanities research case studies. * Stan Ruecker and Alan Galey (U Alberta) are leading an advanced consultation on Interface Design for Humanities Visualization. For more information, please visit the institute's website at: <http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/>http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:39:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 643 (643) [sent by "CEC2007" ] Dear researcher, The 15 March 2007 deadline is fast approaching for paper submissions to the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (http://www.cec2007.org). Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and co-sponsored by the Evolutionary Programming Society and the IET, the IEEE CEC 2007 will be held in Singapore, September 25-28, 2007. The 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) will feature a world-class conference that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionary computation from all around the globe. Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass keynote speeches, over 35 special sessions, over 10 tutorials and workshops, panel discussions as well as poster presentations. On top of these, participants will be treated to a series of social functions, receptions and networking sessions, which will serve as a vital channel to establish new connections and foster everlasting friendship among fellow counterparts. The conference proceedings of CEC have been continuously included in the EI Compendex Database and IEEE Xplore. Prospective authors are invited to submit complete papers of no more than six (6) pages (including results, figures, tables, and references) in IEEE two-column format. Authors should submit their papers in PDF through the online submission system, which is available at the conference website: http://www.cec2007.org. Developing Countries Grant Program The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Conference Travel Grant Program for Researchers from Developing Countries offers a very limited number of travel grants to assist higher-grade IEEE members presenting papers at IEEE CIS-sponsored conferences. For more information, please refer to the conference website. [...] Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Julie Tolmie Subject: Intersections in Visualization Practices and Techniques Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:40:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 644 (644) VizNET 2007 Workshop Intersections in Visualization Practices and Techniques 17-19 April Leicestershire, UK New visualization technologies, practices and techniques have drawn science and the arts ever closer together, and the exchange of ideas between the two has become increasingly important. This workshop is about how to create and represent information or ideas through visualization techniques with a view to achieving better understanding through collaboration in visualization. The workshop is an opportunity for researchers working in science and engineering or the arts and humanities to develop practical experience across a broad range of visualization practice and thus a framework for articulating new ideas about working together. Who should attend? -- Arts and Humanities researchers, performers and artists, expertt in one or more areas of visualization, who would like an introduction to, and overview of, other areas of visualization, including the latest research results, ideas and= applications. -- Arts and Humanities researchers, performers and artists new to visualization who would like an introduction to, and overview of, the latest visualization practices and techniques. Format of workshop: 17 April: Half day introduction to what is visualization, how it is applied and examples of current practice in a range of processes. This will be followed by demonstrations of stereoscopic and grid-based visualization and a workshop dinner. 18 April: Full day workshop with nine sessions providing introductions to, and overviews of -- Information Visualization v. Mathematical Visualization -- Data Acquisition -- 3D Modelling -- Display Technologies -- Open Source Software v. Proprietary Software -- Games Platforms and MMORPGS -- Web-based "portal delivery" visualization -- Grid-based visualization -- Documentation To be followed by a plenary discussion looking for intersections between Scientific/Engineering and Arts/Humanities Visualization and a workshop dinner. An excellent opportunity to network and look for potential collaborators for your next research project after gaining an overview of what is available and who is working in what areas. 19 April: Full day of expert seminars in specialist areas. Will there be follow-up activities? VizNET 2007 is hosted by VizNET, the UK Visualization Support Network, and 3DVisA, the 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network. Your input will assist us to determine which communities of practice and which areas of visualization could benefit from dedicated courses. It will also assist us to identify emerging intersections in visualization practices and techniques within which additional network support could facilitate cross-domain collaboration. How much will it cost? Registration is free of charge, but essential as places are strictly limited. Participants must register online at http://www.viznet.ac.uk/viznet2007/ to reserve a place at the workshop. There are three registration schemes: Day 1 and Day 2, Day 3 only, and all three days. Participants are asked to pay their own travel and accommodation costs. Two levels of hotel accommodation are offered on the workshop website. Participants can elect to find their own accommodation, for example a B&B in Loughborough, but still need to register online to reserve a place at the workshop. Further information: VizNET 2007 website: http://www.viznet.ac.uk/viznet2007/ or email Dr. Julie Tolmie: julie.tolmie_at_kcl.ac.uk Dr. Nijad Al-Najdawi n.al-najdawi_at_lboro.ac.uk Dr Julie Tolmie JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS, UK Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1420 From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Borgmann on focal reality Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:24:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 645 (645) Willard, Recently Humanist provided a pointer to an artcile in Ubiquity. Although it doesn't overtly highlight the question of "reading with a computer" the lines it traces do bring the question to the fore. In Volume 8, Issue 7 (February 20, 2007 =AD February 26, 2007) of Ubiquity in a piece entitled "Cyberspace, Cosmology, and the Meaning of Life" I follow the discursive dance steps of Albert Borgmann and am enchanted by a peculiar skip if not jump.
The seductive distractions of cyberspace can in part be explicated by comparing the spatial structure of focal reality with that of cyberspace. The structure of electronic information is in an informal sense topological. Cyberspace has structure. Sites are nested and linked on the screen in a definite order. But there are no measurable distances between them. Everything is equally near and far and equally and easily reachable, and hence I easily slip from the important by way of the interesting to the distracting. In focal reality, some things are near and others far.
There is a gap between structure and attention. The effect noted by Borgman is not necessarily caused by a flattened topography. As well, the discipline of topology points to phase space and permits the modeling of the attention as part of the realm observed. Hence a cyberspace can be understood as a form of hyperspace and both can be distinguished from the space of hypertext. The minute a reader whether machine or human, enters the flatland even space of hypertext and reads then the experience begins to resemble those of focal reality. Sometime ago in a place not here I wrote: "How "cyberspace" relates to "hyperspace" is a key to its metaphorics." Borgman weaves a story about loss of focal reality and stresses the need for a point of reference.
To deal with the confusing brilliance of technological information we need a point of reference that enables us to discern what in cyberspace is illuminating and what is distracting.
Could that point of reference be the clock and the system of time zones? A system that allows us to navigate synchronicities. And mark the beginning and ends of trips. From: Willard McCarty Subject: what should the Town Crier cry? Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:23:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 646 (646) Recently, in Humanist 20.472, Ian Lancashire reminded us of the MLA report on tenure and promotion (December 2006), which revealed a rather narrow conception of scholarship and lack of experience with it in the digital medium. In Critical Inquiry 30.2 (2004), Jerome McGann, in the symposium held by that journal, "The Future of Criticism", noted that at its recent editorial board meeting that "not a person in the room seemed to know what TEI was/is (the Text Encoding Initiative) and how it was/is transforming the entire core of our work as humanists (for example, the library)" (criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v30/30n2.McGann.html). In 1986, writing about the very poor state of studies in technology, Langdon Winner wrote that, "the interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence" ("Technologies as forms of life", rpt in Technology and Values, ed Westra and Shrader-Frechette, 1997, p. 61). And, for someone of my generation, Bob Dylan's lyrics are always audible, [deleted quotation]&c. Although there are some who are awake and puzzling over the changing present as it is constituted, as it reveals possibilities for every discipline and area of enquiry, the crowds of sleepwalkers are everywhere. Old understandings are slow to compost, old cosmologies particularly stubborn, but the problem that strikes me in gatherings of academics is how the blinkers of disciplinarity (or should I call it departmentalism?) train us to create and maintain an intellectual periphery to which we, perhaps even as a matter of duty to the profession as well as a practical necessity, relegate the new, the unprofessional, the barbar-ian. What can we do? What is our role in waking up the sleepwalkers? Shouting's no good, and wild promises have for computing long ago been discredited. Is the best counsel simply hard work and patience? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Dot Porter" Subject: TEI Workshops @ Kalamazoo Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:37:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 647 (647) The Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources is pleased to announce two TEI workshops to be held at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2007. Both workshops will be on Thursday, May 10 (sessions 32 and 138; see http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete conference schedule). 1) XML and the Text Encoding Initiative Workshop I: Introduction to TEI Encoding This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, taught by a medievalist, James C. Cummings, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as new TEI P5 standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, and a brief consideration of XML Editors. Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. 2) XML and the Text Encoding Initiative Workshop II: Advanced TEI Encoding and Customization This workshop offers advanced instruction in advanced topics in TEI encoding and the customization of the TEI for an individual project's needs, taught by a medievalist, James C. Cummings, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes metadata for medieval manuscript description, advanced-level concepts of TEI P5 modularization, schema generation and customization for individual projects, and a brief survey of related technologies. Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. Dr. Cummings works for the Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford. He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, and he has extensive experience leading TEI workshops. Both workshops are limited to 14 participants, and registration is required. The fee *per workshop* is $45/$60 (Medieval Academy members/nonmembers) for pre-registration, $55/$70 for walk-ins (pending available space). Please send contact information and a check payable to Medieval Academy of America c/o Dorothy Carr Porter RCH 351/352 William T. Young Library Univ. of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0456. -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter_at_uky.edu 859-257-9549 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter_at_vis.uky.edu *************************************** From: Julia Flanders Subject: Women Writers Online for Women's History Month Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:37:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 648 (648) In celebration of Women's History Month, the Women Writers Online collection will be freely accessible during the month of March 2007 at http://www.wwp.brown.edu. WWO contains a fascinatingly varied range of early women's writing: obscure religious prophecy, midwifery, political satire, long melodramatic novels and lyric poetry, witty social commentary and philosophical reflection, dramas both farcical and tragic, and travel narratives from places as far-flung as Burma and Texas. Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early modern women's writing in English, encoded in TEI/XML and published using the Philologic search engine developed at the University of Chicago. The collection is developed by the Women Writers Project at Brown University, founded in 1988 by faculty in an effort to increase the visibility and availability of women's writing for teaching and research. The project's research focuses on the challenges of using detailed TEI markup to represent early printed books, and on issues of digital scholarly communication. In 2007-2008, the WWP is conducting an NEH-sponsored series of seminars on scholarly text encoding with TEI. For more information on this series, please see http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/index.html Your feedback and thoughts are welcome! Enjoy the collection. Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University From: Chris Ruotolo Subject: Job Posting: Director, Digital Scholarship Services (VA) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:36:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 649 (649) DIRECTOR, DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP SERVICES Faculty Opening - University of Virginia Library SEARCH EXTENDED The University of Virginia Library seeks an innovative and energetic leader for the position of Director, Digital Scholarship Services. The successful applicant will provide vision and direction for a growing suite of services supporting digital scholarship. This position provides the opportunity for a dynamic leader to capitalize on the range of digital scholarship activities that have emerged at UVA over the past 15 years and extend the institution's culture of digital scholarship both within and outside the institution. Specific service areas reporting to this position include the new Scholars Lab, which provides equipment and technical consulting for scholars pursuing digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences; publishing and preservation services for collecting and sustaining digital scholarship; and a fellowship program to support graduate students using digital scholarship in pursuit of their degrees. The full posting can be found at: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/HR/faculty.html. Qualifications: Master's degree in library science or advanced degree in the humanities or social sciences. Significant and progressively responsible experience engaging in digital scholarly activities in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts at a major academic research institution. Evidence of successful leadership and experience in managing and supervising others. Demonstrated commitment to service excellence. Ability to work cooperatively and maintain effective, creative, and flexible working relationships with colleagues, faculty, staff and students. Excellent analytical, oral, and written communication skills. A record of flexibility, creativity, and commitment to diversity. Experience mentoring and developing staff. Evidence of research or publication in digital humanities as well as participation in national or international committees and collaborative efforts. Salary and Benefits: Competitive depending on qualifications. This position has general faculty status with excellent benefits, including 22 days of vacation and TIAA/CREF and other retirement plans. Review of applications will begin on March 30, 2007 and will continue until the position is filled. Send, in print or electronic format, a letter of application, resume, and the names, addresses (including e-mail), and phone numbers of three references to: Mr. Alan R. Napier (arn3c_at_virginia.edu), Director of Library Human Resources, Alderman Library, PO Box 400876, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4114. The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer strongly committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The University actively encourages applications and nominations from members of underrepresented groups. From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Re: 20.475 fixing the MLA's problem, or what should Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:38:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 650 (650) the Town Crier cry? Further to the discussion on the recognition of digital scholarship started by Ian in H20.472 and continued by Willard in H20.475, I'd like to add a couple of anecdotes. Toward the end of the Fall term, 2006, in an English class devoted to the study of New Criticism and New Historicism / Cultural Materialism, in which I sought to provide students at the Honours and MA level with a sense of the history of their discipline, I made the comment that English, in its current state, is a dinosaur looking for a tar pit in which to lie down. I had tried to show my students that the discipline is NOT the natural way of doing things, but is created and re-created (and indeed recreated) through institutional and social pressures, and through the intellectual commitment, engagement, and playfulness of its membership. I was trying to do in a small setting for English studies what Kuhn did on a larger scale for science--provide a history of our own discipline. I then showed them several e-texts, concluding with Volume 1 of the Electronic Literature Collection (at http://collection.eliterature.org/ ). I assured them that students of their vintage, nearing completion of BA or MA degrees, would in the near future compose interesting and engaging PhD dissertations on e-literature. That, to borrow again from Bob Dylan, "the times they are a-changin'." My students were, to put it mildly, unimpressed. In fact, they were a little shocked, and a little incensed. The anger came, I think, from having spent four or more years devoting themselves to a discipline they had now been disciplined into believing in, rather than questioning with the critical reasoning English scholars so often so loudly proclaim is their raison d'etre. Their shock came from finally being told the church is not sacred, fixed, and eternal from one of the priests themselves, but their failure to be impressed is the more worrisome component of their response. I suspect the Jesuits and Lenin have been here before me: we have to get them while they are young if we are to change the way they think (and, dare I say, believe). Perhaps if we could start teaching e-literature in first year classes we could inculcate the revolution in thinking that seems necessary for people in the profession to re-conceive what it is we do before the majority, whose weight is carrying the rest of us along, finds that tar pit. My second anecdote came to mind when I read "Although there are some who are awake and puzzling over the changing present as it is constituted, as it reveals possibilities for every discipline and area of enquiry, the crowds of sleepwalkers are everywhere" in Willard's note. It called to mind Katherine Hayles' assertion, in Writing Machines (I think) and also (certainly) in "Print is Flat, Code is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis" that we have been ""Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, [and that we] have been slow to wake up to the importance of media-specific analysis. Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print" ("Print is Flat," 68). This came to mind because I recently visited another English Dep't in which I taught Hayles' concept of MSA to a class of their students, and while I was there was told, in as many words, by a university administrator that the English dep't was in need of being "dragged into the 20th century." And yes, this administrator was aware that we are now in the 21st century. The point being made was how far English studies seems to be lagging behind where it might be (and, I would argue, as I suspect would most readers of Humanist, where it should be). The concern here is that English is perceived by someone a) outside the discipline, and b) in a position of some power over it (us) as, well, if I may say so, a dinosaur looking for a tar pit to lie down in. I'm not sure the "revolutionary" idea of teaching first year students that e-literature is both valid and vital will come in time to save us. And by "save us" I don't mean 'prevent the university from closing the English department.' If there's one thing that moves more slowly than English its the institution in which it operates. But surely we have that most natural of instincts, the desire to survive? If students abandon us in droves, as I suspect they are likely to do as they find our connection with their lived existence less and less visible and less and less relevant, then we will be in need of saving, and by then it'll probably be too late. It's an "if" but it strikes me as one worth worrying about, if not by everyone, at least by those "who are awake and puzzling over the changing present." Before ending, I'd just like to say that I recognize the irony in my embarking on such a discipline-specific dialogue in response to Willard's call to remove the "blinkers of disciplinarity (departmentalism)." I'm not sure how heavily those in other disciplines feel the 19th century pressing down on them, competing for the future of so many aspects of their work. I do know that there are others in my own discipline who share my concerns and frustrations (both intellectual and professional). I wish I could say that the blind a-historicism that impedes us is generational and that all we need do is wait for a few more retirements, but I see daily, in my students but also in others in my profession, people younger than I am who seem to regard the computer and the digital revolution as a fancy that will pass. On one point they and I agree: something is going to pass away, but for my part I'm convinced it won't be the digital revolution. Thanks for reading. Richard Cunningham From: "Melissa De Graaff" Subject: Post Doctoral Fellowship at the London Knowledge Lab Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:21:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 651 (651) Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Visualisation and multimodal representation with new technologies Mentor: Dr Carey Jewitt Up to Ł32,325 inclusive The Institute of Education, University of London is seeking to award a Post-Doctoral Fellowship to an excellent candidate who has recently completed, or is about to complete an earned doctorate in education or a related field of social science or professional practice, and now wishes to continue a career in higher education. You must be an experienced researcher who will increase research capacity and add value to an area of existing research strength at the Institute. As well as having an opportunity to work alongside leading scholars in their field, you will benefit from the support of a named mentor to develop your research interests, submit research proposals and papers for publication, and gain skills and experience essential to a career in higher education. This Fellowship will be offered for one year Application packs including further details of post are available from www.ioe.ac.uk/research or by email from jobs_at_ioe.ac.uk. From: "Peter Shillingsburg" Subject: symposium on Textual Studies Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:22:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 652 (652) Fourth Annual Symposium on Textual Studies 25-26 May 2007 (Friday and Saturday) The Centre for Textual Scholarship invites you to the Fourth Annual Symposium on Textual Studies. Formerly known as Master Classes, the Symposium is open to academic staff, postgraduates, and students with an interest in print or electronic scholarly editing and/or the production of student editions. Symposium Leaders this year are: Mary Jane Edwards, Distinguished Research Professor, and Director of the Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts, Carleton University, Ottawa. John Jowett, Reader in Shakespeare Studies, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Additional Conference presentations: Dr. Linda Bree, Cambridge University Press Dr. Mark Bland, De Montfort University Dr. Marta Werner, D'Youville College, Buffalo NY Dr. Orietta Da Rold, Leicester University Dr. Takako Kato, De Montfort University. Dr. Barbara Bordalejo, Birmingham University Dr. Oliver Harris, Keele University Dr. Sean Ryder, University of Galway Former Leaders: Hans Walter Gabler (Univ. of Munich), J.C.C. Mays (Univ. College Dublin), H. T. M. van Vliet (Univ. of Amsterdam), James McLaverty (Keele Univ.), Warwick Gould (Univ. of London), and Paul Eggert (Univ. of New South Wales). 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Thank you, Peter Shillingsburg Director, Centre for Textual Scholarship De Montfort University Leicester UK From: ASMDA2007 Subject: Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:23:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 653 (653) ASMDA2007 International Conference: Information The early Registration deadline for the 12th International Conference on Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA 2007) is March 15, 2007. The ASMDA2007 Conference which will take place in Chania, Crete, Greece (May 29 - June 1, 2007). For more information and download of the Registration and Accommodation forms at the website: http://www.asmda.com/id7.html . Submissions to: ASMDA2007 Secretariat (anthi_at_asmda.com) (* Apologies for cross posting) From: "Timothy Mason" Subject: Re: 20.478 fixing the MLA's problem Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:17:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 654 (654) I'm wondering whether many of the students of English have not, fairly deliberately, chosen their subject to get away from the digital and nerdish. If you tell them that the numerate have also taken in hand the future of Romance, they may well feel a little miffed. Speaking of which, the following is very funny, and may give food for thought. You have just called the HelpDesk : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek -- Timothy Mason Université de Paris 8 Web-site : http://www.timothyjpmason.com/ Blog (Tracks) : http://timothyjpmason.com/wordpress/ From: Del Thomas Ph D Subject: Re: 20.478 fixing the MLA's problem Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:18:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 655 (655) Hi all, Languages are emerging with the technology. Example IM speak. I suggest that it is the discipline(s) not the content that is not natural. Text flattens and reshapes the content. Lectures promotes being told... students learn to be told what is on the exam. Hypertext is an improvement. But based on the use of PP most presenters have seen have not moved beyond the old slide shows. Most PC labs have just flattened PC's to typewriters. Perhaps digital technology will like the tube http://delswork.net/tube.htm liberate us from disciplines. And so it goes. Faculty resent gamers. One of the places I know of that is going in a different direction is Hampshire college in Amherst Mass. No grades no exams students assemble portfolios...they give dimension to learning. On the grounds the National Yiddish book center after rescuing the literature is digitizing it. Del Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: scale and imagination Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:16:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 656 (656) For a vivid idea of the range of human perception within the scale of the physical world, see "Secret Worlds: The Universe Within", a Java toy demonstrated at http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html. I count 3 orders of magnitude (from 10**1 to 10**-1 meters) in a scale of 40 without any kind of prosthetic. Perhaps someone here can provide a count beyond those 3 orders of magnitude of actual images we are capable of generating with current physical systems. Do we have photographs of the earth from 10**9 meters? If so, we would not be seeing the moon's orbit as a band of light, so even at that magnitude imagination becomes the more powerful instrument, as it were. Can we in fact see DNA nucleotide building blocks (at 10**-9 meters) with the right sort of microscopy? It is interesting to reflect on the role of computing in this sweep from macro- to microcosmic -- and the sort of childhood, with its imagination, that is shaped in play with such toys from the beginning. It is easy to dig up the old cliche about yet another blow to human vanity, following in the wake of Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, but that seems a jaded and not very imaginative reaction, and not the sort a child or child-like person would have. Nor would it seem a blow to the love of literature, properly understood, to use our tools to zoom down to the levels beneath which a literary perception is formed nor up to the body of all literature (that Frye inferred but, I'd guess, not even he could actually have in view). Nor, perhaps, to probe in consequence of having the tools we now have where physical nature and cultural nurture meet. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Re: 20.482 fixing the MLA's problem Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:37:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 657 (657) [deleted quotation]No doubt. In the English department in which I teach I regularly encounter students who are intimidated by the process of logging in to the class blog. I also encounter students, sometimes English majors sometimes not, speaking fluently and unselfconsciously about their information landscape. Increasingly, the business of the humanities is being actively conducted elsewhere, by those who are pinging tagging Googling de.licio.us.ing feeding blogging mining piping storing mixing mashing gaming. Interesting for example that both respondents to the current Humanist thread point to that Medieval Helpdesk video, which is fun, but our knowing laughter can't hide the fact this time joke really is on us. The more apropos example is Michael Wesch's "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE Yes, you've seen it. It's saccharine perhaps, but the point is that an Assistant Professor at Kansas State made a 4-minute video that in less than a month, in its original YouTube venue alone, has been viewed 1.6 million times (eight more in the time it took me to write this email) and garnered over 4000 comments. Not to mention the innumerable instances of its embedding in other pages, with their own viewers and comment threads. Compare that to the kind of exposure a university press monograph or peer-reviewed journal article, even one on JSTOR or MUSE, gets you. How many of our departments are equipping our students to make work like this? The biggest mistake we can make is not to think that the humanities are a world elsewhere but to think that *tech* is a world elsewhere. This stuff should be our bread and butter. Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: what goes around comes around, unless... Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:54:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 658 (658) I would suppose that one reason we're reminded of the ironic etymological meaning of "revolution" is that revolutionaries so often only replace one sort of narrowmindedness for another -- one that puts them in power. I'd think that the point of the digital revolution, if it is to escape becoming just one more revolution in the cycle, or worse, is to expand the scope of reading and writing and the media in which they take form, not shrink it. The stupidity of publishers (only some of them, it is true, but not a few) may force our hand, of course. If these cannot even properly manage the distribution and publicity of our books (as seems the case with mine), then what do we need them for? Let me ask a question. Is it becoming our experience that journal articles do better in digital form but that codex books remain best as printed codices? If so, then speed the day when the technology for on-demand printing is local and of good quality, but preserve hand-press and other high-quality printers. A prayer likely to be answered? Should it? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Matt Jensen Subject: Re: 20.483 matters of scale and imagination Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:08:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 659 (659) [deleted quotation]A billion miles? I think Voyager 1 took a picture of Earth from the neighborhood of Neptune. Google Image is failing me right now, though. [deleted quotation]You can see individual atoms with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), though they look somewhat like balls under a blanket. [deleted quotation]Personal view: I first saw the short "Powers of Ten" film when I was about ten. I was blown away, and loved it ever since. When Google Earth came out (first as Keyhole), I was blown away again. The zoom feature makes it my favorite app in twenty years. Matt Jensen NewsBlip Seattle From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: RE: 20.483 matters of scale and imagination Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:10:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 660 (660) Dear Willard, I think that growing up in a screen-mediated environment, rather than more specifically a computer-mediated environment, is likely to inform one's default epistemology when it comes to matters of scale. The Eames _Powers of Ten_ film, which older Humanists may remember seeing on a screen in school or on TV, continues to go strong and offers a web site (http://powersof10.com/) on which to explore what scalar changes look like. But "look" is an interesting concept here because every image is the same size and the same distance from the viewer, right there on the screen. "Look" has been divorced from "feel." Seeing the film or the applet is not what it's like standing at the end of a long road watching the approach of a person who is small but unconsciously felt to be tall or, as Matthew's Gospel has it, trying to notice the beam or mote in one's own eye or one's brother's. Yes, computers allow us to shift scale rapidly, but so have our eyes always, raising them at night outdoors from the sight of the white end of one's clipped fingernail instantly to the crescent moon. "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport." The book that in my experience most overpoweringly engages the imagination in vast and dramatic contrasts of scale is Olaf Stapledon's _Star Maker_. Here's an example. The unnamed narrator, like Dante at the beginning of _The Divine Comedy_, has "tasted bitterness," walked out into the night, climbed a hill, and then, after contemplating his family in their home in the English suburb below him, he attends to the world about. "On every side the shadowy hills or the guessed, featureless sea extended beyond sight. But the hawk-flight of imagination followed them as they curved downward below the horizon. I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of the little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolution, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of stars." The artistic genre that deals with the imagination of scale most consistently, of course, is science fiction. And the intellectual domains that do so are physics (in which I include astronomy) and religion, the twin pillars of much science fiction. Stapledon, as it happens, was, besides being a best-selling author of science fiction, a lecturer in philosophy. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio...." Yours, Eric ------------------------------------------------- Eric S. Rabkin 734-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 734-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 734-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin_at_umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/ [deleted quotation] From: "Patricia R. Bart" Subject: Re: 20.482 fixing the MLA's problem Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:08:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 661 (661) At 04:30 AM 3/3/2007, you wrote: [deleted quotation]My work uses digital technologies to study the process a medieval scribe undertook to produce a _gesamt_ edition of _Piers Plowman_. His thousands of alterations and recombinations in the text of _Piers_ can be studied and (partially) understood only with the aid of standardized markup--in this case, TEI markup. Taking this work on the road has been an interesting study in the reception of digital scholarship, since my dissertation and all my publications are digital in both their content and their distribution. For example, at one recent job interview at the MLA this December, I was asked how, exactly, I was a medievalist. My staunchest efforts to explain how studying the work of an actual medieval reader of _Piers_ fits into the overall scholarship, and to demonstrate with glowing teaching evaluations that the students really do respond well did not compensate for my lack of . . . non-digital approaches to scholarship. I had arrived on the set without a wimple, and nothing was going to compensate for my lack of proper costuming. At another interview there, when asked why I found that I was appealing as a teacher to pre-med, pre-law, science and engineering students, my answer--that my particular flavor of scholarship, with its inductive, material, historical and technical approach to texts was a sort of bridge for them into more affective or theory-based ways of reading--deeply offended the interviewer who was a specialist in the Romantics. I have to say that, from my point of view in the interview, this meant that my very existence was offensive to her, even though what I have done frequently in the classroom is draw students from the natural sciences further into the more traditional approaches to literature by being a familiar and friendly face to them, making them think that perhaps they could handle this English lit. thing after all, and even enjoy it. (Let's not forget that the suspicion and contempt run both ways in this social game of academe.) As for accepting digital scholarship and its distribution in digital publication, I cannot speak to the tenure process, but I can say that interviewers probing me for second-round interviews did respond immediately and well when it is pointed out that a publication on CD or an online journal has been refereed, just like one on paper. It may be that the reception of digital scholarship and publication will be a little less like the digital publication of newspapers (always an ephemeral medium) and a little more like the reception of online banking, with those doing the receiving taking a "show me" approach. But then, as with online banking, something important is at stake in digital scholarship. Something important could be lost were the process not to work properly. It seems to me that patience and integrity are the things needful. And the recruitment of more digital scholars would not hurt, since having a plurality of scholars with work invested in the field would in itself bring about the desired change. Introducing technophobic humanists to little bits and nibbles of digital humanities will hasten the day. Every humanist is a potential digital humanist. Patricia Bart The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive The University of Virginia From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Re: 20.484 fixing the MLA's problem Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:11:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 662 (662) While it might be said I've already said enough, Willard you've managed to once again conjure a tale of woe from me. But first let me thank you and Matt and others who've written to continue this thread for giving me concrete knowledge that there are many others who see the world much as I do. At that same unnamed university I visited recently, in a second talk, this one just for faculty and graduate students, when I spoke about publication on demand I saw on the faces of many in the room a sense that they should humour me because they were clearly in the presence of a lunatic. I didn't say it would be a long tale. In direct response now to your question, Willard, "is on-demand printing a prayer likely to be answered?" I can't see a downside to it, so I'm puzzled by your second question ("Should it [be]?") and will leave it alone. As for the first question, though, I think the answer is "unavoidably, yes." Gutenberg was not some religious or educational nutter anxious to put a Bible in every home and a Donatus in every school house. He was a proto-capitalist chasing a guilder. The cost savings inherent in publication on demand are too profound for publishers to ignore. But even if we take that as a given, it still leaves your other question, Willard, about the appropriateness of the codex as electronic artifact. I suspect publication on demand might connect with another rapidly emerging technology, electronic paper, to enable the codex to assume the best features of codex and scroll, and e-publishing. But on this I am much less sure (mainly because my ignorance of the state of development of e-paper is profound--he said, hoping someone would direct him where to learn more). Cheers, Richard At 03:58 AM 3/4/2007, you wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 663 (663) [deleted quotation] From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: EMLS 12.3 now available Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:01:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 664 (664) To whom it may concern, The latest issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (12.3) is now available online at http://purl.org/emls/emlshome.html The table of contents follows, below. EMLS invites contributions of critical essays on literary topics and of interdisciplinary studies which centre on literature and literary culture in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Contributions, including critical essays and studies (which should be accompanied by a 250 word abstract), bibliographies, notices, letters, and other materials, may be submitted to the Editor by email at M.Steggle_at_shu.ac.uk or by regular mail to Dr Matthew Steggle, Early Modern Literary Studies, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Articles: Is “Hand D” of Sir Thomas More Shakespeare’s? Thomas Bayes and the Elliott–Valenza Authorship Tests. [1] MacDonald P. Jackson, University of Auckland. The School of the World: Trading on Wit in Middleton’s Trick to Catch the Old One. [2] Eric Leonidas, Central Connecticut State University. Observations upon the Irish Devils: Echoes of Eire in Paradise Lost. [3] Maura Grace Harrington, Seton Hall University. Hero’s Afterlife: Hero and Leander and ‘lewd unmannerly verse’ in the late Seventeenth Century. [4] Roy Booth, Royal Holloway. Verse, Voice, and Body: The retirement mode and women's poetry 1680-1723. [5] Bronwen Price, Portsmouth University. Reviews: Peter McCullough. Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. [6] Mary Ann Lund, Mansfield College, Oxford. Ben Jonson. Epicene, or The Silent Woman. Ed. Richard Dutton. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003. [7] Tom Lockwood, University of Birmingham. Patricia Fumerton. Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 2006. [8] Adam Hansen, Queen's University Belfast. Catie Gill. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community: A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650-1700. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. [9] Alison Searle, Queen Mary, University of London. King, John N., ed. Voices of the English Reformation: A Sourcebook. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2004. Booty, John E., ed. The Book of Common Prayer 1559: The Elizabethan Prayer Book. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. [10] Timothy Rosendale, Southern Methodist University. Jesse M. Lander. Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. [11] Ian McAdam, University of Lethbridge. Armando Maggi. In The Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 2006. [12] Neil Forsyth, University of Lausanne. Daniel Vitkus. Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. [13] Andrew Duxfield, Sheffield Hallam University. Harold Love. English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. [14] Tom Lockwood, University of Birmingham. Donna B. Hamilton. Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. [15] Adam H. Kitzes, University of North Dakota. Theatre reviews: As You Like It at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 31 January - 24 March 2007. [16] Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. From: Ms Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 20.485 fixing the MLA's problem Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:53:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 665 (665) I am reminded by these stories of my visit to the Graduate Advisor back in 1969 when I was trying to get a form signed that I had passed the foreign language requirements for Ph.D. candidacy. My thesis on computer collation of Dylan Thomas' manuscript poetry had been approved by my committee so all the man had to do was sign the form. However I was seven months pregnant and had the audacity to consider using computers to study literature -- two strikes against me, obviously. The professor leaned back in his chair and looked at me from under his bushy white eyebrows and said, "Young lady, you are trying to destroy literature!" I pointed out that he just needed to sign the form, which he did. I went ahead and got my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in English Literature with a second field in Computer Science, despite those objections. And I believe that literature has been safe from any attempts on my part! I just wish things had changed more since then. Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. Chief Language Officer Catalis, Inc. Austin, Texas From: Del Thomas Ph D Subject: Re: 20.485 fixing the MLA's problem Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:54:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 666 (666) These comments remind me of the days when you could be given a detention for using a ball point pen. Later I found that my son could not turn in a paper that was done on a word processor....dot matrix print. It had to be hand written or typed. The school thought they were making sure it was the students work....like a parent couldn't type it. The digital is like much new technology considered unauthentic or too easy. Or even performance enhancing like steroids. Richard Powers author of The Echo Maker claims that his use of voice to text is more authentic than manual story telling. There are those who claim that digital photography will be closer to the eye. And many will spend big bucks for 1080p. Are not educational systems are often more about social control than learning? Learning is associated with play, experimentation and the extended juvenile phase. This means extended adolescence..... those who are often the early adopters the uncommitted. On the other side there are old heads that are young at heart....... a second childhood if you would. All of this is very threatening to teaching and expertize who may see youth as the barbarians at the gate long after the gate is gone. It is the social equivalent of phantom limb. Rejection of digital tools are an easy excuse. Del From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: The MLA report and who's problem? Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:56:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 667 (667) Willard, I find it interesting that you picked up the posting by Ian Lancashire quoting some numbers from and MLA report http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v20/0453.html in your Town Crier posting and welded it to anecdote and introduced the tricky word "problem" in the subject line. Percentages tell a different story than absolute figures. Absolute figures and percentages from a time series tell a different story. Times series mapped against investments tell yet a different story. Furthermore not all academics belong to the MLA, any comparators by geography or discipline? Nothwithstanding the numbers, what does it mean to evaluate an electronic resource? When we create and share files are we always conscious of Metadata standards Revision histories Platform independence Rights management Just how does one get experience in evaluating these and other aspects of electronic resources? It takes time to produce good scholarship, electronic or otherwise. One of the equally astounding figures in the MLA report is what could be called the churn rate: "The MLA survey showed that well over 20% of tenure-track faculty members leave the departments that originally hired them before they come up for tenure." And if you wonder why consider this: "Over 62% of all departments report that publication has increased in importance in tenure decisions over the last ten years." Those MLA figures can be read as a success story: success in retaining talent and the growth of expertise in a less than conducive climate. From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: ACH Mentoring Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:02:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 668 (668) Dear Colleagues, My name is Stephen Ramsay, and I am the current Chair of the ACH Jobs Committee. The ACH has for the last few years offered a number of services related to professional development in our discipline. One of the most popular of these activities has been our mentoring program, which pairs graduate students and jobs seekers with prospective employers and people with experience in particular fields. Mentoring relationships are deliberately informal. Mentees usually contact the committee, who in turn suggests a possible mentor from a list of people willing to serve in this capacity. The mentee then contacts the mentor, and a friendly email chat ensues. Whenever possible, mentors and mentees are encouraged to meet with one another at conferences and other professional gatherings -- in particular, at the DH meetings (where we often have job-related activities planned). Mentees consistently report being impressed by our good will (and good advice); mentors tell us that they find the experience affirming and fulfilling in every way. If you are interested in serving as a mentor (or finding one), please contact me directly (sramsay_at_unlserve.unl.edu). Our discipline is a diverse one, and it's important that we have a pool of mentors with a broad range of experiences and expertise (teaching, research, libraries, and industry, for example). Interested mentees need not be "on the market" to participate. If you are currently on my list of mentors, now might be a good time to contact me indicating your willingness to continue in that capacity (it would also be useful to have up-to-date contact information). We are always in need of mentors, so please consider being a part of this important service. If you are interested in becoming a mentee, please try to tell me as much as you can about your particular interests in the field. The more information I have, the easier it will be match you up with a mentor. And finally, if you are looking to fill a position right now, you may wish to contact the Committee. Our own participation in the program has given us a very good sense of the talent pool, and we may be able to help you find just the right person for the job. I should also mention that we are planning an informal gathering for this year's DH meeting. More on that soon. Thanks, Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ From: Stan Ruecker Subject: e-paper Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:02:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 669 (669) For those Humanist readers who also read French, Christian Vandendorpe recently drew my attention to a group in Germany who is hoping to mass produce e-paper by 2008. Here is the article in Libération: http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/economie/228999.FR.php?utk=0005fe36 yrs, Stan **** Stan Ruecker Assistant Professor Humanities Computing Program Dept of English and Film Studies University of Alberta Edmonton, AB CANADA From: Paul Ramsey Subject: FOSS4G 2007 Call for Presentations Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:59:10 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 670 (670) We are pleased to announce a Call for Presentations for the 2007 FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference, being held September 24-27 in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.foss4g2007.org FOSS4G is the premier conference for the open source geospatial community, providing a full-immersion experience in established and leading edge geospatial technologies for developers, users, and people new to open source geospatial. FOSS4G presentations are 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question and answer sessions at the end. Presentations cover the use or development of open source geospatial software. Anyone can can submit a presentation proposal and take part in the conference as a speaker. Some topics of interest for this year are: * Case Studies: Relate the experiences of you and your organization using open source geospatial. Where do things work well? Poorly? What problems did you solve, and at what cost? What do you recommend for others? Why? * Benchmarks: Comparisons between pieces of geospatial software. How do features compare? Speed? Ease of use? What do you recommend for others? * Visualization: Tell about your tips and tricks for effective visualization. How do you present information in a compelling way? 3D? Cartographic tricks? Labelling and naming ideas? Graphs and hybrid map/data combinations? * Development: What are the new developments in your open source geospatial software product? How does it work, how do people use it, what are the technical issues you are running into? * Hacks and Mashing: Have you put together something novel or cool this year? What did you stick together, how did it work, show us your gizmo! * Collaboration: What techniques are you using to improve collaboration between organizations and between individuals. Public geodata, collaborative data collection, data sharing, open standards, de facto standards, and more! If you have an open source geospatial story to tell, we want to hear it! For more information, see the FOSS4G site: http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/ The deadline for presentation submissions is June 29, 2007. Submit early, submit often! From: Matthew Jockers Subject: Open/Free TEI Workshp at Stanford Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:57:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 671 (671) Friends: Those of you local to the Bay Area will be interested in this. . . Free, day-long TEI WORKSHOP featuring Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman of the Women Writer's Project, Brown University Title: "The Methods and Issues of Text Encoding for Humanities Scholarship" Friday, March 16, 2007 8:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Stanford Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA This full-day workshop will address the following topics: What is Text Encoding? What is and Why use the TEI? The Impact of Digital Texts and Encoding as Disciplinary Practice Innovative Research with TEI Documents A full workshop schedule and description is available upon request: mjockers_at_stanford.edu Matt -- Matthew L. Jockers Stanford University From: "Jane Prophet" Subject: Digital Aesthetic 2: conference and exhibition Date: 28 February 2007 18:44:06 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 672 (672) To: "Jane Prophet" Reply-To: "Jane Prophet" digital aesthetic 2 Does the digital have the potential to change our perception of art? Conference 16th -- 17th March University of Central Lancashire Chair: artist Dr Jane Prophet. Presentations from: Peter Appleton (UK). Blast Theory (Matt Adams) (UK). Robert Cahen (France). Prof Sean Cubitt (Australia). eBoy (Germany). Prof David Garcia (Netherlands).Dr Charlie Gere (UK). Clive Gilman (UK). Gary Hill (USA). Taylor Nuttall (UK). Avi Rosen (Israel). Prof Bill Seaman (USA). Prof Paul Sermon (UK). David Surman (UK). Thomson & Craighead (UK). The Vasulkas (USA/Czech Republic/Iceland). Dr Andrea Zapp (UK). Lori Zippay (USA). Exhibition 17th March -- 3rd June: Exhibition, Harris Museum & Art Gallery and other Preston venues Cory Arcangel (tbc) Simon Blackmore Vince Briffa Boredom Reasearch Robert Cahen Susan Collins eBoy Stefan Gec Gary Hill Jane Prophet Avi Rosen Bill Seaman Paul Sermon (tbc) Thomson & Craighead The Vasulkas Preston is soon to host a major digital arts event, Digital Aesthetic 2, bringing together some of the most significant artists, theorists, curators and academics working in the field of new media and digital art from around the world. The conference takes place on 16th and 17th March at the University of Central Lancashire whilst the exhibition runs from 17th March to 3rd June at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and other Preston venues. The project is supported by Arts Council England: North West, BBC, folly, Flux magazine, Holiday Inn, PAD and PR1 Gallery. Digital Aesthetic 2 is a multi-venue exhibition, conference and website organised by the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Dr. Chris Meigh-Andrews at the Electronic and Digital Art Unit www.uclan.ac.uk/edau at the University of Central Lancashire, both in Preston. The conference and exhibition will highlight, explore and debate the issues and implications of new media and digital work within the field of international contemporary fine art. It follows the successful Digital Aesthetic conference, exhibition and website organised by Uclan and the Harris in 2001. Conference The aim of the conference is to facilitate good practice in the emerging area of Fine Art practice within the digital domain, to foster and communicate the dissemination of new and theoretical ideas and to provide a forum and to facilitate networking between artists, academics and writers. The conference will be chaired by Dr. Jane Prophet (UK) and the impressive line-up includes high profile international speakers such as Prof. Sean Cubitt (Australia), Prof. Bill Seaman (USA), Lori Zippay (USA) and Prof. David Garcia (Netherlands). The conference takes place on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th March 2007 at the University of Central Lancashire. Further information and booking forms can be found atwww.digitalaesthetic.org.uk or call 01772 892656. Exhibition The exhibition will consist of work from artists of regional, national and international significance including Simon Blackmore (UK), Thomson and Craighead (UK), eBoy (Germany) (image attached) and Gary Hill (USA). Work will be on display at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and a number of other Preston venues including PAD, PR1 Gallery and St. John's Minster. The exhibition explores the possibilities of art in a world that offers ever increasing opportunities through digital technology. This is a rare opportunity to see and experience some of the foremost digital art being produced today. Admission is free and further information is available at www.harrismuseum.org.uk or on 01772 258248. Website www.digitalaesthetic.org.uk The website will accompany the exhibition and will include web based artwork as well as the opportunity to participate in the event. For further information, please contact: Richard Smith Assistant Exhibitions Officer Tel: 01772 905101 Email: r.smith_at_preston.gov.uk For press images, please contact: Sally Smith Development and Marketing Assistant Tel: 01772 905421 Email: s.smith_at_preston.gov.uk Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Market Square, Preston, Lancashire PR1 2PP Monday - Saturday 10.00am -- 5.00pm, except Tuesday 11.00am -- 5.00pm Sunday 11.00am -- 4.00pm Closed Bank Holidays Telephone 01772 258248 www.harrismuseum.org.uk From: Shuly Wintner Subject: ACL 2007 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:39:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 673 (673) Semitic Languages ********************************************************* 2nd and REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS ACL 2007 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources 28th June, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic NEW Submission deadline: 26 March 2007 Workshop Website: http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/casl07 Paper Submission Site: http://www.softconf.com/acl07/ACL07-WS3 ********************************************************* The ACL 2007 Workshop on "Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources" will be held in conjunction with the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and will take place on June 28th in Prague, Czech Republic. * SCOPE AND TOPICS The Semitic family includes many languages and dialects spoken by a large number of native speakers (around 300 million). However, Semitic languages as a whole are still understudied. The most prominent members of this family are Arabic (and its dialects), Hebrew, Amharic, Aramaic, Maltese and Syriac. Their shared ancestry is apparent through pervasive cognate sharing, a rich and productive pattern-based morphology, and similar syntactic constructions. An increasing body of computational linguistics work is starting to appear for both Arabic and Hebrew. Arabic alone, as the largest member of the Semitic family, has been receiving much attention lately via dedicated workshops and conferences. Tools and resources for other Semitic languages are being created at a slower rate. While corpora and some tools are necessarily language- specific, ideally there should be more cross-fertilization among research and development efforts for different Semitic languages. The proposed workshop aims to bring together researchers working on Semitic languages to share and discuss common issues and approaches to the processing of these languages. We invite submissions of novel work on all Semitic languages, including work describing recent state-of-the-art NLP systems and work leveraging resource and tool creation for the Semitic language family. We especially welcome submissions on work that crosses individual language boundaries and heightens awareness amongst Semitic-language researchers of shared challenges and common solutions. The workshop will also include a meeting of the Special Interest Group on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (the ACL SIG). Examples of topics include, but are not limited to: * Computational approaches to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Semitic languages * Tools for processing of Semitic languages (e.g. POS taggers, parsers, etc.) * Computational resources for Semitic languages * Comparative computational studies of Semitic languages * Leveraging resources in other languages (Semitic or other) to create resources and tools for Semitic languages * Empirical studies of unique/specific phenomena in Semitic languages * Text and speech applications for Semitic languages such as: - speech recognition, - machine translation, - summarization, - language generation, - speech synthesis, - co-reference resolution, - mention detection, - information retrieval, - spoken dialog applications - etc. [...] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.9 Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:40:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 674 (674) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 9 March 6, 2007 -- March 12, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: PFEIFFER ON THE "MEDIA CLOUD" The always-interesting Andreas Pfeiffer, who publishes the acclaimed THE PFEIFFER REPORT TREND ALERT, says: "Ever since digital media and the Internet have begun to challenge conventional media, the impending demise of the latter has been predicted by industry observers and casual on-lookers alike. But today's media reality is beginning to look somewhat different." What does he mean? His TREND ALERT article is presented here with his permission and enthusiasm. See <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i09_pfeiffer.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i09_pfeiffer.html From: "hinton_at_springnet1.com" Subject: Re: 20.490 fixing the MLA's problem Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:33:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 675 (675) At St. Louis U., we fought for years to be able to allow dissertation writers to use Xerox. I really think one of the reasons we won was that carbon paper got hard to find. But later, when someone there tried to hire me back, to work on Computing and Education, Research, etc., the faculty response was that they didn't want any of that (and possibly they didn't want me back, either). But at what was then Sangamon State U, in Springfield, IL (now the University of Illinois at Springfield), which was founded to be "innovative", "free from old-fashioned academic prejudice", "boldly looking forward", etc. -- the VPAA told friends of mine to tell me that he could not bring himself to consider me for merit pay as long as I worked with computers instead of producing scholarly texts of unedited Middle English poems. (I went right ahead with what I was doing, and sooner or later he was gone.) HOWEVER -- these cries for abolishing English as she is studied are neither new nor interesting. I got my doctorate in the late 50's, and we were hearing this sort of stuff then and it surfaces regularly, with or without appeals to modern machinery. And frankly, it's boring and irrelevant. My position is -- go and do what you think is necessary. And leave other people alone. There is still plenty of good work to do in traditional ways, and quite likely there always will be. And no doubt there is good work to do your way too.I'm glad to hear that student reject notions that the profession MUST be the way any given speaker says it must. From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: fixing things Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:37:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 676 (676) Hi Everyone, I've read the postings associated with the MLA report with great interest, and great sympathy -- for all the reasons outlined in, and underlying, those postings. Like most of us, I've lived through those experiences too, and I find the figures in the MLA report to be both encouraging and discouraging, depending on the context in which I approach them. A further context I'd like to add to our consideration is that of professional pragmatics. To this end, I note that a number of us have clearly benefited from efforts of the MLA CIT committee (see http://www.mla.org/rep_it for its reports), and of course others. The "Guidelines for Evaluating Work with Digital Media in the Modern Languages" have pretty good bacon-saving potential; certainly I've used them in that capacity, and know of others who have. A newly-hired colleague has just used the "Guidelines for Institutional Support of and Access to IT for Faculty Members and Students" to make his, and our, world a better place. And so on. Not surprisingly, a number of our community have served on that ctte, and chaired it. And this discussion strikes me as an excellent opportunity to suggest next steps to it. What should those next steps be? Cheers, Ray From: Jean-Claude Guédon Subject: Re: 20.488 e-paper Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:35:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 677 (677) To follow up on Stan's forwarding of Christian's gleaning, here is the original site: <http://www.plasticlogic.com/>http://www.plasticlogic.com/ More info is available there. In passing, this related to J. C. R. Licklider's important remark in his study (1965 - sic), Libraries of the Future, that the strategic nexus for digital information was the screen and/or the page. If one follows his argument, it becomes easy to understand why printed books have remained so prevalent despite their many weakneses and flaws, particularly when it comes to retrieving information: the page interface is without peer... until now (or very soon, so it seems). If this is true, something like a rapide debacle of print may follow the introduction of these new interfaces. Jean-Claude Guédon From: "Joergen Villadsen" Subject: CONTEXT'07, final reminder, March 15, 2007 Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:59:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 678 (678) CONTEXT'07: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS, deadline ***March 15, 2007*** Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context http://context-07.ruc.dk/ August 20-24, 2007 - Roskilde University, Denmark See details about submission: - call for papers http://context-07.ruc.dk/cfp.html - submission page http://context-07.ruc.dk/submt.html CONTEXT'07 offers also a collection of 8 highly interesting workshops and a doctorial consortium with expected deadlines around May 15, three prominent invited speakers, and exciting social events yet to be announced. Follow links at http://context-07.ruc.dk/ From: "Peter Shillingsburg" Subject: History of the Book and Textual Scholarship Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:03:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 679 (679) Special Seminar Series Centre for Textual Scholarship You are invited to a Roundtable Discussion on Book History Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 4:30 pm Centre for Textual Scholarship Rm: 1.01 Clephan, De Montfort University Leicester Topic questions: What IS book history? How does Book History relate to Textual Scholarship? Are there adequate training programmes in the subject? One might look at the list posted at: http://www.sharpweb.org/index.html#resources Featured Participants: Dr. Ian Willison, University of London Professor Alistair McCleery, Napier University Dr. Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, Canberra Professor A. S. G. Edwards, De Montfort University Dr. Mark Bland, De Montfort University Please address queries to Peter Shillingsburg pshillingsburg_at_dmu.ac.uk Director, Centre for Textual Scholarship How to find us: http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/aboutus/map.php and campus maps: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/aboutdmu/campuses/maps/leic_campus.jsp where we are building 6. From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 20.483 matters of scale and imagination Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:01:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 680 (680) Willard, greetings. On 2007 Mar 3 , at 09.27, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]I have reasonably good eyesight, so I can see the sea horizon (probably something like 10km away depending on the weather), and a hair (something less than 0.1mm across) without prosthetics, so that's 10^4m -- 10^-4m: eight orders of magnitude purely on earth. If you look at the moon, however, you're seeing something 3500km across, and the sun is 10^9m across, both of which you can see with the naked eye, so that makes 10 to 13 orders of magnitude without squinting. [deleted quotation]If you say `actual images' in order to contrast with the artist's impressions in the (excellent!) powers-of-ten link, then yes, we can do a large proportion of the full range. At the top end, COBE's famous image[1] is indeed an image of the entire universe (say 10^25 to 10^26m). At the other end, images from a particle physics detector[2] tend not to reconstruct the tracks right down to the vertex, so that Matt Jensen's STM image is probably as far as you can go in that direction (namely atoms, 10^-10m). In both cases, this is probably about as far as it is possible to go in principle, since in both cases, you're at the sort of scale where `how long is this?' becomes an exciting technical question. It's hard to go beyond the size of the universe even in our (physical) imagination, though we can go a few more powers of ten downwards, with the smallest things discussed in physics round about 10^-35m. Norman [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:COBE_cmb_fluctuations.gif [2] http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/42317 (this is an image of the detector-wide tracks, so on the scale of metres) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Norman Gray / http://nxg.me.uk eurovotech.org / University of Leicester, UK From: Sean Gouglas Subject: Senior Position in Humanities Computing Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:10:22 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 681 (681) Hello all, I'm posting a reminder about the senior position in Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta. I've pasted the text below, but it can also be found at http://huco.ualberta.ca. The competition closes 2 April 2007. The position will provide a opportunity to influence significantly the direction of humanities computing research in Canada and beyond, as we're looking to expand our programme, including the creation of a doctoral programme. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks, Sean Gouglas University of Alberta ------ HUMANITIES COMPUTING Faculty of Arts Associate or Full Professor - Senior Position in Humanities Computing The Humanities Computing Programme (HuCo) and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta invite applications for a tenured appointment at the senior Associate or Full Professor level, commencing 1 July 2008. The Humanities Computing Programme has developed a significant national and international reputation in digitally-enhanced teaching and research in the liberal arts. We welcome applicants who will extend and enhance this profile; assist in the establishment of a doctoral programme in Humanities Computing; initiate, develop, and lead substantial research projects at the national and international level; and strengthen interdisciplinary links within and across faculties at the university. The successful candidate will be a leader in the Humanities Computing community with a national and international reputation for excellence in technologically-enhanced teaching and research in the Arts. A PhD is required. Applicants should be leaders in the conduct, reporting, and dissemination of research work on the application of leading-edge approaches to humanities computing disciplines, such as knowledge representation, visual communication design, new media, hypertext, text corpora, text encoding and analysis, computational linguistics, statistical models, and broad library and research-based work that focuses on significant issues of textuality, interfaces, and information browsing and retrieval. Candidates should have significant experience in curriculum development in communication and digital media programmes at the graduate and/or undergraduate level. We would specifically welcome applicants who have led the successful development of new degree programmes. Candidates will have a substantial track record of success in obtaining funding from national and international agencies in infrastructure and research development. Candidates will have significant successful experience teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level and will be expected to continue to do so in this position. Candidates should send the Director a letter of application, a complete curriculum vitae (with full contact information including phone numbers and an email address), a teaching dossier, an evaluation of teaching performance, and the names and institutional contact information of three referees invited to write on behalf of the applicant. Please arrange to have these supporting letters sent directly to the Director. The department of appointment will be based on the area of specialization of the successful candidate. Salary is commensurate with experience and rank. The closing date for applications is 2 April 2007. All application material should be sent to the following address: Sean Gouglas, Director Humanities Computing Programme Office of Interdisciplinary Studies 1-59 Humanities Centre University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E5 Established in 1908, and located in the city of Edmonton, the University of Alberta (www.ualberta.ca) serves over 35,500 students in more than 200 undergraduate and 170 graduate programmes; the Faculty of Arts (www.arts.ualberta.ca) is the oldest and most diverse faculty on campus, with significant resources. The Humanities Computing Programme (http://huco.ualberta.ca) is a unique, vibrant, and collegial unit with a reputation for innovative teaching, research, and service. For further information about the position or the programme, please contact the Director by email at sean.gouglas_at_ualberta.ca. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Clark, Stephen Subject: Stapledon Archives & more at Liverpool Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:35:13 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 682 (682) Picking up Eric Rabkin's remarks re Stapledon, SF, philosophy et al - just to remind people that the university where Olaf Stapledon lectured (for the extra-mural dept) was Liverpool (see http://www.liv.ac.uk/philosophy/about/history.htm), and that the Stapledon archives, together with other archives and the Science Fiction Foundation library are at Liverpool: see http://www.sfhub.ac.uk/. Stephen Clark Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 20.492 e-paper!@! Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:01:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 683 (683) When you realize that a brand new $400 list price terabyte drive will hold the million eBooks already free for the downloading... and that a billion eBook library will be here in 15 more years-- along with petabyte drives--the conclusion can only be obvious. The only question is: How long can the forces of conservatism make eBooks appear quite as much like paper books? Pages, margins, page numbers, line numbers, etc. antiquated? Would not a few words' quotation as search inputs be better than a page number? Or even a line number? Thanks!!! Give the world eBooks in 2007!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 684 (684) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 685 (685) [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: symphony rather than keyboard transcription? Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:11:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 686 (686) In his introduction to "The audience as co-author", a special issue of Text: An Introductory Journal for the Study of Discourse (6.3, 1986) -- read it tonight -- Alessandro Duranti (UCLA) concludes as follows (pp. 244f): [deleted quotation]My question is this: in designing and building our new genres of interpretation, how best can we use the digital medium to move from the keyboard to the orchestra? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Craig Bellamy Subject: New on ICT Guides for March Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:27:45 +1100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 687 (687) Dear Humanist, ICT Guides is a new service being offered by the Arts and Humanities Data Service at King's College, London. It seeks to promote the use of ICTs in research and learning through cataloging best-practice digital arts and humanities projects, along with the tools and methods they employed. The following new projects have been added to ICT Guides in March. (Projects): <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/allProjects.jsp>http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/allProjects.jsp Highlight: "PARADISEC (the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) offers a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region, defined broadly to include Oceania and East and Southeast Asia. Our research group has developed models to ensure that the archive can provide access to interested communities, and conforms with emerging international standards for digital archiving" See: <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=708>http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=708 List of New Projects: -- A critical edition of the Acts and Monuments by John Foxe -- An Epidoc Corpus of the inscriptions from Aphrodisias in Caria; the more user friendly version is 'The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project' -- Christianization and state-formation in Northern and Central Europe c.900-c.1200 -- Electronic corpus of Lute music (ECOLM) II -- English Monastic Archives: Access and Analysis -- European Critical Heritage : The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe -- Gendering Latin American Independence: Women's Political Culture and the Textual Construction of Gender 1790-1850 -- John Ruskin's Teaching Collections -- PARADISEC (the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) -- South Seas Project: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific (1760-1800) -- Race and Labour in the Cane Fields: Documenting Louisiana Sugar, 1844 - 1917 -- Text database of narrative poetry of the Italian Renaissance -- The Baltic Ceramic Market c. 1200-1600: Hanseatic Trade and Cultural Exchange (Exchange visit from the British Museum, Dr D Gaimster) -- The British archaeological expedition to the ancient emporium at Vetren-Pistiros, central Bulgaria -- The British Book Trade Index on the Web -- The Forgotten Migrants: A Cultural History of Postwar British Migrants Who Returned 'Home' from Australia -- The Medieval Palace of Westminster Research Project -- The Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence -- The Pompey Project: the evolution, structure and legacy of the Theatre of Pompey -- The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose -- Urban waterfront geoarchaeology in the Netherlands and the UK: a comparison (Exchange visit to Archeologisch en Bouhistorisch Centrum, Gemeente Utrecht, Dr Huib de Groot) -- Verbum: the old Latin translation of the gospel of John -- Virtual Vellum Suggestions for projects most welcome. Kind Regards, Craig Bellamy -- Dr Craig Bellamy Research Associate ICT Guides, AHDS, King's College, London <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/>http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/ ----- 26 - 29 Drury Lane 3rd Floor King's College London LONDON, WC2B 5RL Phone: 020 7848 1976 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- February 2007 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:49:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 688 (688) TL INFOBITS February 2007 No. 8 ISSN: Not Yet Assigned About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL'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. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitfeb07.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... Sharable Course Content Website New Journal on Information Literacy Higher Education Copyright Blog Launched Comic Book on Copyright Law Technology and Lifelong Learning University Press Statement on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Infobits Tag Cloud Recommended Reading ...................................................................... SHARABLE COURSE CONTENT WEBSITE Connexions is an "environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web." Connexions was founded in 1999 by Richard Baraniuk, electrical and computer engineering professor at Rice University. The website's "Content Commons" contains materials that range in levels from K-12 to college to professional. Topics are organized in small modules that can be connected into larger courses. The majority of modules are in the areas of science and technology, mathematics and statistics, and the arts. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license. You can access Connexions materials at http://cnx.org/. Connexions is just one of several sharable content collections available on the Web. For links to others, such as MIT's OpenCourseWare and MERLOT, go to http://cnx.org/aboutus/relatedsites/. ...................................................................... NEW JOURNAL ON INFORMATION LITERACY The first issue of the JOURNAL OF INFORMATION LITERACY (JIL) is online. JIL is an international, peer-reviewed, academic e-journal that "aims to investigate Information Literacy (IL) within a wide range of settings. Papers on any topic related to the practical, technological or philosophical issues raised by the attempt to increase information literacy throughout society are encouraged." Papers in the inaugural issue include: "Transform your Training: Practical Approaches to Interactive Information Literacy Teaching" "Show Them How to Do It: Using Macromedia Captivate to Deliver Remote Demonstrations" "An Evaluation of an Information Literacy Training Initiative at the University of Dar es Salaam" The Journal of Information Literacy [ISSN 1750-5968] is published twice a year by information professionals from several key UK organizations actively involved in the field of information literacy. JIL is an open access title and authors retain copyright for their articles. For more information and to read issues, go to http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk/JIL.aspx. ...................................................................... HIGHER EDUCATION COPYRIGHT BLOG LAUNCHED The Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment (CIP) at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) has launched "(c)ollectanea," a new blog portal to address the cultural, political, and legal context of copyright issues and to provide timely copyright resources for the education and library communities. Each month entries are provided by a CIP "virtual scholar" and guest bloggers who have expertise in intellectual property issues. You can view and participate in the blog at http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/. The UMUC CIP "provides resources and information for the higher education community in the areas of intellectual property, copyright, and the emerging digital environment." For more information see http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/. ...................................................................... COMIC BOOK ON COPYRIGHT LAW Duke University Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has published a comic book to teach users copyright law basics, including the distinctions between fair use and copyright infringement. The book's format and content are especially relevant to college students who are using and creating multimedia works. TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: BOUND BY LAW? can be downloaded for free or purchased in hardcopy; an educational discount is available for bulk purchases. For more information go to http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/. Founded in 2002, the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School is the first university center in the world devoted to this side of intellectual property. Its mission is to "promote research and scholarship on the contributions of the public domain to speech, culture, science and innovation, to promote debate about the balance needed in our intellectual property system and to translate academic research into public policy solutions." For more information, see http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/. ...................................................................... TECHNOLOGY AND LIFELONG LEARNING SEMINAR.NET: MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY & LIFELONG LEARNING is an international, refereed journal "dealing with research into theoretical or practical aspects related to the learning of adolescents, adults, and elderly, in formal or informal educational settings." Papers are available in both English and Norwegian and in both text and video versions. Papers in the current issue include: "When Means Become Ends: Technology Producing Values" by Bjorn Hofmann, University of Oslo and the University College of Gjovik "Interactive and Face-to-Face Communication: A Perspective from Philosophy of Mind and Language" by Halvor Nordby, Lillehammer University College and the University of Oslo "Do Students Profit from Feedback?" by Arild Raaheim, University of Bergen Seminar.net: Media, Technology & Lifelong Learning [ISSN 1504-4831] is published twice a year by Lillehammer University College. Subscriptions are free and current and back issues are available on the Web at http://www.seminar.net/. ...................................................................... UNIVERSITY PRESS STATEMENT ON OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING "The increasing enthusiasm for open access as a model for scholarly communication, which grew out of pressure to relieve the financial burden on libraries of maintaining subscriptions to STM (Scientific, Technical, and Medical) journals, presents new challenges and new opportunities for university presses. In its pure form, open access calls for an entirely new funding model, in which the costs of publishing research articles in journals are paid for by authors or by a funding agency, and readers can have access to these publications for free." The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has issued the "AAUP Statement on Open Access," which expresses concerns that these new models of scholarly publishing could cause severe economic harm for already-financially-strapped presses. The statement is online at http://www.aaupnet.org/aboutup/issues/oa/statement.pdf. See also: "University Presses Take Their Stand" By Scott Jaschik INSIDE HIGHER ED, February 28, 2007 http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/28/open The article also includes reader comments. ...................................................................... INFOBITS TAG CLOUD Some Web 2.0 applications such as Google Earth and Google Maps have exciting potential in education. And some applications are just fun to experiment with. Recently, a colleague brought TagCrowd to my attention. The tool lets you input text and create a tag cloud to visualize word frequency in the text. The frequency a word appears in a text is reflected in the font size that word is displayed in. To test it out, I input the text of the combined 2006 issues of Infobits. After a little refining to remove insignificant repeated terms, I came up with results that give a viewer a quick sense of what Infobits is about. The results can be viewed at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/2006cloud.php. You can try out TagCrowd at http://tagcrowd.com/. Non-commercial users can use it free of charge under a Creative Commons license. ...................................................................... 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. "Envisioning the Whole Digital Person" By Jonathan Follett UXmatters, February 20, 2007 http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000171.php "As a human society, we're quite possibly looking at the largest surge of recorded information that has ever taken place, and at this point, we have only the most rudimentary tools for managing all this information--in part because we cannot predict what standards will be in place in 10, 50, or 100 years." From: Willard McCarty Subject: Curator's job at The Henry Ford Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:03:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 689 (689) [from Jim VanBochove] The Henry Ford Curator of Design and Decorative Arts The Henry Ford seeks a knowledgeable, thoughtful, and dynamic individual with a proven track record to join a committed team of intellectually curious colleagues as Curator of Design and Decorative Arts. The incumbent will be responsible for managing, developing, researching, and interpreting The Henry Ford's world-class collections relating to American design and decorative arts from the 17th century to the present. These collections number more than 40,000 items including architecture, interiors, ceramics, glassware, metalwork, fashion, and furniture. The Henry Ford is the history destination that brings the American Experience to life and is comprised of Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, The Henry Ford IMAX Theater, Benson Ford Research Center, Ford Rouge Factory Tour, and Henry Ford Academy. The Curator has three primary spheres of responsibility: Collections/Content Expertise; Educational and Program Development; and Institutional Support. This position demands a deep and broad understanding of significant American objects, stories, and lives to lead the intellectual direction of major collection areas by developing collections plans that align strategically with the mission and the vision of The Henry Ford. Using institutional History and Educational Principles as a guide, shapes the content development for program and exhibition planning according to initiative parameters; serves as the institution's content expert on that topic. Initiates, writes grants, and/or creates budgets for the documentation of collections, the development of educational programs, or exhibition planning, as required; maintains an understanding of potential grant-funding sources relating to collections and programs. Requires a minimum of a Master's degree in Design History, Decorative Arts, Art History, American History or related field; Knowledge of the history of American design and American decorative arts from the 17th century to the present, with an emphasis on the 20th century; Solid general knowledge of American social and cultural history from the 17th century to the present, with an emphasis on the 20th century; A minimum of five years professional experience with decorative arts and/or design (curatorial or related experience preferred); Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communications skills required. Proven ability to research and interpret American social and cultural history through material culture, decorative arts, and design; Experience in developing, managing, and interpreting museum collections Full position description available at <http://www.thehenryford.org/>www.TheHenryFord.org Please apply to: Workforce Development The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 employment_at_TheHenryFord.org The Henry Ford is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, marital status, height, weight, age, unrelated disability or other legally protected status. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: database of all databases, hypertexts and software Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:53:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 690 (690) The Center for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, located in the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, announces a freely accessible database of all databases, hypertexts and software related to all disciplines within those fields. This universal database is intended to serve several functions. It will provide a central location for information on the growing number of assets being developed in all parts of the world, and by linking them in this way, it will suggest opportunities to associate many of them in ways not otherwise obvious. For overlapping disciplines, like history, archaeology, anthropology, and folklore, this database will bring together information which may currently be widely distributed and difficult to locate. It will also reveal gaps in the repertory of humanistic and social science researchers, and identify individuals and groups who may develop these needed resources. The value of this collection for the expanding number of instructional centers is obvious. In addition, this database will serve as a foundation for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Humanities and Social Science Computing, tentatively scheduled for publication in 2008 by Idea Group, Inc. All libraries will receive free access to the online version when they purchase a print copy. Individuals interested in establishing their status as experts in any area of humanities or social science computing may submit proposals (2-3 pages) for articles of 2500-3500 words to either of the co-editors, Vernon Burton of the University of Illinois or Joseph Raben of the City University of New York at encyclopedia_at_chass.ncsa.uiuc.edu. From: "Humanities" Subject: 2007 Call for Proposals EW and EUROCORES themes Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:51:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 691 (691) 2007 Call for proposals Exploratory Workshops **************************************************************************** I am pleased to inform you that the 2007 Call for Exploratory Workshops proposals - aimed at events to be held in 2008 - is now available on the ESF website at http://www.esf.org/workshops/call. It can also be accessed via the EW Homepage or the Units' page dedicated to EWs. Mention of the Call will also be made on the ESF's Homepage shortly. The deadline for submitting proposals is 27 April 2007. 2007 Call for proposals EUROCORES themes **************************************************************************** We are pleased to inform you that the ESF Call for EUROCORES themes 2007 is now open. The ESF is inviting well developed proposals for new EUROCORES Programmes (EUROCORES themes) with the deadline of 1 June 2007 (12:00 am CET). The Call for theme proposals is available in pdf version on the following website: http://www.esf.org/eurocores Best wishes Irma Vogel ********************************************** Irma Vogel Administrative Assistant European Science Foundation Standing Committee for the Humanities 1 quai Lezay Marn=E9sia F-67080 Strasbourg Cedex Tel: +33 (0)3 88 76 71 26 Fax: +33 (0)3 88 76 71 81 ivogel_at_esf:org From: "Nicolas Nicolov" Subject: Recent Advances in NLP: 2nd CFP Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:54:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 692 (692) Second Call for Papers ================================================ "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING" International Conference RANLP-2007 September 27-29, 2007 Borovets, Bulgaria http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007 ================================================ Supported by the European Commission through project BIS-21++, INCO grant 016639/2005 Further to the successful and highly competitive 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th conferences 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' (RANLP), we are pleased to announce the 6th RANLP conference to be held in September 2007. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus presentations of peer-reviewed individual papers. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition, volumes of RANLP selected papers are traditionally published by John Benjamins Publishing Company (Amsterdam & Philadelphia). There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. The conference will be preceded by tutorials (23-25 Sep 2007) and workshops (26 and 30 Sep 2007). TOPICS We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP). We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; mathematical models and complexity; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, statistical machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation memory systems, translation aids and tools; text data mining; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging; phrase identification; finite state methods; efficiency of processing; parsing; grammatical frameworks; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology; term recognition; term extraction; word-sense disambiguation; information retrieval; cross-language information retrieval; information extraction; named entity and mention detection; anaphora resolution; coreference; relation extraction; unsupervised methods; text summarization; text categorization; language indentification; author identification; gender prediction; spam filtering; topic detection and tracking; question answering; ontologies and reasoning; textual entailment; sentiment analysis; opinion identification; influencer analysis; nlp and graph methods; clustering; visualisation; speech processing; dialogue systems; multimedia systems; nlp-enhanced visual concept detection; nlp and interactive visual environments (computer games); unstructured knowledge management; computer-aided language learning; nlp and collaboration environments; language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Lauri Karttunen (Palo Alto Research Center and Stanford University) - Ellen Riloff (University of Utah) - Karin Verspoor (Los Alamos National Laboratory) - Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) [...] From: Susan Schreibman Subject: CFP: TEI Annual Members Meeting Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:55:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 693 (693) Call for Papers The TEI Members' Meeting 1-3 November 2007 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA TEI_at_20: 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities The Organizing Committee of this anniversary TEI Members' Meeting invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, and poster/tool demonstrations on the theme, broadly conceived, 'The TEI_at_20: 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities'. Topics might include but are not restricted to * Building and using tools for TEI-based text encoding * Teaching TEI: Challenges and Opportunities * TEI as a theory of text * TEI: the next 20 years * New career opportunities for those using the TEI * Lacunae and omissions: new directions for the TEI Paper presenters will be allocated 30 minutes to speak, 25 minutes for delivery, and five minutes for questions. Alternatively, group sessions can be organized for 1.5 hours each and may be of varied formats, including: * A working papers session (pre-circulated papers) * A round-table discussion * Software demonstrations Of the formats described above, a working paper session might be more appropriate for a smaller group, all of whom have all read the pre-circulated papers in advance. This type of format may span more than one session and will be held concurrently with the general session. Submission Procedure Individual paper proposals: submit a title, brief abstract (no more than 500 words), the name of the presenter, institutional affiliation, and email address. Panel sessions: submit a session title, brief overview of the session (no more than 300 words), abstracts of each of the papers (no more than 500 words each) OR a 500 word abstract for a panel discussion, the names of each of the participants, their institutional affiliations, and email addresses. Poster Session/Tool Demonstration: submit a title, brief abstract (no more than 500 words), the name of the presenter, institutional affiliation, and email address. The local organizer will provide a flip chart and a table for each presenter, along with wireless internet access. All poster session participants will have an opportunity to participate in a poster slam immediacy preceding the poster session/reception. All submissions should be sent to Conference Chair, Sebastian Rahtz by 6 April 2007. Conference papers will be considered for a TEI_at_20 Proceedings. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming. -- 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 http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 20.496 e-paper Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:54:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 694 (694) Michael, [deleted quotation]Sigh, in short, NO! I confess that I don't share your joy at the thought of a billion eBook library, at least if it has full text searching as an interface. Why is it so difficult to see that as the diversity of materials in an eBook library increases that full text searching becomes nearly useless? Have you tried to do a search of the WWW lately? What are terms of art in a particular discipline turn up in all sorts of resources. I don't consider getting millions of "hits" a really useful response to a query. I suppose if my search consisted of an accurately remembered quote from Virgil in Latin I would probably get a useful result but I would assume that most people aren't going to want to use a billion eBook library to simply verify the source of quotes they already remember. The central problem is that what is meant by authors using particular words changes over time, place and discipline (among others). A headlong rush to simply create eBooks without any consideration being given to meaningful access to that material is going to result in a billion eBook library of marginal utility. By way of contrast, consider that the professional astronomy community is planning now for the terabytes of data output per night that they are expecting from the next generation of instruments. Granted the problem there is primarily one of volume and not semantic integration (but they have that problem as well but differently from textual resources) but I do think it is instructive that they are *planning* for access and not simply rushing wily-nily to create digital versions of everything they can lay hands on. Before any one jumps to the conclusion that I am bashing Michael or Project Gutenberg let me say that I use Project Gutenberg. I most recently found a copy of Boole's "Laws of Thought" and found the final chapter very interesting. Boole puts a quite different spin on the use of logic than many who cite his work. But note that I knew the resource I was looking for and wasn't doing full text searching. Project Gutenberg is an amazing achievement but I disagree with Michael rather strongly on the question of access to such a collection. 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: { brad brace } Subject: Re: 20.496 e-paper (sufi note) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:55:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 695 (695) Letters written with ink (bits) do not really exist qua letters. For the letters are but various forms to which meanings have been assigned through convention. What really and concretely exists is nothing but the ink. The existence of the letters is in truth no other than the existence of the ink which is the sole, unique reality that unfolds itself in many forms of self-modification. One has to cultivate, first of all, the eye to see the selfsame reality of ink in all letters, and then to see the letters as so many intrinsic modifications of the ink. Insatiable Abstraction Engine: http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/abstraction-engine.html http://bbrace.net/abstraction-engine.html From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: Extreme 2007 papers due April 20th Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:44:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 696 (696) EXTREME MARKUP LANGUAGES 2007(r) (a registered trademark of IDEAlliance) THE MARKUP THEORY & PRACTICE CONFERENCE It takes time to write a paper, so if you want to speak at Extreme 2007 now is the time to stop procrastinating and start writing! Papers for Extreme 2007 must: - be all new material, - address some markup-related aspect of information management from a theoretical or practical standpoint, and - be detailed and rigorous. Submissions must be content- or technically-oriented; product or service descriptions or advertisements are not appropriate. Case studies should focus on the problem(s) and technical approaches to solving them. The detailed Call for Participation is available at: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/details.html Paper submission guidelines are at: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/submissions.html MORE INFORMATION as available: http://www.extrememarkup.com/ PROCEEDINGS of previous EXTREME MARKUP Conferences: http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme/proceedings/ The Extreme Markup Languages Conference, formerly a production of IDEAlliance, is now developed by Mulberry Technologies, Inc., which is solely responsible for its program. -- ====================================================================== Extreme Markup Languages 2007 mailto:extreme_at_mulberrytech.com August 7-10, 2007 http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme Montreal, Canada http://www.extrememarkup.com ====================================================================== From: "Dan O'Donnell" Subject: Conference Session Call for Papers: Markup as Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:45:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 697 (697) Theory of the Text (apologies for cross posting) Hi all, In keeping with the TEI Call for Papers for their member's meeting (1-3 November 2007, University of Maryland), I would like to put together a proposal for a session on Markup as a theory of text. This topic came up on TEI several months ago and received some expressions of interest. Basically, I am wondering about two types of questions: 1) What are the theoretical implications of digital markup for editors, paleographers, book historians, literary critics, linguists, etc. Are they different from, similar to, or of a completely different order from previous print practice? 2) Are markup schemas theories of the structure of a text in the way that linguistic theories are theories of language or literary theories are theories about literature? Do they/should they have theoretical lives of their own? Of course I'm open to other understandings of the topic and papers do not need to concentrate specifically, exclusively, or at all on the TEI. They can be broad ranging or concentrate on specific smaller issues. To keep with the TEI submission guidelines, I'd like to have abstracts emailed to me daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca (*not* the address I am using to post to this mailing list) by March 26th, so that I have sufficient time to come up with a slate before the TEI's April 6 deadline. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/> Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Associate Professor and Chair of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox: +1 403 329 2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: March/April 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:45:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 698 (698) Greetings: The March/April 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, a commentary, and one conference report, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the "University of Wisconsin Digital Collections," contributed by Melissa McLimans, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center. The articles include: Toward an Effective Understanding of Website Users: Advantages and Pitfalls of Linking Transaction Log Analyses and Online Surveys Diane Harley and Jonathan Henke, University of California, Berkeley Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace Philip M. Davis and Matthew J.L. Connolly, Cornell University Linking Service to Open Access Repositories Shigeki Sugita, Kunie Horikoshi and Masako Suzuki, Hokkaido University; Shin Kataoka, Kyushu University; E. S. Hellman, Openly Informatics Division, OCLC; and Keiji Suzuki, Independent Consultant Setting the Foundations of Digital Libraries: The DELOS Manifesto Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli, Pasquale Pagano, and Constantino Thanos, Italian National Research Council (CNR); Yannis Ioannidis and Georgia Koutrika, University of Athens; Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow; Hans-Jorg Schek, University of Konstanz; and Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel The commentary is: A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data Micah Altman and Gary King, Harvard University And the conference report is: Road Report: Second Annual Open Repositories Conference (OR07) in San Antonio Carol Minton Morris From: textodigital_at_cce.ufsc.br Subject: Texto Digital Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:51:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 699 (699) The 3ş issue of Revista Texto Digital (textodigital_at_cce.ufsc.br ) is now available. This issue contains articles referring to Literature and informatics (texts in the digital medium) and digital artistic creations. We take this time to inform that the article submission period for the 4° issue of Revista Texto Digital is now opened. The magazine has the proposal to be a permanently 'in line' territory, focused on the promotion of discussions and reflections concerning literature in the digital medium. This space, thus, intends to stimulate and spread the discussion of Literature wired to the technological universe, by way of publishing texts, studies and research on digital text. The period for the submission of articles ends at June 10, 2007. The articles must be submitted by electronic mail to the address: textodigital_at_cce.ufsc.br , informing it to be an article for the Revista Texto Digital, following the instructions available in the magazine. We count with the collaboration of all interested readers. Cordially The Editorial Board Le dernier numéro de Texto Digital (www.textodigital.ufsc.br) est déjŕ en ligne depuis quelque temps, présentant, comme d'habitude, des essais ŕ propos de littérature et informatique, ainsi que des créations artistiques numériques. Par ailleurs, nous voulons vous faire part des échéances de la prochaine parution, le numéro 4 de Texto Digital: le 10 juin 2007 sera le dernier délai pour recevoir les propositions d'articles portant sur les relations entre la littérature et l'informatique. Les fichiers, dont le format est décrit en détails dans le site internete de la Revue, doivent ętre envoyés ŕ l'adresse textodigital_at_cce.ufsc.br. Bien ŕ vous, Está no ar o 3ş número da Revista Texto Digital (www.textodigital.ufsc.br). A respectiva ediçăo conta com ensaios referentes a Literatura e informática (o texto em meio digital) e criaçőes artísticas digitais. Aproveitamos para informar que está aberto o prazo para recebimento de artigos do 4ş número da Revista Texto Digital. A Revista está voltada ao fomento de discussőes e reflexőes acerca da Literatura em meio digital. Esse espaço pretende, assim, estimular e divulgar a discussăo da Literatura conectada ao universo informático, por meio da publicaçăo de textos, estudos e pesquisas ligados ao texto no ambiente digital. O prazo para a submissăo de artigos se encerra em 10/jun./2007. Os artigos deverăo ser submetidos por correio eletrônico para textodigital_at_cce.ufsc.br , informando que se trata de um artigo para a Revista Texto Digital , seguindo as instruçőes de publicaçăo disponíveis na revista. Contamos com a colaboraçăo de todos os interessados. Cordialmente, A Comissăo Editorial Está en el aire el 3° número de la Revista Texto Digital (www.textodigital.ufsc.br). Esta edición cuenta con ensayos referentes a Literatura e informática (el texto en medio digital) y creaciones artísticas digitales. Informamos también que está abierto el plazo de recepción de artículos para el 4° número de la Revista Texto Digital. La Revista está volcada hacia el fomento de discusiones y reflexiones acerca de la Literatura en medio digital. Este espacio pretende, entonces, estimular y difundir la discusión de la Literatura conectada al universo informático a través de la publicación de textos, estudios e investigaciones relacionados al texto en ambiente digital. El plazo para el envío de artículos termina el 10/jun./2007. Los artículos deberán ser enviados por correo electrónico para textodigital_at_cce.ufsc.br, informando que se trata de un artículo para la Revista Texto Digital, siguiendo las instrucciones para publicación disponibles en el sitio de la revista (http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br/publicacao.html). Contamos con la colaboración de todos los interesados. Cordialmente Comisión Editorial Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Olga Francois" Subject: 7th Annual Copyright Symposium, May 21-23, 2007 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:25:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 700 (700) The Center for Intellectual Property at UMUC would greatly appreciate you posting the message below to your listserv or announcing this opportunity within your networks. Thank you. ------------------------------- [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] What are Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Mark Cuban, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, all discussing in the news? Copyright! Come and join the Center for Intellectual Property as we discuss the future of copyright. Copyright Utopia: Alternative Visions, Methods & Policies May 21-23, 2007 UMUC Inn & Conference Center, Adelphi, Maryland http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/ Will the efforts of organizations like Creative Commons create a more effective and efficient method for managing copyrighted works? Is licensing the only alternative to copyright? Should alternative methods work within the current legal structure? What would your copyright utopia look like?... Will your copyright future be Orwellian, live within the copyright Matrix, or be a Brave New World? This year's symposium promises to be very thought provoking. Join noted scholars and practitioners as they discuss the current state of copyright nationally and internationally. The Pre-Conferences will include: Copyright 101 Kenneth Crews, Professor, Associate Dean and Director, Copyright Management Center, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). A refresher class for those who want a solid overview of the issues or a basic introduction to the topic for those who may be new to the field. Topics covered: basic definitions and concepts; legislative framework; guidelines; ownership, access, and use. E-Reserves Policy and Implementation Donna Ferullo, Director, University Copyright Office, Purdue University. An opportunity for everyone to probe more deeply into the complex questions of ownership, access, and use that surround the growing movement to digitize and make available ever increasing amounts of content. Full Agenda: http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/agenda.shtml Additional panelist & presenters: http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/speakers.shtml Registration Form: https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm Register today to take advantage of the early bird rates before it is too late! See the site for logistics & specials from our travel partners. Interested in winning a free registration & lodging for the 2007 symposium? Consider entering our first contest, (c)Utopia Imagine That! For contest details please see http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/contest. -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 Phone: 240-582-2803 Fax: 240-582-2961 http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ From: "alexandra" Subject: Last call for paper ICANN07 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:26:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 701 (701) International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2007 9-13 September 2007, Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal Web page: http://www.icann2007.org *** Last Call for Papers*** Deadlines March, 23 - End of submission of full papers. June, 29 - Early registration The 17th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2007, will be held from September 9 through September 13 at the Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal. ICANN is an annual conference organized by the European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society, and is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2007 welcomes contributions on the theory, algorithms and applications in the following broad areas: - Computational neuroscience; - Connectionist cognitive science; - Data analysis and pattern recognition; - Graphical network models, Bayesian networks; - Hardware implementations and embedded systems; - Intelligent Multimedia and the Semantic Web; - Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms; - Neural control, planning and robotics applications; - Neural dynamics and complex systems; - Neuroinformatics; - Real world applications; - Self-organization; - Sequential and structured information processing; - Signal and time series processing, blind source separation; - Vision and image processing. List of Special Sessions and Organizers 1. Complex-Valued Neural Networks Aizenberg, Igor; Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA Hirose, Akira; University of Tokyo, Japan M. Zurada, Jacek; University of Louisville, USA 2. Emotion and Attention: Empirical Findings and Neural Models Korsten, Nienke; King's College London, UK Taylor, John; King's College London, UK 3. Meta-Learning Duch, Wlodzislaw; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, Grabczewski, Krzysztof; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland Jankowski, Norbert; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland 4. Understanding and Creating Cognitive Systems Taylor, John; King's College London, UK Workshops Workshop 1 Cognitive Systems Taylor, John G.; King's College, London Worshop 2 Neural Networks in Biomedical Engineering and BioInformatics Cortez, Paulo; University of Minho, Portugal Hochreiter,Sepp; Johannes Kepler University, Linz [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: standardized markup the only way? Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:29:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 702 (702) [From: DrWender_at_aol.com] Hi all. In the first days of March (20.485 fixing the MLA's problem) I was wondering about the statement that "standardized markup" is the "only" way to study editorial facts where computing is needed: [deleted quotation]Now, in a CFP (20.509 [...]Call for Papers: Markup as Theory of the Text) cross-posted in the TEI list, it is suggested that markup is a theory: [deleted quotation]What means the term "the text" in the subject of this posting? f.e. 'the text' of _Piers Plowman_? (As an idealization over the many versions collated for the "hypermedia textual archive", or as "the" text of exactly ONE of these versions?) In the one or in the other way: How the term 'theory' is conceptualized when it is stated that the markup handled in Virginia can be seen as a 'theory of the text'? And what is the difference in meaning when, in the body of the posting, the term 'text' is used without article? Is a "theory of text" something like a "theory of language"? (Or rather like a "theoy of sentence"?) Questions over questions, sorry. Hernert Wender From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.10 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:26:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 703 (703) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 10 March 13, 2007 -- March 19, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: BERNHARDT IRRGANG ON VISIONS OF TECHNOLOGY The distinguished philogopher Bernhadt Irrgang of Technology University, Dresden, Germany, emphasizes the ethical underpinnings of any valid vision of technology. See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i10_irrgang.html From: Charles Ess Subject: new online International Journal of Internet Research Ethics Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:24:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 704 (704) Dear Humanists: with apologies for duplications and cross-postings: Announcing the release of the International Journal of Internet Research Ethics Call for Papers for the Premier Issue of IJIRE Description and Scope: The IJIRE is the first peer-reviewed online journal, dedicated specifically to cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural research on Internet Research Ethics. All disciplinary perspectives, from those in the arts and humanities, to the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences, are reflected in the journal. With the emergence of Internet use as a research locale and tool throughout the 1990s, researchers from disparate disciplines, ranging from the social sciences to humanities to the sciences, have found a new fertile ground for research opportunities that differ greatly from their traditional biomedical counterparts. As such, "populations," locales, and spaces that had no corresponding physical environment became a focal point, or site of research activity. Human subjects protections questions then began to arise, across disciplines and over time: What about privacy? How is informed consent obtained? What about research on minors? What are "harms" in an online environment? Is this really human subjects work? More broadly, are the ethical obligations of researchers conducting research online somehow different from other forms of research ethics practices? As Internet Research Ethics has developed as its own field and discipline, additional questions have emerged: How do diverse methodological approaches result in distinctive ethical conflicts =AD and, possibly, distinctive= ethical resolutions? How do diverse cultural and legal traditions shape what are perceived as ethical conflicts and permissible resolutions? How do researchers collaborating across diverse ethical and legal domains recognize and resolve ethical issues in ways that recognize and incorporate often markedly different ethical understandings? Finally, as "the Internet" continues to transform and diffuse, new research ethics questions arise =AD e.g., in the areas of blogging, social network spaces, etc. Such questions are at the heart of IRE scholarship, and such general areas as anonymity, privacy, ownership, authorial ethics, legal issues, research ethics principles (justice, beneficence, respect for persons), and consent are appropriate areas for consideration. The IJIRE will publish articles of both theoretical and practical nature to scholars from all disciplines who are pursuing=8Bor reviewing=8BIRE work. = Case studies of online research, theoretical analyses, and practitioner-oriented scholarship that promote understanding of IRE at ethics and institutional review boards, for instance, are encouraged. Methodological differences are embraced. Publication Schedule: The IJIRE is published twice annually, March 1, and October 15. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, and are subject to Editorial and Peer Review. Subscription: Free Editors- in- Chief: Elizabeth A. Buchanan, Ph.D. Director, Center for Information Policy Research School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee elizabeth.buchanan_at_gmail.com Charles M. Ess, Ph.D. Distinguished Research Professor Drury University cmess_at_drury.edu Editorial Board: Andrea Baker, Ohio University, USA Heidi Campbell, Texas A&M University, USA Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University, USA Jeremy Hunsinger, Virginia Tech, USA Mark Johns, Luther College, USA Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba, Japan Tomas Lipinski, JD, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Ulf-Dietrich Reips, Universit=E4t Z=FCrich, Switzerland Susannah Stern, San Diego State University, USA Malin Sveningsson, Ph.D., Karlstad University, Sweden Style Guidelines: please see the Journal site: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ijire.html Copyright: In the spirit of open access, IJIRE authors maintain copyright control of their work. Any subsequent publications related to the IJIRE work must reference the IJIRE and the original publication date and url. =3D=3D thanks! - c. Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee <http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ethics.html> Co-chair, CATaC conferences Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: oxfordjournals-mailer_at_alerts.stanford.edu Subject: LLC for April 2007; Vol. 22, No. 1 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:42:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 705 (705) A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: April 2007; Vol. 22, No. 1 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol22/issue1/index.dtl?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Word Sense Disambiguation and WordNet Technology S. Banerjee and B. P. Mullick Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:1-15. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/1/1?etoc A New Technique for Authenticating Content in Evolving Marked-up Documents Phillip Berrie Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:17-25. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/1/17?etoc All the Way Through: Testing for Authorship in Different Frequency Strata John Burrows Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:27-47. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/1/27?etoc Function Words in Authorship Attribution Studies Antonio Miranda Garcia and Javier Calle Martin Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:49-66. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/1/49?etoc Modelling Space and Time in Narratives about Restaurants Erik T. Mueller Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:67-84. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/1/67?etoc Use of the Chi-Squared Test to Examine Vocabulary Differences in English Language Corpora Representing Seven Different Countries Michael P. Oakes and Malcolm Farrow Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:85-99. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/1/85?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ----------------------------------------------------------------- Developing Linguistic Corpora--A Guide to Good Practice * Martin Wynne (ed.). Guy De Pauw Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:101-102. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/1/101?etoc Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web * Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig. Michael S. Mahoney Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:102-105. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/1/102?etoc Digitizing Collections. Strategic Issues for the Information Manager * Lorna M. Hughes. Melissa Terras Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:105-106. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/1/105?etoc The Content Management Handbook * Martin White. Paul Vetch Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:106-108. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/1/106?etoc The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information * Alan Liu. Vika Zafrin Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:108-112. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/1/108?etoc Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval. Second edition * G. G. Chowdhury. Ron Van den Branden Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:112-115. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/1/112?etoc The Advanced Internet Searcher's Handbook. Third Edition * Phil Bradley. Edward Vanhoutte Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:115-116. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/1/115?etoc From: "Anna Bentkowska" Subject: 3DVisA Bulletin, March 2007 Issue Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:39:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 706 (706) Dear All, Those of you who are interested in computer graphics and 3D visualisation may find of interest the latest 3DVisA Bulletin, now available on the JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network website, at http://3dvisa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/bulletin.html The issue features three papers: HAPTICALLY AWARE MOVIES. Touching High-Quality Computer-Generated Environments by Robert Laycock and Stephen Laycock (see the movies!) IS REAL-TIME PHOTOREALISTIC 3D VIEWING ON THE HORIZON? Angela Geary responds to Michael Greenhalgh CERVETERI REBORN. A 3D Experience of an Etruscan Necropolis by Luciana Bordoni and Sandro Rubino Comments and contributions to future issues are welcome. Anna Bentkowska-Kafel ________________________ Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX, UK Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska_at_kcl.ac.uk www.viznet.ac.uk/3dvisa From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:39:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 707 (707) Annual Edition The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is now available from Digital Scholarship: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. Each annual edition is based on the last HTML version published during the edition's year. Minor corrections, such as updated URLs, have been made in the SEPB: 2006 Annual Edition. The SEPB: 2006 Annual Edition is based on Version 66 (12/18/2006). The printed bibliography is over 230 pages long. The PDF file is over 930 KB. New versions of SEPB are now announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-digital-publications-changes/ -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans/Flashback http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/ Open Access Bibliography/Webliography http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm From: "Helena Francke" Subject: CoLIS 6 Doctoral Forum Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:32:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 708 (708) Doctoral Forum at CoLIS 6 *** Deadline for applications 1 April 2007 *** CoLIS 6: The Sixth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science: "Featuring the Future" Borĺs, Sweden August 13-16, 2007 Organised by the Swedish School of Library and Information Science Conference web site: <http://www.hb.se/colis/> We invite doctoral students to a Doctoral Forum held in connection to the main conference of CoLIS 6 in Sweden. The Doctoral Forum will take place on August 13, 2007. Doctoral students are given the opportunity to share their work-in-progress with invited senior researchers and with the other student participants in an open and supportive atmosphere. This is also a good opportunity to meet other doctoral students. Participation is included in the main conference fee, which has a student discount (the early-bird price is €200). Applications to the doctoral forum should consist of the following: • Thesis Description: A thesis description of 1,200-1,500 words, not including figures, bibliography, and/or appendix of instruments. The description should outline the research problem and theoretical framework, suggested methods, a description of your progress as well as a work plan for the future. Include in your description problems that you have come across and would like to discuss in the Doctoral Forum. • Curriculum Vitae: A short description of earlier experiences of relevance for the Doctoral Forum. Submissions should be submitted electronically, as MS Word documents or PDF files, by e-mail to olof.sundin_at_kult.lu.se. Include in the e-mail's subject line: CoLIS Doctoral Forum Submission. Submissions are due April 1, 2007. For further instructions on submissions and information on the event, see the Doctoral Forum web site at <http://www.hb.se/colis/doctoral/default.htm>. You are also most welcome to contact one of the organizers (below) for any further information: Chair: Dr. Olof Sundin, Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden (olof.sundin_at_kult.lu.se). Assistant: Doctoral student Helena Francke, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University College of Borĺs, Sweden (helena.francke_at_hb.se). Welcome to Borĺs! Olof and Helena ************** Helena Francke, doctoral student Swedish School of Library and Information Science University College of Borĺs / Göteborg University SE-501 90 Borĺs, Sweden phone +46 33 435 43 20 (Borĺs) +46 31 773 58 49 (Göteborg) fax +46 33 435 40 05 e-mail helena.francke_at_hb.se From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 22 March Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:44:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 709 (709) All those within range of London are cordially invited to the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, to take place 22 March, 5.30 pm, in room NG15, Senate House, Malet Street (just behind the British Museum). The Seminar leader is Dr Mary Hammond (Open University), whose topic is "The Reading Experience Database 1800-1945: New Directions". The Reading Experience Database (RED) is ten years old. Currently holding around 6,000 records of the reading experiences and practices of British subjects - including perhaps the largest single collection of experiences from the 'long' eighteenth century - it has recently been awarded a major AHRC grant which will speed up its growth and enable it to be placed live on the web for the first time. This seminar explores the ways in which electronically-available data on reading drawn from a wide range of sources might augment studies of literature and the material book. Mary Hammond is Lecturer in Literature and Book History at the Open University. She is the author of Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England 1880-1914 (Ashgate, 2006) and a number of articles on the literature, reception and publishing pratices of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is also co-editor of Publishing in the First World War (Palgrave, 2007), Books Without Borders: the International Dimension in Print Culture and South Asian Perspectives on Book History from Palm Leaf to Print (Palgrave, 2007), and Project Supervisor for the Reading Experience Database 1800-1914. All are welcome. Refreshments are provided. For more information on the Seminar, see ies.sas.ac.uk/events/, Seminars, London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: John Unsworth Subject: DH2007 registration Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:40:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 710 (710) Registration is now open for Digital Humanities 2007, at: https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ Please see information below on discounts for registration and on housing. Early registration discounts expire May 14th, and room blocks in local hotels expire May 1st, so please make your arrangements early, for the best price and availability. The preliminary conference web site is at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/ and detailed program is available at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/sessions.html The main academic program for the conference will be held from June 4-7, 2007. Registrants for DH2007 may also attend the 2007 annual meeting of the Classification Society of North America, from June 7-10 in Champaign-Urbana, at no additional cost. The optional social program will include a visit to Springfield, to see an early Frank Lloyd Wright house and the Lincoln Museum, and a trip to the Allerton estate, with a guided tour of the sculpture and grounds. The banquet will be on Wednesday evening, June 6th, and it will feature the local bluegrass band High Cotton. The opening keynote will be delivered by Franco Moretti, The Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for the Study of the Novel at Stanford University. Professor Moretti is also the author of Graphs, Maps, Trees (2003) and The Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (1998). The Busa Award lecture will be delivered by Professor Wilhelm Ott, creator of TUSTEP, long-time director of the Computing Center of the University of Tuebingen, and host of 90 seminars over several decades in the Kolloquium uber die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften. DH2007 is the same conference that has been meeting annually since the late 1980s, as a joint effort of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. This year, the conference will be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science with support from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Registration: Full-price registration for non-members, at any time up to the conference dates, is $400. Members of ACH or ALLC may register for $250 up until May 14th, 2007 and for $350 thereafter. Student members may register for $100 up until May 14th, and for $150 thereafter. Students who are not members may register for $200 at any time. Membership in ACH and/or ALLC is obtained by subscribing to Literary and Linguistic Computing, published by Oxford University Press. If you are a member, you will need your member number in order to register with the members' discount, If you have an up-to-date email address registered with Oxford University Press, you should recently have received an email with your member number. If you have not registered an email address with them, you can find your member number on the address label that comes with your next issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing, or you can find it online by registering with OUP at https://access.oxfordjournals.org/oup/login/local.do If you are not a subscriber, and you wish to subscribe (and having done so, become eligible for the member discount for conference registration) you can subscribe at: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/litlin/access_purchase/price_list.html Regular-price subscriptions may be completed online; discount subscriptions (student or senior rate) require that you print the subscription form and mail or fax it to OUP. If such a delay in obtaining a member number presents a problem in registering for the conference, or if you have trouble locating your member number, or for any other difficulty with registration for DH2007, please contact dh2007_at_digitalhumanities.org and we will be glad to assist you. Housing: Hotel room blocks have been arranged for conference participants at three hotels near the University campus. Lodging reservations and payment are the responsibility of individual participants. Mention "Digital Humanities" or :dh2007: when making your reservation. After the rooms are released, May 1, 2007, rooms will be on space-available basis only. Please call the hotels directly to make reservations. And if you have problems with housing, contact dh2007_at_digitalhumanities.org. Illini Union 1401 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801 217.333.1241 Rates: $86/$99 Located in the heart of campus. Hampton Inn 1200 West University Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801 217.337.1100; toll free 800.426.7866 Rates: $89 Located just north of campus; within walking distance. Busey Evans Residence Halls 1111 West Nevada, Urbana, Illinois 61801 217.333.1766 ask for guest housing. You may email, conference_at_uiuc.edu for reservations or or book on-line at https://webtools.uiuc.edu/formBuilder/Secure? id=8467652. Rates: $25.65 shared room; $39.45 single; bathrooms are community style. Reservations may be made until May 27, 2007. Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you at Digital Humanities 2007. John Unsworth, Local Organizer Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 20.515 new on WWW: Ubiquity 8.10 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:54:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 711 (711) Willard, "The distinguished philogopher Bernhadt Irrgang" this sounded like a joke (and a good one). I had to check it out... Yours, Neven From: Stéfan Sinclair (by way Subject: ACH 2007 Elections Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:43:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 712 (712) Dear All, I am very pleased to welcome the following colleagues to the ACH Executive Council: - Dot Porter (U Kentucky) - Gary Shawver (New York U) - Natasha Smith (U North Carolina) - John Walsh (Indiana U) Thanks very much to all the candidates and to these individuals for being willing to serve - and thanks also to all who voted. Finally, thanks to the nominations committee (Ray Siemens, Alan Galey, Steve Ramsay, Susan Schreibman, Claire Warwick) for preparing such a strong slate that produced very close results. The ACH is the Association for Computing in the Humanities and, like the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), has Humanist and the journal Literary and Linguistic Computing as its official publications. For more information on the ACH please see: http://www.ach.org/ Yours, Stéfan (ACH Executive Secretary) From: Claire Gardent Subject: Postdoc position in NLP, Nancy (France) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:05:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 713 (713) Post Doc Position at INRIA Lorraine, Nancy (France) Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Topic: Error mining in a Tree Adjoining Grammar Deadline: March 31, 2007. Employer: INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science) / LORIA, Nancy (France) Job Description: The Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications (Nancy, France) has a position for a Postdoctoral fellow to work on error mining in a tree adjoining grammar using both parsing and generation. Applicants must have a ** recent doctoral degree ** (Doctoral thesis less than one year old (May 2006) or being defended before end of 2007) an area relevant to the project (linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science), good statistical knowledge and a solid computational background. Good knowledge of a script language (perl, python) is required. A knowledge of parsing and/or realisation algorithm is useful but not imperative. The candidate will collaborate with the project members and participate in the national project Passage http://atoll.inria.fr/passage Further information and the details of the application procedure are available from the site http://www.loria.fr/~gardent.html. The official closing date is March 31, 2007, but applications will be processed until the position is filled. Contact: Claire Gardent From: "Rayson, Paul" Subject: ICAME Journal Volume 31: Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:08:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 714 (714) contents and call for new subscribers The next issue of the ICAME Journal - volume 31 - will be published in May 2007. The provisional contents list is as follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Articles Costas Gabrielatos Selecting query terms to build a specialised corpus from a restricted-access database Charlotte Hommerberg and Gunnel Tottie Try to or try and? Verb complementation in British and American English Merja Kytö, Terry Walker and Peter Grund English witness depositions 1560-1760: An electronic text edition Magnus Levin and Hans Lindquist Sticking one's nose in the data: Evaluation in phraseological sequences with nose Christoph Rühlemann Lexical grammar: The GET-passive as a case in point Nicholas Smith and Paul Rayson Recent change and variation in the British English use of the progressive passive Reviews Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg (eds.) Advances in corpus linguistics. Papers from the 23rd International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 23), Göteborg 22-26 May 2002. (Kay Wikberg) Paul Baker Using corpora in discourse analysis. (Karin Aijmer) Sabine Braun, Kurt Kohn and Joybrato Mukherjee (eds.) Corpus technology and language pedagogy. (Hilde Hasselgĺrd) Joybrato Mukherjee English ditransitive verbs. Aspects of theory, description and a usage-based model. (Jan Aarts) Junsaku Nakamura, Nagayuki Inoue and Tomoji Tabata (eds.) English corpora under Japanese eyes. (Shunji Yamazaki) Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe (eds.) The changing face of corpus linguistics. (Claudia Claridge) Shorter notice Ana Díaz-Negrillo and Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras A tagging tool for error analysis on learner corpora ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICAME Journal is published under the auspices of the Aksis Centre (The Department of Culture, Language and Information Technology, University of Bergen, Norway). Printing and distribution from volume 30 onwards has been handled by UCREL (Lancaster University, United Kingdom). More information and previous issues (in PDF) are available on-line at the ICAME Journal website: http://icame.uib.no/journal.html To subscribe to the printed version of the ICAME Journal for the next issue published in May 2007 please visit our secure on-line order form that offers credit card, fax, post, phone and purchase order options: https://www.regsoft.net/regsoft/vieworderpage.php3?productid=77546 Price for one issue is USD55, around 44 Euros or GBP30 dependant on the current exchange rate. To ensure delivery on publication, please place subscription orders by the end of March. Editors Merja Kytö Anna-Brita Stenström Department of English Nedanvägen 7 Uppsala University SE-291 35 Kristianstad Box 527 Sweden SE-751 20 Uppsala Sweden e-mail: merja.kyto_at_engelska.uu.se e-mail: ab.stenstrom_at_telia.com Review editor Jan Aarts Department of Language and Speech Erasmusplein 1 University of Nijmegen NL-6525 HT Nijmegen Holland e-mail: j.aarts_at_let.kun.nl Queries on subscriptions and distribution should be directed to: Paul Rayson Computing Department Lancaster University LA1 4WA UK email: paul_at_comp.lancs.ac.uk From: Katina Michael Subject: Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security 2007 Date: 29 October 2007 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 715 (715) Venue: Wollongong University Time: 8.30-5.00 Following the success of the 2006 workshop http://www.uow.edu.au/~katina/rnsa.htm this year we are hosting the event in Wollongong again! The theme of the workshop is: "From Dataveillance to Überveillance and the Realpolitik of the Transparent Society". We are currently calling for original papers on select themes. The template for authors submitting papers can be found in the attached RTF. All papers will undergo review. 30th June 2007 Abstract Submission 31st July 2007 Full Paper Submission 31st August 2007 Notification of Acceptance 30th September 2007 Final Camera Ready Copy It is free to register for the workshop. Please visit: https://anchor.net.au/secure/homelandsecurity.org.au/ahs/register.php?id=94 Registration covers the costs of morning and afternoon tea, buffet lunch, and a copy of the workshop proceedings. All enquiries can be forwarded to Katina Michael, Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong, Australia 0242213937. Thank you, Katina Michael Workshop Chair From: "Jun liu" Subject: call for papers: ICNC'07-FSKD'07 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:07:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 716 (716) ***** Due to numerous requests, we are pleased to extend the ***** ***** deadlines for submissions and special session proposals ***** ***** to 25 March 2007 ***** ** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 3rd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'07) The 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'07) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 - 27 August 2007, Haikou, China *** Extended Submission Deadline: 25 March 2007 *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <http://www.hainu.edu.cn/htm/icnc-fskd2007>http://www.hainu.edu.cn/htm/icnc-fskd2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Papers, Special Session Proposals & Sponsorships The joint ICNC'07-FSKD'07 will be held in Haikou, China. Haikou, the capital city of Hainan Province, is a pleasant modern city with a number of historical and cultural sights to see and to hold you for a few days before heading off to Hainan's beautiful beaches and inland villages. ICNC'07-FSKD'07 aims to provide an international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of intelligent methods inspired from nature, including biological, linguistic, ecological, and physical systems, with applications to data mining, manufacturing, design, reliability, and more. It is an exciting and emerging inter- disciplinary area in which a wide range of techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. [...] From: Stuart Dunn Subject: AHeSSC workshop at UK All Hands meeting Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:09:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 717 (717) AHeSSC workshop at UK All Hands meeting 10-13th September 2007, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham MINI-WORKSHOP CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Text and Grid: Research Questions for the Humanities, Sciences and Industry http://www.allhands.org.uk/news/textgridws_call.cfm Textual resources play a pivotal role not only in research, but also in business. In 2003 alone, 300 Terabytes of textual data were produced, without counting more dynamic texts like blogs, wikis, websites, etc. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are all working on creating gigantic digital libraries for textual resources that would both be more accessible and comprehensible than any other digital library in history. Project partners in "Cultural Heritage Language Technologies" like the Perseus Project promote the use of modern computational and storage techniques to integrate tools and data for research on and with texts in different formats. In the UK, the AHRC E-Science Scoping Study expert seminars in textual studies, linguistics and history have discussed the potential of Virtual Organisation and Grid technologies for humanist textual analysis. Innovations in Grids and other e-Science technologies can help researchers deal with the new requirements stemming not only from the growing size and number of digital corpora, but also from the specific characteristics of digital text editing. Rationalisation and improvement of the editing workflow, and mass text throughput abilities lead to new research opportunities. For the first time, it seems feasible to effectively support researchers building editions encompassing text, images, and deep level annotations in XML, e.g. in the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) format. With e-Science tools and methods for computation and storage, many of the repetitive tasks associated with text editing can be at least semi-automated. Citation indices can be built as well as authority lists of people, places, dictionary entries and organizations. Data Grid technologies make it relatively easy to create new virtual corpora out of existing textual resources. However, the new technologies also engender new challenges. The protocols for publishing research need to be adjusted; peer review and validation of scholarship need to be re- evaluated. The workshop is targeted at people working on research or business applications meeting the challenges of unstructured resources such as texts for research and business computing. Details on the submission process can be found on the All Hands website (www.allhands.org.uk). Submissions are subject to a peer review process and will be published in the conference proceedings. Informal enquiries about the mini-workshop can be directed to Dr. Tobias Blanke (tobias.blanke_at_kcl.ac.uk) or Dr. Stuart Dunn (stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk). Dr Stuart Dunn Research Associate Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre www.ahessc.ac.uk www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahessc (mailing list) Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 2980 stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX From: Stuart Dunn Subject: e-Science Institute 'Theme' on A&H e-Science Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:09:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 718 (718) The Arts and Humanities e-Science Theme, organized by AHeSSC and hosted at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, aims to explore the new challenges for research in the Arts and Humanities, and to define the new research agenda that is made possible by e-Science technology. It will encourage innovation and the pushing back of intellectual boundaries, while seeking to be accessible to and inclusive of those researchers who are not currently engaged in this agenda. The Theme will consider the international context of UK research, and will identify the strategic considerations for researchers, students and funding agencies as this agenda is taken forward. The first phase of activities is a series of lectures in Edinburgh in the spring and summer of 2007. Details of these are are now available at http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme. The lectures are free and open to all, but registration will be required. The lectures will also be simultaneously webcast, and details on how to access these will appear on the website shortly, along with information on registration for those attending in person. Please do not hesitate to contact AHeSSC for more information. Dr Stuart Dunn Research Associate Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre www.ahessc.ac.uk www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahessc (mailing list) Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 2980 stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX From: Matthew James Driscoll Subject: PhD fellowship in "Textual criticism and the Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:43:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 719 (719) sociology of texts" PhD Fellowship (re-advertisement) "Textual Criticism and the Sociology of Texts" Applications are invited for a PhD fellowship in "Textual criticism and the sociology of texts". The fellowship is funded by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation and is offered jointly through the Georg Brandes School at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Copenhagen University, and the Department of Literature, Institute for the Sociology of Literature, Uppsala University. The successful candidate will be expected to divide his or her time between Copenhagen and Uppsala, and will be allocated a supervisor from each institution, the principal supervisor however will be a professor or associate professor from the University of Copenhagen. Funding is provided for a research project within the area known as "the sociology of texts", meaning that texts are regarded not as abstract bearers of meaning but rather as historical phenomena which have physical manifestations and are the products of social interaction. This point of view necessitates an awareness of the factors and agents which are involved in the cultural processes of production, dissemination and reception, as texts are constantly recast, re-issued and reinterpreted by different people at different times. It is assumed that the research project will combine a theoretical perspective with a specific body of texts. The research undertaken by the PhD candidate might focus on one - or combine several - of the following areas: 1. An historical investigation into the various agents involved in textual production - paper-makers, printers, publishers etc. - and the working methods and conventions developed in these areas, such as page layout, font design, orthography and punctuation, marketing strategies and so on. 2. A study of the transmission of an individual work (e.g. a chapbook) or group of works (e.g. those of a particular author). 3. Scholarly editing, including a discussion of the principles for the establishment of the text and the provision of commentary. 4. A study of reception, including reviews and criticism in particular periods and places, reading circles, the history of book collections and libraries and patterns of readers' behaviour. 5. A consideration, from a text-sociological point of view, of traditional literary-critical concepts such as the author, authorial intention, authorisation, textual errors, the model and empirical reader, copyright, censorship, literary genre and interpretation. Applicants must possess a Master's Degree or the equivalent or expect to possess one by May 1, 2007. All applicants must have submitted a thesis and enclose an assessment of it along with the application. Appointment as a PhD fellow is subject to the rules of the Faculty of Humanities. Appointment is conditional upon enrolment as a PhD student at the Faculty. Appointment as a PhD fellow is subject to the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). In accordance with this agreement, PhD fellows are obliged - without extra payment - to accept work corresponding to 840 hours over a three-year period. The application must contain: A project proposal with a full description of the proposed research project and a realistic plan to meet the requirements concerning participation in courses, seminars and study trips to other institutions. The project proposal should not be longer than 12,000 characters (including spaces, but excluding the bibliography); the total number of characters must be indicated at the end of the project proposal. A CV of no more than one page. A list of publications. A degree certificate or a complete transcript. The recipient of the PhD fellowship will be employed in accordance with the current agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities will appoint an assessment committee. Upon receipt of the report of the committee each applicant will receive the specific portion of the committee's assessment pertinent to him/her. The applicants will only be assessed in relation to the announced position. Applications are invited from qualified candidates regardless of age, sex, race, religion or ethnic origin. Six copies of the application and all enclosures (6 copies of each) must be sent to: The Rector of the University of Copenhagen, The Faculty of Humanities, Njalsgade 80, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, with reference to J.nr. 211-0085/07-4550 The application deadline is May 2, 2007 at 12:00 (Noon). No enclosures will be accepted after the deadline. Information regarding the Danish PhD ministerial order and employment as a PhD fellow can be obtained by contacting Birgit H=FCttmann, tel.: +45 35 32 80 54 or e-mail:bhu_at_hum.ku.dk. For further information about the Fellowship and the Georg Brandes School please contact Pil Dahlerup phone +45 35 32 83 34 or e-mail: pil_at_hum.ku.dk= =20 From: "McAulay, Elizabeth" Subject: position announcement: Head, Digital Resources Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:44:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 720 (720) Metadata Section Job Posting: UCLA Library Head of Digital Resource Metadata Section Brief Description Within the Cataloging & Metadata Center, the Digital Resources Metadata Section is responsible for the bibliographic control of digital resources using a number of metadata schema, providing training and documentation for the use of these standards, and assessment of metadata services. In support of local digital library work, the section coordinates metadata creation within the center and/or with other library and university staff. For selected projects, the section advises library staff on best practices for metadata standards and applications. Standards used include Dublin Core, MODS, VRA Core, METS, XML, etc. Please see the complete announcement at http://www2.library.ucla.edu/pdf/UCLA%20Library_Head%20of%20Digital%20Re sources%20Metadata_January%202007.pdf. Although date for first consideration is March 1, applications are still being actively considered. Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay Librarian for Digital Collection Development Digital Library Program UCLA Library 390 Powell Library Building Box 957201 Los Angeles, CA 90095-7201 (310) 825-7657 email: emcaulay_at_library.ucla.edu From: Carlos Areces Subject: CFP: Workshop Logic, Rationality and Interaction, Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:40:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 721 (721) Beijing, China CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop Logic, Rationality and Interaction, 5-9 August, 2007. URL: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LORI Beijing, China. *About the Workshop* In the past decade it has become increasingly clear that studying information, first and foremost, means studying information exchange. This acknowledgement of the inherently social character of information shows up at many places in modern logical theories. More generally, information exchange is a form of interaction where agents act together in strategic ways. This new perspective has led to contacts between logic and game theory, bringing a new set of disciplines into the scope of logic: viz., economics, and the social sciences. New interfaces are arising, such as epistemic studies of rational behavior in games. Another interesting development in this area is the rise of the notion of 'social software', the idea of using computational techniques for analyzing patterns of social behavior. And finally, interaction is also crucial to intelligent behavior in the field of natural language. Here pragmatics, the study of the actual use of language between different agents, has become the primary focus of research. Notions from game theory, in particular evolutionary games, are being used to-day to answer all kinds of pragmatic issues, for instance, how linguistic conventions can arise. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on these and related topics in logic, philosophy, computer science, and related areas in order to arrive at an integrated perspective on knowledge acquisition, information exchange, and rational action. *Call for papers* Researchers from various fields, including artificial intelligence, game theory, linguistics, logic, philosophy, and cognitive science are invited to submit a paper to this workshop which aims to arrive at an interdisciplinary perspective on knowledge acquisition, information exchange, and rational action. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to a. semantic models for knowledge, for belief, and for uncertainty b. dynamic logics of knowledge, information flow, and action c. logical analysis of the structure of games d. belief revision, belief merging e. logics for preferences and utilities f. logics of probability and uncertainty All researchers in the area are invited to submit a paper of 12 pages. Each paper should include a title, the names and contact details of all authors, and a short abstract of 100-300 words. Talks will be 45 minutes long, including 10 - 15 minutes for discussion. The detailed submission procedure will be specified soon. A selection of the accepted papers will be published in a special issue of 'Knowledge, Rationality and Action'. [...] From: "Mathijsen-Verkooijen, M.T.C." Subject: Free Access to History Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:43:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 722 (722) CALL FOR PAPERS FREE ACCESS TO HISTORY: THE PAST IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE An international conference, 17-19 January 2008, University of Amsterdam The conference is organized by the Huizinga-Instituut (Dutch National research Institute for Cultural History), www.hum.uva.nl/~huizinga and by the research group The Construction of the Literary Past, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam. On behalf of the research group: -- Marita Mathijsen-Verkooijen (Chair of Modern Dutch Literature) -- Joep Leerssen (Chair of Modern European Literature) -- Lotte Jensen (postdoctoral researcher) Proposals can be submitted until 1 June 2007 to Dr Lotte Jensen, L.E.Jensen_at_uva.nl, Dept. of Dutch Literature, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, Netherlands From: Willard McCarty Subject: Soft Computing 11.8 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:55:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 723 (723) Volume 11 Number 8 of Soft Computing is now=20 available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Editorial Web Intelligence and Chance Discovery Ajith Abraham, Yukio Ohsawa, Yasuhiko Dote Page 695 - 696 Purposive behavior of honeybees as the basis of an experimental search= engine Reginald L. Walker Page 697 - 716 Testing the Predictive Power of Variable History Web Usage Jos=E9 Borges, Mark Levene Page 717 - 727 Artificial immune system inspired behavior-based anti-spam filter Xun Yue, Ajith Abraham, Zhong-Xian Chi, Yan-You Hao, Hongwei Mo Page 729 - 740 Web shopping expert using new interval type-2 fuzzy reasoning L. Gu, Y. -Q. Zhang Page 741 - 751 L-wrappers: concepts, properties and construction Costin B?dic?, Amelia B?dic?, Elvira Popescu, Ajith Abraham Page 753 - 772 Scenario to Data Mapping for Chance Discovery Process Yoshihiro Iwase, Yuta Seo, Yasufumi Takama Page 773 - 781 Gradual-increase extraction of target baskets as=20 preprocess for visualizing simplified scenario maps by KeyGraph Tsuneki Sakakibara, Yukio Ohsawa Page 783 - 790 Communication Gap Management for Fertile Community Naohiro Matsumura, David E. Goldberg, Xavier Llor=E0 Page 791 - 798 Scenario Violation in Nursing Activities: Nursing=20 Risk Management from the Viewpoint of Chance Discovery Akinori Abe, Hiromi Itoh Ozaku, Noriaki Kuwahara, Kiyoshi Kogure Page 799 - 809 CODIRO: A New System for Obtaining Data=20 Concerning Consumer Behavior Based on Data=20 Factors of High Interest Determined by the Analyst Katsutoshi Yada Page 811 - 817 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/.= =20 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: History of the Book Masters Degree Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:24:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 724 (724) [deleted quotation]L_at_LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> [deleted quotation] From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: Digital Document Quarterly 6(1) is available Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:25:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 725 (725) The latest number of the Digital Document Quarterly is available at <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_1.htm>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_1.htm It has articles on: Digital Preservation A Reader's Comment on "Preserving Everything" Five New Books on Digital Preservation Database Preservation Digital Libraries and Search Search Engine Alternatives An Inquiry into Academic Cataloging Practice Libraries Playing Catch-Up: Melvyl Recommender Project Epistemology Protesting the "Law of the Excluded Middle" Reading Recommendations Cheerio, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.11 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:26:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 726 (726) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 11 March 20, 2007 – March 26, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: FOUR NEW BOOKS In this issue, Ubiquity associate editor Ross Gagliano reviews four new books: THE PRINCE OF MATHEMATICS: CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS, by M. B. W. Tent; WAVELETS, by Michael Weeks; and notices of JUSTICE FOR ALL: Legendary Trials of the 20th Century, by Daniel J. Lanahan; and JUST WHAT THE PH.D. ORDERED: Developing A Strategic Plan For the First 18 Months of Your Doctoral Program, by Samuel E. Jones. See <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v8i11_gagliano.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v8i11_gagliano.html From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Brad Paley at Maryland Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:23:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 727 (727) *** BRAD PALEY at MARYLAND *** The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland are jointly sponsoring two events by BRAD PALEY, the innovative information designer probably best known for the amazing and beautiful TextArc (www.textarc.org). PALEY will offer a formal talk and a less formal workshop. Both events are free and open to the public. The short schedule is as follows: Wednesday, March 28, "Interaction Design as a Branch of the Humanities: A Healthier Fit than Technology or Computer Science?" 4:00, 3258 A.V. Williams Bldg. Thursday, March 29, (Workshop) "Domain- and Task-Specific Tools for the Humanities: We'll explore what's needed now, what's attainable." 10:00-12:30, MITH (B0131 McKeldin). Abstracts and biography of BRAD PALEY are below: *** Talk "Interaction Design as a Branch of the Humanities: A Healthier Fit than Technology or Computer Science?" Wednesday, March 28, 4:00, 3258 A.V. Williams Bldg. Interaction design centers on the ability for a person to absorb, react to, and act upon information inside computers. It is clear that the manipulation of bits is well served by the strategies and techniques of computer science and electrical engineering, but close scrutiny of the human side of that gap might help us fit minds as well as we optimize algorithms. The last good decade has seen much more focus on "human I/O" in the form of perception, but we can take even better advantage of the eye if we know how it feeds "upstream" sense-making processes. Red may be a visually salient danger warning--but not if it's a tulip in a field in Haarlem, or red type and ornaments in a centuries-old codex. We understand objects in context and reinterpret our perceptions in radically different ways depending on that context. The center of my research and practice for the last five years has been the exploration of higher and higher mental processes--beyond sensation and perception to object recognition and cognition. Necessity has lately driven me even farther: all the way past semiotics to psycholinguistics, and finally the humanities. It has become an axiom for me that many interfaces are best driven to be consistent not with other interfaces, but the way people think about a specific task. And the best doors into that realm have been explorations in the plastic arts (how people use visual richness to differentiate among categories of information), poetry (using metaphor to tame abstract information), and perhaps even storytelling (to understand process and aid long-term retention). These human endeavors may have more to offer us on the level of technique than we realize. This talk will structure these observations, support them with references from source materials outside computer domains (such as psycholinguistics and hermeneutics), and show examples of antique information visualization techniques which in many ways are much more sophisticated that what we do today. I will deconstruct as an example recently-completed work for the 2006-7 transition of the New York Stock Exchange to a half-human, half-electronic "Hybrid Market;" a design that has sped up brokers in their most fundamental task from 7 seconds to less than a second--a 15:1 speedup directly resulting from an application of these principles. *** Workshop "Domain- and Task-Specific Tools for the Humanities: We'll explore what's needed now, what's attainable." Thursday, March 29, 10:00-12:30 MITH (B0131 McKeldin) This workshop is an initial exploration of how KWIRQI design principles (Knowledge Work Interfaces: Reality-Quoting Interfaces) might be applied to the domain of research and criticism in literature. The heart of a KWIRQI design is the way it adopts jargon and metaphors from a very limited community of practice, "quoting the reality" of that community. Here, we will be trying to isolate and understand what ideas are common in this domain, and what tasks might best be supported by the development of new computer-based tools for literature. I will lead the group in an enumeration of bits of jargon and discovery of common concept spatializations. For example, in the financial domain a "high price" is a large number; there is no a-priori reason to assume that a large number is "up." But that pairing of a concrete adjective with an abstract noun tells us that traders have mapped numbers into space: specifically a vertical dimension in their minds. Remarkably, this mapping seems to happen in all knowledge work domains I have studied. We will search for these domain-specific implicit metaphors shared by critics and text analysts; for this reason it will be extremely valuable to have "pre-digital" researchers who have been practicing for many years: they carry the wealth of this local culture in their minds. We hope to justify their time by developing a listing of tasks that manipulate these concepts and metaphors then doing an economics-style tradeoff; ranking which tasks will help support the field the most, yet be easiest to implement and take best advantage of local university resources and expertise. We want to take the most tedious work they do and offload it to a computer, then present the results in exactly the way they would sketch them on a napkin to relate them to a student. The overall goal will be the creation of scope definitions and perhaps initial design sketches for tools that can be designed, built, and put into use in the immediate future. *** Biography W. BRADFORD PALEY uses computers to create visual displays with the goal of making readable, clear, and engaging expressions of complex data. His visual representations are inspired by the calm, richly layered information in natural scenes. His process applies three perspectives: [1] rendering methods used by fine artists and graphic artists are [2] informed by their possible underpinnings in human perception, then [3] applied to creating narrowly-scoped, almost idiosyncratic representations whose visual semantics are often driven by the real-world metaphors of the experts who know the domains best. Brad did his first computer graphics in 1973, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in 1981, founded Digital Image Design Incorporated (didi.com/brad) in 1982, and started doing financial & statistical data visualization in 1986. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art; he created TextArc.org; he is in the ARTPORT collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art; has received multiple grants and awards for both art and design, and his designs are at work every day in the hands of brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, and is director of Information Esthetics: a fledgling interdisciplinary group exploring the creation and interpretation of data representations that are both readable and esthetically satisfying. Contact: Matthew Kirschenbuam, Associate Director, MITH (www.mith.umd.edu, mgk_at_umd.edu, 5-8505) or Catherine Plaisant, Research Scientist, HCIL (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil, plaisant_at_cs.umd.edu, 5-2786). -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: "alexandra" Subject: ICANN'07 paper deadline extension (April 6) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:24:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 728 (728) International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2007 9-13 September 2007, Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal Web page: http://www.icann2007.org *** Last Call for Papers*** June, 29 - Early registration The 17th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2007, will be held from September 9 through September 13 at the Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal. ICANN is an annual conference organized by= the European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society, and is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2007 welcomes contributions on the theory, algorithms and applications in the following broad areas: - Computational neuroscience; - Connectionist cognitive science; - Data analysis and pattern recognition; - Graphical network models, Bayesian networks; - Hardware implementations and embedded systems; - Intelligent Multimedia and the Semantic Web; - Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms; - Neural control, planning and robotics applications; - Neural dynamics and complex systems; - Neuroinformatics; - Real world applications; - Self-organization; - Sequential and structured information processing; - Signal and time series processing, blind source separation; - Vision and image processing. List of Special Sessions and Organizers 1. Complex-Valued Neural Networks Aizenberg, Igor; Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA Hirose, Akira; University of Tokyo, Japan M. Zurada, Jacek; University of Louisville, USA 2. Emotion and Attention: Empirical Findings and Neural Models Korsten, Nienke; King's College London, UK Taylor, John; King's College London, UK 3. Meta-Learning Duch, Wlodzislaw; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland Grabczewski, Krzysztof; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland Jankowski, Norbert; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland 4. Understanding and Creating Cognitive Systems Taylor, John; King's College London, UK Workshops Workshop 1 Cognitive Systems Taylor, John G.; King's College, UK Worshop 2 Neural Networks in Biomedical Engineering and BioInformatics Cortez, Paulo; University of Minho, Portugal Hochreiter,Sepp; Johannes Kepler University, Linz Worshop 3 What it means to communicate Elshaw, Mark; University of Sunderland, UK Gallese, Vittorio; University of Parma, It=E1lia Knowles, Mike; University of Sunderland, UK Page, Martin; University of Sunderland, UK Panchev, Christo; University of Sunderland, UK Pulvermuller, Friedemann; MRC, Cambridge, UK Wermter, Stefan; University of Sunderland, UK [...]=20 From: Willard McCarty Subject: questions of tagging Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:48:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 729 (729) [from DrWender_at_AOL.COM] lou.burnard_at_computing-services.oxford.ac.uk wrote: [deleted quotation]There are a lot of points to discuss under a broader perspective than the desire for clarity in the TEI Guidelines. Therefore I ould like - cross-posting at Humanist - play the ball in the wider field of humanities computing. One of those questions is the older one if tagging is seen from a nominalist or from a realist point of view. The latter would, encountering _formula_ ..... _/formula_, take this as statement that the part of the text enclosed by the tags *is* a formula in the standard sense that the (sequence of) sign(s) is build following special conventions in a certain context, more formal as usual in natural languages. This statement can be verified by machine, if the system of rules apllied is invented for computer processing: _formula notation="TeX"_ ..... _/formula_ or verified by brain otherwise. This is probably better demonstrated with an example of the "date" element: _date_26. Oktober im Jahre des HErrn 1775_/date_ From a nominalist point of view I would only say: If you will know how users of german language are expressing dates, sample the sequences tagged as 'date' in (div's of) texts with the specific language attribute. In this view a linguist can cry "What a wonderful world today! I can sample date data in the time of a finger snip :-)" We can go further in the discussion of the standard markup appoach following a reading suggestion at TEI-L patrick_at_DURUSAU.NET wrote: [deleted quotation]combinig with a question to discuss at the next TEI member's meeting daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca wrote: [deleted quotation]and ask what range of adequacy can be reached by theories underlying markup approaches in text processing? BTW, it's no question that tagging makes easier text handling. But Daniel's questions are showing that TEI is intended to be taken for more. Isn't it? Herbert Wender Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Conference Session Call for Papers: Markup as Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:33:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 730 (730) Theory of the Text (Second Call) (apologies for cross posting) Call for papers, Markup as theory of text. TEI Members Meeting, 1-3 November, 2007, University of Maryland. http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/index.html This session will look at digital markup from the point of view of its underlying theoretical assumptions and implications. Some questions we are interested in considering: 1) What are the theoretical implications of digital markup for editors, paleographers, book historians, literary critics, linguists, etc. Are they different from, similar to, or of a completely different order from previous print practice? 2) Are markup schemas theories of the structure of a text in the way that linguistic theories are theories of language or literary theories are theories about literature? Do they/should they have theoretical lives of their own? 3) Does electronic markup change the way we look at text? We are open to other understandings of the topic and papers do not need to concentrate specifically, exclusively, or at all on the TEI. They can be broad ranging or concentrate on specific smaller issues. Please email abstracts to daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca by March 30th. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/> Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Associate Professor and Chair of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox: +1 403 329 2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2007: Papers on-line Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:34:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 731 (731) Apologies for any duplication -- please forward as appropriate Museums and the Web 2007 April 11 - 14, 2007 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ ** MW2007 Papers: Now On-line ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/speakers/index.html The first of the papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 2007 are now available on-line. Follow the links from the speakers list or click on any highlighted title in an Abstract to view the full paper text. (All papers will be available on-line before the meeting.) ** Pre-Register for MW2007: April 6, 2007 Deadline ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/register/index.html Register for MW2007 before April 6, 2007 to take advantage of the reduced pre-registration rate. You can also register on-site. Download the PDF Registration Form from the web site before you come. ** Participate in the Crit Room or Usability Lab ** This is your last chance to volunteer your site for the Crit Room or the Usability Lab. If you'd like instant feedback from your peers, this is the way to get it. Email mw2007_at_archimuse.com with an indication of why you are interested. ** See You In San Francisco ** If you are planning to come to MW2007, make your hotel reservation right away. While there is no more space in the Westin St. Francis, you can get the special MW rate at the Omni San Francisco. Reserve before March 27th from http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/SanFrancisco/MeetingFacilities/MuseumsandtheWeb4.aspx We hope to see you in April. jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2007 produced by April 11 - 14, 2007, San Francisco, CA Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2007_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 From: Heather Morrison Subject: First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:45:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 732 (732) Conference: Registration Now Open Registration is now open for the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, July 11 - 13, 2007. Please Note: Registration is limited to 200 people and is filling up fast! If you are interested in attending the conference, please register and submit your payment as soon as possible to secure a place. The conference will provide opportunities for those involved in the organization, promotion, and study of scholarly communication to share and discuss innovative work in scholarly publishing, with a focus on the contribution that open source publishing technologies (such as, but not restricted to, PKP's OJS, OCS, and OA Harvester) can make to improving access to research and scholarship on a global and public scale. Major keynote and plenary speakers have now been confirmed. John Willinsky, the founder of PKP and the creator of OJS software will provide the opening keynote address. Raym Crow from SPARC will speak on publishing cooperatives and the various forms they might take for nonprofit publishers, including societies, university presses, and universities themselves. We are also pleased to welcome Anurag Acharya, Google Scholar's founding engineer. Finally, Michael Geist will close the conference with his thoughts on the changes and challenges that lie ahead in the fields of communications, knowledge creation, and intellectual property. For more information and online registration: http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/index.php Heather G. Morrison Project Coordinator BC Electronic Library Network ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone: 604-268-7001 Fax: 604-291-3023 Email: heatherm_at_eln.bc.ca Web: http://www.eln.bc.ca Don't miss the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference July 11 - 13, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/ From: Lou Burnard Subject: CFP: Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2007 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:49:47 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 733 (733) CALL FOR PROPOSALS doing digital: using digital resources in the arts and humanities DRHA07 : Dartington College of Art : 9 - 12 September 2007 Bringing together creators, practitioners, users, distributors, and custodians of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities Over the last decade the annual Digital Resources for the Humanities and= Arts (DRHA) conferences have constructed an unusual kind of meeting place: a= space in which researchers, curators, and distributors of digital resources could meet and share perspectives on their complementary agendas. Last year, that forum was expanded to include participants from the creative and performing arts, giving the event a new flavour and a new direction. This year, the conference aims to explore further major issues at the interface between traditional humanities scholarship and the=20 creative arts, by focussing on their differing or complementary approaches to the deployment of digital technologies. Can the Arts and the Humanities=20 share expertise? Are they divided by a common tongue? To what extent are they developing common technical solutions to different problem areas? As in=20 previous years, the conference will articulate these questions by showcasing the very best in current practice across the widest spectrum of digital applications in the arts and= humanities and by fostering informed but accessible debate amongst professionals. The Programme Committee for DRHA07 is now soliciting imaginative and provocative contributions for the conference addressing such topics as: * the benefits and the challenges of using=20 digital resources in creative work, in teaching and learning, and in scholarship; * the challenges and opportunities=20 associated with scale and sustainability in the digital arena; * new insights and new forms of expression=20 arising from the integration of digital resources in the arts, humanities, and sciences; * social and political issues surrounding=20 digital resource provision in the context of global ICT developments; * the implications of "born-digital"=20 resources for curators, consumers, and performers; * training methods and best practice for digital arts and humanities practitioners. Other themes include: interactivity and performance; digital media in time= and space; integration and deployment of existing digital resources in new contexts; policies and strategies for digital deployment, both commercial= and non-commercial; cataloguing and metadata aspects=20 of resource discovery; digital repositories; Web 2.0 and other new technologies; encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding, cost-recovery, and charging= mechanisms; digitization techniques and problems. Format: The conference will take up three intensive days, comprising presentation of academic papers and technical reports, performance and installation events, software and product=20 demonstrations, debates and training events. The atmosphere will be informal, the discussion energetic. Leading practitioners and representatives of key funding=20 agencies, such as the the Arts Council, the AHRC, the JISC, and the AHDS will=20 be amongst the participants. We hope that from this occasion a new consensus will emerge based on real life experience of the application of digital techniques and resources in the Humanities and Arts. Timetable: Proposals are now invited for academic=20 papers, themed panel sessions and reports of work in progress.Your proposal should be no smaller than 500 words and no longer than 2000; closing date for=20 proposals is May 2nd 2007. All proposals will be reviewed by an independent panel of reviewers, and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 13th June 2007. All accepted proposals will be included in the Conference preprint volume, and will also= be considered for a post-conference publication. Cost: The all-in conference rate covering all=20 meals and accomodation as well as conference registration and proceedings will not=20 exceed =A3400. Reduced rates for early registration, and partial rates for one-day=20 or non-residential attendance will be announced shortly on the conference website. Further information: The conference web site at <http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/>http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/=20 will be regularly updated, and includes full details of the procedure for submitting proposals, the programme, and registration information. Bookmark it now! Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/.= =20 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian" Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:56:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 734 (734) The AHRC ICT Methods Network, a UK initiative for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of ICT for arts and humanities research, has just launched an online community forum on 'digital' history: 'Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian' (<http://www.digital-historian.net/>http://www.digital-historian.net) is the first of a set of integrated online communities related to Methods Network activities and resources and is a forum for open discussion of all issues relating to digital history. In particular we invite comments on a working paper by Neil Grindley (Methods Network) entitled 'Tools and Methods for Historical Research' which we hope will become the basis of a community resource. We are keen on getting more input and would very much like to include your feedback in future versions of the paper. This paper contains sections on: Tools and Web Resources; Database Structures; Data Mining; Quantitative Methods; Visualization; and Geographical Information Systems. It may appeal to different types of readers in different ways. Some people might find this paper contains useful introductory material to digital tools and methods and may wish to explore a number of useful links to relevant websites. Those who already have a sophisticated understanding of the use of ICT tools for historical research might wish to use the contents of this paper as a jumping off point for discussing other areas of research that have not been referred to, or which have been mentioned and would benefit from additional elucidation. The paper can be downloaded from our website as a PDF: http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/resources/workingpapers.html Two topics in the new forum might be of particular interest to members of Humanist and we would be keen on your input: http://www.digital-historian.net/viewtopic.php?id=4 this thread started as a discussion about electronic publishing and now features a discussion of the value of 'Web 2.0' for research http://www.digital-historian.net/viewtopic.php?id=12 this thread continues the discussion about electronic publishing and asks about tools and methods for electronic publishing platforms for researchers For all questions regarding 'Digital Historian' and Methods Network community building in general please contact our Senior Research Project Coordinator Torsten Reimer (Torsten.Reimer_at_kcl.ac.uk). Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: synthetic work & its possible fallout Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:37:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 735 (735) Allow me to try out a less than half-cooked idea on the assembled company to see where and how it goes. All replies welcome. Let's say we divide up work in the digital humanities into analytic and synthetic kinds. Numerous times, received by no howls of protest that I know of, I've argued that for the analytic kind what's most interesting is what computing cannot do, since (presuming much perfective iteration) the failure illumines those aspects of an artefact we do not know how to describe or perhaps cannot describe analytically. That's what Clifford Geertz has called "modelling of", since it attempts to mimic selected aspects of an artefact. But for the synthetic kind, Geertz's "modelling for", the original is absent or does not exist. In that case, failures of description cease to be important. What is important is what one can project into the world and experience or operate on. Digitally recorded music is a trivial example for which the original is absent but the intent is to reproduce, for normal hearing, with absolute fidelity. A VR reconstruction from the fragmentary remains of an ancient theatre is a non-trivial example for which the original is absent, but its absence requires, let us say, creative inference as well as selective choice as to what to reconstruct. Ok so far? Now let us say that the original is not merely absent or has disappeared from the world but never existed at all. What are the possibilities? One I can think of involves literary allusion. Let us say for purposes of argument that we have in digital form all relevant literature, reasonable representations of historical events and whatever else might be considered possibly relevant. Let us suppose we have a theory of how allusion actually works and are able to write this theory into software that then uses the available materials to construct some intelligible representations of possible readings. In this fanciful example we're not specifying the readings and working back to the mechanism (which would be analytic, yes?), rather we're working from the poem, according to a theory of how allusion does its thing, outward to results. Since it's now easily imaginable that we'd have in digital form more literature than any individual could hope to have read in a lifetime, there would be no "original" readings to compare our results to. Then there's the tough part. Since allusive connections would themselves affect the possibilities of further such connections, my imaginary "model for" would be evolving, not simply playing out what had already been in some sense foreseen. This "model for" would then have the status of an almost primary artefact. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Peter Shillingsburg Subject: Annuncing Textual Studies Symposium Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:59:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 736 (736) Fourth Annual Symposium on Textual Studies 25-26 May 2007 (Friday and Saturday) The Centre for Textual Scholarship invites you to the Fourth Annual Symposium on Textual Studies. Formerly known as Master Classes, the Symposium is open to academic staff, postgraduates, and students with an interest in print or electronic scholarly editing and/or the production of student editions. Symposium Leaders this year are: Mary Jane Edwards, Distinguished Research Professor, and Director of the Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts, Carleton University, Ottawa. John Jowett, Reader in Shakespeare Studies, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Additional Conference presentations: Dr. Linda Bree, Cambridge University Press Dr. Mark Bland, De Montfort University Dr. Marta Werner, D'Youville College, Buffalo NY Dr. Orietta Da Rold, Leicester University Dr. Takako Kato, De Montfort University. Dr. Barbara Bordalejo, Birmingham University Dr. Oliver Harris, Keele University Dr. Sean Ryder, University of Galway Former Leaders: Hans Walter Gabler (Univ. of Munich), J.C.C. Mays (Univ. College Dublin), H. T. M. van Vliet (Univ. of Amsterdam), James McLaverty (Keele Univ.), Warwick Gould (Univ. of London), and Paul Eggert (Univ. of New South Wales). See schedule, registration, map, and accommodation details at: http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/activities/text.php Please Register by May 20. Attendance at the conference is free, but we need to know that you are coming. Conference dinner Friday night is Ł18 payable by cheque or cash on arrival. Again, obviously, we need to know if you plan to attend the dinner. Register here. http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/activities/text_2007_registration.php Location: Clephan Building CL0.01, De Montfort University, Bonners Lane, Leicester. For directions, map, and guide to accommodations see http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/aboutus/accommodation.php Sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University & the Centre for Textual Scholarship Not your average textual studies meeting. Peter Shillingsburg Director, Centre for Textual Scholarship De Montfort University From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Hypertext 2007 - Wide Range of Research Areas Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:00:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 737 (737) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT 07). *** Hypertext, The Web, and Beyond: Five Autonomous Programmes, One Unified Conference *** Dates: September, 10 ­ 12, 2007 Location: Manchester, UK Conference Website: http://www.ht07.org/ RSS News Feed: http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/news/atom.xml Hypertext and hypermedia involve a diverse range of technologies that support structured knowledge. The Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia is operating under the banner "Five Autonomous Programmes, One Unified Conference" to reflect that although there is a wide range of research areas within the community, all have a common interest in hypertext and hypermedia. Hypertext 2007 will therefore have the following five autonomous programmes each with its own programme chair and committee, with the aim of bringing together a vast range of people and interests to a single venue. - Hypertext Models and Theory (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/htmodel.php): Scholarly, Structural, Dynamic and Adaptive Models and Theory of Hypertext. Chair: Paul De Bra (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) - Practical Hypertext (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/practicalht.php): Applications of hypertext including The Web, Semantic Web, Web Engineering, and Web Design. Chairs: Helen Ashman (The University of Nottingham, UK), Alexandra Cristea (The University of Warwick, UK) - Hypertext and Society (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/htsociety.php): The effect of hypertext on Developing Regions, Social Tagging and Annotation, Blogs, and eLearning. Chairs: Hugh C Davis (University of Southampton, UK), Dave Millard (University of Southampton, UK) - Hypertext and the Person (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/htperson.php): Human Centred hypertext including Browsers and Interfaces, Web Accessibility, Usability, Evaluation and Observational Studies. Chair: Vicki Hanson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) - Hypertext, Culture, and Communication (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/htcc.php): Art, Literature, Philosophy, and the hypertext tools to support them. Chair: Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems, USA) In addition to the autonomous programmes, we will also be hosting: - Hypertext Reading Room (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/hypertexts.php) - Sponsored by Eastgate: This allows participants to submit hypertext systems to the conference in order for others within the community to gain hands on experience in using the system. Chairs: Jamie Blustein (Dalhousie University, USA), Rosemary Simpson (Brown University, USA) - Posters & Demonstrations (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/posters.php): Provides a great way to test new ideas, generate interest in a research area, or describe useful or interesting work that is not substantial enough for a full paper presentation. Chair:Jessica Rubart (Arvato Direct Services, Germany) - Student Research Competition (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/research.php) - Sponsored by the ACM and Microsoft: Provides students the opportunity to participate in an ACM conference and get visibility for their research (including Arts / Humanities) by displaying a poster and making a brief presentation to a panel of judges. Chair: Mark Truran (University of Teesside, UK) - Birds Of A Feather (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/bof.php): A community discussion forum where people with similar interests can flock together and discuss their research. Chair: Jim Whitehead (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Keynotes --------------- - Carole Goble (School of Computer Science - University of Manchester, UK) - Wendy Hall (Computer Science - University of Southampton, UK) Humanities Honour Scheme ----------------------------------------- In order to support and continue with the interdisciplinary aspect of the Hypertext conferences, the "Humanities Honour Sceme" is introduced. With this scheme we would like to ensure that attendees from Humanities get as much discounts as Computer Scientists. Creche - Sponsored by Hoppers (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/information/creche.php) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hypertext 2007 will be able to provide free creche services to delegates with small children. The creche can have child carers for children aged 6 months and above. Technical Papers -------------------------- Submissions: 7 May, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: 4 June, 2007 Camera Ready: 2 July, 2007 Hypertexts ---------------- Submissions: 7 May, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: 4 June, 2007 Camera Ready: 2 July, 2007 Posters & Demonstrations ---------------------------------------- Submissions: 11 June, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: 18 June, 2007 Camera Ready: 2 July, 2007 Student Research Competition --------------------------------------------- Submissions: 7 May, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: 4 June, 2007 Camera Ready: 2 July, 2007 Publications ------------------- Technical papers, poster abstracts, and demonstration abstracts will appear in the official conference proceedings, published by ACM. Conference attendees will receive a copy of the proceedings. All material will be available through the ACM Digital Library. Registration Fees (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/information/registration.php) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ - Online Registration is now open - Deadline for early registration: 1 August, 2007 ACM Member -- Early: Ł240 (GBP), Regular: Ł290 (GBP), On the Door: Ł310 (GBP) Humanities Honour Scheme -- Early: Ł240 (GBP), Regular: Ł340 (GBP), On the Door: Ł360 (GBP) Non-ACM Member -- Early: Ł300 (GBP), Regular: Ł340 (GBP), On the Door: Ł360 (GBP) Student -- Early: Ł160 (GBP), Regular: Ł200 (GBP), On the Door: Ł230 (GBP) Sponsors --------------- ACM Special Interest Group on Hypermedia and the Web (SIGWEB - http://www.sigweb.org/) Hoppers @ KWeb (http://hoppers-kweb.cs.manchester.ac.uk/) The University Of Manchester (http://www.manchester.ac.uk/) The Information Management Group (http://img.cs.manchester.ac.uk/) The ACM Student Research Competition - sponsored by Microsoft Research (http://research.microsoft.com/) Eastgate Systems (http://www.eastgate.com/) From: Willard McCarty Subject: shift happens Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:54:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 738 (738) Comments on the form of the presentation referenced below would also be welcome. --WM [deleted quotation]Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: Leonardo Electronic Almanac CFP Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:43:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 739 (739) *Dispersive Anatomies* http://leoalmanac.org/cfp/calls.asp#dispersive ** *Guest Editors:* Sandy Baldwin, Alan Sondheim and Mez Breeze leadispersive_at_astn.net ** *Editorial Guidelines:* http://leoalmanac.org/cfp/submit/index.asp *Discussion Group: *leadispersive-subscribe_at_googlegroups.com *Deadline: *31 May 2007 *Call for papers - LEA Dispersive Anatomies* *------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is inviting papers and artworks that address dispersion - dispersion of bodies, objects, landscapes, networks, virtual and real worlds. A fundamental shift in the way we view the world is underway: the abandonment of discrete objects, and objecthood itself. The world is now plural, and the distinction between real and virtual is becoming increasingly blurred, with troubling consequences within the geopolitical register. This shift is related to a cultural change that emphasizes digital deconstruction over analog construction: a photograph for example can be accessed and transformed, pixel by pixel, cities can be taken apart by gerrymandering or eminent domain, and our social networks are replete with names and images that problematize friendship, sexuality, and culture itself. One issue that emerges here: Are we networking or are we networked? Are we networks ourselves? LEA is interested in texts and works that deal with this fundamental shift in new and illuminating ways. Specifically, anything from essays through multimedia through networks themselves may be considered. We're particularly interested in submissions that deal with the incoherency of the world, and how to address it. *Key topics of interest --------------------------------- *Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to): - Networked warfare in real and virtual worlds. - The wounded/altered body in real and virtual worlds. - Transgressive sexualities across borders, sexualities among body-parts, dismemberments and groups, both real and virtual. - Critical texts on the transformation of classical narrative - from its emphasis on an omniscient narrator and coherent plots/characters, to literatures of incoherency, dispersed narrations, and the jump-cut exigencies of everyday life. - Deleuze/Guattari, TAZ, and other phenomena at the border of networking. - Internet visions and their abandonment or fulfillment. - The haunting of the world by ghosts, virtual beings, dreams and nightmares that never resolve. - The geopolitical collapse of geopolitics. - Military empires as scattershot entrepreneurial corporations. Dispersion has two vectors: the breakup or breakdown of coherent objects; and the subsequent attempt to corral, curtail, or recuperate from this breakdown. How do we deal with networks that are constantly coalescing and disappearing? Where are we in the midst of this? In an era of pre-emptive culture, is guerilla warfare to be accompanied by guerilla culture as the order of the day? *Want to be kept informed?* *------------------------------------------* For the latest news, updates and discussions, join the LEA Dispersive Anatomies Mailing List. Email: leadispersive-subscribe_at_googlegroups.com ** *Publishing Opportunities ---------------------------------------* ** As part of this special, LEA is looking to publish: - Critical Essays - Artist Statement/works in the LEA Gallery - Bibliographies (a peer reviewed bibliography with key texts/references in Dispersive Anatomies) - Academic Curriculum (LEA encourages academics conducting course programmes in this area to contact us) LEA encourages international artists / academics / researchers / students / practitioners / theorists to submit their proposals for consideration. We particularly encourage authors outside North America and Europe to submit essays / artists statements. Proposals should include: - A brief description of proposed text (200-300 words) - A brief author biography - Any related URLs - Contact details In the subject heading of the email message, please use *Name of Artist/Project Title: LEA Dispersive Anatomies Special - Date Submitted.* Please cut and paste all text into body of email (without attachments). Editorial Guidelines: http://leoalmanac.org/cfp/submit/index.asp Deadline for proposals: May 31, 2007 Please send proposals or queries to: Sandy Baldwin, Alan Sondheim, Mez Breeze leadispersive_at_astn.net and Nisar Keshvani LEA Editor-in-Chief lea_at_mitpress.mit.edu From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.12 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:45:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 740 (740) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 12 March 27, 2007 -- April 2, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: SELF-HEALING SYSTEMS Goutam Kumar Saha explains: "Self-healing systems represent a very new area of research that deals with fault tolerance for dynamic systems. Self-healing deals with imprecise specification, uncontrolled environment, and reconfiguration of systems according to their dynamics. The term "self-healing" denotes the capability of a software system in dealing with bugs. Fault Tolerance for dependable computing is about providing the specified service through rigorous design whereas self-healing is about run-time issues. Software which is capable of detecting and reacting to its malfunctions, is called self-healing software." See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i12_goutam.html From: dottalin_at_umd.edu Subject: National Coalition of Digital Humanities Centers (US) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:44:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 741 (741) For Immediate Release March 27, 2007 Online: http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/culture/release.cfm?ArticleID=1410 COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland are pleased to announce a summit meeting to plan a national coalition of digital humanities centers. The meeting will take place at NEH headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 12-13, 2007. The meeting is part of NEH's Digital Humanities Initiative, which supports projects that use or study the impact of digital technology on the humanities. Digital technology offers humanists new ways to conduct research, conceptualize relationships, and present scholarship to a wider audience. At digital humanities centers around the country, historians, archaeologists, and other humanities scholars have been working with computer scientists and engineers to develop innovative ways of applying emerging digital technologies to the humanities. These collaborations have created new methods of conducting research, interpreting archival data, and teaching the humanities. In order to take the digital humanities, and humanities scholarship, to the next level, national collaboration needs to be encouraged between digital humanities centers and funding organizations. "Digital humanities centers serve as the technological backbone for the future of humanities scholarship," said Dr. Bruce Cole, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. "Encouraging collaboration among the centers will serve to speed innovation and replicate success throughout the nation." Collaborative work done by the nation's network of science labs has produced major breakthroughs, such as the human genome project and the creation of the Internet. As with the science labs, this new network of digital humanities centers will promote the national exchange of ideas and research necessary to generate revolutionary innovations in the humanities. The centerpiece of the conference is a day-long discussion of key issues involved in fostering collaboration, developing funding resources, and creating blueprints for future projects. The discussion will be chaired by Neil Fraistat, Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. "We hope that by the end of the meeting, a framework will be in place for a national coalition of digital humanities centers that can start functioning immediately," says Fraistat. Along with the directors of major digital humanities centers, representatives from government, industry, and the private sector will be in attendance, including those from the Mellon Foundation, Google, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Science Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, the J. Paul Getty Trust, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Internet2, and Library of Congress. The conference begins at 4:00 p.m. on April 12, with a welcome address by NEH Chairman Bruce Cole. John Unsworth will then deliver a plenary address on "Digital Humanities Centers as Cyberinfrastructure." Unsworth is the director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Vint Cerf, the Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, will also provide some remarks. A reception follows hosted by the University of Maryland's Dean of Arts and Humanities James Harris, and Dean of the Libraries Charles Lowry. On April 13, the conference attendees will spend the day discussing how to create a framework for a permanent coalition of digital humanities centers. Media Contacts: MITH: Neil Fraistat, (301)405-8596 NEH: Elissa Pruett, (202) 606-8446 From: Kevin Kee Subject: INTERACTING WITH IMMERSIVE WORLDS CONFERENCE Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:45:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 742 (742) REGISTRATION OPEN - INTERACTING WITH IMMERSIVE WORLDS CONFERENCE Interacting with Immersive Worlds An International Conference presented by the Interactive Arts and Science Program, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario JUNE 4-5, 2007 Register to attend at: www.brocku.ca/iasc/immersiveworlds Focusing on the growing cultural significance of interactive media, IWIW features over 50 academic papers organized along four streams: -- Theory of Immersive Worlds explores: i. the theory of interactivity, from perspectives such as narrative and gameplay=20 (ludology); ii. analyses of the cultural and psychological effects of immersive worlds. -- Creative Practices in Immersion examines interactive new media art, and its exploration of new idioms and challenges in immersive worlds. -- Immersive Worlds in Education examines the application of immersive technologies to teaching and learning. -- Immersive Worlds in Entertainment examines entertainment applications of immersive technologies. The IWIW conference also features 4 keynote speakers: -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Director of the Quality of Life Research Center= at the Drucker School, Claremont Graduate University -- James Paul Gee, Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading, University of Wisconsin at Madison (sponsored by Owl Children's Trust and the Brock Research Institute for Youth Studies) -- Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Director of the Computing Culture group at the= MIT Media Lab -- Denis Dyack, Director/President, Silicon Knights Visit the conference Web site at www.brocku.ca/iasc/immersiveworlds [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:18:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 743 (743) Dynamic Vernacular Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular is pleased to announce its fourth annual summer fellowship program to take place June 18-22, 2007 at the University of Southern California's Institute for Multimedia Literacy. We are seeking proposals for projects related to upcoming issues devoted to the themes of Reading (vol. 4 no. 1) and Noise (vol. 4 no. 2). Vectors publishes work which need necessarily exist online, ranging from archival to experimental projects. We invite you to consider submitting an application or to circulate this email to your peers and graduate students. Vectors' fellows not only attend our summer workshop but also have the opportunity to work over several months with a world-class design team in realizing the scholar's vision for online scholarship. You may download the Call For Proposals for the 2007 Vectors Summer Fellowships here: http://www.vectorsjournal.org/pdf/VectorsCFP2007.pdf Please feel free to circulate this document widely. Completed proposals are due by April 15, 2007. http://www.vectorsjournal.org Best wishes, Tara McPherson & Steve Anderson http://www.vectorsjournal.org Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 20.536 synthetic work & its possible fallout Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:19:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 744 (744) Willard, your idea about "constructing allusions" is quite familiar to students of classical Greek and Latin literature. The implication --- that, by construing a "horizon of possible allusions", we construct a new reality, a reality that (quite possible) did not ever exist --- has also, I guess, occurred to many reading the "loci similes" lists of 19th c. critical editions. What stopped philologists from thinking this idea through is the fact that by "construing something that did not exist" you are, in fact, creating a work of art, and not a "work of scholarship". So the "modelling for" is --- to my opinion --- similar to what Steven Ramsay and Stefan Sinclair have been proposing, and are doing, with their transformations of texts. One further point is: who is reading our imagined web of allusions? Because an allusion --- however probable or unprobable --- cannot exist *without readers*. Now, if you have a potentially vast jungle of allusions, what you want to see is, it seems to me, a map of all the paths and wanderings through this jungle. A means to record these webs of allusion that have been realized, the roads that have been travelled. And then --- here I am thinking aloud and ad hoc --- when you have this map of all the paths, you have to have somebody who will read the map. Who will read the readings. Neven Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia [deleted quotation] From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: CfP - 3rd Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:19:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 745 (745) CALL FOR PAPERS The Third Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference November 2-4, 2007 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Website: http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/APCAP2007/ The Third Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference will again take place at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference is being held in succession to the successful Second Asia- Pacific Conference in January 2005 (www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/CAP/AP- CAP.html). AP-CAP2007 is part of the series of conferences organized by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (www.ia- cap.org). The conferences have been in held in various regions of the world. As of now there are three major regions where these conferences are held, namely in North America (NA-CAP), Europe (ECAP) and Asia- Pacific. As with the other CAP conferences, AP-CAP2007 will also deal with all aspects of the "computational turn" that is occurring through the interaction of the disciplines of philosophy and computing. And in continuation from the second conference, papers dealing with 'cultural' aspects of computing and philosophy would be specially emphasized, though papers in other areas will of course be welcome. The conference is interdisciplinary: We invite papers from philosophy, computer science, social science and related disciplines. CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will be held within the campus of Chulalongkorn University. SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Please send an extended abstract of not more than 1,000 words to Dr. Soraj Hongladarom. Files in .DOC, .RTF, .TXT, or .PDF formats are acceptable. Deadline for submission: 30 September 2007. Authors will be notified of the committee's decision before October 15th. PhD and master students are especially encouraged to submit. Student speakers will not have to pay a conference fee. Registration details will be posted on the website very soon. CONTACT Dr. Soraj Hongladarom, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Tel. +66(0)2218-4756; Fax +66(0)2218-4755 Email: hsoraj_at_chula.ac.th From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Lexicom Europe-2007 workshop: Brno, June 4-8 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:20:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 746 (746) LEXICOM-EUROPE 2007 A Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. June 4th-8th 2007 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2007 Led by Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell of the Lexicography MasterClass, Lexicom is an intensive one-week workshop, with seminars on theoretical issues alternating with practical sessions at the computer. There will be some parallel 'lexicographic' and 'computational' sessions. Topics to be covered include: * corpus creation * corpus analysis: o software and corpus querying o discovering word senses, recording contextual information * Frame Semantics and its application to lexicography * writing entries for dictionaries and lexicons * dictionary databases and writing systems * using web data Applications are invited from people with interests and experience in any of these areas. Over the last seven years Lexicom workshops (in Europe and in Asia) have attracted well over 200 participants from 32 countries, including lexicographers, computational linguists, professors, research students, translators, terminologists, and editors, managers and technical support staff from dictionary publishers and information-management companies. The venue, Brno, the beautiful and ancient capital of Moravia, is the Czech Republic's second city. To register for Lexicom, go to: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2007 Early registration is advised. The workshop has been oversubscribed in previous years. Further details, including draft programme and reports of past events can be found at: http://www.lexmasterclass.com Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell & Adam Kilgarriff The Lexicography MasterClass ==================================================== Adam Kilgarriff http://kilgarriff.co.uk Lexicography MasterClass http://lexmasterclass.com Lexical Computing Ltd http://sketchengine.co.uk University of Leeds University of Sussex +44 (0)12 73 705 773 mailto:adam_at_lexmasterclass.com +44 (0)79 71 867 845 ==================================================== From: Cristina Vertan Subject: 1st CfP: RANLP-07 Workshop on eLEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:21:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 747 (747) CALL FOR PAPERS NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION FOR eLEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Borovets, Bulgaria September 26, 2007 ********** Workshop site: http://www.lt4el.eu/nlp_knowrep200709.html RANLP'2007 site: http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/ AIMS Several initiatives have been launched in the area of Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Knowledge Representation both at the national and international level aiming at the development of resources and tools. Unfortunately, there are few initiatives that integrate these results within eLearning. The situation is slightly better with respect to the results achieved within Knowledge Representation since ontologies are being developed which describe not only the content of the learning material but crucially also its context and the structure. Furthermore, knowledge representation techniques and natural language processing play an important role in improving the adaptivity of learning environments even though they are not fully exploited yet. On the other hand, eLearning environments constitute valuable scenarios to demonstrate the maturity of computational linguistic methods as well as of natural language technologies and tools. This kind of task-based evaluation of resources, methods and tools is a crucial issue for the further development of language and information technology. The goal of this workshop is to discuss: ? the use of language and knowledge resources and tools in eLearning; ? requirements on natural language resources, standards, and applications originating in eLearning activities and environments; ? the expected added value of natural language resources and technology to learning environments and the learning process; ? strategies and methods for the task based evaluation of Natural Language Processing applications. The workshop will bring together computational linguists, language resources developers, knowledge engineers, researchers involved in technology-enhanced learning as well as developers of eLearning material, ePublishers and eLearning practitioners. It will provide a forum for interaction among members of dierent research communities, and a means for attendees to increase their knowledge and understanding of the potential of computational resources in eLearning. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * ontology modelling in the eLearning domain; * Natural Language Processing techniques for supplying metadata for learning objects on a (semi)-automatic basis, e.g. for the automatic extraction of key terms and their definitions; * techniques for summarization of discussion threads and support of discourse coherence in eLearning; * improvements on (semantic, cross-lingual) search methods to in learning environments; * techniques of matching the semantic representation of learning objects with the user?s knowledge in order to support personalized and adaptive learning; * adaptive information filtering and retrieval (content-based filtering and retrieval, collaborative filtering) * intelligent tutoring (curriculum sequencing, intelligent solution analysis, problem solving support) * intelligent collaborative learning (adaptive group formation and peer help, adaptive collaboration) [...] From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Press Release: Directors of National Digital Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:22:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 748 (748) Humanities Centers to hold Summit Meeting at NEH Announcing a Summit Meeting of Directors of National Digital Humanities= Centers WASHINGTON (March 27, 2007)=ADThe National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland are pleased to announce a summit meeting to plan a national coalition of digital humanities centers. The meeting will take place at NEH headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 12-13, 2007. The meeting is part of NEH's Digital Humanities Initiative, which supports projects that use or study the impact of digital technology on the humanities. Digital technology offers humanists new ways to conduct research, conceptualize relationships, and present scholarship to a wider audience. At digital humanities centers around the country, historians, archaeologists, and other humanities scholars have been working with computer scientists and engineers to develop innovative ways of applying emerging digital technologies to the humanities. These collaborations have created new methods of conducting research, interpreting archival data, and teaching the humanities. In order to take the digital humanities, and humanities scholarship, to the next level, national collaboration needs to be encouraged between digital humanities centers and funding organizations. "Digital humanities centers serve as the technological backbone for the future of humanities scholarship," said Dr. Bruce Cole, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. "Encouraging collaboration among the centers will serve to speed innovation and replicate success throughout the nation." Collaborative work done by the nation's network of science labs has produced major breakthroughs, such as the human genome project and the creation of the Internet. As with the science labs, this new network of digital humanities centers will promote the national exchange of ideas and research necessary to generate revolutionary innovations in the humanities. The centerpiece of the conference is a day-long discussion of key issues involved in fostering collaboration, developing funding resources, and creating blueprints for future projects. The discussion will be chaired by Neil Fraistat, Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. "We hope that by the end of the meeting, a framework will be in place for a national coalition of digital humanities centers that can start functioning immediately," says Fraistat. Along with the directors of major digital humanities centers, representatives from government, industry, and the private sector will be in attendance, including those from the Mellon Foundation, Google, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Science Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, the J. Paul Getty Trust, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Internet2, and Library of Congress. The conference begins at 4:00 p.m. on April 12, with a welcome address by NEH Chairman Bruce Cole. John Unsworth will then deliver a plenary address on "Digital Humanities Centers as Cyberinfrastructure." Unsworth is the director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Vint Cerf, the Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, will also provide some remarks. A reception follows hosted by the University of Maryland's Dean of Arts and Humanities James Harris, and Dean of the Libraries Charles Lowry. On April 13, the conference attendees will spend the day discussing how to create a framework for a permanent coalition of digital humanities centers. NEH media contact: Elissa Pruett at (202) 606-8446 MITH media contact: Neil Fraistat at (301) 405-8596 From: "Dan O'Donnell" Subject: Conference Session Call for Papers: Markup as Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:23:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 749 (749) Theory of the Text (Final Call) Call for papers, Markup as theory of text. TEI Members Meeting, 1-3 November, 2007, University of Maryland. This session will look at digital markup from the point of view of its underlying theoretical assumptions and implications. Some questions we are interested in considering: 1) What are the theoretical implications of digital markup for editors, paleographers, book historians, literary critics, linguists, etc. Are they different from, similar to, or of a completely different order from previous print practice? 2) Are markup schemas theories of the structure of a text in the way that linguistic theories are theories of language or literary theories are theories about literature? Do they/should they have theoretical lives of their own? 3) Does electronic markup change the way we look at text? We are open to other understandings of the topic and papers do not need to concentrate specifically, exclusively, or at all on the TEI. They can be broad ranging or concentrate on specific smaller issues. Please email abstracts to daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca by March 30th. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/> Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Associate Professor and Chair of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox: +1 403 329 2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ From: Del Thomas Ph D Subject: Re: 20.541 synthetic work & its possible fallout Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:22:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 750 (750) Hi, I'm thinking that existence and or illusion may be a mater of time. How do we know that the originals were not the result of illusions created by time travelers. It would seem inevitable that if our species survives long enough there will be time travel. Del Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: scholarly works of art Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:02:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 751 (751) Neven Jovanovic, in Humanist 20.541, helpfully points out that the product of my imagined allusion-machine would be a "work of art", asks what value this might have for scholarship and answers that were it to generate a map of allusions one could follow, then it would have readers, and so become something for scholars to work with. The algorithm of this allusion machine would have to be *very* cleverly contrived, but let's put that aside for the moment. What about the broader question of what computing has to do in mediation between the humanities and the creative arts -- or perhaps better, how it undermines that supra-disciplinary distinction? Let's for the moment ask this question of reading in particular. If reading is a creative act disciplined by the text being read, is the function of literary criticism to stick to the disciplining constraints of the currently accepted text? If a suitably clever algorithm generates a welter of possible-world readings, does the disciplining basis of criticism then shift to include the algorithm (thus algorithmic criticism)? At what point, if ever, do we accept the algorithm and start working on what it generates? On numerous occasions I've been told, in effect, "Behold!", only to watch dancing displays show cool stuff -- mostly bad works of art from an artist's perspective, I'd guess, but I've also seen very moving ones. Do we say, ok, fine, but still not scholarship unless, by becoming an analytic instrument, it demonstrates a critical function? But then wouldn't the artist say that we can of course use it as we wish, but if that's all it does it is bad art? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: call for AHRC ICT Methods Network funding proposals Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:22:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 752 (752) [From: Methnet ] Apply for Funding from the AHRC ICT Methods Network =AD Deadline 30 June 2007 The AHRC ICT Methods Network invites the arts and humanities Higher Education community in the UK to submit proposals for Methods Network activities. Activities may include workshops, seminars, focused workgroups, postgraduate training events and publications. The Methods Network is keen to support both=20 single- and cross- disciplinary proposals and=20 those that encourage new collaborative frameworks between technical specialists and arts and humanities researchers. The primary emphasis is on the use and reuse of digital resources. Proposals for hybrid activities such as workshop/seminar/workgroup combinations are also welcomed, as are proposals for any other activity which falls within the Methods Network remit to support and promote the uses of advanced ICT methods in academic research. Funding of up to =A35000 is available for workshops and hybrid activities. Workshops provide training in advanced ICT methods for community members within academic institutions. They engage with issues such as: formal methods in analysis of source data and the creation of technical models; working with multiple technologies; and other matters of vital practical interest to the community. Funding of up to =A32000 is available for seminars. These may concentrate on highly-defined topics of interest and also problem areas within the community or may have a more general focus. For information on eligibility and how to apply for funding see the Methods Network website (www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk). Please be aware that all applicants are expected=20 to submit fully- formed proposals with full=20 programme, budget and projected outcome details and with particular emphasis on the research significance of the proposed activity. Applications that fail to provide all required details will not be considered for funding. For further information about submitting a proposal contact Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk). Forthcoming Methods Network Funded Activities We welcome applications from individuals who would like to attend Methods Network workshops and seminars, but must emphasise that registration is essential for these activities. Participants are also expected to make an active contribution to the activity. Occasionally a Methods Network event will be by invitation only, but all resulting materials, including (where appropriate) podcasts, wikis, training workbooks, reports and publications will be made freely available to the community via the Methods Network website. All enquiries about registration for the Methods Network activities listed below should be sent by email to methnet_at_kcl.ac.uk. For further information about the following activities see the Methods Network website. Annotating Image Archives To Support Literary Research =AD A workshop organized by Omer Rana, University of Cardiff. (May 2007) Developing an International Framework for Audit and Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories - A seminar organized by Joy Davidson, HATII, University of Glasgow. (June 2007) New Protocols for Electroacoustic Music Analysis - A workshop organized by Leigh Landy, De Montfort University. (12 June 2007) Data Sans Frontiers: Web Portals and the Historic Environment A workgroup organized by Stuart Jeffrey, ADS/AHDS Archaeology, University of York. (25 May 2007) From Abstract Data Mapping to 3D Photorealism: Understanding Emerging Intersections in Visualisation Practices and Techniques =AD A workshop organized by Julie Tolmie, 3DVisA, Kings College, University of London. (June/July 2007) Real-time Collaborative Art Making - A workshop organized by Gregory Sporton, University of Central England. (20 July 2007) Space/Time: Methods in geospatial computing for mapping the past =AD A workgroup organized by Stuart Dunn, AHESSC, Kings College, University of London. (23 - 24 July 2007) Text Mining for Historians - A workshop organized by Zoe Bliss, AHDS History, University of Essex. (17 =AD 18 July 2007) Opening the Creative Studio =AD a hybrid activity comprising presentations and workshops, organized by David Gorton, Royal Academy of Music. (10 September - 30 November 2007) INTIMACY: Performing the Intimate in Proximal and Hybrid Environments - a hybrid workshop/seminar activity, organized by Maria Chatzichristodoulou. (22 - 24 November 2007) Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/.= =20 From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- March 2007 Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:15:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 753 (753) TL INFOBITS March 2007 No. 9 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL'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. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitmar07.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... UNC-Chapel Hill's Blackboard Course Extractor Available Scholars Still Reluctant to Accept Open Access Publishing Are We All Learning Designers Now? Special Journal Issue on E-Science Teaching with Wikis E-Materials Possibly Contributing to Rising Textbook Costs Another Museum Makes Digital Images Free to Scholars ...................................................................... UNC-CHAPEL HILL'S BLACKBOARD COURSE EXTRACTOR AVAILABLE The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services' Teaching and Learning division has developed a new application and is making it available to the education community. bFree is a course extractor that makes a stand-alone website from any Blackboard course content. While maintaining the organization of the original Blackboard course content, bFree creates a freestanding website or a folder hierarchy. With bFree, course content authors can: -- Conveniently retrieve course materials previously available only in Blackboard -- Produce independent course websites with the same content and structure as the original course embedded in Blackboard -- Apply a cascading style sheet (CSS) to customize the look and feel of their freestanding site -- Easily distribute and share course content files with others To learn more about bFree or to download the program, go to http://its.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree. bFree is copyrighted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/). Under this license's conditions, non-commercial users are free to copy, adapt, distribute, and transmit the work. ...................................................................... SCHOLARS STILL RELUCTANT TO ACCEPT OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING In "Open Access & Science Publishing: Results of a Study on Researchers' Acceptance and Use of Open Access Publishing," Thomas Hess, et al., report on a study was conducted in 2006 by the Ludwig-Maximilans-University Munich, Germany, in cooperation with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The study "centered on the question if and why scientists decide or do not decide to publish their work according to the Open Access principle without access barriers and free of cost to readers." While the 688 publishing scientists were favorably inclined to use papers published in open access publications, they were reluctant to publish their own research work in these outlets. Some of the downsides cited for publishing in open access journals included "the inferior ability to reach the specific target audience of scientists within one's own discipline [and] . . . the low level of use among close colleagues." The entire report is available online at http://openaccess-study.com/Hess_Wigand_Mann_Walter_2007_Open_Access_Management_Report.pdf. ...................................................................... ARE WE ALL LEARNING DESIGNERS NOW? "What were once the inviolable domains of the subject matter expert, the instructional designer, and the programmer are now coalescing to the point where just about anyone can say that they can create a learning programme." In "Are We All Learning Designers Now?" (INSIDE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES, January 2007) Vaughan Waller discusses how rapid content production tools are changing the way instructional software is being created. Using these new tools, one person, with little experience, can put together a learning module, thus supplanting the traditional trio of subject matter expert, instructional designer, and programmer. According to Waller, "The concern of many is that speed, ease of production and super low cost may be the winner and the quality of the programme the loser." The article is available at http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/magazine/article_full.cfm?articleid=224&issueid=24&section=1. Inside Learning Technologies is published online three times a year by Principal Media Ltd., 19 Hurst Park, Midhurst, West Sussex GU29 0BP UK; tel: 01730 817600; fax: 01730 817602; email: info_at_learningtechnologies.co.uk; Web: http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk. For free access to current and back issues, see http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/magazine/magazine.cfm. ...................................................................... SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE ON E-SCIENCE According to Nicholas W. Jankowski (in "Exploring e-Science: An Introduction"), "Enhanced science, e-science, is one of many terms used to describe recent transformations in the scientific enterprise. The overall assertion behind this and other nomenclature is that the procedures and practices of traditional forms of science in which scholars engage during their everyday professional lives are undergoing radical change. . . . that the very essence of science is changing, particularly through employment of electronic networks and high-speed computers -- two of the core components of e-science." The current issue of the JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (vol. 12, issue 12, January 2007) is devoted to the topic of e-science. Papers include: "Social Science and e-Science: Mapping Disciplinary Approaches" by Ralph Schroeder and Jenny Fry "Intellectual Property in the Context of e-Science" by Dan L. Burk "Does the Internet Promote Collaboration and Productivity? Evidence from the Scientific Community in South Africa" by R. Sooryamoorthy and Wesley Shrum "Collaboration Structure, Communication Media, and Problems in Scientific Work Teams" by John P. Walsh and Nancy G. Maloney The complete issue is available at http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/. The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is a web-based, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, scholarly journal published quarterly by the Indiana University School of Library & Information Science and School of Informatics. For more information and to access back issues, go to http://jcmc.indiana.edu/index.html. ...................................................................... TEACHING WITH WIKIS "Wikis are Web pages that can be viewed and modified by anyone with a Web browser and Internet access. Described as a composition system, a discussion medium, and a repository, wikis support asynchronous communication and group collaboration online." ("7 Things You Should Know about Wikis," from EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative; http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI7004) In "Wiki as a Teaching Tool" (INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING OBJECTS, vol. 3, 2007, pp. 57-72), Kevin R. Parker and Joseph T. Chao review the current state of wiki use in education. Some of the uses include "webpage creation, project development with peer review, group authoring, tracking group projects, data collection, and class/instructor reviews." They also discuss how wikis can be used in online learning. The paper is available at http://www.ijklo.org/Volume3/IJKLOv3p057-072Parker284.pdf. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects [ISSN: Print 1552-2210, CD 1552-2229, Online 1552-2237] is published by the Informing Science Institute, 131 Brookhill Court, Santa Rosa, CA 95409 USA. For current and back issues, go to http://www.ijklo.org/. For a report on how a well-known wiki, Wikipedia, handles links to research and scholarship see: "What Open Access Research Can Do for Wikipedia" by John Willinsky FIRST MONDAY, vol. 12, no. 3, March 2007 http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/willinsky/index.html ...................................................................... E-MATERIALS POSSIBLY CONTRIBUTING TO RISING TEXTBOOK COSTS The University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors recently proposed controlling the rising cost of textbooks by instituting rental or buyback programs. Triggering such a recommendation is the increasing costs of college textbooks, with prices rising faster than the rate of inflation. Students, administrators, bookstores, and publishers argue who or what is causing these increasing costs. One argument places the blame on faculty who demand not only frequent new editions, but also want students to have access to materials that technology enables -- CD-ROMs, e-books, course-related software, private-access websites. Instructors may find themselves caught in the middle of this blaming game. Publishers say that if textbook authors and adopters did not insist on having additional bundled materials, the costs could be kept down to a reasonable level. Students argue that in many courses the extra materials are seldom or never used. In addtion, these extras drive up prices, but often make it hard for students to resell their texts. For more about the textbook cost discussion and the UNC Board of Governors' proposal see: "Who Controls Textbook Choices?" INSIDE HIGHER ED, March 16, 2007 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/16/unc For textbook publishers' perspectives, see: http://www.textbookfacts.org/ The Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) campaign to lower textbook prices: http://www.uspirg.org/higher-education/affordable-textbooks ...................................................................... ANOTHER MUSEUM MAKES DIGITAL IMAGES FREE TO SCHOLARS Earlier this year the Victoria and Albert Museum in London dropped the fees for reproduction of its collections' images in scholarly books and magazines (TL Infobits, December 2006; http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitdec06.php#5). This month the Metropolitan Museum, through the non-profit image clearinghouse ARTstor, made a similar offer for scholars. See the Museum's March 12, 2007, press release for more details: http://www.metmuseum.org/press_room/full_release.asp?prid={A113E0AD-AA4E-471B-8F04-736A21F1A70A} For more information on ARTstor, see: http://www.artstor.org/info/ From: "Douglas Knox" Subject: Re: 20.541 synthetic work & its possible fallout Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:16:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 754 (754) Willard, Your use of the "modeling of" vs. "modeling for" distinction seems to depend on the known preexistence (or not) of the object -- "the original" -- that the model mediates. But isn't the experimental value of the model sometimes precisely in the indeterminacy, possible plurality, and potential abstraction of the objects of the model? That is, we may set out to model a certain kind of thing, and from our working of the model we come to think we perceive higher-order patterns that we may decide are worth pursuing in their own right as objects of inquiry. We may not have anticipated such patterns, and in some cases they may be phantom patterns, and thus in fact only able to be activated, if at all, as "models for," but there is a significant and characteristic scholarly payoff in the instances where we decide these new "models for" can retrospectively be seen as "models of" what was there all along, had we only had the tools or occasion to bring it to attention in this way. I suppose something like your allusion machine could potentially support any number of modeling purposes simultaneously. You suggest that this allusion machine, once it encompasses a greater body of text than any individual historically could have read, can no longer be a "model of" the allusive gestures of a single text or author, and so any further use of the machine would have to employ it as a "model for." But wouldn't one typical scholarly move be to recover the "model of" perspective by redefining the object of study -- perhaps reappropriating a literary critical model for historical, linguistic, sociological, or other use? It may be impossible to know in advance what concepts one might want to construct and appeal to in pursuit of an explanation of an unanticipated pattern, or who might want to take up such a project. We may find in these patterns provocation to speculative and aesthetic creativity, but we may also ask: what must be true of reality for these speculations to have become possible at all, and to have such interest for us as they do? Neven Jovanovic's characterization of your allusion machine as a "web" is quite apt. A kind of crude, historically flat approximation of your hypothetical allusion machine is the World Wide Web itself, which like your meta-corpus of allusion we can understand to be a kind of massive network graph and so can model with machines that instantiate and operate on network graphs. A search engine may begin by cleverly using hyperlinks to approximate a model *of* reputation; but we have seen such a machine in use become simultaneously, among other many other things, a research tool, a model *for* reputation management, a "database of intentions," a capillary structure for marketing, a device of poetic exploration. Douglas Knox On 3/29/07, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Dictionary of Words in the Wild Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:40:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 755 (755) For Colleagues with Digital Cameras: the Dictionary of Words in the Wild (beta) http://tapor1-dev.mcmaster.ca/~dictwordwild The Dictionary of Words in the Wild is an experiment in public textuality that collects images of text into a mashable dictionary. For this experiment to work we need lots of pictures of words. I suspect many Humanists have collections of images of words or phrases taken around the world. If you are willing to contribute them, sign up for an account, upload the pictures and tag them. Alternatively you can experiment with the API and build web applications that call the dictionary for word images. Try it, get an account and upload your words, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Ken Friedman Subject: International Journal of Design: First Issue Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:42:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 756 (756) Available On-Line International Journal of Design now available www.ijdesign.org Dear Colleagues, It is a great pleasure to announce the first issue of the International Journal of Design. It is available on-line at www.ijdesign.org. This on-line version is open access, freely available for anyone, anywhere to download, read, distribute, and use for non-commercial purposes with proper attribution. If you like what you see, you can email the entire issue or any article to a friend. A printed version of the journal will also be available for the cost of printing and distribution. Our vision is to publish high-quality design research, and to disseminate this research to the widest possible audience. We invite you to submit your best work to the International Journal of Design and to encourage your colleagues to do the same. We hope you will enjoy reading the first issue of IJDesign. If you have any suggestions that will help us to improve the journal, please let us hear from you. Sincerely, Lin-Lin Chen Editor-in-Chief, IJDesign International Journal of Design www.ijdesign.org From: Francois Lachance Subject: analytic, synthetic, aesthetic Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:31:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 757 (757) Willard, The following Hassidic tale is orthogonal to the matter you proposed for discussion in the dual approach (analytic & synthetic) to the aesthetics of scholarship but it raises the subtle imbrications between conduct and the production of beauty. It suggests to me that in the circumstances of humans and their artefacts mere dualism is fault of interpretation and furthermore that the beautiful can be anticipated and awaited but has no truck with economy even an economy of the gift. The beautiful happens. It cannot be given. What can be given is the patience to expect. Martin Buber Tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters trans. Olga Marx New York: Schocken Books, 1947 The Baal Shem Tov p. 73 The Jug Once the Baal Shem said to his disciples: "Just as the strength of the root is in the leaf, so the strength of man is in every utensil he makes, and his character and behavior can be gauged from what he has made." Just then his glance fell on a fine beer jug standing in front of him. He pointed to it and continued: "Can't you see from this jug that the man who made it had no feet?" When the Baal Shem had finished speaking, one of his disciples happened to pick up the jug to set it on the bench. But the moment it stood there it crumbled to bits. The easy gloss is to read the tale as a reflection on the prosthetic thesis (our tools are projections of our bodies). Another soon to be easier gloss is ecological in its outlook and hears the "every" and understands that given the proper attention the fate of one is wrapped in the fate of all. On a similar theme I quote Australian writer, Gay Bilson, who in introducing a section Plenty: Digressions on food quotes Octavio Paz. Octavio Paz, in an essay in his collection Convergences, wrote about 'seeing and using'. He suggested that craftsmanship 'in its perpetual movement back and forth between beauty and utility, pleasure and service ... teaches us lessons in sociability'. He wrote of the 'rationality' of industrial design, the impersonal uniformity. The handmade bowl is, by his definition, already sociable. So too is food prepared with discrimination and offered at the domestic table. Note that the origin of the object does not determine its being imbued with the sociable. Use does. Industry is quite capable of producing the mock-handmade. Use is the key to judging the artfulness of scholarship whether or not it is of the sythesing sort. Judgemenet does not rest on what it does but how it does what it does. (and such a judgement is likely to recursively affect judgements about what it is that it does do). -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Everyone is a little bit crazy; everyone at some time has a learning disability; No one is ever a little bit positive. From: peter jones Subject: Re: 20.548 synthetic work & its possible fallout Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:43:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 758 (758) Douglas, Willard and All, Although I arrive at this via other routes (which is also significant?) your points ring several bells: * models of * models for * higher levels * plurality * abstraction In health and social care to be 'holistic' (ontologically speaking not necessarily 'new age') we have to recognise four patterns or signatures: 1. interpersonal (emotional, behavioural, mental health, psychological, educaiton, communication) 2. sciences (problems, signs and symptoms, pathology, medication, anat. + phys) 3. social (family, community, relationships, culture, social skills) 4. political (self-advocacy, enpowerment, rights, legal status, consent, capacity) 5! + spiritual. As for plurality in health care we need to take account of subject and agent(s) in the following ways: * Purpose * Process * Policy * Practice *Content* applies to all. This is not a unique formulation, but is represented here: <http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2006/10/four-ps.html>http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2006/10/four-ps.html I have a post drafted on CONTENT : PROCESS, which I have been rather preoccupied with these past few months in relation to information standards in health care. (Hope to post this after holiday 3-18 April). Would it be fair to say that Hodges' model facilitates the creation of a meta-signature or meta-pattern across these (usually) disparate knowledge domains? As the semantic web emerges will it be possible to identify and examine the conceptual crossover points between sciences-humanities. What concept(s) denotes 'humanities' the most 'love'? Which are most associated with the sciences - 'energy', 'force', 'matter'? [If anyone has any references/pointers on this I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.] Or will the semantic web (has it already?) highlight our artificial, synthetic dichotomising shorthand way of describing the 'real' external world? In Hodges' model I am merely playing Descartes' game applying (semantic) 'co-ordinates' to concepts not just in the SCIENCES domain , but the others. The validity of the exercise varying accordingly. Thanks for a very interesting discussion. Kind regards Peter Jones <http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/>http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/ Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model h2cm: help2Cmore - help-2-listen - help-2-care From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 20.546 scholarly works of art Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:18:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 759 (759) Dear Willard, At 01:30 AM 3/30/2007, you wrote: [deleted quotation]Buried in this question is the assumption that computing is a suitable medium for humanistic scholarship. I believe it is, just as I find that the only publishing today that is not electronic publishing is out on the artistic fringe, inasmuch as hardly a publishing house does not use a computer for its text wrangling. But the question must still be brought to the fore. Having done so, one then might ask why, if a word processor or set of hypertext pages or series of graphs of word distribution is a suitable medium for scholarship, a painting is not? Or another case, closer to the boundaries: a series of photographs. Media whose proper application is the transparent representation of foregoing realities, vs media whose proper application is the creation of such realities? [deleted quotation]How can we avoid it, especially as it already happens behind the scenes in any case? Or maybe we can come on a meaningful distinction between an algorithm and an analytic or synthetic methodology (with or without the imps in the machine). To me it appears the question here is not "when do we accept it" but "what do we accept it to be?" Is it more interesting and illuminating for its transparency or opacity? [deleted quotation]Much art is based on bad scholarship, but it doesn't make it any less artistic. Because scholarship tries to do something different, or presumes to -- at least, until the Critic becomes Artist -- we suppose scholarship has something more and better than itself to answer to. 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: Dot Porter Subject: TEI Workshops @ Kalamazoo Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:14:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 760 (760) The Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources is pleased to announce two TEI workshops to be held at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2007. Both workshops will be on Thursday, May 10 (sessions 32 and 138; see http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete conference schedule). 1) XML and the Text Encoding Initiative Workshop I: Introduction to TEI Encoding This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, taught by a medievalist, James C. Cummings, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as new TEI P5 standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, and a brief consideration of XML Editors. Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. 2) XML and the Text Encoding Initiative Workshop II: Advanced TEI Encoding and Customization This workshop offers advanced instruction in advanced topics in TEI encoding and the customization of the TEI for an individual project's needs, taught by a medievalist, James C. Cummings, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes metadata for medieval manuscript description, advanced-level concepts of TEI P5 modularization, schema generation and customization for individual projects, and a brief survey of related technologies. Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. Dr. Cummings works for the Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford. He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, and he has extensive experience leading TEI workshops. Both workshops are limited to 14 participants, and registration is required. The fee *per workshop* is $45/$60 (Medieval Academy members/nonmembers) for pre-registration, $55/$70 for walk-ins (pending available space). Please send contact information and a check payable to Medieval Academy of America c/o Dorothy Carr Porter RCH 351/352 William T. Young Library Univ. of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0456 -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter_at_uky.edu 859-257-9549 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter_at_vis.uky.edu *************************************** From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.13 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:17:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 761 (761) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 13 April 3, 2007 -- April 9, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: RIK MAES ON DATA AND REALITY University of Amsterdam professor Rik Maes pleads for "management realism and data modesty," and says that organizations "are operating in an environment where their customers know more about them then they do themselves, no matter how sophisticated their information systems are. They desperately need involved managers really understanding the world instead of blaming their failing information= systems." See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i13_maes.html From: Lily Diaz Subject: Image and Map Annotation Notebook release 1.0 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:17:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 762 (762) Dear friends and colleagues, We are really happy to announce the release of ImaNote 1.0 version. ImaNote - (Image and Map Annotation Notebook) is a web-based multi-user tool that allows you, and your friends, to display a high-resolution image or a collection of images online and add annotations and links to them. You simply mark an area on an image (e.g. a map) and write an annotation related to the point. You can keep track of the annotations using RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or link to them from your own blog/web site/email. The links lead right to the points in the= image. The user management features include resetting lost passwords and account email verification. Through the group management features you can create communities that share images and publish annotations. ImaNote is Open Source and Free Software released under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). ImaNote is a Zope product, written in Python, with a javascript-enhanced interface. Zope and ImaNote run on almost all Operating Systems (GNU/Linux, MacOS X, *BSD, etc.) and Microsoft Windows. It currently works with most modern browsers including Mozilla Firefox, IE7 and Opera. Imanote was developed as a collaboration between the Systems of Representation and the Learning Environments research groups of the Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. For more information go to <http://imanote.uiah.fi>http://imanote.uiah.fi With best regards, Lily ------------------------------------- Dr. Lily Diaz-Kommonen Professor, Systems of Representation & Digital Cultural Heritage Media Lab University of Art and Design Helsinki 135C HŠmeentie SF 00560 Helsinki, Finland + 358 9 75630 338 + 358 9 75630 555 (FAX) From: Simon Tanner Subject: Fwd: SOUND ARCHIVING INTERNSHIPS Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:44:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 763 (763) [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)20 7848 1678 or +44 (0)7887 691716 email: simon.tanner_at_kcl.ac.uk www.digitalconsultancy.net Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery: 5-day training event 21st - 25th May 2007, London, UK. http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/digifutures/ From: Julia Flanders Subject: Digital Humanities Quarterly: inaugural issue Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:02:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 764 (764) We are very pleased to announce the first issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/. DHQ is an open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities, published online by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. DHQ Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2007) Interpretative Quests in Theory and Pedagogy Jeff Howard, University of Texas, Austin Webs of Significance: The Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, New Technology, and the Democratization of History Drew VandeCreek, Northern Illinois University Encoding for Endangered Tibetan Texts Linda E. Patrik, Union College Reading Potential: The Oulipo and the Meaning of Algorithms Mark Wolff, Hartwick College Tenure, Promotion and Digital Publication Joseph Raben, Queens College, City University of New York Philosophy and Digital Humanities: A review of Willard McCarty, Humanities Computing (London and NY: Palgrave, 2005) Johanna Drucker, University of Virginia This first issue brings together a fascinating range of perspectives, and we expect this breadth to be even more visible as future issues accumulate. We look forward to showcasing the wide variety of materials that are being submitted, both from traditional digital humanities domains and from important related areas such as new media studies, digital libraries, and digital art. New pieces will be added in a preview section as soon as they are ready for publication, and a quarterly announcement will notify readers when each new issue is complete. Please bookmark the site for now; an RSS feed will be coming soon. During the course of the next year we will also be adding more features such as commenting, searching, and a variety of ways of interacting with the content. DHQ is a community experiment in journal publication: developed and published in XML on an open-source platform, under a Creative Commons license. The journal publishes a wide range of peer-reviewed materials, including scholarly articles, editorials, opinion pieces, and reviews. We encourage submissions that exploit the expressive potential of the digital medium. Information about submissions, reviewing, and the journal's mission are available at the DHQ web site at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ We would like to take this opportunity to thank our funders: the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO, http://www.digitalhumanities.org) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH, http://www.ach.org). Warm thanks and acknowledgements are also very much in order to the team that has been involved in developing the journal: John A. Walsh, Technical Editor, Indiana University Matthew Kirschenbaum, Articles Editor, University of Maryland Adriaan van der Weel, Articles Editor, University of Leiden St=E9fan Sinclair, Blogs Editor, McMaster University Geoffrey Rockwell, Associate Interactive Media Editor, McMaster University Joseph Raben, Editor for Issues in Humanities Computing, Queens College, City University of New York Richard Giordano, Reviews Editor, Birkbeck College, University of London Elisabeth Burr, Internationalization Editor, University of Leipzig John Unsworth, Utility Infielder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Melanie Kohnen, Managing Editor, Brown University Michelle Dalmau, Design, Usability & Technical Support, Indiana University Amit Kumar, Technical Support, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Erik Resly, Graphic Design, Brown University We look forward to many more issues and to your comments, suggestions, and contributions. Julia Flanders, Editor in Chief, Brown University Wendell Piez, General Editor, Mulberry Technologies, Inc. Melissa Terras, General Editor and Associate Interactive Media Editor, University College London From: Michael Fraser Subject: CFP: Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2007 Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:49:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 765 (765) CALL FOR PROPOSALS doing digital: using digital resources in the arts and humanities DRHA07 : Dartington College of Art : 9 - 12 September 2007 Bringing together creators, practitioners, users, distributors, and custodians of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities Over the last decade the annual Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) conferences have constructed an unusual kind of meeting place: a space in which researchers, curators, and distributors of digital resources could meet and share perspectives on their complementary agendas. Last year, that forum was expanded to include participants from the creative and performing arts, giving the event a new flavour and a new direction. This year, the conference aims to explore further major issues at the interface between traditional humanities scholarship and the creative arts, by focussing on their differing or complementary approaches to the deployment of digital technologies. Can the Arts and the Humanities share expertise? Are they divided by a common tongue? To what extent are they developing common technical solutions to different problem areas? As in previous years, the conference will articulate these questions by showcasing the very best in current practice across the widest spectrum of digital applications in the arts and humanities and by fostering informed but accessible debate amongst professionals. The Programme Committee for DRHA07 is now soliciting imaginative and provocative contributions for the conference addressing such topics as: * the benefits and the challenges of using digital resources in creative work, in teaching and learning, and in scholarship; * the challenges and opportunities associated with scale and sustainability in the digital arena; * new insights and new forms of expression arising from the integration of digital resources in the arts, humanities, and sciences; * social and political issues surrounding digital resource provision in the context of global ICT developments; * the implications of "born-digital" resources for curators, consumers, and performers; * training methods and best practice for digital arts and humanities practitioners. Other themes include: interactivity and performance; digital media in time and space; integration and deployment of existing digital resources in new contexts; policies and strategies for digital deployment, both commercial and non-commercial; cataloguing and metadata aspects of resource discovery; digital repositories; Web 2.0 and other new technologies; encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding, cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms; digitization techniques and problems. Format: The conference will take up three intensive days, comprising presentation of academic papers and technical reports, performance and installation events, software and product demonstrations, debates and training events. The atmosphere will be informal, the discussion energetic. Leading practitioners and representatives of key funding agencies, such as the the Arts Council, the AHRC, the JISC, and the AHDS will be amongst the participants. We hope that from this occasion a new consensus will emerge based on real life experience of the application of digital techniques and resources in the Humanities and Arts. Timetable: Proposals are now invited for academic papers, themed panel sessions and reports of work in progress.Your proposal should be no smaller than 500 words and no longer than 2000; closing date for proposals is May 2nd 2007. All proposals will be reviewed by an independent panel of reviewers, and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 13th June 2007. All accepted proposals will be included in the Conference preprint volume, and will also be considered for a post-conference publication. Cost: The all-in conference rate covering all meals and accomodation as well as conference registration and proceedings will not exceed Ł400. Reduced rates for early registration, and partial rates for one-day or non-residential attendance will be announced shortly on the conference website. Further information: The conference web site at http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/ will be regularly updated, and includes full details of the procedure for submitting proposals, the programme, and registration information. Bookmark it now! From: Willard McCarty Subject: scholarly works of art Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:49:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 766 (766) This in response to Wendell Piez's comments in Humanist 20.552. Having assumed that computing is a suitable medium for scholarship, he says, [deleted quotation]The answer is implied by the preposition in "a suitable medium FOR scholarship" -- i.e. FOR some intellectual operation in which the photograph does not itself participate. One can easily imagine a photograph serving as evidence for a scholarly argument -- even if the argument were implicit, and the photograph were offered as proof. But what this line of reasoning (my own here, not Wendell's) takes for granted is that scholarship is verbal argument, and that clearly does not hold, e.g. in the case of a scholarly critical edition as a whole, or a prosopographical database -- or for a text-analysis program? The word "scholarship", according to the OED, means a scholar's attainments, learning, erudition, also "the collective attainments of scholars; the sphere of polite learning", which puts the idea in no necessary relation to objects or concrete media of expression. (Those who trouble to check the OED will discover that I just left out the qualifying phrase, "esp. proficiency in the Greek and Latin languages and their literature". Some will say, "Ah ha! Here's an old prejudice hiding under the covers!") The suffix "-ship" indicates a quality of being ("the state or condition of being so-and-so"), not an object or set of objects. Is the crucial point, then, what we accept rather than what is? If it can be shown that a particular style of work in a particular medium advances our understanding of the questions that we care about, then we admit the style? But this merely pushes the question onto the acceptance that some activity advances understanding. How do we know that? Wendell goes on to say, in response to my question of when we accept an algorithm and start working with what it generates, [deleted quotation]Depends on what we have in mind, I suppose. At one moment we use a long piece of strong wood to lift a weight and think nothing at all about the piece of wood. Then we notice that something interesting is going on, examine it and derive a theory about levers, which is so successful that we cease being interested in such things and just use them -- perhaps teach the theory of levers to the young but otherwise pay little attention. Then we find that the lever provides a very powerful analogy for something we don't understand as well, and so we pay new attention to the theory of levers to make sure of the analogy. In most areas of life there's clearly a cumulative effect, a sense of progress that is real and whose fruits we depend on. But in the humanities and in the sciences, the line is never a straight one. It's always got enough of a twist in it to make it a spiral. At any moment we have to be able to go back to beginnings, to open the black box, inspect the contents and rejigg them. This is why, I keep thinking, that the most important matter of computing is the ability to change what we have, quickly, easily as possible, at least from the point of which we regard its embedded knowledge as interpretative. Is this a matter of the scale at which we are able to regard the software artefact as intelligible? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: humanities computing / digital humanities Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:55:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 767 (767) In a recent article, "On Theories and Models" (Discourse Studies 7, 2005), Alessandro Duranti notes that as creatures compelled to look for patterns in the ambiguous data of the world, "we soon realize that we are not all looking in the same way, we are not all searching for the same answers, and we do not all start from the same place or stop at the same point in our pattern recognition quest. This is due to the fact that our epistemologies vary, in part, because our ontologies are different.". He cites Peter Galison's anthropological idea of the "trading zone" to support the positive effort to talk across such epistemological disagreement so that scholars may "focus on shared interests instead of epistemological differences". Nevertheless, he notes, [deleted quotation]applicable? (p. 410) These words come from someone who directs a major interdisciplinary centre (the UCLA Center for Language, Interaction and Culture, www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/). But as keepers of a methodological common for the humanities, we too pay this price, constantly risking loss of intellectual integrity, the more so the more popular our practice becomes. Hence one of the arguments for a separate department, able to devote significant resources to turning away from the daily dealing in the trading zone to ask Duranti's questions. Rather than rehearse that argument here, allow me simply to suggest that we begin by making a distinction between the concerns of the common itself and the concerns of all those who come to market there. I propose that we put to better use two terms now widely regarded as alternatives for the same thing: "humanities computing" and "digital humanities". I suggest that these usefully suggest, respectively, a singular, bipolar activity with focus on method, and a plural, qualified group of disciplinary styles. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Personal & Uniquitous Computing 11.4 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:40:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 768 (768) Volume 11 Number 4 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Editorial Welcome to the special issue on memory and sharing of experience for the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Kenji Mase, Yasuyuki Sumi, Sidney Fels 213 - 214 Active construction of experience through mobile media: a field study with implications for recording and sharing Giulio Jacucci, Antti Oulasvirta, Antti Salovaara 215 - 234 Point-of-capture archiving and editing of personal experiences from a mobile device Chon-In Wu, Chao-ming James Teng, Yi-Chao Chen, Tung-Yun Lin, Hao-Hua Chu, Jane Yung-jen Hsu 235 - 249 Recognizing context for annotating a live life recording Nicky Kern, Bernt Schiele, Albrecht Schmidt 251 - 263 Collaborative capturing, interpreting, and sharing of experiences Yasuyuki Sumi, Sadanori Ito, Tetsuya Matsuguchi, Sidney Fels, Shoichiro Iwasawa, Kenji Mase, Kiyoshi Kogure, Norihiro Hagita 265 - 271 Integrating glucometers and digital photography as experience capture tools to enhance patient understanding and communication of diabetes self-management practices Brian K. Smith, Jeana Frost, Meltem Albayrak, Rajneesh Sudhakar 273 - 286 Ubiquitous Memories: a memory externalization system using physical objects Tatsuyuki Kawamura, Tomohiro Fukuhara, Hideaki Takeda, Yasuyuki Kono, Masatsugu Kidode 287 - 298 Connecting the family with awareness systems Natalia Romero, Panos Markopoulos, Joy Baren, Boris Ruyter, Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Babak Farshchian 299 - 312 MEMENTO: a digital-physical scrapbook for memory sharing David West, Aaron Quigley, Judy Kay 313 - 328 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Del Thomas Ph D Subject: Re: 20.559 scholarly works of art Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:34:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 769 (769) WM, Your comments parallel a long standing debate I have watched. It is typified by a question in a post on the teach sociology list, "who invented sociology?" Also, when we were taking our son on college visits I asked the a Dean about the role of critical thinking at the University. He answered, there are some questions for which there is only one answer, such as who discovered America. As you suggest the lever exists before we recognize, label it and or write a dissertation. Or we might discard, outlaw or disappear the new technology as cheating, unnatural....etc. These are examples of the name calling that is used against new technology, such as the tube, (Renoir is reported to have said "Without tubes of paint, there would have been no Impressionism.") word processing and digital art. Digital technology is just beginning. The US medical system not withstanding, like the tube, digital technology can increase opportunities for illumination. That is when we allow it. There is an interesting twist to the authenticity issues. Richard Powers, author of The Echo Maker claims that it is more authentic, more direct to use word recognition instead of a type writer or word processor for his writing. Best Del From: Ari Rappoport Subject: ISCOL 07 submission deadline is April 22. Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:21:33 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 770 (770) To: iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il Hello, This year ISCOL will be held on June 20, at Bar Ilan, in conjunction with BISFAI 2007. Please see below for the call for papers. Notice that as usual, ISCOL and BISFAI are non-archival conferences, thus we solicit presentations of papers that have been presented at major conferences in the field. The event provides an opportunity to share information about computational linguistics work in Israel and to give students experience in giving talks about their work. Ari http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/bisfai07 From: Willard McCarty Subject: humanities computing / digital humanities Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:55:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 771 (771) In a recent article, "On Theories and Models" (Discourse Studies 7, 2005), Alessandro Duranti notes that as creatures compelled to look for patterns in the ambiguous data of the world, "we soon realize that we are not all looking in the same way, we are not all searching for the same answers, and we do not all start from the same place or stop at the same point in our pattern recognition quest. This is due to the fact that our epistemologies vary, in part, because our ontologies are different.". He cites Peter Galison's anthropological idea of the "trading zone" to support the positive effort to talk across such epistemological disagreement so that scholars may "focus on shared interests instead of epistemological differences". Nevertheless, he notes, [deleted quotation]applicable? (p. 410) These words come from someone who directs a major interdisciplinary centre (the UCLA Center for Language, Interaction and Culture, <http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/>www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/). But as keepers of a methodological common for the humanities, we too pay this price, constantly risking loss of intellectual integrity, the more so the more popular our practice becomes. Hence one of the arguments for a separate department, able to devote significant resources to turning away from the daily dealing in the trading zone to ask Duranti's questions. Rather than rehearse that argument here, allow me simply to suggest that we begin by making a distinction between the concerns of the common itself and the concerns of all those who come to market there. I propose that we put to better use two terms now widely regarded as alternatives for the same thing: "humanities computing" and "digital humanities". I suggest that these usefully suggest, respectively, a singular, bipolar activity with focus on method, and a plural, qualified group of disciplinary styles. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | <http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/>http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Ken Friedman Subject: scholarly works of art Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:50:53 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 772 (772) Dear Willard, This topic interests me greatly. Alas, I am under a heavy deadline so I cannot really say much. I will point to two major discussions on the theme. The first was the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Practice-Led Review. You'll find the results of an extensive debate from last June and July archived at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/AHRC-WORKSHOP-PL.html The debate started on June 2 and ended on July 10. This was also the topic in part of a debate titled "Picasso's PhD" on the Design Research Society list at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DRS.html The debate went on for about three months, starting at the beginning of April 2000, leading up to a conference on doctoral education in design at La Clusaz, France. I appreciated your comments, and I tend to agree, as you'll see from my summaries in the Practice-Led Review. Yours, Ken -- Prof. Ken Friedman Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Oslo Center for Design Research Denmark's Design School Copenhagen +47 46.41.06.76 Tlf NSM +47 33.40.10.95 Tlf Privat email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 67, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:20:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 773 (773) Version 67 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 2,960 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is also available from Digital Scholarship. Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-digital-publications-changes/ 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* 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 XHTML 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 searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/ http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://sepr.digital-scholarship.org/ (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm 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. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans/Flashback http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/ Open Access Bibliography/Webliography http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Copyright symposium: Early Registration Extended! Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:21:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 774 (774) Greetings, The Center for Intellectual Property at UMUC 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.] Copyright Utopia: Alternative Visions, Methods & Policies May 21-23, 2007 UMUC Inn & Conference Center, Adelphi, Maryland http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/ Ordinary people around the world are revolutionizing the way media is produced and distributed. Sites like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, BitTorrent, Wikipedia and Google are completely altering how the masses interact with video, pictures, art, music, and literature. Colleges and universities desire to harness the power of these incredible tools for distributing scholarship and creative works. But does U.S. copyright law accommodate many of these uses? Please join the Center for Intellectual Property as we discuss these issues with scholars and practitioners about how students, faculty and the general public can continue to innovate within the U.S. Copyright regime. Each panel and speaker will address some aspect of how or whether copyright law can be adapted or developed to accommodate the massive changes that technological innovation brings. YOU need to be at the table. Confirmed speakers include: -- William Fisher, Berkman Center to Internet & Society, Harvard Law School -- Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation -- William Brit Kirwan, Chancellor, University System of Maryland; Co-Chair, Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities Technology Task Force -- Donna Ferullo, Purdue University -- Kenneth Crews, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Confirmed panelists include: -- Alec French, NBC Universal -- Robert Samors, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges -- Patricia Aufderheide, Center for Social Media -- Heather Joseph, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition -- Tracy Mitrano, Cornell University -- Ann Bartow, University of South Carolina Law School -- Paul Jaeger, University of Maryland, College Park -- Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge -- Matt Skelton, Office of Policy and International Affairs, U.S Copyright Office -- Miriam Nisbet, American Library Association -- Denise Troll Covey, Carnegie Mellon University -- Reed Stager, Digimarc Corporation -- Mike Carroll, Villanova University School of Law -- Brian Crawford, American Chemical Society Publications -- Elizabeth Winston, Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law -- Karen Coyle, Digital Libraries Consultant -- Steven M. Marks, Recording Industry Association of America And many more... Registration includes a detailed notebook, meals and opportunity for in depth interaction with colleagues and speakers. Early registration deadline has been extended to April 20th! Please check the website for all other discounts. Co-sponsored by the Copyright Clearance Center -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 Phone: 240-582-2803 Fax: 240-582-2961 http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ From: DrWender_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 20.561 humanities computing / digital humanities Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:21:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 775 (775) In einer eMail vom 10.04.07 12:06:50 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU: [deleted quotation]1) Is the genealogy of the term 'humanities computing' right seen as follows: h.c. <= comp. in the hum. <= computational methods or models in the humanities (something like 'statistical methods in the social sciences'?) 2) I'm right when I state that there is an analogy in building the terms 'digital humanitites' and 'social sciences'? Herbert From: Sasson, Jack M Subject: JOBS: Digitizing Persepolis documents] Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:16:26 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 776 (776) Reply-To: Sasson, Jack M To: The Agade mailing list. From Magnus Widell : Job Announcement Persepolis Fortification Archives Research Project Professionals The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago seeks to appoint two new staff members to make digital images of Aramaic texts and of seal impressions on tablets from the Persepolis Fortification archive. Knowledge of Aramaic epigraphy and/or Achaemenid glyptic and/or the Persepolis Fortification archive is highly desirable. Comfort with digital technology, familiarity with computers and a variety of computer programs is essential. Graduate work in some area of ancient Near Eastern studies is required. Applicants with these qualifications who have completed PhDs in areas pertinent to research on Achaemenid texts and art, as well as applicants admitted to PhD candidacy in these areas, are encouraged to apply. The successful applicants will receive training in large-format very high-resolution digital scanning and Polynomial Texture Mapping and in making, processing, and uploading images. They will then capture images of Aramaic texts and of seal impressions on clay tablets from Persepolis, under the supervision of the Persepolis Fortification Archives project team, and process the scans for uploading and editing. The work is to begin on July 1, 2007 and continue through December 31, 2008. Salary for each post is $22,000 (July-December 2007) + $44,000 (January-December 2008), with benefits. Funding for these positions is assured from July, 2007 through December, 2008. There is a possibility that additional funding will be obtained and that the positions can be extended. To apply for this position, please apply online at the University of Chicago's job posting website at http://jobs.uchicago.edu (requisition # 075728 or 075622 - Research Project Professional) Applications must be received by May 15th, 2007. For additional information, please contact: Matthew Stolper Oriental Institute University of Chicago 1155 East 58th Street Chicago, Il., 690093 m-stolper_at_uchicago.edu The University of Chicago is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: new publication: Technicity, ed. Louis Armand & Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:19:51 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 777 (777) Now available from Litteraria Pragensia Books ... TECHNICITY ed. Louis Armand & Arthur Bradley ISBN 80-7308-125-3 (paperback). 375pp. Publication date: December 2006 Price: 12.00 Euros (not including postage) http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/technicity.html This collection of writings explores the theory and praxis of technicity in contemporary thought. From the ground-breaking explorations of such figures as Freud, Heidegger, Deleuze/Guattari and Derrida to the work of more recent theorists like Bernard Stiegler, Friedrich Kittler and Katherine Hayles, it is becoming possible to speak of a new "technological turn" in contemporary continental theory. Yet despite the plethora of work in the field there has not been any sustained attempt to think through the larger philosophical, cultural and political implications of the new technologies. In this collection, a group of internationally-known figures within the fields of philosophy, linguistics and cultural studies come together to consider the meaning of "technicity" at the beginning of the 21st century. Contributors: Bernard Stiegler, Louis Armand, Arthur Bradley, Christopher Johnson, Hartmut Winkler, J. Hillis Miller, Belinda Barnet, Geert Lovink and Kenneth C. Werbin, Darren Tofts, McKenzie Wark, Niall Lucy, Laurent Milesi, Michael Greaney, Mark Amerika. Arthur Bradley is senior lecturer in the Department of English at Lancaster University. He has published widely on continental philosophy and is the author of Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2004). Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other. For a full catalogue of LP books, please visit our website at http://www.litterariapragensia.com For the latest issue of Litteraria Pragensia journal, visit http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/journals/current_issue.html Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Nicole Coleman Subject: 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:52:37 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 778 (778) Though the following announcement is for a conference on e-Social Science, I thought it may be of interest to members of the Humanist Discussion Group whose work is interdisciplinary or who are working in collaboration with others in the social sciences. ------ e-social science announcement ------------ 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI October 7-9, 2007 Initial Announcement and Call for Submissions <http://ess.si.umich.edu>http://ess.si.umich.edu/ The aim of this NSF-sponsored conference on e-Social Science is to bring together international representatives of the social science and cyberinfrastructure research communities in order to create better mutual awareness, harmonize understanding, and instigate coordinated activities to accelerate research, development, and deployment of cyberinfrastructure to support the social science research community. We invite contributions from members of the social science and cyberinfrastructure research communities with experience of - or interests in - exploring, developing, and applying new methods, practices, and tools that are facilitated by cyberinfrastructure in order to further social science research, and in studying the wider development of cyberinfrastructure-enabled research and its component technologies. Details of submission topics and formats can be found at http:// ess.si.umich.edu/call.htm Deadlines: paper abstracts: May 15th, 2007. Workshop proposals: May 31st, 2007. Poster abstracts: June 30th, 2007. ---- Nicole Coleman, Stanford University Technology Projects Manager, Stanford Humanities Center ATS Program Management Team, SULAIR jabber: cncoleman_at_hal.stanford.edu http://shc.stanford.edu Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: classical texts for the moment Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:30:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 779 (779) "The notion of producing a commentary on the Gorgias", E. R. Dodds comments in his Preface (1959), "took root in my mind when at the outbreak of the last war I found myself lecturing on it to undergraduates who were soon to be soldiers. The circumstances of the time brought sharply home both to me and to my audience the relevance of this dialogue to the central issues, moral and political, of our own day... Of this relationship Victorian editors like Thompson and Lodge naturally had no inkling. Nor did their commentaries provide even the minimum historical background which is essential if the student is to perceive both the resemblance and the difference between Plato's situation and that of the intellectual today." Dodds goes on to explain why he postponed work on the commentary, and why additional time elapsed after he got back to the project before it was begun. Although all of us, I suppose, would wish the sharp lessons of war to be a thing of the past, one can see in Dodds' reminiscence an opening for digital editions of the future. Don Flowler noted in "Criticism as commentary and commentary as criticism in the age of electronic media" (Commentaries -- Kommentare, ed. Most, 1999) that the digital kind has the unexciting but consequential capacity for accumulation, but here is something more than that, perhaps: the ability to preserve the networks of relations or frames within which a work such as the Gorgias can speak to recurrent human situations. How, one might wonder, did -- or does -- the Gorgias speak to those about to go into battle? What did it say to the students at Oxford at the outbreak of WWII? How might a Platonic dialogue be used as a tool of insight into a modern historical period? How might anything be rendered into a form better able to speak to anyone anytime? Do we have any idea what the design might look like? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: barbara kirsop Subject: CODATA Workshop Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:32:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 780 (780) Collleagues, You may wish to know about an up-coming CODATA workshop to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 8 -10th 2007. The web site of the workshop, 'Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development', is being regularly updated: <http://www.cria.org.br/eventos/codata2007/>http://www.cria.org.br/eventos/codata2007/ Regards, Barbara Kirsop Electronic Publishing Trust for Development From: hra_at_pixel.cviog.uga.edu (Hamid R. Arabnia) Subject: cfp: Worldcomp'07 Congress Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm) X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 781 (781) From: Ray Siemens Subject: CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:22:25 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 782 (782) CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference Chicago, 3-5 April 2008 For the past seven years, the RSA program has featured a number of sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. At the 2008 RSA meeting (Chicago, 3-5 April 2008), several sessions will continue to follow this interest across several key projects, through a number of thematic touchstones, and in several emerging areas. For these sessions, we seek proposals in the following general areas, and beyond: a) new technology and research (individual or group projects) b) new technology and teaching (individual or group projects) c) new technology and publication (e.g. from the vantage point of authors, traditional and non-traditional publishers) Proposals for papers, panels, demonstrations, and/or workshop presentations that focus on these issues and others are welcome. Please send proposals before May 15 to siemens_at_uvic.ca. Ray Siemens English, CRC Humanities Computing, University of Victoria and William R. Bowen Chair, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto, Scarborough ____________ 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/>http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Hans Walter Gabler Subject: Virtual (!) Congress Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:42:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 783 (783) [...] The second virtual congress of [the Romance Literature Department, University of Lisbon] on Textual Editing, begins next Monday, 16th of April. Soon, you will be able to know the announced lectures and papers <http://www.fl.ul.pt/dep_romanicas/auditorio/II_Congresso_Virtual.htm>, as well as to participate in the discussion. In the same day, it will be inaugurated the virtual exhibition Masterpieces of the World Literature. The Beginning <http://www.fl.ul.pt/dep_romanicas/auditorio/expo_ing.htm>. Be prepared for a travel by the intimacy of literature, from the 20th century B.C. to the 20th century A.D.; from Spain to Portugal, crossing Greece, Poland, Israel, China, Japan, Chile, Brazil etc. The music by Mário Laginha and Maria Joăo will keep you company while you'll observe the writing in plank of clay of Gilgamesh or many versions of a poem of Eugénio de Andrade; the writing of the Confucius's Analects or that of the Leopardi's poems etc. It will also be a precious opportunity to observe the palimpsest involving the Confessions of St. Augustine and Pliny's Natural History. Ângela Correia & Cristina Sobral Departamento de Literaturas Românicas <http://www.fl.ul.pt/dep_romanicas/index.htm> Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa From: Martin Mueller Subject: Call for Papers by Second Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:42:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 784 (784) Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science The second Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science will be held on October 21-22, 2007 at Northwestern University. The event is jointly sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. The theme for this colloquium will be "Exploring the scholarly query potential of high quality text and image archives in a collaborative environment." This is a call for papers and poster sessions. The deadline for submissions will be July 31, 2007, and notifications will be made by September 3, 2007. Proposal abstracts (2 page maximum) should be submitted in either PDF or MS Word format to dhcs- submissions_at_listhost.uchicago.edu. Further details will be available soon at the colloquium web site (http://dhcs.uchicago.edu/), where right now you can see the program of last year's very successful colloquium. The sessions will be organized around the sub-themes of the query potential of high-quality image archives, the query potential of well- encoded archives, and the significance of collaborative or social computing environments for research in the humanities. We look forward to receiving your proposals on these topics. For further information contact Martin Mueller Department of English Northwestern University Evanston IL 60208 martinmueller_at_northwestern.edu From: Carlos Areces Subject: E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2007: Extended Deadline Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:36:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 785 (785) E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: call for submissions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since 2002, FoLLI (the European Association for Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. Submissions are invited for 2007. The prize will be awarded to the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. in the year 2006. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of the three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Who qualifies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2006 and December 31st, 2006. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2006 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (in 2008). Prize. ~~~~~~ The prize consists of * a certificate * a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. * an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further information on this series is available on the FoLLI site) How to submit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: 1. the thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted); 2. a ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format; 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded; 4. two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to beth_award_at_dimi.uniud.it . Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days after submission, nominators should write to policriti_at_dimi.uniud.it or areces_at_loria.fr Important dates. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deadline for Submissions: May 6th, 2007. Notification of Decision: July 15th, 2007. Committee. ~~~~~~~~~ * Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7) * Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) * Didier Caucal (IRISA-CNRS) * Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) * Valentin Goranko (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) * Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) * Ewa Orlowska (Institute of Telecommunications, Poland) * Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) * Alberto Policriti (chair) (Universitŕ di Udine) * Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) * Colin Sterling (University of Edinburgh) * Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Carlos Areces phone : +33 (0)3 54 95 84 90 INRIA Researcher fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 e-mail: carlos.areces_at_loria.fr INRIA Lorraine. www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces Equipe TALARIS - Batiment B 615, rue du Jardin Botanique 54600 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France From: Willard McCarty Subject: augmenting artificial intelligence Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:20:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 786 (786) Luis von Ahn, a young professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, has devised a scheme for labelling images accurately and very cheaply by attaching a capture mechanism to an online game, ESP. See his Google Tech Talk at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Lexicom 2007 workshop: Last chance for early discount Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:26:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 787 (787) LEXICOM-EUROPE 2007 A Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. June 4th-8th 2007 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2007 Led by Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell of the Lexicography MasterClass, Lexicom is an intensive one-week workshop, with seminars on theoretical issues alternating with practical sessions at the computer. There will be some parallel 'lexicographic' and 'computational' sessions. Topics to be covered include: * corpus creation * corpus analysis: o software and corpus querying o discovering word senses, recording contextual information * Frame Semantics and its application to lexicography * writing entries for dictionaries and lexicons * dictionary databases and writing systems * using web data Applications are invited from people with interests and experience in any of these areas. Over the last seven years Lexicom workshops (in Europe and in Asia) have attracted well over 200 participants from 32 countries, including lexicographers, computational linguists, professors, research students, translators, terminologists, and editors, managers and technical support staff from dictionary publishers and information-management companies. The venue, Brno, the beautiful and ancient capital of Moravia, is the Czech Republic's second city. To register for Lexicom, go to: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2007 Early registration is advised. The workshop has been oversubscribed in previous years. Registrations received before the 22nd of April carry a discounted fee. Further details, including draft programme and reports of past events can be found at: http://www.lexmasterclass.com Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell & Adam Kilgarriff The Lexicography MasterClass ==================================================== Adam Kilgarriff http://kilgarriff.co.uk Lexicography MasterClass http://lexmasterclass.com Lexical Computing Ltd http://sketchengine.co.uk University of Leeds University of Sussex +44 (0)12 73 705 773 mailto:adam_at_lexmasterclass.com +44 (0)79 71 867 845 ==================================================== From: Subject: Last Call for Papers on Info-CybernEthics 2007 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:27:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 788 (788) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last Call for Papers/Abstracts and Invited Sessions Proposals for Info-CybernEthics 2007, (Orlando, Florida, USA. July 8-11, 2007): http://www.iiis-cyber.org/wmsci2007/website/Info-CybernEthics.asp Deadlines: Papers/Abstract Submissions and Invited Sessions Proposal: April 30th Authors Notification: May 17th Camera-ready, full papers: May 31st ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal. Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (JSCI), with no additional cost. The libraries of JSCI's authors will receive a complimentary subscription for at least one year (six issues). There will be electronic (virtual pre-conference and post-conference sessions) for each one of the conference sessions, so the authors can interact with each other, providing comment and constructive feedback, before and after the conference days. The registration fee of effective invited session organizers will be waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems". The market price of this package is US $ 295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at WMSCI 2007 web page. For submissions or Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the conference web site (the menu's option "Invited Sessions/Invited Session Organizers"). Best regards, WMSCI 2007 Organizing Committee If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send a reply email with REMOVE MLWM-SCI in the subject line. Street Address: Torre Profesional La California, Av. Francisco de Miranda, Caracas, Venezuela. From: "Joergen Villadsen" Subject: Call for papers: CSLP_at_Context07 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:28:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 789 (789) Call for papers: CSLP_at_Context07 4th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing 20-21 August 2007, Roskilde, Denmark http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2007.html Affiliated with CONTEXT07, http://context-07.ruc.dk DEADLINE for submissions: May 24, 2007 The CSLP_at_Context07 workshop considers the role of constraints in the representation of language and the implementation of language processing. This theme should be interpreted inclusively: contributions from linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics and related areas are welcome, and an interdisciplinary perspective is of particular interest. The collocation with the CONTEXT07 conference underlines the application of constraints for context comprehension and discourse modelling. Motivation ---------- Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. These different perspectives are complementary, each one adding a piece to the puzzle. For example, linguistics proposes in-depth descriptions implementing constraints in order to filter out structures by means of description languages, constraint ranking, etc. The constraint programming paradigm, on the other hand, shows that constraints have to be taken as a systematic whole and can thus play a role in building the structures (or can even replace structures). Finally, psycholinguistics investigates the role of constraint systems for cognitive processes in comprehension and production as well as addressing how they can be acquired. Invited speakers: ----------------- 2 or 3 distinguished researchers will be announced on the workshop web pages. Topics ------ The workshop seeks contributions from different areas working with constraints in relation to language including, but not limited to the topics . Constraints in human language comprehension and production . Context modelling and discourse interpretation . Acquisition of constraints . Constraints and learning . Cross-theoretical view of the notion of constraint . New advances in constraint-based linguistic theories . Constraint satisfaction (CS) technologies for NLP . Linguistic analysis and linguistic theories biased towards CS or constraint logic programming (CLP) . Application of CS or CLP for NLP . CS and CLP for other than textual or spoken languages, e.g., sign languages and biological, multimodal human-computer interaction, visual languages, . Probabilistic constraint-based reasoning Submissions ----------- Authors are invited to submit extended abstract or a full paper of up to 12 pages. Papers should be prepared as PDF files using the format for Springer's LNCS/LNAI series, http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Each submission will be commented by two or three reviewers. Preliminary proceedings are distributed at the workshop and, depending on number and quality of submissions, a volume of revised and selected papers are under considerations at an international publisher. Please submit papers as PDF files, following the guidelines to appear at http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2007.html Important dates --------------- Submission deadline May 24, 2007 Notification June 14, 2007 Final version July 5, 2007 Workshop 20 and-or 21 August 2007 Registration ------------ Registration is done through the CONTEXT conference website, and the fee covers the conference and all workshops. http://context-07.ruc.dk At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the paper at the workshop. [...] From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: FINAL REGISTRATION: May 3rd ELO/MITH Symposium on Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:57:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 790 (790) the Future of Electronic Literature (Open Mic and Mouse May 2nd) [PLEASE HELP US GET THE WORD OUT, INCLUDING ANNOUNCING IN CLASSES. Registration for this event is filling up rapidly, but there is still space available. If you are interested in attending, please register as soon as possible to secure your spot. We've had a tremendous response and are looking forward to a terrific event, including press coverage from the Chronicle of Higher Education and book displays from the MIT Press and University of Minnesota Press. MGK] Registration is now open for the Electronic Literature Organization and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities' Thursday, May 3rd public symposium at the University of Maryland, College Park on The Future of Electronic Literature: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/elo2007/ The symposium is co-sponsored by the University Libraries, Department of English, and Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Maryland. Registration is free for ELO members and University of Maryland students, staff and faculty; others, including members of the general public, are asked to pay a very modest fee. ALL ATTENDEES MUST, HOWEVER, REGISTER. Space is limited, so reserve early! Keynotes are N. KATHERINE HAYLES (UCLA) and KENNETH THIBODEAU (National Archives), but that's just the beginning of the list of terrific people who will be in attendance: * Sandy Baldwin (West Virginia University) * Bill Bly (Independent Writer and Scholar) * Laura Borr=E0s Castanyer (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) * helen DeVinney (University of Maryland) * Neil Fraistat (University of Maryland) * Bertrand Gervais (Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec =E0 Montr=E9al, Canada) * Belle Gironda (Queensborough Community College) * Dene Grigar (Washington State University Vancouver) * Juan B. Gutierrez (Florida State University) * Rob Kendall (Independent Writer and Scholar) * Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland) * Deena Larsen (Independent Writer and Scholar) * Mark Marino (University of Southern California) * Talan Memmott (California State University Monterey Bay) * Nick Montfort (University of Pennsylvania) * Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen, Norway) * Susan Schreibman (University of Maryland) * Doug Sery (MIT Press) * Stepahnie Strickland (Independent Writer and Scholar) * Thom Swiss (University of Minnesota) * Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois-Chicago) * Jill Walker (University of Bergen, Norway) * Noah Wardrip-Fruin (UCSD) * Joshua Weiner (University of Maryland) Panels will be devoted to procedural or process-driven writing, the international electronic literature scene, and electronic literature in the 21st century. A complete schedule for May 3rd is available at the URL posted above. There will also be an *** open mic/mouse *** on the evening of Wednesday, May 2, starting at 6:15 in Art/Soc 2203. Many of the symposium attendees will be reading/performing from their current and favorite works of electronic literature, and everyone will be welcome to take a turn at the mic/mouse. A great way way to encounter this exciting body of writing for the first time. The open mic/mouse is free and open to the public, no registration necessary. Please forward/post as appropriate. --=20 Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Bernard Marszalek Subject: Re: 17.133 the hammer of art (or computing, for that matter) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:49:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 791 (791) Greetings, Sorry to burst into your life like this... ....I'm old enough to be apologetic and yet "modern" enough to be in a hurry! I am searching for a reference to a quote wrongly attributed to Brecht. I'm sure you know which one I mean, yes, "Art is not a mirror etc etc. Do you have a reference? I would be most appreciative and will send you a poster or five (?), if you can supply one. my daughter got this far: "well lots of people use the quote (correctly), except wikipedia... but the origin is elusive, and i've spent all the time i could on it for now. seems like The Guardian in 1974 is quoted a lot as when that quote popped up, but he was already dead by then so that's weird... here's the google search: <http://www.google.com/search?q=%22art+is+not+a+mirror%22+hammer+mayakovsky&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS210US211>http://www.google.com/search?q=%22art+is+not+a+mirror%22+hammer+mayakovsky&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS210US211 and here's more info on the The Guardian according to <http://www.creativequotations.com/one/2556.htm>http://www.creativequotations.com/one/2556.htm: "The Guardian," 11 Dec 1974" to see the poster in question which we (the artist Doug Minkler and me, his printer) want to revise go here: <http://www.dminkler.com/graphics/Mayakovski.htm>http://www.dminkler.com/graphics/Mayakovski.htm Doug has jumped the gun and placed M... in place of B.. on the web version but the 18 x 24 printed poster waits for a correct reference to clear up the confusion. Thanks for your help! ~bernard From: Phillip Barron Subject: Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human & The Humanities Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:52:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 792 (792) Press Release As part of its ongoing "Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human & The Humanities" project (ASC), the National Humanities Center makes public a new website for the initiative which significantly expands the potential pool of humanists and scientists engaged in the exploration and examination of topics surrounding the question of human being. In its first full year of seminars, conferences and other on-site activities, the ASC initiative has already involved researchers in fields as diverse as cybernetics, molecular anthropology, brain imaging, and primatology, as well as philosophers, historians, and literary scholars. The list of distinguished visitors and participants in the project to date includes: Sir Patrick Bateson, Cambridge University; Terrence Deacon, University of California, Berkeley; Peter Galison, Harvard University; Ian Hacking, University of Toronto; N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles; Timothy Lenoir, Duke University; Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara; Willard McCarty, King's College London; Sir Paul Nurse, Rockefeller University; Robert Pippin, University of Chicago; Michael Pollan, University of California, Berkeley; Rita Raley, University of California, Santa Barbara; Connie Rosati, University of Arizona; Alexander Rosenberg, Duke University; Mark Stoneking, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig; Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University; and C. Chris Wood, the Santa Fe Institute. You can find out more about each participant by clicking the links on the right. The new website, located at http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/ will facilitate conversations among the growing list of project participants, archive video proceedings from conferences and seminars, and provide an opportunity for sharing and discussing current work in diverse fields that are challenging traditional notions of "the human." "Whereas, in the past, poets and philosophers asked what it means to be human, scientists today are asking what it is to be human," says <http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/?page_id=57>Geoffrey Harpham, President and Director of the National Humanities Center. "One of the tasks of our project is to assemble a number of these people so we can begin to map this work, so that developments in different fields can be seen as parts of a wide-ranging movement with a single focal point." In the coming months, the Center will welcome two new resident ASC Fellows, a slate of distinguished visitors, and host its second annual conference as part of the ongoing activities for the ASC initiative. To learn more about the National Humanities Center, please contact Don Solomon (dsolomon_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us) or visit the Center's website: <http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us>www.nhc.rtp.nc.us. For questions about the ASC initiative, please contact Phillip Barron (pbarron_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us). -- Phillip Barron pbarron_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us National Humanities Center 7 Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 <http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us>http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.15 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:57:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 793 (793) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 15 April 17, 2007 -- April 23, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SLOWLY-LOADING WEBPAGES Robert Rosenberger, a philosopher of technology at SUNY-Stony Brook, offers a reflection on how phenomenology can be used to talk about our bodily relations to computers. He writes in a style accessible to non-philosophers, and he told Ubiquity associate editor Arun Tripathis that he hopes this short paper can be used to "introduce concepts from phenomenology of technology to students and others new to these ideas." See <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i15_rosenberger.html> From: Willard McCarty Subject: 3DVisA Bulletin (3D Visualisation in the Arts Network) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:51:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 794 (794) The 3DVisA Bulletin is intended as a forum for a community-wide debate on key and current issues in 3D visualisation. Issue 1 was published in September 2006, issue 2 just last month. For both see http://www.viznet.ac.uk/3dvisa/. CONTENTS of issue 1 JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network by Hugh Denard Editorial by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Message from JISC by Andy Wistreich Featured 3D Method: The Artist Christian Nold Talks to Anna Bentkowska-Kafel about BioMapping Featured 3D Project: OAKLAND BLUES. Virtual Preservation of Seventh Street's 1950s' Jazz Scene by Yehuda E. Kalay and Paul Grabowicz 3D Resources: PHIMAI, THAILAND. A review by Michael Greenhalgh News and Events Who's Who in this Issue URLs Included in Issue 1, September 2006 CONTENTS of issue 2 Editorial by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Featured 3D Method: HAPTICALLY AWARE MOVIES. Touching High-Quality Computer-Generated Environments by Robert Laycock and Stephen Laycock 3DVisA Discussion Forum: IS REAL-TIME PHOTOREALISTIC 3D VIEWING ON THE HORIZON? Angela Geary responds to Michael Greenhalgh Featured 3D Project: CERVETERI REBORN. A 3D Experience of an Etruscan Necropolis by Luciana Bordoni and Sandro Rubino News and Events (incl. 3DVisA Student Award Call for Submissions) Who's Who in this Issue URLs Included in Issue 2, March 2007 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: Graduate Scholarships for Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:22:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 795 (795) MPhil/PhD students commencing 2007/8 Anyone contemplating the PhD in Digital Humanities at King's College London will be interested in the following announcement of funding. Unfortunately the deadline (1 May) is *very* soon -- and competition for the funding is, as always, ferocious. If you're such a person, please get in contact with me immediately, as the process of applying for the degree takes a bit of time. Yours, WM [deleted quotation] eligible [deleted quotation]started an MPhil/PhD are not eligible) [deleted quotation]Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: DH2007 Subject: DH2007: reminder regarding early registration discount Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:25:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 796 (796) May 14 is the last day to register for the Digital Humanities 2007 conference with the early registrant discount, so please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ and register soon (if you have not already registered). The full conference program is now online, at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/dh2007.fullprogram.pdf It's an excellent line-up, and we hope to see you there. Please note that if you have previously created a login on this site (for example, to submit a paper or serve as a reviewer) you can use that login for the purpose of registering for the conference as well, and if you have forgotten your password, you can request a reminder. Also please note that you may register as a member if you are a subscriber to Literary and Linguistic Computing, published by Oxford University Press. If you are a subscriber, you'll be asked for your subscriber number: that number will be on the mailing label for your most recent issue of LLC, and you can also get it by registering online with OUP's journals division. If you are a member but for some reason you don't have the number and can't get it, that's OK: just email dh2007_at_digitalhumanities.org for help and we'll make sure that you can register before the deadline, at the member rate. John Unsworth, local organizer From: Dot Porter Subject: TEI Workshops @ Kalamazoo Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:16:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 797 (797) There are still spaces available in the TEI Workshops at Kalamazoo. Please register soon if you plan to participate! You can email me at dporter_at_uky.edu. Dot ************************************* The Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources is pleased to announce two TEI workshops to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2007. Both workshops will be on Thursday, May 10 (sessions 32 and 138; see http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete conference schedule). 1) XML and the Text Encoding Initiative Workshop I: Introduction to TEI Encoding This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, taught by a medievalist, James C. Cummings, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as new TEI P5 standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, and a brief consideration of XML Editors. Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. 2) XML and the Text Encoding Initiative Workshop II: Advanced TEI Encoding and Customization This workshop offers advanced instruction in advanced topics in TEI encoding and the customization of the TEI for an individual project's needs, taught by a medievalist, James C. Cummings, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes metadata for medieval manuscript description, advanced-level concepts of TEI P5 modularization, schema generation and customization for individual projects, and a brief survey of related technologies. Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. Dr. Cummings works for the Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford. He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, and he has extensive experience leading TEI workshops. Both workshops are limited to 14 participants, and registration is required. The fee *per workshop* is $45/$60 (Medieval Academy members/nonmembers) for pre-registration, $55/$70 for walk-ins (pending available space). Please send contact information and a check payable to Medieval Academy of America c/o Dorothy Carr Porter RCH 351/352 William T. Young Library Univ. of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0456 -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter_at_uky.edu 859-257-9549 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter_at_vis.uky.edu *************************************** From: "Olga Francois" Subject: May 4th Early Registration for Copyright Symposium Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:17:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 798 (798) [Please excuse any cross-posting of this notice.] There is still time--but it is limited--to save when you register for this year's symposium: Copyright Utopia: Alternative Visions, Methods & Policies May 21-23, 2007 UMUC Inn & Conference Center, http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/ The seventh annual symposium on Intellectual Property presented by the Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College in Adelphi, MD. http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/ EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MAY 4th! See {http://tinyurl.com/2z4po3 [secure servers]} to register. Join us Monday, May 21, for one of two in-depth afternoon pre-conference seminars: --Copyright 101, or --E-Reserves Policy and Implementation http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/preconference Then, come that evening to hear a dynamic opening keynote address by Fred von Lohmann, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With his distinct views on user generated content, rights and accesses to copyrighted materials, he will surely provide a thought provoking opening to our discussions. On Tuesday and Wednesday, May 22-23, we will have a keynote --" Utopian Visions of Copyright: Tweak, Transform or Opt-out" and the following panel discussions: -- Closed is not necessarily the Other Side of Open -- International Approaches -- Tweaking Copyright: Legislative Alternatives -- Licensing & the Commons as (c) Alternatives -- Transforming Copyright: Technological Alternatives http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/agenda Please visit http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium for detailed information about registration, agenda, travel, and lodging. You may also call 240-582-2803. We look forward to seeing you! -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 Phone: 240-582-2964 Fax: 240-582-2961 ofrancois_at_umuc.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: Computers in Papyrology and Paleography Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:31:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 799 (799) [deleted quotation]Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: TAPoR version 1.0 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:16:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 800 (800) Announcing TAPoR version 1.0 http://portal.tapor.ca We have just updated the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) to version 1.0 and invite you to try it out. The new version will not appear that different from previous versions. The main difference is that we are now tracking data about tool usage and have a survey that you can complete after trying the portal in order to learn more about text analysis in humanities research. You can get a free account from the home page of the portal. If you want an introduction you can look at the following pages: Streaming video tutorials are at http://training.tapor.ca Text analysis recipes to help you do things are at: http:// tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/TaporRecipes Starting points can be found at http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/TAPoR The survey is at http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/phpESP/public/ survey.php?name=TAPoR_portal A tour, tutorial, and useful links are available on the home page, portal.tapor.ca. Please try the new version and give us feedback. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Craig Bellamy Subject: New on ICT Guides for April Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:12:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 801 (801) Dear Humanist, ICT Guides is a service offered by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) at King's College, London. It seeks to promote the use of ICTs in research and learning through cataloging best-practice digital arts and humanities projects along with the tools and methods they employed. The following new projects have been added to ICT Guides in April: <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/allProjects.jsp>http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/allProjects.jsp Highlight: From Partition to Direct Rule: 50 Years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates Online (Stormont Papers) " Casting a unique and valuable light on the development of Northern Ireland, the Papers consist of the Parliamentary Papers of the devolved government of Northern Ireland from June 7 1921 to the dissolution of Parliament in March 28 1972. They make up 84 printed volumes - around 93,000 pages and 74 million words. Based on the model of British Hansard, the papers record the utterances of MPs sitting at the Stormont Parliament within the first period of Home Rule. " See: <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=724>http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=724 List of New Projects: * The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945 (RED) * From Partition to Direct Rule: 50 Years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates Online (Stormont Papers) * Nineteenth Century Serials Edition * The Sheffield Corpus of Chinese * Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London, 1690-1800 * The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) * Multidimensional Visualisation of Archival Finding Aids * North Sea Palaeolandscapes * The Jean Froissart Project * Dynamic encoding of historical documents: people, property and rights in 18th century Corsican notaries acts * A Shape Retrieval System for Watermark Images * Masks for Menander: imaging and enactment * Web Access to Rock Art: the Beckensall Archive of Northumberland Rock Art * Representing and enacting knowledge about producing Tibetan text-critical editions * The digital and computer-based arts in the United Kingdom from their origins to 1980 * Mapping the medieval urban landscape: Edward I's 'new towns' of England and Wales * The Edinburgh Historical Linguistic Atlases & Text Corpora: Early Middle English and Older Scots * The Perdita Project: Early modern women's manuscript compilations * The Canterbury Tales Project * The clergy of the Church of England database, 1540-1835 * Study of Norse-Celtic place-names in the frontier zone of the medieval province of Moray. A pilot project for the Scottish place-name database * The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: a revised and enlarged database * Lexicon of Greek Personal Names * Cataloguing the archives of the Trades Union Congress, 1970-90 * Activated Space: the transformation of internal spaces to become audible and interactive * Reconstructing the Quseiri Arabic Documents (RQAD) * Wa dictionary and internet database for minority languages of Burma * Pockets of history: production and consumption of women's tie-on pockets in Britain from 1690-1914 * Medieval settlements and landscapes in the Whittlewood area Suggestions for new projects most welcome. Kind Regards, Craig Bellamy -- Dr Craig Bellamy Research Associate ICT Guides, AHDS, King's College, London <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/>http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/ ----- 26 - 29 Drury Lane 3rd Floor King's College London LONDON, WC2B 5RL Phone: 020 7848 1976 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Call for Participation Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:40:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 802 (802) Call for participation in an international network of digital humanities centers Respond to centernet-owner_at_lists.digitalhumanities.org [please share widely] If you represent something that you would consider a digital humanities center, anywhere in the world, we are interested in including you in a developing network of such centers. The purpose of this network is cooperative and collaborative action that will benefit digital humanities and allied fields in general, and centers as humanities cyberinfrastructure in particular. It comes out of a meeting hosted by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Maryland, College Park, April 12-13, 2007 in Washington, D.C., responding in part to the report of the American Council of Learned Societies report on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, published in 2006. We leave the definition of "digital humanities" up to you, but we intend to be inclusive, and we know that there will be cross-over into the social sciences, media studies, digital arts, and other related areas. If you think your center is a digital humanities center, in whole or in part, then we'd be glad to have you as part of the network. This might include humanities centers with a strong interest in or focus on digital platforms. The definition of "center" is only slightly more prescriptive: a center should be larger than a single project, and it should have some history or promise of persistence. Some early initiatives are likely to include * workshops and training opportunities for faculty, staff, and students * developing collaborative teams that are, in effect, pre-positioned to apply for predictable multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary, multi-national funding opportunities, beginning with an upcoming RFP that invites applications for supercomputing in the humanities * exchanging information about tools development, best practices, organizational strategies, standards efforts, and new digital collections, through a digital humanities portal There is no membership fee, and the network is not a constituent of any other organization, but members should consider contributing some time or resource to the network. You may respond to this invitation by sending email to centernet-owner_at_lists.digitalhumanities.org and if you do respond, please indicate * the name of your center, your title with respect to it, and the center's home institution or organization * the areas or disciplines in which your center works or has worked * the number of staff employed by your center We would also appreciate it if you would answer two other questions: * what might your center be willing and able to contribute to the network of centers? * would you be willing to serve in an organizing role with respect to the network. Finally, you might want to have a look at the different types of centers represented at <http://digitalhumanities.pbwiki.com/Centers%20by%20type>http://digitalhumanities.pbwiki.com/Centers%20by%20type and if yours is not there, tell us in what category to list it, and we'll add it, or if the right category doesn't exist, suggest one. Thanks very much, Julia Flanders Neil Fraistat Matt Kirschenbaum Mark Kornbluh John Unsworth ---------------------------------- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) <http://www.mith.umd.edu/>http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.rc.umd.edu/nfraistat/home/ From: Bouchard Dany Subject: Workshop : Toward a Canadian Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:20:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 803 (803) Digital Information Strategy (May 9th 2007) Workshop May 9th 2007 Research and Training Perspectives on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy We remind you that on May 9 will be held at the University of Montreal a one-day workshop relating to Research and Training Perspectives on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy. The main objectives of the meeting is to bring together faculty members and researchers from various universities and Canadian research centers, as well as representatives from hosting institutions and major research funding organizations. This workshop will: -- inform the participants of key priorities that were identified at the National Summit (content, preservation and access to numerical information); -- identify research initiatives concerning the priorities; -- identify concerned research groups and create a Canadian research community working on the national priorities; -- discuss academic and training programs necessary to meet the various needs in the field of digital information. The inscription is free but required and the place are limited. To register and for the details of the day, visit our Web site at http://www.gin-ebsi.umontreal.ca/stra_num/index.htm To familiarize you with the elements of the Canadian strategy that will be discussed and also to take part in the discussion concerning the challenges raised by these problems, we invite you to consult the blog set up by l'École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information de l'Université de Montréal. http://blogues.ebsi.umontreal.ca/stra_num Guest speakers: Mme Lise Bisonnette Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Bibliothčque et Archives Nationales du Québec Mme Ingride Parent Assistant Deputy Minister, Documentary Heritage Collection Sector, Library and Archives Canada Gérard Boismenu Professor, Department of political Science Université de Montréal and President of Synergies France Bouthillier Associate Professor, Head of Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Lisa Given Associate professor, University of Alberta and President of Canadian Association for Information Science <http://www.cais-acsi.ca/> Jean-Michel Salaün Professor, Head of École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information de l'Université de Montréal Dany Bouchard, Doctoral candidate École de Bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal dany.bouchard_at_umontreal.ca From: Katherine L Walter Subject: The Nebraska Digital Workshop (5-6 October) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:39:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 804 (804) Call for Proposals--LAST CALL The Nebraska Digital Workshop October 5 & 6, 2007 The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln (UNL) will host the second annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 5 & 6, 2007 and seeks proposals for digital presentations by pre-tenure faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students working in the digital humanities. The goal of the Workshop is to enable the best early career scholars in the field of digital humanities to present their work in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased. Under the auspices of the Center, the Workshop will bring nationally recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to UNL to participate and work with the selected scholars. Selected scholars will receive full travel reimbursement and an honorarium for presenting their work at the Nebraska Digital Workshop. Selection criteria include: significance in primary disciplinary field, technical innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and creativity of approach. Please send proposed workshop abstract, curriculum vitae, and a representative sample of digital work via a URL or disk on or before May 1, 2007 to: Katherine L. Walter, Co-Director, UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, at kwalter1_at_unl.edu or 319 Love Library, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-4100. For further details, see the Center's web site at <<http://cdrh.unl.edu/>http://cdrh.unl.edu>. Katherine L. Walter Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections Dept. University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln NE 68588-4100 voice: (402) 472-3939 fax: (402) 472-5131 kwalter1_at_unl.edu From: Karsten Kynde Subject: Kierkegaard online Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:20:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 805 (805) The Sřren Kierkegaard Research Center is happy to announce the publication of Sřren Kierkegaards Skrifter digital version (in Danish) on the web address <http://sks.dk>http://sks.dk. The current version 1.1 contains jounals and notebooks from the period 1833-50. There is an English preface and English guide, but the main Kierkegaard text is Danish. Read more on the Center homepage <http://www.sk.ku.dk>www.sk.ku.dk. Karsten Kynde Sřren Kierkegaard Forskningscenteret ved Křbenhavns Universitet Farvergade 27D, 1463 Křbenhavn K 3376 6913, kk_at_sk.ku.dk From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.16 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:21:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 806 (806) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 16 April 24, 2007 – April 30, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: FAULT TOLERANT COMPUJTING K.C. Joshi and Durgesh Pant say that the central requirement for building trustworthy software is software fault tolerant techniques. In this brief paper they discuss their views on the needs and prospects of software fault tolerant computing." Joshi is an IT faculty member at M.J.P Rohilkhand University in India. Pant is Reader and head of the department of computer science at SSJ Campas Kumaun University, See <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i16_joshi.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i16_joshi.html From: Peter Shillingsburg Subject: Textual Studies Professorship Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:21:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 807 (807) De Montfort University has just advertised a position at professor level in textual studies at De Montfort University with a significant role in the Centre for Textual Scholarship. Could you please help us to bring this opportunity to the attention of suitable and willing persons. Note that in the English fashion, closing date for applications is in two weeks -- yes, May 11, 2007. The ad is as follows: Reference Number: 4463 Professor of English Competitive Humanities School of English, Performance and Historical Studies You will play a leading role in the internationally-recognised work of the Centre for Textual Scholarship (formerly the Centre for Technology and the Arts) and will make a significant contribution to the already dynamic research culture of the English team (which gained a 5A in the 2001 RAE). Period of literary specialisation is open, but international standing and significant recent publications in scholarly editing and textual studies or closely related fields are essential. Initial enquiries about the post can be made to Dr Philip Cox, Head of School. Tel: 0116 250 6129 E-mail: Ptcox_at_dmu.ac.uk Closing date: 11/5/2007 Peter Shillingsburg Director, Centre for Textual Scholarship De Montfort University Leicester LE1 9BH (44) 0116 257 7064 pshillingsburg_at_dmu.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: ruining lives Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:18:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 808 (808) In his review of three posthumous books of Bernard Williams' s essays collected from scattered sources ("Unhappy thoughts: How we see ourselves and how the world sees us", TLS 5430, 27 April), Alan Ryan recounts his first experience of hearing the great Cambridge philosopher speak. "Bernard Williams", he writes, [deleted quotation]Allow me, if you will, a bit of sermonizing, toward a question I think worth asking. Ryan describes humorously but accurately, it seems to me, the noble calling of the teacher in the humanities, and so implies the enormous gulf between what we are compelled to say in public, in all those forms and forums of self-justification, pretending that we're in the *business* of producing or improving tax lawyers et sim., and what we must actually be doing as moral beings as well as academics. Part of what we have to deal with is the big question of practice in the digital humanities -- what it is, what teachnical problems it is good for, how it is done well, how we teach others to do it well etc. But we have as well the question of what is practical, for the actual lives of those who won't be academics, technical experts et al. These days it is, of course, no good pretending that such questions can be waved aside. Students want to know the answers before they sign up, work hard (we hope) and get massively into debt. So what is a *practical* education in the digital humanities? What do we say that it trains someone to do? The right lives will, I fervently hope, be "ruined" in Ryan's sense if we communicate adequately why we're in this game, but in order to get sufficient candidate lives so that the right ones will turn up, we have to address what (to quote the OED s.v. "practical") is "likely to succeed or be effective in real circumstances". What do we say? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "Hugh Denard" Subject: Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space Conference Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:14:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 809 (809) The Body and the Mask in Ancient Theatre Space:=20 Perceptions, Coincidences and Diversions 2-day interdisciplinary conference May 5th & 6th 2007 Handa Nô Studio, Royal Holloway University, Egham and King's College, London (Strand Campus) This symposium, organised by the AHRC-funded project "The Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space," will explore contemporary approaches to the world of ancient masked performance. Members of the research team will present the fruits of their latest research using advanced 3-dimensional (3D) visualisation technologies to bring together ancient mask and performing body in virtually-realised ancient spaces. A central focus will be the project’s collaboration with the distinguished Japanese Nô performer Matsui Akira, who will discuss his work with the project and give a live workshop/demonstration as part of the conference. Professor Richard Beacham, who heads the project, will speak about the aims of the project. Other members of the team will present aspects of the project's current work including Dr. Richard Williams on 3D modelling of mask artefacts; Dr. Margaret Coldiron on Cross-Cultural Connections, Confluences and Contradictions in Masked Performance, and Martin Blazeby on "The Virtual Stage" and Drew Baker on “Paradata and Pipelines: Getting the Virtual Actor onto the Virtual Stage." Other speakers will include the internationally-renowned Greek mask-maker and designer Thanos Vovolis on “The Acoustic Mask in Greek Tragedy,” Professor J. Michael Walton on “Writing for the Mask,” and Professor Jonah Salz of Ryukoku University (Kyoto) on “The Nô Actor, His Mask and the Cinematic Use of Stage Space.” The conference will begin at 10 am on Saturday, 5 May at the Handa Nô Studio on the campus of Royal Holloway and will continue on Sunday 6 May in Lecture Theatre 2C on the Strand Campus of King’s College, London. Registration for the full conference costs Ł75 per person or Ł25 for students. The fee includes all conference events and materials, refreshments and lunch on both days and the workshop demonstration by Akira Matsui. The fee for one day is Ł50. The workshop/demonstration by Akira Matsui will be open to the public and tickets for this event alone are Ł5. Those wishing to attend the conference or the workshop/demonstration should contact the organizer: Dr. Margaret Coldiron, email: mcoldiron_at_mac.com A limited number of subsidized internships are still available for students who wish to attend the conference; those who are interested should contact the conference organiser as soon as possible. --------------------------------- Dr Hugh Denard Associate Director, King's Visualisation Lab Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College, London Strand London WC2R 2LS, UK Tel. 020 7848 2719 <http://www.didaskalia.net>www.didaskalia.net www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk From: "J. Trant" Subject: ICHIM07 Proposal Deadline: April 30, 2007 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:15:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 810 (810) ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings Toronto, October 24-26, 2007 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ Call For Participation Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2007 The bi-annual International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings (ICHIM) have -- since 1991 -- explored cultural heritage informatics on a global scale, with a strong focus on policy, infrastructure and economic issues. They are attended by senior cultural, governmental, academic and publishing professionals, including library, archives and museum directors and managers, and cultural policy advocates and analysts. ICHIM meetings include formal papers, round table discussions, seminars, workshops, project briefings and demonstrations. Those interested in participating are encouraged to describe what they wish to convey and to whom; if accepted, the Program Committee will suggest an appropriate delivery format. You are invited to submit a proposal for participation in the 2007 edition of the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings. Topics of interest include: Heritage Information & Society * Policy * Law * Economics and Funding * Convergence of Institutions Technologically Mediated Heritage * Resources * Public Programs * Services * Collaborations Cultural Knowledge * Acquisition * Retrieval * Preservation Digital Heritage * Digital Art * Representations * Delivery methods * Evaluation Organizational Policy * Best Practices * Impacts * Innovations Cultural Heritage Information Systems * Research * Prototypes and Models * Innovative Design * Applications * Architectures * Networks Education and Infrastructures * Educating Cultural Heritage Informatics Professionals * Cultural & Linguistic Diversity *** Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2007. *** Submit your proposal using our on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/papers/ichim07.proposal.form.html [...] From: "Peter Shillingsburg" Subject: Symposium on Textual Scholarship Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:15:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 811 (811) Annual Symposium on Textual Studies May 25-26 Fri-Sat Centre for Textual Scholarship De Montfort University, Leicester Conference fees: free Conference dinner on Friday evening: =A3 18-. Cash=20 or cheques accepted on arrival. See schedule, registration, map, and accommodation details at: <http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/activities/text.php>http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/activ= ities/text.php Registration (Please register by 20 May) Schedule Friday, May 25, 2007 9:00-9:30 Registration 9:30-10:30 Marta Werner, D'Youville College, NY 'Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan: Writing Otherwise' Sean Ryder, National University of Ireland, Galway 'Text as Performance: Editing Thomas Moore' 10:30-10-45 Coffee Break 10:45-11:45 Oliver Harris, Keele University 'Cutting Up the Archive: William Burroughs and the Composite Text' Barbara Bordalejo, Birmingham University 'Title to be added' 12:00-1:00 Key Lecture John Jowett, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham 'Editing Shakespeare: What Does It Matter?' 1.00-2:00 Lunch 2:00-4:00 Symposium led by Dr Jowett 4:00-4:30 Tea 4:30-5:00 Electronic show and tell 5:00 Reception 7:30 Dinner at Halli An Indian Vegetarian=20 Restaurant (153 Granby Street, Leicester, TEL:=20 0116-255-4667), for those who signed up and paid =A3 18-) Saturday, May 26, 2007 9:30-10:30 Takako Kato, De Montfort University 'A Textual Study of Malory's "Roman War Episode"' Orietta Da Rold, University of Leicester 'Material Culture and Medieval Literary Texts' 10:30-10-45 Coffee Break 10:45-11:45 Linda Bree, Cambridge University Press 'Editing Jane Austen's manuscripts' Mark Bland, De Montfort University 'Title to be added' 12:00-1:00 Key Lecture: Mary Jane Edwards, Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts, Carleton= University 'Why bother?: 'Traditional' Scholarly Editing in the Age of Computers' 1.00-2:00 Lunch 2:00-4:00 "Historicizing the Text: Explanatory Notes and All That." Symposium led by Professor Edwards 4:00-4:30 Tea Inquiries: email pshillingsburg_at_dmu.ac.uk From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Hypertext 2007 - Wide Range of Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:16:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 812 (812) Research Areas - Call for Papers and Participation FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT 07). *** Hypertext, The Web, and Beyond: Five Autonomous Programmes, One Unified Conference *** Dates: September, 10 =AD 12, 2007 Location: Manchester, UK Conference Website: http://www.ht07.org/ RSS News Feed: http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/news/atom.xml Hypertext and hypermedia involve a diverse range of technologies that support structured knowledge. The Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia is operating under the banner "Five Autonomous Programmes, One Unified Conference" to reflect that although there is a wide range of research areas within the community, all have a common interest in hypertext and hypermedia. Hypertext 2007 will therefore have the following five autonomous programmes each with its own programme chair and committee, with the aim of bringing together a vast range of people and interests to a single venue. - Hypertext Models and Theory (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/htmodel.php): Scholarly, Structural, Dynamic and Adaptive Models and Theory of Hypertext. Chair: Paul De Bra (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) - Practical Hypertext (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/practicalht.php): Applications of hypertext including The Web, Semantic Web, Web Engineering, and Web Design. Chairs: Helen Ashman (The University of Nottingham, UK), Alexandra Cristea (The University of Warwick, UK) - Hypertext and Society (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/htsociety.php): The effect of hypertext on Developing Regions, Social Tagging and Annotation, Blogs, and eLearning. Chairs: Hugh C Davis (University of Southampton, UK), Dave Millard (University of Southampton, UK) - Hypertext and the Person (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/htperson.php): Human Centred hypertext including Browsers and Interfaces, Web Accessibility, Usability, Evaluation and Observational Studies. Chair: Vicki Hanson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) - Hypertext, Culture, and Communication (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/htcc.php): Art, Literature, Philosophy, and the hypertext tools to support them. Chair: Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems, USA) In addition to the autonomous programmes, we will also be hosting: - Hypertext Reading Room (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/hypertexts.php) - Sponsored by Eastgate: This allows participants to submit hypertext systems to the conference in order for others within the community to gain hands on experience in using the system. Chairs: Jamie Blustein (Dalhousie University, USA), Rosemary Simpson (Brown University, USA) - Posters & Demonstrations (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/posters.php): Provides a great way to test new ideas, generate interest in a research area, or describe useful or interesting work that is not substantial enough for a full paper presentation. Chair:Jessica Rubart (Arvato Direct Services, Germany) - Student Research Competition (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/research.php) - Sponsored by the ACM and Microsoft: Provides students the opportunity to participate in an ACM conference and get visibility for their research (including Arts / Humanities) by displaying a poster and making a brief presentation to a panel of judges. Chair: Mark Truran (University of Teesside, UK) - Birds Of A Feather (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/bof.php): A community discussion forum where people with similar interests can flock together and discuss their research. Chair: Jim Whitehead (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Keynotes --------------- - Carole Goble (School of Computer Science - University of Manchester, UK) - Wendy Hall (Computer Science - University of Southampton, UK) Humanities Honour Scheme ----------------------------------------- In order to support and continue with the interdisciplinary aspect of the Hypertext conferences, the "Humanities Honour Sceme" is introduced. With this scheme we would like to ensure that attendees from Humanities get as much discounts as Computer Scientists. Creche - Sponsored by Hoppers (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/information/creche.php) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hypertext 2007 will be able to provide free creche services to delegates with small children. The creche can have child carers for children aged 6 months and above. [...] From: Aguera, Helen Subject: new NEH Guidelines and Application Instructions for Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:13:06 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 813 (813) New Guidelines and Application Instructions for Preservation and Access Projects: National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, will be accepting applications this summer for Humanities Collections and Resources grants. This grant program combines support for activities that were funded previously through two separate categories -- Preserving and Creating Access to Humanities Collections and Reference Materials. Digital technology now makes possible unified access to geographically dispersed collections and the integration of reference materials with related sources and tools. The possibilities presented by advances in technology require a new grant category that encompasses the range of activities funded through the previous programs and encourages digital projects that codify, unite, integrate, or aggregate humanities collections and resources. The new guidelines (which include sample proposal narratives) can be found at <http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/Collections_and_Resources.html>. Application receipt deadline is July 17, 2007 for projects beginning May 2008. All applications to NEH must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; see guidelines for details. Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the Division at 202-606-8570 or preservation_at_neh.gov. Program staff will read draft proposals submitted six weeks before the deadline. A list of the 2006 awards is available at <http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/preservationfebruary2006.html>. ******************** The National Endowment for the Humanities is a grant-making agency of the United States (U.S.) federal government that supports projects in the humanities. U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations are eligible applicants. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that will create, preserve, and make available cultural resources of importance for research, education, and lifelong learning. Projects may encompass collections of books, journals, newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, and objects of material culture held by libraries, archives, museums, historical Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: the differences that make a difference Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:28:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 814 (814) In his much admired little book on jazz improvisation, Ways of the Hand: A Rewritten Account (2001), the social anthropologist David Sudnow describes the stages of his learning, commenting at one point on the difference recording technologies have made. Recording, he notes, "gives improvised melodies a radically new status they didn't formerly have, as they can now be learned at a level of detail that a one-time hearing can't achieve" (19). On one level, all that a recording does -- or all that one wants it to do -- is faithfully to reproduce sounds. Audio engineering has given us better and better machines for accomplishing that quite simple end. But what was evident from the time when record players were first available to eager learners of jazz was that learning could happen in an entirely new way -- not, in a sense, because anything new was happening but because something that happened only once could be indefinitely repeated, and so bring a new depth of experience into reach. We often seem to need examples to answer the big SO WHAT? question, especially when it takes the form of an observation that what has been accomplished is actually quite simple conceptually. This seems to me a good example. It shows techno-science on one trajectory, the practice of applying it on another, related though going in different directions. It shows that even at a very primitive stage of the technology a difference had been made that subsequent technical improvements would affect only a little. It shows that one can grasp essentials without having to wait for the next release. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 20.595 ruining lives Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:04:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 815 (815) Willard, Well, I am over in this little corner of digital humanities, teaching future digital archivists to preserve born-digital objects. My students have already archived a part of Michael Joyce's oeuvre and are presently working on the digital files (relatively vast in extent) of Arnold Wesker and the digital originals of Norman Mailer's outgoing mail--all for the Humanities Research Center here at the University of Texas. Soon they will begin working on keeping alive a significant computer game collection just acquired by the Center for American History. And of course most of them will go on not to archive literature, but the records of governments to guarantee their accountability. Granted, they are Master's students, but we don't have much trouble convincing them that this is worthwhile work. And I think they ARE the right ones, not some kind of second tier group in service to "creatives." They know that without their work the whole emergent digital culture will go down the drain, and they are preparing to do something about it. Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas at Austin From: "Joris van Zundert" Subject: Re: 20.595 ruining lives Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:05:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 816 (816) Dear Willard, Allow me to put in a few words from a digital humanities software developer perspective. If there's one thing I'd train digital humanists to do, it's to share and collaborate. At least in The Netherlands 'traditionalist' humanities research is often if not most of the time solitary research. This tradition of splendid isolation has imho led to a practice of software tools also being developed as a solitary mission in this field. But whereas fine theory and eloquent reasoning may thrive on a singular engagement with paperware, effective and endurable program code is the result of the intense involvement of people on multiple levels. It's somewhat like the fact that you can write the script by yourself, but you can't make the movie work without others. Most digital instrumentation developed in the past has died off, was abandoned or simply got lost after the chief and only developer moved on to other projects. But in fact there's quite a number of software development practices and processes that could have prevented such loss (of knowledge). So, I'd teach digital humanists to apply those practices to ensure the endurance of what was gained by putting in so much effort. And by doing so I'd probably ruin their lives because those practices focus on sharing knowledge by painstakingly applying completely boring software development process methodology. Which is stuff that is about as dry as baked Sahara sand to teach. I wonder if even Bernard Williams for all his brilliance and wit of elocution would have been able to lend it humanists-seducing power. y.s., Joris -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert (MA) Huygens Institute Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information can be found at <http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=222&Itemid=125&lang=en>http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=222&Itemid=125&lang=en A disclaimer is applicable to this e-mail, for more information please refer to <http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223&Itemid=126&lang=en>http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223&Itemid=126&lang=en From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 20.595 ruining lives Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:04:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 817 (817) Dear Willard, Writing as someone who has pondered this problem, like you, it strikes me that in my own life I've reversed it. Unfortunately, this doesn't give me a good answer, except for myself. At 01:25 AM 4/27/2007, you wrote: [deleted quotation]If I could, I'd say "let the practical take care of itself". I can say that because my own work is immensely practical, and doesn't really presume to be anything but that. My company's successes, as demonstrated by our clients who go away happy, energized and informed, and return only years later with more work for us to do, are due entirely to our practical contributions, to what appears in the end in their bottom lines, since by and large they aren't coming to us for fun. I succeed in my own work when I manage to help my colleagues and clients to make it past the next payroll, by doing something that the world finds worthwhile and worth the remuneration. But I also know, from practical experience, that this tends to happen most readily and most satisfactorily when we don't fret only about the practical. Though we keep in mind the actual constraints of operation, the limits of the possible, we couldn't do our work if that's all we thought about. On the contrary, our clients find happiness, and energy, and information, not when we are focused only on the ground in front, but when we invite them to look with us at further horizons, to weigh the practical with the possible. When we do this, it helps that we can bring the broad view, share with them lessons we've learned in far away worlds, propose practical possibilities, engage our critical faculties -- Is the way you've always done it the best way? Can you help us understand how you got where you are? What is your strength; what do you want to build? This requires a spirit of openness and acceptance along with a willingness to play and to grow beyond our present selves. Such a spirit is not cultivated only in the humanities, of course, as you know. It is not the exclusive preserve of any discipline or any sect. It is an engagement, instead, with paradox: the most practical thing of all is that which is not practical in the least. What was terribly practical only fifteen or twenty years ago, today is a rusting relic. What is most dazzlingly practical today, was barely imaginable back then, just an impractical idea in some impractical person's head. So, what are the "real circumstances" in which your interlocutors would like to guarantee their success and effectiveness? How are we to ensure that our preparations for the real circumstances of today do not prove to be just so much wasted effort tomorrow? The only way, it seems to me, is by focusing on developing those strengths of mind and spirit that we will need in any circumstances in which we might find ourselves. Breadth of knowledge, alertness to the world, security of temperament, keenness of curiosity, recognition of common interests and opportunities, abilities to communicate and to reveal perceptions without clouding them with inessentials, faith in good work for its own sake and will to persist in it -- any of us could spin a list. But none of these intangibles are to be found by a fretful and miserly reduction of everything to a fleeting judgment of what is "practical" and what is not. Regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: Carlos Areces Subject: Doctoral Consortium at the 8th EUROLAN Summer School Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:02:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 818 (818) Doctoral Consortium at the 8th EUROLAN Summer School * Second Call for Participation * http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2007/DC/ July 30 - August 2, 2007, Iasi, Romania Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers Submission Deadline: May 14, 2007 1. General Information The Doctoral Consortium at EUROLAN-2007 will provide an opportunity for graduate students (PhD and MSc heading towards PhD studies) investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their current work and receive constructive feedback and guidance on future research, both from the general audience and the invited lecturers at the Summer School. The Doctoral Consortium will be held as a workshop during 3 or 4 consecutive evenings (1.5 hour slots) in the second week of the EUROLAN 2007 Summer School, July 30 - August 2, 2007. The final version of the accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the EUROLAN 2007 Doctoral Consortium, at the University Al. I Cuza Publishing House. During the Summer School the students will present their work, will receive constructive comments wrt. to current and future research directions from a panel of established researchers, and will benefit from the collaborative climate established among all participants, thus enhancing future joint work among them. Students will also prepare a poster which will be on display throughout the Summer School. We invite all interested graduate students to submit their work to the Consortium. As the main goal of the Consortium is for the authors to receive feedback, the emphasis is on work in progress. The research being presented can be from any topic area within Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, including but not limited to: * phonetics, phonology, and morphology; * pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; * text understanding and generation; * computational semantics; * ontology enriched NLP applications; * multilingual NLP; * mutilingual question answering; * machine translation; * corpus-based language processing; * electronic dictionaries; * written and spoken natural language interfaces; * knowledge acquisition; * terminology; * text summarisation; * text classification; * computer-aided language learning; * human computer interaction; * language resources; * evaluation, assessment and standards in language engineering; * theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. Well-known researchers from these areas will be invited lecturers of the school and therefore available for interesting discussions. 2. Submission Requirements The submissions should describe original work, still in progress. The submissions may have more than one author; however, all of them MUST be students (PhD and MSc heading towards PhD). The paper should include: * the problem(s) that the proposed research is addressing; * the main contribution(s) of the research to the CL & NLP field; * the proposed solution(s), including a brief description of the methodology adopted; * the future research plan. 3. Submission Procedure Submission must be electronic. The only format acceptable is PDF (.pdf). Submissions should not exceed 8 pages, including references and annexes and should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. The papers will be uploaded on a special page, announced on the web page of the Doctoral Consortium, where more submission guidelines are available. [...] ================================================================== Carlos Areces phone : +33 (0)3 54 95 84 90 INRIA Researcher fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 e-mail: carlos.areces_at_loria.fr INRIA Lorraine. www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces Equipe TALARIS - Batiment B 615, rue du Jardin Botanique 54600 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: CFP: Learning and Research In Second Life Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:03:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 819 (819) Preconference Workshop Call for Papers/Participation Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life (R) on October 17, 2007 in Vancouver at Internet Research 8.0 (http:// wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR8.0) Paper Deadline August 15th. Second Life(R) is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab which has captured the attentions of researchers and teachers from around the world from a variety of disciplines. This workshop aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a Learning and Research environment. It will bring 35 researchers together to collaborate, discuss and workshop diverse topics related to research and learning in Second Life. We will pursue a full-day schedule in which participants will discuss their work and interests on four different topics: learning in Second Life, integrated learning, the contributions of research to the community and ethical research methods. How can we better enable learning in this sphere? How can we better enable research? As a highlight, Robin Linden will give a talk to the group, and members of Linden Lab will likely participate throughout the day. We encourage researchers to submit papers and short biography to slworkshop_at_tmttlt.com which will be selected and distributed amongst participants before the workshop. First invitations will be offered to those who provide full papers for consideration. These papers have two purposes: first is to provide a common platform for understanding our research and teaching and second submitted papers may be considered for publication in an edited volume being produced in relation to the workshop, or possibly in peer reviewed publication derived from the workshop (these are currently under discussion). Subsequent invitation will be made based upon research/teaching statement and biography. If you are interested in participating, please send an email containing your information to slworkshop_at_tmttlt.com. Decisions will be made by September 1st, barring incident. There is a limit of 35 participants at the physical meeting; the event will be simulcast into Second Life. We welcome professionals, faculty and graduate students to participate. This workshop is sponsored by Linden Lab creators of Second Life and is organized by Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski. Free lunch, coffee breaks and the room is included in participation. jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series From: Matthew Gilmore [vp-net_at_mail.h-net.msu.edu] Subject: CFP: History and GIS special issue, _Social Science Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:21:13 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 820 (820) Date sent: 26 Apr 2007 History and GIS special issue Articles are now being solicited for a special issue of _Social Science Computer Review_ on the use of GIS in history. These should focus on the results of using GIS for exploring the past, not on the technology itself. We are interested in the broad range of application, pre-history to post-modern, anywhere in the world. Please send an indication about the topic(s) as soon as possible. Ideally, articles should be ready by early 2008, though earlier submissions would be preferable. Dr. James B. M. Schick, Department of History Dr. Tim Bailey, Department of Social Sciences (Geography) Pittsburg State University Pittsburg, KS 66762 Email: jschick_at_pittstate.edu x-post H-AHC Matthew Gilmore vp-net_at_mail.h-net.msu.edu -- Tom Elliott, Ph.D. Director, Pleiades Project Ancient World Mapping Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://pleiades.stoa.org From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: 20.599 ruining lives Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 06:58:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 821 (821) Willard, In reference to the "ruined lives" thread, is there not a hint of the hubris of marketing if one is to grant credence to conversion narratives? That is there surely are other ways to celebrate great professors than attributing to them the almost saintly features of influencing vocations. In short, is it not worth marketing the offerings of educational institutions not only by the talents of the teaching staff but also by the quality of the peer interaction? I offer from the clippings file the observation from an article by James Cummings "'Digital kids' make virtual advances in kindergarten" (Toronto Star May 26, 2001 p. M6). Cummings is reporting on a description of the next generation put forth by Douglas Rushkoff. One need not accept the discursive move to a then-and-now generational shift to accept the optismism, no need for an "on the other hand". Today's children, on the other hand, are snowboarders. They don't expect a smooth path and they seek out the irregularities, using obstacles as ramps and hurdles to intensify their experience. And one need not swallow the hype ["They are digital kids -- children not just of a new generation, but of a new era."] to have faith. Marketing academic programs in the future will be perhaps in the vein of less is more. The programs offer a retreat, time and place to co-explore. A humanist should in my opinion be loath to assume that students come to the conversation without their own histories and desires. They have a sense of their own trajectories or are capable of independently developing the arc of their life paths. The academic program is _not_ a bridge to somewhere. It is an event, a festival of events. "Where do you want to go today?" was an advertising slogan. Was. It is of the past. In the future, I will warrant that the question will be "what do you want to do today" and so ressemble more and more kindgarten for grownups. And sometimes the festival involves field trips and does ask (but not everyday) the question about where to. The answer it seems more and more is "home" in the sense of belonging to a a distributed community of engaged intellectuals and passionate scholars whether they spend long periods within the walls of the academy. Thank you for your kind indulgence as I seek clumsily to find a suitable peroration to this rant. [Insert virtual tour or reference to Library of Congress architecture of the First Floor North Corridor The penetrations in the vault above the paintings contain the surnames of distinguished men of education throughout the world. On the north side, left to right, they are: FROEBEL, PESTALOZZI, ROUSSEAU, COMENIUS, and ASCHAM. On the south side, above the columns and arches lending to the Great Hall, they are: HOWE, GALLAUDET, MANN, ARNOLD, and SPENCER. finis virtual tour] From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: Virginia Tech Launches April 16 Archive Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 06:57:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 822 (822) For immediate release Virginia Tech Launches April 16 Archive http://www.april16archive.org/ BLACKSBURG, Va., April 30, 2007 - Virginia Tech's Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) is pleased to announce the launch of the April 16 Archive (www.april16archive.org). This new online archive assists artists, humanists, social scientists, and all other scholars who seek, today and in the future, to develop a better understanding of the violent events of April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech. It is also available to the general public of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the United States of America, and the world at large as we come to terms with a local, national, and global event that will have ramifications for years to come. This archive works actively to deploy electronic media for the collection, interpretation, preservation, and display of stories and digital objects related to the tragedy of April 16, 2007 and its many effects as text, image, and sound. Developed in cooperation with George Mason University's Center for History and New Media (CHNM), this project is receiving technical, curatorial and administrative support from Virginia Tech students, faculty, and staff. The archive will preserve a diverse record of the events surrounding April 16, 2007 by collecting first-hand observations, photographic images, sound recordings, media reports, personal writings, official statements, individual blog postings, and any other documents that can be stored as digital files. In addition to local reactions, the archive welcomes responses from across the globe in any language. Through this archive, we aim to leave a positive legacy for the larger community and contribute to a collective process of healing, especially as those affected by this tragedy tell their stories in their own words. The larger trend exemplified by this project is the "digital memory bank." Memory banks are being used to preserve the richness of the present as it transitions to the past, thereby ensuring that the collected records can be both readily accessible and carefully preserved for future access. The April 16 Archive welcomes contributions from the Virginia Tech community, as well as from anyone around the world who wants to share words of support or reflection following the events of April 16, 2007. The attacks happened in Blacksburg, Virginia, but they were experienced around the world through mass media and community ties. The accounts of that day from any site across the globe are, therefore, very important to the April 16 Archive as it documents the full impact of this tragic event. For more information, visit www.april16archive.org or contact admin_at_april16archive.org. For media inquiries, contact Brent Jesiek, Manager of the CDDC, at (540) 231-7614 or cddc_at_vt.edu. Established in 1998, Virginia Tech's Center for Digital Discourse and Culture is one of the world's first university based digital points-of- publication for new forms of scholarly communication, academic research, and cultural analysis. Virginia Tech's College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences (CLAHS) as well as the Institute of Distance and Distributed Learning (IDDL) actively support the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture. The CDDC is also working with Virginia Tech's newly established Institute for Society, Culture, and the Environment (ISCE) to develop new scholarly initiatives, such as the April 16 Archive, tied into the practices of rhetoric, representation and the public humanities. This story is also posted on the April 16 Archive website: http://www.april16archive.org/news/ jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 06:59:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 823 (823) of Information The May 1, 2007 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" is available at: <http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM>http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. This edition includes 2,470 indexed titles. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated. Introduction, which includes sample search and instructions how to use the Subject Index and the Bibliography, is located at: <http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM>http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM This message has been posted to several mailing lists. Please excuse any duplication. ************************************************* *Marian Dworaczek *Monographs Coordinator *University of Saskatchewan Library *E-mail: marian.dworaczek_at_usask.ca *Home Page: <http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/>http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/ From: "Tim van Gelder" Subject: Rationale 1.3 - Learning and Sharing Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 06:59:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 824 (824) A new version of the argument mapping software package Rationale has recently been released. The new features that would probably be of most interest to people on this list are - exercises in reasoning and argument mapping, freely available online but designed to function in an integrated way with the software; - the "Rationale Wiki" - a place for sharing Rationale-related resources such as sample maps, lesson plans, etc. For more information, or to download, see <http://www.austhink.com/rationale>http://www.austhink.com/rationale A recent review of Rationale can be found at: <http://sorted.imakecontent.net/>http://sorted.imakecontent.net/ This remarkably insightful review amounts to a compact guide to using Rationale to aid one's thinking. - Tim v.G. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.17 Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 07:00:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 825 (825) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 17 May 1, 2007 -- May 7, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: ALWATTARI ON INNOVATION DNA Dr. Ali Alwattari, Innovation practitioner and author, is currently Principal Scientist in R&D at the P&G Corporation. He says, "Innovation DNA integrates the human aspects of innovation with the technical tasks of innovation to get a more whole representation of innovation reality... In its simplest form, innovation is something that happens when creative people try to convert new ideas into reality and solve the problems that come up along the way. To reliably and sustainable do this, however, it is important understand what things you are good at, what things you are not good at, and how these factors affect your performance -- namely, your Innovation DNA." See <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i17_dna.html> From: John Unsworth Subject: last call for conference room rates at DH2007 Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 06:57:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 826 (826) The DH2007 conference hotel rates, and the room blocks that we have reserved for conference attendees, expire on May 1st, so if you plan on coming to the conference and you have not yet reserved a hotel room, please do so immediately. Hotel room blocks have been arranged for conference participants at three hotels near the University campus. Lodging reservations and payment are the responsibility of individual participants. Please mention "Digital Humanities" when making your reservation in order to get the appropriate rate and availability. After the rooms are released, May 1, 2007, rooms will be on space-available basis only. Please call the hotels directly to make reservations. Illini Union 1401 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801 217.333.1241 iu-hotel_at_uiuc.edu (please include the number of guests, a mailing address, and a telephone number) Rates: $86 single, $99 double Located in the heart of campus. Hampton Inn 1200 West University Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801 217.337.1100; toll free 800.426.7866 (booking online will not guarantee conference rates or availability) Rates: $89 Located just north of campus; within walking distance. If you miss the May 1 deadline, you may still be able to reserve a room at one of the hotels above, but the conference rate is no longer guaranteed. You may also reserve rooms in the student residence hall, until May 27th: Busey Evans Residence Halls 1111 West Nevada, Urbana, Illinois 61801 217.333.1766 ask for guest housing. You may email conference_at_uiuc.edu for reservations or book on-line here. Rates: $25.65 shared room; $39.45 single; bathrooms are community style. Thanks, John Unsworth, local organizer [My apologies for not seeing that there was a time-limit on this message. --WM] From: Matthew James Driscoll Subject: Workshop in "Manuscriptology" Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 06:22:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 827 (827) Dear all, Might I bring to your attention the following? Workshop in "Manuscriptology", Copenhagen, 8-11 October 2007 This workshop will bring together leading researchers concerned with topics pertaining to material, philological and cultural/sociological aspects of manuscripts from traditions as diverse as the Chinese, Tibetan, Indian, African, Mezzo-American, Arabic and Greco-Roman with the aim of initiating the necessary and much desired process of interdisciplinary co-operation which can lead to the establishment of a truly international academic discipline of "manuscriptology". For more information see http://tors.ku.dk/kalender/manuscriptology/ For what it's worth, I'll be there. Matthew M. J. Driscoll Arnamagnaean Institute Copenhagen From: Philip Pothen Subject: Press release: JISC sponsors ICT Award (fwd) Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 15:38:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 828 (828) To: JISC-DEVELOPMENT--JISCMAIL.AC.UK --- Apologies for cross-posting --- Press release JISC sponsors 'Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year' Award Call to institutions to 'bring to wider attention examples of innovation in the use of ICT' JISC is sponsoring an award this year which will showcase the most innovative and potentially far-reaching ICT initiatives across the UK. The award, one of the Times Higher's 2007 Awards, will 'recognise and reward an institutional ICT initiative which has demonstrated an innovative and strategic use of ICT in support of the goals of that institution.' The award, for which all higher education institutions, teams or departments in the UK are eligible, is now open for entries until June 29th. The award will be presented at an event on the November 29th. The judges of the award are: * Alison Allden - Deputy Registrar & Director of Information Services, University of Bristol and Chair of JISC's Integrated Information Environment committee (JIIE) * Professor David Baker - Principal of the College of St Mark and St John and Chair of JISC's Content Services committee (JCS) <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus/committees/sub_committees/jccs_home/members/d avid_baker.aspx> * Sarah Porter - Head of Development, JISC <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/contactus/staff_contact_list/people_porter_s.aspx> * Norman Wiseman - Head of Services and Outreach, JISC <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/contactus/staff_contact_list/people_wiseman_n.aspx> Speaking to the Times Higher this week, Professor Baker said: 'There is a need for good practice and examples of innovation to be more widely shared. With the THES awards having quickly become a showcase for some of the best and most exciting work being done in higher education, we hope this ICT award will likewise bring to wider attention examples of innovative and far-reaching uses of ICT.' Gerard Kelly, Deputy Editor of the Times Higher and Awards director, thanked JISC for their sponsorship of the ICT award, saying: 'Our principal aim was to raise awareness of and reward the huge contribution British universities make to the economic and cultural health of the country, one that in our view had gone largely unheeded. I am delighted to say that, with your participation and the backing of leading figures in Government, business and the higher education sector, we have begun to shine a light on a few of the many achievements that have made UK universities among the best in the world.' For further information on the Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year Award, and to enter, please go to: www.thes.co.uk/Awards/2007/ See also: www.jisc.ac.uk/THESAwards For further information, please contact Philip Pothen (JISC) on 07887 564 006 or p.pothen_at_jisc.ac.uk From: { brad brace } Subject: many gigs Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 06:22:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 829 (829) Many headed monsters -- unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance, in which case Brad - for all his age and sensitivity - was nothing less than a time-bomb, ticking softly away until his appointed time; in which case, we should either - optimistically - get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning, and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a _why, or else, of course, we might - as pessimists - give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought, decisions, action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway; things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos? It was only a matter of time... http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_1.0 http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_2.0 http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_3.0 http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_4.0 Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media pdf-books -- a pastoral, pictorial and phonic elicitation of island parameters... http://www.bbrace.net/id.html http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/id.html bbs: brad brace sound http://69.64.229.114:8000 http://www.bbrace.net/undisclosed.html From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- April 2007 Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 06:34:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 830 (830) TL INFOBITS April 2007 No. 10 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL'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. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitapr07.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... Web 2.O Projects in Education NSF Report on Cyberinfrastructure Vision The Promise of Blended Learning Future Assumptions about Academic Libraries Studies on Wikipedia Use New Journal on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Using Virtual Worlds in Education Resource Guide Recommended Reading ...................................................................... WEB 2.O PROJECTS IN EDUCATION "What distinguishes the Web 2.0 phenomenon from earlier online educational tools is its connective nature. Key aspects of the movement include web architecture that encourages user contributions, the continuous updates of software and data, and the freedom to share and edit content. Essentially, anyone with an internet connection can consume and remix data while collaborating with others." In "Working the Web" (UNIVERSITY BUSINESS, April 2007) Chelan David surveys the use of Web 2.0 tools in academe. Examples he discusses include Harvard's "H20" collaboration project, Stanford's use of iTunes U, UC Berkeley's use of Google Video, and Wikipedia's School and University Projects web page. The article is available at http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=729&p=4#0. University Business [ISSN 1097-6671] is a publication for presidents and other senior officers at two- and four-year colleges and universities throughout the U.S. For more information contact: Professional Media Group LLC; 488 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06851 USA; tel: 203-663-0100; fax: 203-663-0149; Web: http://www.universitybusiness.com/. ...................................................................... NSF REPORT ON CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE VISION "In 2005, four multi-disciplinary, cross-foundational teams were created and charged with drafting a vision for cyberinfrastructure in four overlapping and complementary areas: 1) High Performance Computing; 2) Data, Data Analysis, and Visualization; 3) Cyber Services and Virtual Organizations; and 4) Learning and Workforce Development." In March 2007, the National Science Foundation published CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE VISION FOR 21ST CENTURY DISCOVERY, which describes the "various challenges and opportunities in the complementary areas that make up cyberinfrastructure . . . [and] also includes attention to the educational and workforce initiatives necessary for both the creation and effective use of cyberinfrastructure." The paper is available at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/nsf0728.pdf. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense . . . ." NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally-supported basic research conducted by U.S. colleges and universities and a major funding source in fields such as mathematics, computer science, and the social sciences. For more information, go to http://www.nsf.gov/. ...................................................................... THE PROMISE OF BLENDED LEARNING "[B]lended [or hybrid] course offerings (i.e., those that combine the elements of an online course with those of face-to-face instruction) have grown dramatically in American higher education in recent years. There is a belief among some that blended courses hold at least as much promise as fully online ones. . . . It is becoming clear that blended learning is generally not part of an institutional transition strategy from face-to-face to fully online courses, but rather a discrete option which institutions choose on its own merits." The authors of the March 2007 Sloan-C report "Blending In: The Extent and Promise of Blended Education in the United States" analyzed survey data from studies of blended learning to determine how these courses might fit into an institution's long-term strategic goals. Among the questions addressed in the report are: "Are blended courses more prevalent than fully online courses?" "Do blended courses hold more promise than fully online courses?" "Are blended courses a stepping stone for institutions on the way to fully online courses?" "What is the consumer experience and perception of online and blended delivery options?" The report is available online at http://www.sloan-c.org/info/04/dl.asp. For more on Sloan-C's coverage of the topic, see the "Sloan-C Blended Learning" website at http://www.blendedteaching.org/. It includes discussion forums, chapters from the book BLENDED LEARNING: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES, and videos of the Sloan-C Online Seminar Series "Blended Learning: What the Research Says." 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. For more information go to http://www.aln.org/. See also: BLENDED LEARNING GUIDE By Laura Staley, et. al. Dublin, OH: OCLC, March 2007 http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=13893 "The Blended Learning Guide features tools, tips and best practices aimed at trainers and instructors who are looking to effectively incorporate live in-person instruction with a variety of virtual training tools such as web conferencing, wikis and self-paced tutorials. The guide also includes case studies from a variety of libraries that have created engaging and successful staff training programs using blended learning modes." ....................................................................... FUTURE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ACADEMIC LIBRARIES In 2006 the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Executive Committee asked the ACRL Research Committee to determine "ten assumptions about the future that would have a significant impact on academic libraries and librarians." A long list of possibilities was shortened to ten, which were then presented at the March 2007 ACRL 13th National Conference. The results are listed in ranked order in "Top Ten Assumptions for the Future of Academic Libraries and Librarians: A Report from the ACRL Research Committee" (by James L. Mullins, Frank R. Allen, and Jon R. Hufford, C&RL NEWS, v. 68, no. 4, April 2007). None of the assumptions reflect wild futuristic speculation. Rather, they reflect the continuing importance of research library collections in academe. The article is available at http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2007/april07/tenassumptions.htm. You can also listen to a podcast with one of the authors at http://blogs.ala.org/acrlpodcast.php?title=ever_wonder_what_the_future_holds. ACRL, a division of the American Library Association, is a professional association of academic librarians and other interested individuals. It is dedicated to enhancing the ability of academic library and information professionals to serve the information needs of the higher education community and to improve learning, teaching, and research. For more information, contact Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795 USA; tel: 800-545-2433; fax: 312-280-2520; email: acrl@ala.org; Web: http://www.ala.org/acrl/. ...................................................................... STUDIES ON WIKIPEDIA USE The April 2007 issue of FIRST MONDAY features papers addressing aspects of Wikipedia, the online, user-contributed encyclopedia. In "Assessing the Value of Cooperation in Wikipedia" Dennis M. Wilkinson and Bernardo A. Huberman look at article edits to "demonstrate a crucial correlation between article quality and number of edits, which validates Wikipedia as a successful collaborative effort." Anselm Spoerri ("Visualizing the Overlap between the 100 Most Visited Pages on Wikipedia for September 2006 to January 2007") uses data visualization tools to show that a much smaller percentage of the popular Wikipedia pages is related to typical encyclopedic topics, such as geography, history, or politics. In "What is Popular on Wikipedia and Why?" he discusses the relationship between search engines, such as Google, and the most-visited Wikipedia pages. The issue is available online at http://www.firstmonday.org/. 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/. ...................................................................... NEW JOURNAL ON SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING & LEARNING is a new open, peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published by the Georgia Southern University Center for Excellence in Teaching. Articles in the first issue include: "PowerPoint Presentation Handouts and College Student Learning Outcomes" By Illene Noppe, et al. "Effects of Information Distribution Strategies on Student Performance and Satisfaction in a Web-Based Course Management System" By Margaret Lohman "What Motivates Students to Provide Feedback to Teachers About Teaching and Learning? An Expectancy Theory Perspective" By Jay Caulfield "Theory: The Elephant in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Room" By Pat Hutchings International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IJ-SoTL) [ISSN: 1931-4744] is published twice a year by the Center for Excellence in Teaching, P.O. Box 8143, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460 USA; tel: 912-681-0049; fax: 912-681-0099; email: aaltany_at_georgiasouthern.edu; Web: http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/. ...................................................................... USING VIRTUAL WORLDS IN EDUCATION RESOURCE GUIDE The UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services Teaching and Learning division has a new resource guide, "Second Life in Education: Selected Resources." It is available online at http://its.unc.edu/tl/guides/2ndlife.php. ...................................................................... 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. "Is Online Learning for Loners?" By Jennifer Mulrean MSN ENCARTA http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Departments/elearning/?article=OnlineLearningForLoners The audience for this brief article is students who are considering taking an online course. From: "Alexander Gelbukh" Subject: CFP: International Journal of Translation Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 06:21:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 831 (831) CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Translation, ISSN 0940-9819, published since 1989 by Bahri Publications, solicits papers relevant for theory and practice of manual, computer-aided, or machine translation or related topics. Deadline for the nearest issue: May 10 (registration of abstracts: now). Papers submitted later will be considered for the next issues. Submission and expression of interest: www.gelbukh.com/IJT. Topics: all topis related to translation, as well as (computational) linguistics and text processing topics having some relation with, or applications to, manual or machine translation or multilinguality. Please pass this CFP to relevant colleagues. From: bruce fraser Subject: Papers on computer-based dictionary platforms Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 06:32:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 832 (832) Dear colleagues I've been asked by colleagues in Lisbon for information on online papers on computer-based dictionary platforms. I'm aware only of online papers by Véronis (some cited by TEI, all linked at <http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/veronis/>http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/veronis/), Berg (<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/chass/oed/Berg-1.html>http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/chass/oed/Berg-1.html) and Tompa (<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/tompa/index.html>http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/tompa/index.html) on the OED, and a couple by myself on the Cambridge Greek lexicon site, and I'd be very grateful for further information, especially on recent work (though lexicography is a small world, it's surprisingly easy to get out-of-touch with the other inhabitants). Many thanks Bruce From: DH2007 Subject: DH2007: child care Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 06:54:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 20 Num. 833 (833) This is to announce a Digital Humanities Nursery (a.k.a. creche, daycare center/centre) for the upcoming Digital Humanities 2007 conference. If you would be interested in expert child care during the conference, would you send me an email at John.M.Unsworth_at_gmail.com? Thanks, John Unsworth, local organizer Digital Humanities 2007 http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/