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 première publication date de 1982. On parle d’une ville ibérique, qui était sur la Penya del Moro, un mont de 275 m de altitude à 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 révèle 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 procès 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 procès. Il s'agit d'un procès de rupture d'amitié et calomnie, qu'un seigneur d'une ville a entamé contre son serviteur. La date approximative des faits est la dernière moitié du 1er siècle 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, où 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.Età 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 più 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 è stata raccolta solo in funzione di un tentativo, forse vano, di individuazione delle divinità cui erano rivolti i culti delle genti indigene dell'Italia meridionale. Al contrario, si è 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 è 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'à 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 à l'exception qu'il puisse s'agir d'un cas litigieux d'un ouvrier contre un autre. Le texte note la procédure après 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) (Università 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 - Università 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 à publicação de textos (artigos científicos, palestras, etc) cuja temática envolva a Literatura e o Texto no Meio Digital, assim como as implicações 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 deuxième numéro de Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288) vient de paraître, à 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 à des travaux portant sur la littérature et et les textes dans le numérique, ainsi que l’écriture, la lecture et l’apprentissage de littérature à l’aide des ordinateurs. Dans ce deuxième numéro, nous avons des articles et des conférences présentés lors du II Symposium Nacional en Littérature et Informatique, réalisé à 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, enseñanza 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. Comissão Editorial da Revista Texto Digital Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Centro de Comunicação e Expressão 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 Tàrraco, 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 Tàrraco, 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) £100 (£80 before 14 Oct 2006) (ONE DAY) £60 (£50 before 14 Oct 2006) Non-member: (TWO DAYS) £130 (£110 before 14 Oct 2006) (ONE DAY) £80 (£70 before 14 Oct 2006) CHArt Student Member: (TWO DAYS) £60 (£40 before 14Oct 2006) (ONE DAY)£40 (£30 before 14 Oct 2006) Student Non-member: (TWO DAYS) £80 (£60 before 14 Oct 2006) (ONE DAY)£50 (£40 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 même objet dans des disciplines scientifiques diverses incluant des informaticiens, des historiens, des linguistes, des cogniticiens, des pédagogues, etc. Cet objectif vise à 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 ½ 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'Interiorità: 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, 328Â 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 - Università 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 Muñoz, 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 Villaseñor-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 Cardeñoso-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 colaboração dos(as) senhores(as) para divulgar a chamada de submissões de artigos para o 3º número da Revista Texto Digital, que será publicada em Dezembro deste ano. O prazo para submissão dos artigos termina em 10/11/2006. Pediríamos que falassem disso às pessoas interessadas em publicar seus trabalhos em nossa Revista. É claro que contamos também com as eventuais colaborações de vocês. Para mais informações www.textodigital.ufsc.br Cordialmente, Comissão 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 troisième 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 à 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 à www.textodigital.ufsc.br Bien à vous, Les responsables de l’édition Estimados Amigos: solicitámoles la colaboración de los señores para divulgar la llamada de sumisión de artículos para el 3º 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 Pequeño 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 à 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 deuxième et troisième cycle à soumettre des propositions d’articles de recherches et de sujets de conférences pour la réunion annuelle de la Société dans le cadre du Congrès des sciences humaines et sociales les 28, 29 et 30 mai 2007 à l’Université de Saskatchewan. La Société aimerait encourager en particulier les soumissions qui se rapportent à une discussion du thème central du Congrès, c’est-à-dire le partenariat entre communautés, ou du sous-thème, la création et la diffusion du savoir publique. En pratique, l’informatique dans les sciences humaines s’est toujours bien prêtée à 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 à 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 bibliothèques universitaires, d’être à la portée d’un public élargi. Même si le thème du Congrès cette année correspond bien aux intérêts de la SEMI/SDH, nous voulons encourager des soumissions qui se rapportent à la fois à la théorie et à 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 à spécifier dans les propositions soumises si la participation à une de ces discussions collaboratives est souhaitée. Certains articles de recherches présentés à 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 « Reassembling Disassembled Books » (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 thème les manuscrits Otto Ege et un nouveau projet qui vise à reconstruire digitalement certaines parties de la collection. Les ressources disponibles pour financer une séance d’étudiants et d’étudiantes de deuxième et troisième cycle sont limitées. Les candidats et candidates intéressé(e)s doivent se renseigner auprès 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 être membre de la SEMI/SDH avant de donner leur conférence. Les résumés et propositions doivent inclure les renseignements suivants tout au haut de la première page : titre de l’article, nom de l’auteur, adresse postale complète, 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 à 300 mots et indiquer clairement la thèse soutenue par l’article, sa méthodologie et sa conclusion. Tous les résumés et toutes les questions doivent être envoyés soit par courrier électronique (de préférence) ou par courrier conventionnel aux adresses suivantes : Brent Nelson, président du comité de la congrès 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 à nous à Saskatoon pour la conférence annuelle du congrès de la SEMI/SDH. Nous nous attendons à des présentations excellentes cette année et nous vous proposons aussi des divertissements captivants. Le comité d’organisation local du congrès 2007 a planifié des événements culturels intéressants comprenant un spectacle de danse aborigène, un festival de films, un match de croquet à 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 « Songs of a Prairie Girl », une revue musicale qui met en vedette les chansons de Joni Mitchell. Le campus universitaire pittoresque sur les bords de la rivière Saskatchewan offre un accès à 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 £200 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 £60 One day £40 Student Non-member: Two days £80 One day £50 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, £ 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 ---