From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist's 20th Date: Sun, 07 May 2007 11:02:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 1 (1) In their recent book, INEQUALITY.COM, Kieron O'Hara and David Stevens have argued that the great revolutionary dream of the Internet's democratization of the world turns out to be quite a mixed bag. On the one hand, as Jon Garvie says in his summarizing review of their argument, "Will the digital age bring equality?" (TLS 2 May 2007), "the distribution of the power to create and store information online has not been been matched by reduced inequality in the world at large". Where the Internet is now a daily fact of life, there is in fact an argument that quite the opposite has happened. "In a clever reading of Marshall McLuhan," Garvie notes, [deleted quotation]On the other hand, the Internet, [deleted quotation]The closer one looks, the more the uncertainties, and not much we can do about them directly. Toward the end of the review, however, Garvie voices criticism which points to what we can do and in fact are doing: [deleted quotation]Collaboration is a fine thing, but merely working together is not enough, as the metaphor suggests in its depiction of a person's imagined spatial entrapment within his or her surrounding sphere, which seems all the world, but isn't. Building a common perspective on computing -- or better, a shared way of gaining perspectives -- is the state of maturity we've been growing ourselves into for more than the last 20 years of Humanist's being-in-the-world, which I celebrate today. I like to compare our socio-intellectual place to a sea-going explorer's, on board a methodological vessel in an archipelago of disciplines. Northrop Frye, combining the ancient definition of God as "centre everywhere, circumference nowhere" ("centrum ubique, circumferentia nusquam") with Blake's metaphor of "expanding eyes", spoke of one's own discipline-of-origin as a centre of all knowledge that expands into all others. The key is the expanding. I tried some of this the other day IN PUBLIC. A philosophically inclined historian I know was giving a talk at a high-powered specialist centre in a nearby institution, so I went to hear him. His talk was very good, very stimulating -- no surprise, he's first-rate. Stimulated thereby I ventured during the question period afterwards to connect his call for more adventurous ways of talking about his subject to some of the more adventurous reading I have been doing, reading well outside the discipline represented by the specialist centre. By the sucking in of breath among the others in the small audience and by the momentary look of panic on his face I knew immediately that the collective disciplinary immune system had detected invasive ideas and was immediately responding. I knew at once that I was suddenly in the role of the talkative casually dressed grey-bearded barking-mad nutter whom all speakers fear. Now I was not citing reports of crop-circles, or intercourse with extraterrestrials (cf. http://www.billymeier.com/billy_meier.htm), rather arguments made by anthropological linguists about jazz improvisation, and other arguments by theoretical biologists about self-organizing systems. In other words, what triggered the immune response was the gesture of expanding. What really did it, I think, was the word "jazz". I mean, theoretical biology is a science, and we gotta respect THE TRUTH, right? But jazz???? According to Lafcadio Hearn, summarizing the consensus of opinion among (white) musicologists in 1912, the word began as *jass*, [deleted quotation]There are problems with Hearn's etymology. The OED, more cautious and sober, notes "Origin unknown". More interestingly, however, the language of the context from which I've extracted this quotation is racially polarized (e.g. "to produce the same effect in whites the further stimulation of alcohol is needed"), suggesting that in all probability the musicologists of the time went for a particular meaning with conditioned alacrity -- and thereby blocked from musicological sight for many decades aspects of jazz we have only begun to understand fairly recently. (See e.g. Paul Berliner's magnificent Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation, Chicago 1994.) But whatever may be the case, the subterranean connotations of the word retain the power to expand the mind to the point of discomfort and stress. But I digress. Of course one needs to do all one can to keep from exploding, or expanding to the point of ineffectual dissolution, or acquiring books the reading of which demands more time than one has in the probable remainder of one's life. One needs focus. But that does not mean myopia or the tunnel-vision of the stiff-necked, space-cramped coal miner, who sees sharply only what's immediately within the brightly illuminated spot of his headlight. These 20 years of Humanist have for its ringmaster been dedicated not just to an expanding field of vision but to working out the implications of the operative participle of our practice, to "expanding eyes". Evidence of a good result, from this and other efforts, is not just devoutly to be wished for. It is to be found e.g. in the recent book, Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community (Calgary, 2006), ed. Ray Siemens and David Moorman. (Read it tonight.) I cite but a few examples, with no surprise that they are Canadian. In a delightful chapter, "Forswearing Thin Potations: The Creation of Rich Texts Online", Michael Best (Professor Emeritus, Victoria, http://www.engl.uvic.ca/Faculty/MBHomePage/) begins by invoking Falstaff's declaration that, "If I had a thousand sonnes, the first humane principle I would teach them, should be, to forsweare thin potations, and to addict themselues to sacke". He pulls out of Falstaff's typically corrupting inclination the wherewithal to voice "my conviction that the way ahead for Humanities Computing lies in taking the initiative, forswearing the thin potations consumed by those who would have us conform to the pale demands of tradition" (p. 1). While recognizing our duty to preserve our inheritances, he goes on to say, "I think it not an understatement to claim that there is a powerful pressure of tradition in academia generally to be safe, to progress through accepted and understood channels, to publish in accepted journals and presses, to take no risks as one aspires to tenure, promotion, and the small carrots of prestige and salary increments that the profession offers" (p. 2). Be adventurous! (When you can.) At the other end of the volume, Andrew Mactavish and Geoffrey Rockwell examine the distrust which still characterizes reactions to computing in the humanities and find in it some complex questions about the relation between the humanities and technology. They examine historically as well as philosophically basic assumptions of the humanities, asking how these are challenged by the legitimization of technical practice (p. 229). In the Afterword, on the Canadian TAPoR project (http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/home.html), Rockwell asks, what are the interesting questions of humanities computing? Are they new? He argues that development of tools arises from craft theory as well as generates it. But this theory is rarely articulated by the people who develop the tools, except insofar as the tool is itself an articulation. (In what sense can this be?) For me what jumped off the page is his statement that craft theories "come to light when we have a sufficient number of competing tools that others need to articulate why one would use one tool over another" (pp. 294f). Indeed -- take text-analysis and relational database design as our prime example. Tools are not only part of the interpretative object, he writes, they are part of the interpretative possibilities of a text, for all texts are embedded within or manifested by tools that authorize or make difficult different types of interpretation. What changes, or could change, when we use what tool? A field in which questions of this sort can be asked, and are asked, has come of age in an important way. Yes, so much remains to be done -- more accurately, appears on the horizon as we approach it. We feel, or at least I feel, so adolescent in clumsiness and so possessed by an ignorance that compelled to speak comes out ofttimes as arrogance. But now is no time to be a wall-flower drinking thin potations, if any at all, under the strict gaze of sophisticated parental traditions. Play-time. Jazz-time. Reach for the strong stuff and drink to Humanist's continued health! Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 2 (2) From: Shayne Brandon test message Shayne From: Willard McCarty Subject: apologies Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:34:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 3 (3) Dear colleagues, The transition across volumes, from 20 (for the 19th year) to 21 (for the 20th, just celebrated) was less than perfect this time, because I didn't think to warn my technical colleague at Virginia of the upcoming transition. And, as it happened, the software went wonky at precisely the wrong time, so there were further delays. Hence the great mass of messages, many of them rather late, now about to descend on you. My apologies. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Jan Baetens Subject: new publication: "Image (&) Narrative" Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 08:12:16 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 4 (4) Dear Sir, I would like to announce the recent publication of a special issue of the peer-reviewed online journal "Image (&) Narrative" on The Digital Archive: http://www.imageandnarrative.be/ Table of contents: <http://www.imageandnarrative.be/digital_archive/introduction.htm>Introduction Jan Baetens Pascal Gielen Rudi Laermans <http://www.imageandnarrative.be/digital_archive/desurmont.htm>Redefining the Limits of Space and Time on the Web Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Michael Fraser Subject: DRHA07: Extension of deadline Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:40:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 5 (5) The deadline for proposals for this years Digital Resources in the Humanities and Art conference has been extended for a further two weeks. Whether you consider yourself a creator, practitioner, user, distributor or custodian of digital resources in the arts and humanities, if you have something to say or something to show, something to discuss, or a corner to defend, we'd like to hear from you at this year's conference, to be held at Dartington College of Arts, 9 - 12 September 2007! Proposals for academic papers, themed panel sessions and reports of work in progress can now be accepted up till 20 MAY 2007. Your proposal should be no smaller than 500 words and no longer than 2000; it will be reviewed by an independent panel of reviewers, and notifications of acceptance will be sent out before the end of June 2007. Visit the website at http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/ for more information and a link to the proposals website. From: "J.L.Abdelnour-Nocera" Subject: Sociotech-id07 at Interact 2007 Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:39:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 6 (6) Sociotech-ID'07 Call for Papers Workshop on new sociotechnical insights in interaction design (September 10-11, 2007) in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil http://iit.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id07 <http://iit.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id07> held in conjunction with the 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Interact'2007 http://www.interact2007.org/ Aims and goals of the workshop Diverse areas of the social sciences explore and conceptualize the relation between people, society and technology under the rubric of 'sociotechnical', which can bring interesting insights into interaction design. While organizational studies of technology adoption have a well defined conceptual framework known as sociotechnical systems theory with established principles, the situation is not the same for interaction design research. The latter includes examples that give diverse uses to the term 'sociotechnical' when involving social methods and theories. While perspectives like ethnography, ethnomethodology and activity theory have had a clear impact in the design of interactive systems, the potential contribution of other social science perspectives has not become so clear and uniform despite the increased development of the pervasive and social proxy - mediating and mediated -- characters of interactive systems. This workshop will bring together good examples of research in interaction design that refer to the term 'sociotechnical'. The challenge is to achieve some level of 'translation' despite differences between disciplines whose main interest is under-standing social phenomena and disciplines whose main interest is the design of interactive systems. It is hoped the workshop will identify opportunities for a socio-technical knowledge framework in interaction design. Submissions are welcome in, but are not limited to, the following topics: actionable recommendations and guidelines for the conception, design and evaluation of interactive systems as 'social proxies'; improved methods for the gathering and elicitation of sociotechnical requirements; identifying socially responsible policies for interaction design; understanding participatory design as a sociotechnical endeavor involving multidisciplinary teams in the context of novel development methodologies such as Agile. Submission The following types of submission are solicited: long paper submissions of up to 5,000 words, describing substantial contributions of novel ongoing work; short paper submissions of up to 2,000 words, describing work in progress. All papers must be written and presented in English and will be peer reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work and to their ability to generate discussions between the participants of the workshop. The format of submitted papers must follow the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0), including no page numbers. Submitted papers must be in PDF or Word for Windows format. Papers should be submitted to http://hercules.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id07 [...] From: Simon Tanner Subject: JPEG2000 conference Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:41:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 7 (7) DPC/BL Joint JPEG 2000 Workshop 25th June 2007 British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, London 10.00 ­ 16.30 9:30-10:00 Arrival, registration and coffee Morning Session ­ “JPEG2000 in practise” chaired by Roger James, Head of Digital Library, BL 10:00-10:10 Welcome and introduction - Rory McLeod, Digital Preservation Manager BL 10:10-10:40 "THE AHDS EXPERIENCE” Mike Pringle, Visual Arts Manager, AHDS 10:40-11:10 “Preservation Planning” ­ Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology. 11:10-11:40 “JP2’s preservation capabilities within PLANETS” Manfred Thaller, Cologne University 11:40-12:10 “Encoding lossy compressed JP2 files: using signal peak signal to noise ratio to dynamically modulate compression”. Bill Comstock, Harvard 12:10-12:30 Q & A 12:30-13:30 Lunch Afternoon Session - "Can JP2 be considered as a preservation format?" 13:30-14:00 "How do I decide if JPEG2000 is for me? Choosing standards when there are so many". Simon Tanner, Kings College London. 14:00-14:30 “JPEG2000 in Practise” - Aly Conteh, Digitisation Programme Manager, BL 14:30-15:00 “Adobe” - Jim King, Adobe 15:00-15:30 Q & A followed by coffee 15:30-16:30 Panel Session chaired by Roger James. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1678 or +44 (0)7887 691716 email: simon.tanner_at_kcl.ac.uk www.digitalconsultancy.net Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery: 5-day training event 21st - 25th May 2007, London, UK. http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/digifutures/ From: "Alexander Gelbukh (MICAI-2007)" Subject: CFP: MICAI-2007, Artificial Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:41:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 8 (8) Intelligence, Springer LNAI + journals MICAI 2007: 6th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE www.MICAI.org/2007 November 5-9, Aguascalientes, Mexico Proceedings: Springer LNAI & special issues of journals Submission deadline: June 10 (title & abstract; see below) CALL FOR PAPERS GENERAL INFORMATION Topics of interest include all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Poster session, workshops, tutorials, and cultural events are planned. The recent MICAI events (2005 and 2006) received over 420 submissions from over 40 countries each. The acceptance rate (oral session) was below 28%. Among the keynote speakers were John McCarthy, Tom Mitchell, Ronald Yager, to name just a few. The conference attracted over 500 attendees. PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSION Papers accepted for oral session will be published by Springer in LNAI: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Poster session papers will be published separately. Special issues of journals are anticipated. Submissions are received via webpage; see guidelines there. By June 10, abstract and title is to be registered; the full text is uploaded later. [...] From: "Dan O'Donnell" Subject: Call for Bids: TEI Members Meeting, Fall 2008. Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:42:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 9 (9) Call for Bids: TEI Members Meeting, 2008 Deadline: August 1, 2008 The annual TEI Members' Meeting takes place every year in October or November. We are now seeking bids to host this event in 2008. The meeting this year (2007) will take place on October 31-November 3 at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD (USA). The previous meetings have been: * Victoria, Canada, October 27-28, 2006. Hosted by the University of Victoria. * Sophia, 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. This year's meeting will be a three-day event, with approximately 70-100 attendees. The first and second day will involve plenary lectures by invited speakers, round-table discussions, and conference-style session. The third day will be a closed session, restricted to TEI members and subscribers only, which includes reports on the TEI's work and the annual elections for the TEI Board and Council. Meetings of TEI Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are also scheduled for this day. Future meetings should assume roughly this shape, although there is considerable room for local initiative in consultation with the Board. The TEI Consortium covers the direct costs in connection with the meeting. As the TEI is an organisation with limited financial resources, and any contribution from the host is very welcome. Bids should be sent to info_at_tei-c.org by August 1, 2008, and should include the following information: * The name of the institution(s) making the bid * The name, address, email, and telephone number of the contact person * A brief description of the facilities available for the event (rooms, equipment, technical support, food) * An indication of what financial support, if any, the hosting institution is prepared to give (for instance, sponsoring one or more receptions or pre-meeting workshops; payment of travel expenses for one or more plenary speakers; 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! Daniel O'Donnell -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ From: hra_at_pixel.cviog.uga.edu (Hamid R. Arabnia) Subject: cfp: Worldcomp'07 Congress Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:43:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 10 (10) Call For Papers - Deadline: May 14, 2007 WORLDCOMP'07 The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing Date and Location: June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws You are invited to submit a paper (see instructions below.) Please note that only good quality papers will be considered - the overall paper acceptance rate has been about 28% so far (for regular papers). WORLDCOMP'07 is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, and workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: June 25-28, 2007. See below for the complete list of joint-conferences. This is a Call For Papers for publication in the Final Edition of the conference proceedings. All papers submitted in response to this announcement will be evaluated for publication in the Final Edition of the proceedings which will go to press soon after the conference. This announcement is ONLY for those who missed the opportunity to submit their papers in response to earlier announcements (authors who have already been notified that their papers have been accepted/not-accepted should ignore this announcement.) Important Dates: Please note that these new deadlines (shown below) are not reflected on the main conference web sites (this allows us to limit the number of submissions.) May 14, 2007: Submission of full/draft papers (about 5 to 8 pages) May 23, 2007: Notification of acceptance/rejection June 3, 2007: Registration June 25-28, 2007: WORLDCOMP'07 Congress July 10, 2007: Camera-Ready Papers Due [...] From: "Prof. Roger Boyle" Subject: digitisation of a C19th copy of the Qur'an Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:44:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 11 (11) We have created a resource at http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/mahdiyya-quran/ This is a digitisation and backlit digitisation of a C19th copy of the Qur'an. This is a prototype site. I'd be interest in feedback on oversights and/or its utility. Please feel free to publicise this resource widely. Roger From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.18 Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:45:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 12 (12) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 18 May 8, 2007 =96 May 15, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERGT: THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND HIGHER EDUCTION Ubiquity has received permission to publish=20 an excerpt from a new book by Michael A. Peters,=20 professor at the University of Illinois at=20 Urbana-Champaign and the University of Glasgow.=20 The book is titled "Knowledge Economy,=20 Development and the Future of Higher Education,"=20 and Ubiquity associate editor A. Triptahi writes=20 of it: "Prophetically, almost thirty years ago=20 Jean-Fran=E7ois Lyotard forecast the end of the=20 modern research university based on Enlightenment=20 principles. He envisaged the emergence of=20 technical institutes in the service of the=20 information-rich global multinationals." The excerpted material is Chapter 11 of=20 Professor Peters's book. Though not extremely=20 short, it is well worth reading by information and computer professionals. See=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i18_peter.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiqu= ity/views/v8i18_peter.html From: "Lorna M. Hughes" Subject: Re: 20.610 DH2007: child care Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:43:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 13 (13) Dear All, Can I just say that I think that this is a fantastic idea, and that more conferences should take heed of John's excellent lead on this issue! L. Quoting "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" : [deleted quotation] -- Lorna M. Hughes Programme Manager AHRC ICT Methods Network Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street London, WC2R 3DX Telephone: 020-7848-2426 lorna.hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk From: "Joergen Villadsen" Subject: Doctorial Consortium at CONTEXT 07, cfp Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:52:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 14 (14) ** CONTEXT 07, doctorial consortium ** August 20, 2007, Roskilde, Denmark http://context-07.ruc.dk/dc.html The CONTEXT07 conference will host a doctorial consortium where PhD students will have the opportunity to present their ongoing work and have it assessed and discussed by leading scholars in different disciplines contribution to the research area of CONTEXT. The objectives of the Doctoral Consortium are: - provide a setting for mutual feedback on participants' current research, and guidance on future research directions; - to develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; and - to contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and participation in other conference events. TOPICS include but are not limited to the ones listed in the CFP of the main CONTEXT conference which is available at http://context07.ruc.dk/cfp.html SUBMISSION AND FORMAT See details at http://context-07.ruc.dk/dc.html IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submissions (strict) June 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance June 17, 2007 Camera ready due (strict deadline) July 12, 2007 Doctoral consortium August 20, 2007 Main Conference and Workshops August 20-24, 2007 DOCTORIAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy REGISTRATION must made through the CONTEXT conference website http://context-07.ruc.dk --------------------------------------------------------------------- Henning Christiansen professor of Computer Science, ph.d. Research group PLIS: Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies Roskilde University P.O.Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, DENMARK http://www.ruc.dk/~henning --------------------------------------- CONTEXT conference at Roskilde: http://context-07.ruc.dk From: Wim Van Mierlo Subject: FW: SEMINAR ON TEXTUAL Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:52:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 15 (15) BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES SEMINAR ON TEXTUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES Monday 11 June 2007 Meeting Rooms 3 & 4, Conference Centre, The British Library 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB PROGRAMME 11.15 HORST MEYER (Bad Iburg) A philosopher designs his books. Shaftesbury's typographical principles 12.00 Sherry 12.15 Lunch (Own arrangements.) 1.45 FRANÇOIS DUPUIGRENET (Enssib) Typography and theology in the ‘Poetical Labyrinths’ of the Cistercian Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (1606-1682) 2.30 ALASTAIR MCCLEERY (Scottish Centre for the Book, Napier University, Edinburgh) The German paperback tradition and its influence 3.15 Tea 3.45 GEOFF WEST (British Library) Handmade books from Cuba: more than 20 years of Ediciones Vigía 4.30 JAROSLAVA KAŠPAROVà (Prague) La réception de la littérature espagnole des XVIe et XVIIe siècles par les lecteurs tchèques d'époque The Seminar will end at 5.15 pm. All are welcome: but please notify us if you are wish to attend. If you know of colleagues who might like to attend, please pass on the invitation. Barry Taylor barry.taylor_at_bl.uk tel + 44 (0)20 7412 7576 Susan Reed susan.reed_at_bl.uk tel + 44 (0)20 7412 7311 From: John Unsworth Subject: archivist position Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:21:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 16 (16) Archivist for The HistoryMakers University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago [please respond to lib-hr_at_uic.edu or the postal address below] The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Library seeks an Archivist to work with The HistoryMakers video oral history archive. This is a specially-funded position, with a one-year appointment, renewable for a period of up to three years. The incumbent will work primarily at The HistoryMakers archive in Chicago and will report to both UIC's Head of Special Collections and to The HistoryMakers's Executive Director. JOB SUMMARY: The Archivist performs professional archivist, reference, and records management duties involved in the administration of The HistoryMakers video oral history archive. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES: -- Implements projects to improve description, bibliographic control of and access to archival records, including creating electronic finding aids using Encoded Archival Description (EAD), creating MARC records, and assigning subject headings. -- Initiates and implements procedures for the preservation and conservation of archival materials. -- Develops documentation and trains staff in cataloging and subject analysis of archival materials. -- Hires, trains and supervises graduate assistants, program assistants and interns. -- Responds to reference inquiries from researchers using the The HistoryMakers archives. -- Participates in the usability testing of The HistoryMakers Informedia database for indexing and retrieval of interview segments. -- Writes grant proposals for projects to preserve or improve access to the archive. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Master's degree in library science from a program accredited by the American Library Association and archival certification. Knowledge of American history and African-American history. Strong project planning and time management skills. Knowledge of HTML, XML, Dublin Core, OAI-PMH, and CONTENTdm or other digital asset management system. Knowledge of Library of Congress subject headings and MARC format. Knowledge of FileMaker Pro and Microsoft Access as well as other Microsoft Office applications. Five years of experience as an archivist in an academic or research library, museum, or archive. ADDITIONAL DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS: Familiarity with the professional standards and cataloging practices of the Association of Moving Images Archivists and Oral History Association. Salary/rank/contract: Salary is $55,000. This is a twelve-month Academic/Professional appointment in the UIC Library; annual contract renewable for up to three years; 24 vacation days; 12 days of annual sick leave with additional disability benefits; 11 paid holidays; medical insurance (contribution based on annual salary; coverage for dependents may be purchased); two dental plans available; life insurance paid by the State; participation in one of the retirement\ options of the Illinois State Universities Retirement System compulsory (8% of salary is withheld and is tax exempt until withdrawal); no Social Security coverage but Medicare payment required. For fullest consideration, apply by May 22, 2007 with supporting resume and the names and addresses of at least three references to: Annie Marie Ford Director of Library Human Resources The University Library The University of Illinois at Chicago Box 8198 Chicago, IL 60680 email: lib-hr_at_uic.edu Fax: 312-413-0424 The University of Illinois at Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. The HistoryMakers is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the creation of a video archive of first-person narratives of African Americans. The initial goal of The HistoryMakers is to create an archive of 5,000 interviews over a five-year period. Information about the archive and projects is available at: www.thehistorymakers.com. The HistoryMakers headquarters is located at 1900 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60616. From: Adrian Miles Subject: book announcement Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:14:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 17 (17) ALT-X PRESS LAUNCHES "ILLOGIC OF SENSE: THE GREGORY L. ULMER REMIX" AS THE LATEST ADDITION TO ITS INFLUENTIAL EBOOK SERIES BOULDER, Colorado, May 10, 2007 --The Alt-X Online Network, a space "where the digerati meet the literati" and on the Internet since 1993, announces the release of a new Alt-X Press ebook entitled "Illogic of Sense: The Gregory Ulmer Remix" edited by Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye, and designed by artist Joel Swanson of hippocrit.com. Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix Edited by Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye Design by Joel Swanson http://www.altx.com/ebooks/ulmer.html Contributors include Niall Lucy, Jon McKenzie, Linda Marie Walker, Craig Saper, Rowan Wilken, Marcel O'Gorman, Teri Hoskin, and Michael Jarrett, with an introduction by editors Tofts and Gye. "Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix" is an exciting new ebook publication that employs theorist Gregory Ulmer's invocation to invent new forms of electronic writing. As the ebook's editors, Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye, write in their brilliant introduction, "Ulmer has been at the forefront of thinking about new cultural formations as the paradigm of literacy converges with digital culture." Ulmer's work has been central to contemporary thinking on the future of writing and his international presence as one of the leading figures in media arts discourse has influenced a multitude of disciplines from electronic literature and Internet art to critical theory, communications studies, and art history. The ebook features a diverse group of artists, theorists, and creative writers who develop new forms of hybridized "digital rhetoric." Their inventive and audacious experiments take advantage of recent developments in the field of new media studies, and as part of Alt-X's mission to participate in the creative commons provided by the Web, are available for free download. This provocative collection of multi-tracked writing puts into play many of Ulmer's breakthrough theories summed up in his most recognized hot-button terms: applied grammatology, heuretics, post(e)-pedagogy, textshop, mystory, and choragraphy. Encouraged by the example of Ulmer's own hyperrhetorical writing style, the authors incorporate collaged imagery, mp3 soundtracks, and QuickTime movies into their innovative multimedia mix while exploring how these same extensions of "writerly performance" explode the false barrier between academic discourse and spontaneous poetics, narrative and rhetoric, and autobiography and fiction. Positing an "illogic of sense" to reclaim what Ulmer calls an "anticipatory consciousness," designed to utilize the force of intuition as a way to invent emergent forms of knowledge, this grouping of hypermedia texts showcase how interdisciplinary writers can remix the methodological approach of an avant-garde philosophy propelled by Ulmer, one that prioritizes an ongoing process of discovery and media arts assemblage. The ebook is beautifully designed by artist Joel Swanson of hippocrit.com, who crosses his visionary design sensibility with state of the art technology to produce an original work of ebook-art that many will view as finally fulfilling the long-promised potential of online publishing to use stimulating visual arrangement, media hybridization, and typographical ingenuity to blur the distinction between publication, exhibition, and design performance. "Simultaneously celebrating and expanding on the writing performances located in Gregory Ulmer's rich oeuvre of totally remixable source material, the collection of essays in 'Illogic of Sense' adhere to an experiential approach to creative/critical writing and in so doing teach us how to write a theory of poetics that will help us invent a new field of study that I would call interdisciplinary digital humanities." - Mark Amerika, series editor, Alt-X Press; author of "META/DATA: A Digital Poetics" (MIT Press, 2007) You can download "Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix" ebook as well as other Alt-X ebooks for free at http://www.altx.com/ebooks/ -- cheers Adrian Miles this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x] vogmae.net.au From: Craig Bellamy Subject: DRHA07: Extension of deadline Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:15:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 18 (18) DRHA07: Extension of deadline The deadline for proposals for this year's Digital Resources in the Humanities and Art conference has been extended for a further two weeks. Whether you consider yourself a creator, practitioner, user, distributor or custodian of digital resources in the arts and humanities, if you have something to say or something to show, something to discuss, or a corner to defend, we'd like to hear from you at this year's conference, to be held at Dartington College of Arts, UK, 9 - 12 September 2007. Proposals for academic papers, themed panel sessions and reports of work in progress can now be accepted up till 20 May 2007. Your proposal should be no smaller than 500 words and no longer than 2000; it will be reviewed by an independent panel of reviewers, and notifications of acceptance will be sent out before the end of June 2007. Visit the website at http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/ for more information and a link to the proposals website. (Sent on behalf of Lou Burnard, Programme Secretary) -- Dr Craig Bellamy Research Associate ICT Guides, AHDS, King's College, London http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/ ----- 26 - 29 Drury Lane 3rd Floor King's College London LONDON, WC2B 5RL Phone: 020 7848 1976 From: Dan O'Donnell Subject: Re: 21.005 events many and various Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:17:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 19 (19) It has been pointed out to me that I placed the deadline for bid proposals in 2008. Please submit bids for the 2008 meeting and conference in 2007 ;) On Tue, 2007-08-05 at 21:49 +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation][...] [deleted quotation]-- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/> Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Associate Professor and Chair of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox: +1 403 329 2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: Join the Live Webcast for "Copyright Utopia" Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:17:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 20 (20) Announcing Open Registration for the Live Webcast Presented by the Center for Intellectual Property Copyright Utopia: Alternative Visions, Methods & Policies Online May 21-23, 2007 http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/ If you are unable to travel for the annual copyright symposium -- you need not be left out. Consider registering for the live webcast! Visit http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/webcast for details on how you can participate remotely in this event and for details on what will be broadcasted. Check out our new webcast platform and share this three (3) day event with others at your institution. Costs: $225 per person or just $575 for an institution with three or more participants. Registration for the face-to-face symposium is still open but we remain committed to making the programming available to everyone. Please join us online for the live symposium webcast! Visit http://tinyurl.com/2z4po3 [secure server] to register now. -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 Phone: 240-582-2803 or 1-800-283-6832, ext. 2803 Fax: 240-582-2961 ofrancois_at_umuc.edu http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ From: Martyn Jessop Subject: Text Visualization Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:18:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 21 (21) I'm researching a book on visualization in the digital humanities and need some views from those working in text visualization. I've reviewed visualization of quantitative data, spatial data and temporal data and there is plenty of support for the new visual methods. When I came to eamine text visualization things were very different. My difficulty is that many of the people I've spoken to argue that the more imaginative visualizations of text are merely decorative and we have not seen much in the way of useful insight emerging from the use of such visualizations. Is this really an accurate assessment? I come from a background of visualization of spatial and quantitative data and can see how adaptions of statistical graphics mesh well with 'conventional' text analysis but I'm interested in the more creative applications such as word brush, word rain and similar imaginative tools present in projects like TAPoR and TextARC. I'd like to keep things simple and not risk limiting the discussion so I will not say more at this stage. So are the "blobby clusters" and "concept shapes" of text visualizations a waste of time or are visual analysis strategies providing useful insights which are being translated into concrete research outcomes? Regards Martyn Jessop ---------------------- Martyn Jessop Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS email: martyn.jessop_at_kcl.ac.uk Phone: 0207-848-2470 Fax: 0207-848-2980 From: Carlos Areces Subject: Doctoral Consortium at the Eurolan 2007 Summer Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:21:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 22 (22) School: Last CFP ********************* Apologies for multiple postings | Please distribute! ********************* Doctoral Consortium at the 8th EUROLAN Summer School * Last Call for Participation * http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2007/DC/ July 30 - August 2, 2007, Iasi, Romania Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers Submission Deadline: May 14, 2007 1. General Information The Doctoral Consortium at EUROLAN-2007 will provide an opportunity for graduate students (PhD and MSc heading towards PhD studies) investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their current work and receive constructive feedback and guidance on future research, both from the general audience and the invited lecturers at the Summer School. The Doctoral Consortium will be held as a workshop during 3 or 4 consecutive evenings (1.5 hour slots) in the second week of the EUROLAN 2007 Summer School, July 30 - August 2, 2007. The final version of the accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the EUROLAN 2007 Doctoral Consortium, at the University Al. I. Cuza Publishing House. During the Summer School the students will present their work, will receive constructive comments wrt. to current and future research directions from a panel of established researchers, and will benefit from the collaborative climate established among all participants, thus enhancing future joint work among them. Students will also prepare a poster which will be on display throughout the Summer School. We invite all interested graduate students to submit their work to the Consortium. As the main goal of the Consortium is for the authors to receive feedback, the emphasis is on work in progress. The research being presented can be from any topic area within Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, including but not limited to: * phonetics, phonology, and morphology; * pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; * text understanding and generation; * computational semantics; * ontology enriched NLP applications; * multilingual NLP; * multilingual question answering; * machine translation; * corpus-based language processing; * electronic dictionaries; * written and spoken natural language interfaces; * knowledge acquisition; * terminology; * text summarisation; * text classification; * computer-aided language learning; * human computer interaction; * language resources; * evaluation, assessment and standards in language engineering; * theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. Well-known researchers from these areas will be invited lecturers of the school and therefore available for interesting discussions. [...] From: Peter Shillingsburg Subject: Textual Scholarship Symposium Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:59:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 23 (23) Please forgive cross posting and repeat announcements. Annual Symposium on Textual Studies May 25-26 Fri-Sat Centre for Textual Scholarship De Montfort University, Leicester Conference fees: free Conference dinner on Friday evening: =A3 18. Cash or cheques accepted on= arrival. See schedule, registration, map, and accommodation details at: http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/activities/text.php Registration (Please register by 20 May) Schedule Friday, May 25, 2007 9:00-9:30 Registration 9:30-10:30 Marta Werner, D'Youville College, NY 'Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan: Writing Otherwise' Sean Ryder, National University of Ireland, Galway 'Text as Performance: Editing Thomas Moore' 10:30-10-45 Coffee Break 10:45-11:45 Oliver Harris, Keele University 'Cutting Up the Archive: William Burroughs and the Composite Text' Barbara Bordalejo, Birmingham University 'Encoding Authorial and Non-authorial Variation: Point of View and Interpretation' 12:00-1:00 Key Lecture John Jowett, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham 'Editing Shakespeare: What Does It Matter?' 1.00-2:00 Lunch 2:00-4:00 Symposium led by Dr Jowett 4:00-4:30 Tea 4:30-5:00 Electronic show and tell 5:00 Reception 7:30 Dinner at Halli An Indian Vegetarian=20 Restaurant (153 Granby Street, Leicester, TEL:=20 0116-255-4667), for those who signed up and paid =A3 18-) Saturday, May 26, 2007 9:30-10:30 Takako Kato, De Montfort University 'A Textual Study of Malory's "Roman War Episode"' Orietta Da Rold, University of Leicester 'Material Culture and Medieval Literary Texts' 10:30-10-45 Coffee Break 10:45-11:45 Linda Bree, Cambridge University Press 'Editing Jane Austen's manuscripts' Mark Bland, De Montfort University 'Editing Jonson' 12:00-1:00 Key Lecture: Mary Jane Edwards, Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts, Carleton= University 'Why bother?: 'Traditional' Scholarly Editing in the Age of Computers' 1.00-2:00 Lunch 2:00-4:00 "Historicizing the Text: Explanatory Notes and All That." Symposium led by Professor Edwards 4:00-4:30 Tea Directions and map, campus maps (we are building=20 6), and guide to accommodation in Leicester Inquiries: email pshillingsburg_at_dmu.ac.uk Sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities & the Centre for Textual Scholarship =A9 2007 CTS From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Re: 21.012 text visualization? Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:53:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 24 (24) This is a good question: we had quite a discussion about it in the halls at the TEI meeting last year in Victoria. A couple of the papers there used quite interesting text visualisations, but the issue of usefulness came up. I often wonder about literary text processing if it is not better to see many techniques as tools of very focussed (a more positive term than limited) application. One good visualisation used to be in the old Multidoc SGML browser: it drew a cluster diagram of search hits in the scroll bar, which really helped navigation. Another useful tool I think I remember is the results of the stemma diagrams you can get for individual variants in the Canterbury Tales Project. This seems to me to be typical of the best usage of such things. I used to be struck in dealing with digital editions of the number of tools editors provided me with that I didn't think I'd need and certainly had never imagined I would. In literary research, I think that's because the goals of processors/tool designers and literary scholars are quite different. Tools are good for doing a specific task very well along a single plane. But literary and textual researchers rarely ask single-plane questions--which is why literary research is such a magpie field. So I think there is very often a sense of "that's it?" when we seen something like a text visualisation: it is a very complex tool that tends to answer a relatively simple question--clustering, or the like. -dan On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:24 +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 21.012 text visualization? Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:55:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 25 (25) I don't know what you mean by text visualisation. If you mean semantic mapping I can suggest you look at Leximancer (www.leximancer.com). It is a commercial product and I am ashamed to say on this discussion group that I work on it. However, advertisements aside, Leximancer deduces the semantic content of a set of texts, which can be huge, in a variety of formats (pdf, word, rtf, html, xml, text, csv), works out what the key concepts are and produces a semantic map that you can click on and explore. There are some examples on the Leximancer website - try the "case studies". What it gives you when run on its own is a semantic key to the whole work - lets you see what a body of text says without actually reading it. The web version is limited in that you can't zoom in but the desktop version can expand the map to full screen and then you can do two-concept combinations, say "emperor" and "power" in the Gibbon example and it gives you all the passages where the two CONCEPTs co-occur. The actual words "emperor" and "power" may not occur in all passages cited because it is a semantic index. What I mean is that passages where "kennel", "bone" and "barking" occur are obviously about "dog" but that's a semantic link, not a textual one. If you want to seed it with several concepts, to compare and contrast ideas in a particular text you can do that too, or add tags by simply putting texts into various folders - we did things like comparing debates from different sides of the houses of parliament by just dropping the liberal debates into one folder and labour ones in another. It also does spreadsheets, taking the column headings as tags, so you can do survey results. The good thing about this approach is that it is unbiased. It doesn't rely on human tagging. It is grounded theory as it should be - the meaning emerges from the text. The trial is free for one month. There will be a new version soon for enterprise use that is also much faster (this is what I am working on). Leximancer is not decorative. It is a very practical tool that we have sold all over the world to government agencies, lawyers, police forces, and academics doing research. -------------------------- Dr Desmond Schmidt PhD student School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering University of Queensland Ph: 3365 7171 (wk) http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~schmidt From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 21.012 text visualization? Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:56:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 26 (26) Martyn Jessop's question is of deep interest to me since visualization is a central concern of the Monk Project (http:// monkproject.org) for which my tag line is "Towards a billion words of written English from four centuries in a metadata rich environment." MONK stands for Metadata Offer New Knowledge. One might begin with the observation that text is always already visualization since it is 'drawn language'. And one might further observe that there are a lot of graphic designers on and off the web who will go to almost any length to make text less readable. From that perspective you can understand the response of austere readers who want readable text and for whom anything else interferes with the only visualization that really matters: make it easy to see the text you read. But if 'text' becomes 'data' in whatever environment and for whatever reason you don't 'read' but look at results that are in some form tabulated or quantified. For instance, the Philologic search engine lets you scan across some 600 million words of English, pick out 144,000 occurrences of various spellings and grammatical forms of 'liberty' and will return results by decade and frequency per 10,000 words. These results are much more easily interpreted as a chart because you "see" at once that there are quite sharp spikes in the 1650's and 1680's. So there is a fairly simple but stringent test for visualization: does it help you "see" things in the strong cognitive sense of the word? Such seeing is subject to no more or less distortion than in other forms of visualization. State of the Union addresses are now routinely analyzed in terms of word frequency and increased frequencies are marked by bigger circles. If a word is used twice as often and the radius of the circle is doubled, the area of the circle is four times as large. Is that a new form of deception or does it help you "see" something more clearly? There is a statistic called Dunning's log likelihood ratio, which shows you what words in text A are disproportionately common or uncommon when compared with Text B. These lists provide surprisingly effective keywords for interpretation. A plain list will certainly do. But something might be said for representing this last as a cast of character that drift across the screen as thinly scrawled or big and fat letters. The trouble with this and other forms of visualization is that it is more fun to be cool than true. From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Re: 21.012 text visualization? Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:56:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 27 (27) [deleted quotation]I would strongly recommend soliciting Johanna Drucker for a copy of her "Graphesis" essay, which addresses this question directly. The frequent characterization of aesthetics that are beautiful or cool but also, somehow, "merely" ornamental or decorative is one of the most stifling in our field, IMO, and needs to be challenged with a robust theoretical conversation. Johanna's piece is the first step. 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: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: 21.012 text visualization? Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:57:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 28 (28) Hi Martyn, I work in this area and so would naturally say there is some good work being done, but much of it may not yet have translated into concrete research outcomes. I make the distinction between scientific visualization and humanities visualization in that the former converts primarily numeric data into visual forms for manipulation, while the latter works with elements consisting of text or image displayed in unconventional ways. I'm guessing your own definition would have more to do with content areas than with visual elements. We've been working recently in the MONK project (www.monkproject.org) on a visualization issue raised by Tanya Clement, who is interested in repetition with variation in Gertrude Stein's novel The Making of Americans. How can someone see patterns of repetitions across a thousand pages, or as Tanya sometimes says, 3000 paragraphs? We have a session at SDH-SEMI at the end of May outlining three projects dealing with this topic. Catherine Plaisant and her postdoc Anthony Don at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at University of Maryland have also created a working prototype that displays 3-grams. It is online here: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/textvis/featurelens I hope this is some help. yrs, Stan Ruecker Assistant Professor Humanities Computing Program Department of English and Film Studies University of Alberta Edmonton AB CANADA Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]humanities and [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: the liberty to experiment Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:58:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 29 (29) My colleague Martyn Jessop's question is an excellent one. It's interesting to me that questions of this form are being asked in all sorts of other areas, perhaps because the level of activity is now such that there are many examples of work to wonder about. Presentation tools of various sorts make it relatively easy to get something demonstrable out there, the most immediately striking of which are visualizations. It's healthy to be called to account. But at the same time, one has to be able to act on intuitions and convictions not supported by much if any evidence. One has to have the liberty to follow one's nose, to invest significant amounts of resources to create something in order to see what will happen. Otherwise true innovation becomes shackled by the known and predictable. There are tensions here of course, and they get worse the more it costs to work forward into the unknown. But we should be clear about what's involved in going where no one has gone before. Sometimes it may be better to go it alone and relatively unaided rather that require a costly spaceship. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Meg Sullivan Subject: Searls on Digital Innovation Day Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 18:29:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 30 (30) [mailto:msullivan_at_support.ucla.edu] Sent: Sat 5/12/2007 10:03 AM Digiteratti ring leader, Cluetrain manifesto coauthor and blogger Doc Searls is so influential he has an entry in Wikipedia. Here's what he said about Digital Innovation Day: <http://doc.weblogs.com/> [...] From: ruy_at_cin.ufpe.br Subject: WoLLIC'2007 - Call for Participation Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 18:30:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 31 (31) Call for Participation 14th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC'2007) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 2-5, 2007 (a satellite event to Brazilian Computer Society Conference - CSBC'07) 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, in conjunction with the 27th Brazilian Computer Society Conference. It is 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). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC'2007, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC'2007 special issue of the journal Information and Computation. INVITED SPEAKERS Alex Borgida (Rutgers) Alessandra Carbone (Paris) Martin Escardo (Birmingham) Philippa Gardner (Imperial Coll) Achim Jung (Birmingham) Louis Kauffman (U Illinois Chicago) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Paulo Oliva (London/QM) John Reif (Duke) Yde Venema (Amsterdam) TUTORIAL LECTURES Stone duality, by A. Jung Quantum topology and quantum computation, by L. Kauffman Biological computing, by J. Reif INVITED TALKS Description Logics: formal foundations and applications, by A. Borgida Group Theory and Classical Proofs, by A. Carbone Algorithmic Topology of Program Types, by M. Escardo Contex Logic and Tree Update, by Ph. Gardner On the interplay of logic and information: A topological analysis, by A. Jung Spin networks in quantum computation, by L. Kauffman Symmetries in natural language syntax and semantics: the Lambek-Grishin calculus, by M. Moortgat Computational Interpretations of Classical Linear Logic, by P. Oliva Autonomous programmable biomolecular devices using self-assembled DNA nanostructures specifying properties of data DNA Nanostructures, by J. Reif A modal distributive law, by Y. Venema [...] WEB PAGE www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2007 --- From: John Unsworth Subject: Early registration rates expire midnight (UTC -6) May 14 Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 06:16:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 32 (32) If you're planning to come to Digital Humanities 2007 (formerly ACH/ ALLC), please remember to register before midnight May 14th (UTC -6) in order to get the early registration rates. It's a great program this year, and you can see it at https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/dh2007.fullprogram.pdf You can register at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/conftool (and if you've previously created a login account there, you can use that account to register). To register as a member, you'll be asked for an OUP subscriber number. If you subscribe to Literary and Linguistic Computing, but you don't know your subscriber number, or if you intend to subscribe between now and the conference, please email dh2007_at_digitalhumanities.org, and we can help you get registered. Hope to see you in Champaign-Urbana, June 4-8. John Unsworth, local organizer From: "Carolyn Guertin" Subject: definition of online resource? Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 06:16:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 33 (33) I was wondering if someone could assist me please? I recently had a proposal for a research grant rejected by my institution because (wait for it) my institution tells me that the creation of an online resource (in this case a Website and a wiki) involves no research. Yes, i found it hard to believe they were serious too. Can anyone direct me to an official definition--MLA or otherwise--of online resources writ large for use in my appeal? With thanks, Carolyn -- Carolyn Guertin, PhD Director, eCreate Lab Department of English University of Texas at Arlington 203 Carlisle Hall, Box 19035 <http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/>http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/ Email: carolyn.guertin_at_gmail.com From: Joel Goldfield Subject: Re: 21.012 text visualization? Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 06:16:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 34 (34) Readers of this thread may want to take a look at a book just released by ESRI Press: _Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping Across the Curriculum_, Diana Sinton & Jennifer Lund, eds. Despite some rather tedious wrangling over copyright in the case of certain images, there are still examples that may be of interest along with the many narratives of projects that benefitted from GIS visualization across more than a dozen disciplines. (Disclaimer: I co-authored a chapter on GIS in foreign language study and sociology.) Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University From: Antonella D'Ascoli Subject: JIIA: 'UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia' Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 06:15:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 35 (35) Comunicazione 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' http://www.jiia.it JIIA Eprints Repository (OAI-PMH) http://eprints.jiia.it/ Atti della giornata di studi internazionale 'UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia', tenutasi a Bologna nel 2002. Si pubblica per gentile concessione di Antonella Coralini e Daniela Scagliarini Corlàita del Dipartimento di Archeologia, Università di Bologna. * Guzzo, Pietro Giovanni and Liverani, Paolo (2007) La Virtual Archaeology e le istituzioni per la tutela e la fruizione. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 11-15. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Coralini, Antonella and Vecchietti, Erika (2007) L'archeologia attraverso un 3D virtual model. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 17-39. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Salmon Cinotti, Tullio and Roffia, Luca and Mincolelli, Giuseppe and Sforza, Fabio and Malvasi, Maurizio (2007) L'archeologia virtuale e la fruizione sui siti archeologici: il progetto MUSE. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 41-51. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Frischer, Bernard (2007) Il Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory: storia, missione, progetti. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 53-58. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Schwartz, Joshua (2007) Issues in Reconstructing a Site for Which Archaeological Evidence is Lacking: The Second Temple in Jerusalem (Herodian Phase). In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 59-69. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Stinson, Philip (2007) Technical and Methodological Problems in Digital Reconstructions of Archaeological Sites: the Studiolo in the House of Augustus and cubiculum 16 in the Villa of the Mysteries. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 71-79. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Guidazzoli, Antonella (2007) L'esperienza del CINECA nel campo della Virtual Archaeology. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 81-89. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Betrò, Marilina and Imboden, Silvano and Gori, Roberto (2007) Volti per le mummie. La ricostruzione facciale tridimensionale assistita dal calcolatore applicata alle mummie dell'antico Egitto. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 91-96. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Forte, Maurizio and Kay, Stephen (2007) Telerilevamento e ricostruzione virtuale di un territorio archeologico: nuovi sviluppi del Progetto Aksum. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 97-106. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Gaiani, Marco and Gamberini, Enrico and Tonelli, Gabriele and Bonfigli, Maria Elena and Calori, Luigi and Guidazzoli, Antonella and Brunelli, Davide and Farella, Elisabetta and Benini, Luca and Riccò, Bruno (2007) Realtà virtuale come strumento di lavoro per il restauro architettonico e archeologico: il 3D Virtual GIS 'La Via Appia antica'. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 107-114. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Pescarin, Sofia and Forte, Maurizio and Guidazzoli, Antonella and Mauri, Massimo and Bonfigli, Maria Elena (2007) Bologna in età romana dal GIS alla realtà virtuale. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi. University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 115-122. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Favaretto, Irene and Soccal, Eva and Bianco, Maria Luisa (2007) Nuove proposte per la ricostruzione virtuale di musei antichi: i casi Grimani e Mantova Benavides. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi. University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 123-134. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 * Caggiano, Sonia (2007) Bibliografia ragionata sull'archeologia virtuale. In: UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). University Press Bologna, Imola, pp. 135-143. ISBN 88-86946-80-5 --------------------- Risorse già edite in 'e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies'. La disseminazione è autorizzata dai rispettivi autori, sentita la prof.ssa Bettina Arnold, General Editor e-Keltoi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Anthropology. * Parcero Oubiña, César and Cobas Fernández, Isabel (2004) Iron Age Archaeology of the Northwest Iberian Peninsula. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp. 1-72. ISSN 1540-4889 * García Quintela, Marco V. (2005) Celtic Elements in Northwestern Spain in Pre-Roman times. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp. 1-73. ISSN 1540-4889 Almagro-Gorbea, Martín and Lorrio, Alberto J. (2004) War and Society in the Celtiberian World. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp. 1-40. ISSN 1540-4889 Lorrio, Alberto J. and Ruiz-Zapatero, Gonzalo (2005) The Celts in Iberia: An Overview. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp. 1-88. ISSN 1540-4889 Álvarez-Sanchís, Jesús R. (2005) Oppida and Celtic society in western Spain. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp. 1-31. ISSN 1540-4889 Marco Simón, Francisco (2005) Religion and Religious Practices of the Ancient Celts of the Iberian Peninsula. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp. 1-59. ISSN 1540-4889 Jordán Cólera, Carlos (2007) Celtiberian. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp. 1-102. ISSN 1540-4889 Berrocal-Rangel, Luis (2005) The Celts of the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp. 1-16. ISSN 1540-4889 Olivares Pedreño, Juan Carlos (2005) Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp. 1-43. ISSN 1540-4889 Luján-Martínez, Eugenio R. (2006) The Language(s) of the Callaeci. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp. 1-34. ISSN 1540-4889 Best regards ______________ 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 From: carolynr_at_vt.edu Subject: Re: 21.018 online resource involves no research? Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 06:51:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 36 (36) http://www.mla.org/tenure_promotion MLA Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion section 6. Scholarship in New Media, p. 43 Quoting "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" : [deleted quotation] From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: Learning Inquiry Issue 1, Volume 1 Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 06:53:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 37 (37) The first issue of the journal Learning Inquiry is now online. I expect the print to arrive shortly:) The first issue is centered on the theme "The Futures of Learning" and has contributions from many leading scholars from an extensive range of fields. The futures of learning http://www.springerlink.com/content/t73064v85621/ Editorial: introducing Learning Inquiry Jason Nolan and Jeremy Hunsinger Imagining, seeking, inventing: the future of learning and the emerging discovery networks Gary Natriello Learning from instruction: the case of mathematics Erik De Corte Metaphysics and learning Helen Verran The paradoxical future of digital learning Mark Warschauer Learning, change, and the utopia of play Stuart Moulthrop Critical media literacy is not an option Douglas Kellner and Jeff Share Implementation of knowledge management in organizations Katrin Winkler and Heinz Mandl jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series From: Susan Schreibman Subject: UM Libraries announce best practice guidelines for Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 06:55:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 38 (38) digital collections Digital Collections and Resources at the University of Maryland Libraries is pleased to announce the new edition of "Best Practices for Digital Collections at UM Libraries" (http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/publications.html). In addition to covering topics such as project lifecycle management and technical specifications for still images and text, this new edition covers audio and moving image formats, Web authoring guidelines, user centered design as well as a local interpretation of the "digital master" concept. While the document was prepared primarily for in-house use, UM Libraries welcomes feedback and discussion on the concept and content from the wider cultural heritage community -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib_at_umd.edu http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org From: Gabriel BODARD Subject: EpiDoc Summer School, 11-15 June, 2007 Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 06:52:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 39 (39) Over the last few years an international group of scholars has been developing a set of conventions for marking up ancient documents in XML for publication and interchange. The EpiDoc Guidelines started from the case of inscriptions, but the principles are also being applied to papyri and coins, and the aim has always been to produce standards consistent with those of the Text Encoding Initiative, used for all literary and linguistic texts. Following on from the interest we have seen in EpiDoc training events (including recent sessions in Rome and San Diego) and the success of the London EpiDoc summer school over several years now, we shall be holding another week-long workshop here at King's College London, from the 11th-15th June this year. -- The EpiDoc Guidelines provide a schema and associated tools and recommendations for the use of XML to publish epigraphic and papyrological texts in interchangeable format. For a fuller description of the project and links to tools and guidelines see http://epidoc.sf.net. -- The Summer School will offer an in-depth introduction to the use of XML and related technologies for publication and interchange of epigraphic and papyrological editions. -- The event will be hosted by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, which will provide the venue and tuition. The school is free of charge, but attendees will need to fund their own travel, accommodation, and subsistence. (There may be cheap accommodation available through KCL; please inquire.) -- The summer school is targeted at epigraphic and papyrological scholars (including professors, post-docs, and advanced graduate students) with an interest and willingness to learn some of the hands-on technical aspects necessary to run a digital project (even if they would not be marking-up texts by hand very much themselves). Knowledge of Greek/Latin, the Leiden Conventions and the distinctions expressed by them, and the kinds of data and metadata that need to be recorded by philologists and ancient historians, will be an advantage. Please enquire if you're unsure. No particular technical expertise is required. -- Attendees will require the use of a relatively recent laptop computer (Win XP+ or Mac OSX 10.3+), with up-to-date Java installation, and should acquire a copy of the oXygen XML editor (educational discount and one-month free trial available); they should also have the means to enter Unicode Greek from the keyboard. Full technical specifications and advice are available on request. (CCH may be able to arrange the loan of a prepared laptop for the week; please inquire asap.) Places on the workshop will be limited so if you are interested in attending the summer school, or have a colleague or student who might be interested, please contact gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk as soon as possible with a brief statement of qualifications and interest. Regards, Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ From: Gregory Crane Subject: "What do you do with a million books?" -- May 24, Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 06:52:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 40 (40) Tufts University, Medford MA "What do you do with a million books?" A public forum funded by the Mellon Foundation Thursday, May 24, 2007 9AM to noon Eaton Hall, Room 201, Tufts University RSVP: millionbooks_at_perseus.tufts.edu [please post] Google, Microsoft, the Open Content Alliance, the European i2010 initiative and other projects are beginning to assemble very large collections of quickly scanned books. These collections could, if fully realized, exceed in scope the largest academic libraries ever assembled and provide far more sophisticated services for intellectual as well as physical access than were ever feasible before. Roundtable discussions will address emerging technologies, the challenges and opportunities of various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences in realizing the benefits of these technologies, and the digital infrastructure that will be needed: 9-9:45: What are the possibilities raised by emerging technologies? (moderator: Marc Olsen, University of Chicago) -- Thomas Breuel, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Extracting meaningful text from page images: adaptive optical character recognition and layout analysis -- David A. Smith, Johns Hopkins, Multilingual technologies, including translation support, machine translation, and cross language information retrieval -- David Mimno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Extracting information from textual data 9:45-10:30: What are the implications for various domains within the humanities? (moderator: Roy Rosenzweig) -- Peter Scharf, Brown University, Sanskrit Anke L=FCdeling, Humboldt University, Berlin, Corpus Linguistics Bruce Hitchner, Tufts University, Archaeology 10:30-10:45: Break 10:45-:11:30: How do we support the services that we need? (moderator: Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University Library) -- Josh Greenberg, New York Public Library -- Shawn Martin, University of Michigan Libraries -- Steven Toub, California Digital Library 11:30-12:00: Final discussion (moderator: Gregory Crane, Tufts University) From: Kuldar Taveter Subject: CFP: 3rd International Workshop on VOCABULARIES, Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 06:54:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 41 (41) ONTOLOGIES AND RULES FOR THE ENTERPRISE (VORTE 2007 at EDOC) CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************** The 3rd International Workshop on VOCABULARIES, ONTOLOGIES AND RULES FOR THE ENTERPRISE (VORTE 2007) http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/ In conjunction with the 11th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007) "The Enterprise Computing Conference" http://edoc.mitre.org/ 15-19 October 2007, Annapolis, Maryland, USA Selected papers accepted to the workshop to be invited for a special issue in Elsevier's ISI-indexed Information Systems journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys/ *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules are key components of a model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE 2007 is the third workshop associated with an EDOC conference that intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modelling, information systems, Semantic Web, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), business rules, and business processes. The goal of the workshop is to discuss the role that foundational and domain ontologies play in the conceptual development and implementation of next generation tools for enterprise computing. Since enterprise vocabularies and ontologies, as well as business rules do not exist in isolation but serve to support business processes, THIS YEAR WE ARE PLANNING TO PUT SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING AND MANAGEMENT. THEMES AND TOPICS The workshop contributions will be organized along four major thematic areas, under which the following topics of interest will be included, but not limited to: * Conceptual Modelling - Business Vocabularies, Terminologies, and Taxonomies - Ontological Approaches to Content and Knowledge Management - Enterprise Information Integration and Interoperability - Service Taxonomies and Service Registries (for example, UDDI-related research) - Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modelling - Languages for Conceptual Modelling (for example, OWL and UML) - Agent-Oriented Conceptual Modelling * Business Rules and Business Process Semantics - Semantic Web Services - Service Ontologies (for example, research related to OWL-S) - Business Rule Languages and Components - Rule-based Approaches to Web Service Policies and Choreographies - Ontologies for Business Process Management - Agent-based Business Rule and Process Management - Business Process Modelling and Execution Languages (for example, BPMN and BPML) * Ontologies for Enterprise Computing - Foundational Ontologies and Enterprise Computing - Ontological Evaluation of Enterprise Systems - Ontologies for Interoperability of Enterprise Systems - Ontology-based Enterprise Architectures - Ontology-based Software Engineering for Enterprises - Enterprise Components' Modelling * Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approaches to Enterprise Computing - Modelling and Architecture Frameworks - Domain Engineering - Domain-specific Business Information and System Engineering - Transformation between MDA layers SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be 6 to 8 pages long and MUST use the two-column format of IEEE conference proceedings, which is referenced on the workshop's web site, and include the authors' name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted in the PDF format using EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/VORTE2007. Authors will be notified about the decision by the program committee by the 11th of August 2007. At least one author of each accepted paper must participate in the workshop. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2007 Workshops will be published after the workshop with its own ISBN in the IEEE Digital Library (pending approval by IEEE), which is accessible by IEEE Xplore. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE A selection of the best papers accepted to the workshop and presented there will be invited to the special issue of Elsevier ISI-indexed Information Systems journal (subject to the second round of peer-review). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: JULY, 7 2007 Author notifications: August 11, 2007 Camera-ready: August 20, 2007 Workshop: October 15, 2007 [...] From: Methnet Subject: Text Mining for Historians - Forthcoming AHRC ICT Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 06:55:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 42 (42) Methods Network Workshop TEXT MINING FOR HISTORIANS workshop at University of Glasgow 17 - 18 July 2007 A workshop organized by Zoe Bliss, AHDS History and the Association for History and Computing UK (AHC-UK) Texts are central to historical research and an increasing body of historical texts are becoming available in electronic format. Despite a long-standing interest in computer aided text analysis the use of computer assisted methods and tools are not widespread amongst historians. This workshop aims to: *Introduce participants to the methods and tools developed and currently employed by corpus linguists *Provide practical hands on experience of using these tools *Enable participants to explore the pros and cons of employing these tools and methods in historical research. It builds upon the successful Methods Network Workshop on Historical Text Mining in Lancaster in July 2006 (http:// www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/act6.html). The workshop is aimed at academic staff and post graduates whose research involves the analysis of significant bodies of textual material and who would like to know more about computerised techniques and tools that they could potentially use to aid their research. Moreover, the workshop will be particularly useful for researchers who would like practical hands on experience of using these tools. The workshop is free of charge, with lunch and refreshments included. For more information about the programme, and details of how to register, please visit: http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/ act25.html The AHRC ICT Methods Network exists to promote and support the application of advanced ICT methods in the arts and humanities. Please see the Methods Network website for details about further activities that are being run by, or in conjunction with, the Methods Network. The Methods Network funds seminars, workshops and other activities which demonstrate the impact on and value to arts and humanities research of advanced ICT methods. From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Anti-Spam Genre Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 06:54:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 43 (43) Willard, I know you and some of the subscribers to Humanist are ever alert to the discursive and poetic genres that ICTs bring into the world. Spammers collect email addresses. The more bogus email addresses they collect, the less clean data they have to ply their trade. <a name="uzitor" href="mailto:noFreeLunch_at_anyWhereanyWhenanyHOW.ca> The phony directory of email addresses: a new genre for an old problem? Francois Lachance http://berneval.blogspot.com/2007/05/inspired.html From: Craig Bellamy Subject: online resource involves research Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:02:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 44 (44) [deleted quotation]Hi Caroline, This is an interesting problem; one in that I have come across before. I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but in the Australian system (the one in which I have the most experience), the creation of an online resources isn't seen as research in itself unless it somehow advances ICT methods and creates new knowledge about those methods and the content that is being digitised (if this makes sense). The project that I am working on here in the UK, ICT Guides, has some information on this in the UK system. http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/ best, Craig -- Dr Craig Bellamy Research Associate ICT Guides, AHDS, King's College, London http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/ ----- 26 - 29 Drury Lane 3rd Floor King's College London LONDON, WC2B 5RL Phone: 020 7848 1976 From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: Extreme Markup Languages 2007 Program Posted! Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:01:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 45 (45) The program for Extreme Markup Languages 2007 is now available at: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/at-a-glance.html http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/abstracts.html EXTREME MARKUP LANGUAGES 2007(r) (a registered trademark of IDEAlliance) THE MARKUP THEORY & PRACTICE CONFERENCE Extreme is the leading international conference on markup theory and= practice. If you have interesting markup applications, difficult markup problems, or intriguing solutions to problems related to the design and use of markup, markup languages, or markup tools; if you want to know what the leading theorists of markup are thinking; if you are the house markup expert and want to spend time with your kind, then you should plan on attending Extreme Markup Languages(r) 2007. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Extreme is an open marketplace of theories about markup and all the things that they support or that support them: the difficult cases in publishing, linguistics, transformation, searching, indexing, and storage and retrieval. At Extreme, markup enthusiasts gather each year to trade in ideas, not to convince management to buy new stuff. At Extreme we push the edges of markup theory & practice. WHEN: August 7-10, 2007 (Overlap Workshop August 6, 2007) WHERE: Montr=E9al, Canada HOST: IDEAlliance General information on Extreme: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/ Registration: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/registration.html Extreme Markup Languages 2007 mailto:extreme_at_mulberrytech.com August 7-10, 2007 http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme Montreal, Canada http://www.extrememarkup.com From: Leslie Chan Subject: ElPub2007, June 13-15, Vienna, Austria Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:03:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 46 (46) Registration is still open for the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, hosted by the Vienna University of Technology,Austria, 13-15 June 2007. The conference's theme this year is "Openness in Electronic Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Open Access" <http://www.elpub.net> In addition to over 40 contributed scientific papers, there will be pre-conference workshops, a poster session, conference banquet, and an opening keynote by Dr. Keith Jeffery ( Director IT and International Strategy of Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils) and a closing keynote by Dr. Norbert Kro=F3 (Vice-President of the Hungary Academy of Science). The 11th ELPUB 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. For further details about the meeting, including programme, travel and accommodation, as well as registration fee, please visit the conference web site: http://www.elpub.net. Thank you for your kind attention. Best Leslie Chan Program Chair, Elpub2007 Bob Martens Local Chair, Elpub2007 From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Sign up now for next week's live "Copyright Utopia" webcast! Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:03:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 47 (47) Please pass this message on to your colleagues! Join us for the Live Webcast Presented by the Center for Intellectual Property at UMUC. Copyright Utopia: Alternative Visions, Methods & Policies Online May 21-23, 2007 http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/ If you are unable to travel for the annual copyright symposium-- you need not be left out. Consider registering for the live webcast! Visit http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/webcast for details on how you can participate remotely in this event and for details on what will be broadcasted. Check out our new webcast platform and share this three (3) day event with others at your institution. Costs: $225 per person or just $575 for an institution with three or more participants. We remain committed to making the programming available to everyone. Please join us online for the live symposium webcast! Visit http://tinyurl.com/2z4po3 [secure server] to register now. -- Olga Francois Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 Phone: 240-582-2803 or 1-800-283-6832, ext. 2803 Fax: 240-582-2961 ofrancois_at_umuc.edu http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The May/June 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:02:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 48 (48) Greetings: The May/June 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains seven 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, D-Lib features "Harvard University's Library Collections to the World" contributed by Peter Kosewski, Harvard University. The opinion piece is: A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Arthur Sale, University of Tasmania The articles include: Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories: Towards Distributed Services Steve Hitchcock, Tim Brody, Jessie M.N. Hey, and Leslie Carr, University of Southampton Creating the Next Generation of Archival Finding Aids Elizabeth Yakel, Seth Shaw, and Polly Reynolds, University of Michigan Large Scale Digitization of Oral History: A Case Study Eric Weig, Kopana Terry, and Kathryn Lybarger, University of Kentucky Type-consistent Digital Objects Kostas Saidis and Alex Delis, University of Athens Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities Margaret Henty, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections Ann M. Lally and Carolyn E. Dunford, University of Washington Tea for Two: Bringing Informal Communication to Repositories Ana Alice Baptista and Miguel Ferreira, University of Minho [...] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity8.19 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:04:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 49 (49) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 19 May 15, 2007 =96 May 21, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: CODE AND COMPOSITION Luke Fernandez's "Code and Composition"=20 compares the activity of programming computers=20 with the activity of writing. The essay=20 delineates the commonalities and differences in=20 these activities in the context of larger=20 technical and literary divisions that exist within the university. Fernandez is at Weber State University, where he manages technology studies. See:=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i19_fernandez.html>http<http://www.acm.= org/ubiquity/views/v8i19_fernandez.html>://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i19_= fernandez.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: peer-review criteria? Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:32:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 50 (50) I'd very much appreciate help in locating lists and discussions of criteria for the peer-review of digital scholarly objects. In simplest form, such criteria overlap with those for evaluating websites, but what I'm really interested in is how one might go about reviewing complex digital objects. Best would be those at a sufficiently high level of abstraction as to suit whatever one might encounter, but those specific to particular kinds of objects would also be quite useful, as would articles on the process of reviewing digital objects. Many thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Martyn Jessop Subject: Re: 21.026 peer-review criteria? Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 08:51:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 51 (51) I'm working on something similar but focussed specifically on visualization projects in the digital humanities. I've found the London Charter very useful. It deals with one aspect of humanities computing, 3D visualization, applied to a very specific subject area; cultural heritage but I am using it as a framework for a wider study. The URL of the charter is http://www.londoncharter.org/. It aims to produce a set of principles to ensure intellectual integrity, reliability, transparency, documentation, standards, sustainability and access. These are surely the qualities that should be assessed in peer review. There is also a purpose beyond peer review "to ensure that such work is intellectually and technically rigorous, and for its potential in this domain to be realised, there is a need both to establish standards responsive to the particular properties of 3d visualization, and to identify those that it should share with other methods." It sets out nine principles concerning 1. Subject Communities 2. Aims and Methods 3. Sources 4. Transparency Requirements 5. Documentation 6. Standards 7. Sustainability 8. Access My paper at Digital Humanities 2007 in June will present some of the work that I have based upon it for visualization projects in the humanities as a whole. My next point is rather more tightly focussed than you requested but I think it is a particularly important aspect of peer review, (also covered in the charter). It concerns 'paradata', i.e. documentation about the research process; why particular decisions were made etc. I recently attended a combined arts/sciences/humanities workshop and the discussion of the importance of lab books to scientists struck a chord. They fulfill a far more important role in scientific research than I had realised. Artists document their research processes in different ways but again for similar ends. Perhaps it's a practice we should adopt in the digital humanities? ---------------------- Martyn Jessop Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS email: martyn.jessop_at_kcl.ac.uk Phone: 0207-848-2470 Fax: 0207-848-2980 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 21.026 peer-review criteria? Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 08:51:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 52 (52) On Wed, 16 May 2007, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Dear Willard, The following AHRC-funded project (and its final report) should be of interest: "Peer review and evaluation of digital resources for the arts and humanities" http://www.history.ac.uk/digit/peer/ Best wishes, Mike --- Dr Michael Fraser Co-ordinator, Research Technologies Service Director, Intute: Arts and Humanities Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/ http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Coding and Composing Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 06:39:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 53 (53) An interesting article, "Code and Composition", zipped by on Humanist a few days ago in an announcement of the latest Ubiquity (http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/) -- an online magazine that sometimes publishes little gems. In this article Luke Fernandez compares the two modes of expression and finds them convergent: writing, not entirely spontaneous, involves planning and research; coding, not entirely planned, involves discovery during the act of composition. In this attempt at a parallel, the first seems obvious, if a bit overstated, but the second seems to contradict official stories of how writing code should proceed. What is the experience of people here? I understand that nowadays no one or few preaches the doctrine that a complete specification must be devised beforehand (as I was told when I learned many years ago). I think the need to come up with a complete flowchart is what put me off programming eventually, along with the dreaded "turn-around time" of 2 hrs minimum. In any case, it would be interesting to know how exploratory programming is known to be these days. Some of you here will be familiar with Brian Cantwell Smith's argument, in "The Limits of Correctness" (1985), later published in 1995 as "The Limits of Correctness in Computers", (Computers, Ethics & Social Values. Ed. Deborah G. Johnson and Helen Nissenbaum. 456-69. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall) that a fundamental problem we have with computing is the whole idea of correctness in any algorithmically rigorous description of the world. Fernandez's argument leads me to the thought that the problem with the problem of correctness is in the assumption of a final statement -- and that this applies to writing prose as much as to programming, though with different consequences. As long as correctness is deferred but still a goal we're on the right track. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. 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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D i5369p The Insatiable Abstraction Engine: http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/abstraction-engine.html http://bbrace.net/abstraction-engine.html 1,254 new, found, two-word P-poems/titles arranged in alphabetical order: http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/P/Paced-the-Planks.html http://bbrace.net/P/Paced-the-Planks.html From: John Sears Subject: CFP: Practical Criticism and its Legacies Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:35:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 55 (55) (Manchester 26-7.6.08) With apologies for cross-posting. Call for papers: PRACTICAL CRITICISM AND ITS LEGACIES An international conference to be hosted by the English Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University, 26th-- 27th June 2008. Conference website: http://www.eri.mmu.ac.uk/events/legacies-of-practical-criticism/ Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Ben Knights, Director of the HEA English Subject Centre Dr Gary Day, De Montfort University I. A. Richards' foundational text Practical Criticism, which he described as "in part =85 the recoord of a piece of field-work in comparative ideology", was published by Cambridge University Press in 1929. Its methodological and theoretical assumptions constitute the basis of all subsequent teaching and much critical analysis of literary texts. Practical criticism is still the first mode of encounter with literary texts for most students, and major traditions of literary analysis and theory, from New Critical approaches to deconstruction, from psychological and psychoanalytic approaches to linguistic and reader-response theories, owe conceptual and methodological debts to Richards' project in Practical Criticism. The book provided a series of models for the reading of texts, the comprehension of contexts, and the processes of interpretation, analysis and composition, which has influenced subsequent critical practice in profound ways. This conference will explore the arguments and assumptions, influences and legacies, reactions against and developments from, and contemporary versions of and responses to the traditions of critical reading established by Richards' text. A selection of the papers will be included in a planned volume marking in 2009 the 80th anniversary of the publication of Practical Criticism. Proposals are invited for papers of 20 minutes duration which may consider, but are not restricted to, the following themes: - pre-cursors and origins of Richards' methodologies and practices: close reading before Practical Criticism - the publishing history of Practical Criticism =AD editionss and variations - theorising and historicising versions of practical criticism in practice: close reading, blind reading, textual analysis, passage comprehension - Richards' methods, categories, arguments, strategies: ethical, political and practical implications - Richards, Leavis, Empson and reading the English canon - Practical Criticism and European and American literary theories - Objective and subjective readings, negotiated meaning, protocols and stock responses in literary analysis - Cognitive approaches to practical criticism; schema theory and other models - Practical criticism of prose, drama, poetry - Practical criticism and reader-response theories - Practical criticism and efferent / aesthetic reading - Practical criticism and identity politics - Practical criticism and genre theory - Languages of practical critical analysis; rhetorics, terminologies, terms - Tracing the influences of Practical Criticism on subsequent critical and theoretical developments in literary analysis - Practical criticism in contemporary teaching and learning - Practical criticism and models of creativity - Re-reading Practical Criticism in the light of recent theory and post-theory - Practical criticism and deconstruction - Practical criticism and linguistic criticism - Practical criticism and new media; digital and other textualities - Applications of practical criticism outside literary studies - Futures of practical criticism in and outside the academy Please submit proposals (250 words) before 15th July 2007 to: Dr John Sears Department of Interdisciplinary Studies MMU Cheshire Crewe Green Road Crewe, CW1 7JE, England Or by email to J.Sears_at_mmu.ac.uk Dr John Sears Senior Lecturer, English Literature Department of Interdisciplinary Studies MMU Cheshire Crewe Green Road Crewe CW1 5DU "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University's email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer " From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: ACH Young Scholar Bursaries, DH2007 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:38:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 56 (56) On behalf of the Association for Computers and the Humanities bursary review panel, I am pleased to announce the recipients of the ACH Young Scholar Bursaries for DH 2007. They are, Maria Esteva Isabel Galina-Russell Roman Gnutikov Alexey Lavrentev Marc Plamondon Intended to offset expenses associated with presenting at and participating in the Digital Humanities conference, the bursary cheques (of $1000 USD) will be presented at the DH 2007 conference banquet. Congratulations to all recipients! We look forward to seeing you at the conference, Ray Siemens (For the bursary review panel of the ACH executive) === About the Bursary: Each year, a number of bursaries are awarded to graduate students and young scholars who have had conference proposals accepted by the DH Programme Committee. Application is via the webpage at http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/, and the deadline for receipt of applications is April 1 each year; decisions are announced by the ACH bursary review panel in mid to late April each year. ACH is pleased to be able to offer this funding for attending the Digital Humanities conference, as we consider support of graduate scholarship to be very important to our community. From: Ken Friedman Subject: CFP: Case Studies in Research: Knowledge and Inquiry Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:37:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 57 (57) Call for Papers: Design Research Quarterly announces a new series of articles: Case Studies in Research: Knowledge and Inquiry 'we want to hold a discussion on how research steers theory' Call for Papers: Designers use the term 'design' to cover a wide range of activities and types of problems, and we have many differing, often incommensurable and opposing models of design and its theoretical and methodological bases. As a result, we also have have a history of lively debates over specific theories. These debates have not been able to resolve differences. Many regions of design are not well defined, and in such situations, researchers can find that apparently straightforward problems can lead to fundamental questions about the nature of design, what kinds of philosophical and theoretical positions that can frame the research and ground the methods, and their implications with regard to knowledge: what kinds of knowledge are possible within the frames needed to do the research. In short, we want to hold a discussion on how research steers theory. Our idea is to look at research and theories in design not primarily as related to subfields per se, but to see theories as products of research problems themselves: the topics studied studied and the questions being researched. Rather than look at abstract problems of research and theory, we want to present actual problems as case studies. In this way, we can clarify design by mapping its terrain of activities and problem types with their fundamental theoretical and methodological requirements. Over the next two years, DRQ will collect and publish articles on these topics and replies to those articles, using its regular publication schedule to build a discussion. If you have an interest or idea for an article or other submission, please contact the editor, Peter Storkerson. -- Topics: We seek papers that explore issues including: - ontological and epistemological implications or require- ments of a research problem - status of knowledge, its bases and levels of certainty - conflicts between the knowledge that is possible in a given situation and the research goals. -how research fits into fundamental paradigms: scien- tific, humanist, phenomenological, pragmatic, etc., and how those approaches compare in their strengths and weaknesses - working across the boundaries of humanism and science: the extent to which a research problem requires use of more than one basic philosophical frame and how different frames can be reconciled Specifications: 3,ooo to 6,000 words APA guidelines For information or submissions: Peter Storkerson email: peter_at_drsq.org -- From: John Unsworth Subject: DH2007 abstracts book available Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:36:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 58 (58) The PDF of the book of abstracts for Digital Humanities 2007 is available on the web: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/dh2007.abstracts.pdf and a web version will be up shortly, at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/abstracts/ Late registration for the conference remains open on the web until May 25th, at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ After May 25th, those wishing to register may do so on-site, at the conference. John From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 21.030 coding and composing? Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 07:25:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 59 (59) Hi Willard, I can only comment on the bit about correctness and modelling. It seems to me that the paper you cite by Mr Smith conflates two separate issues: that of proving programs correct and modelling. He says they are connected historically. That may be true or not - he cites no sources for most of his statements - but I remain unconvinced of the importance of the link. Program correctness is supposed to eliminate errors in programs. You state a set of preconditions and prove by translating the programming instructions into mathematical assertions and by using various rules to prove that the postcondition also holds. That has nothing much to do with modelling that I can see. Where you get the preconditions from perhaps has something to do with modelling, but it's a bit like saying that the house a builder makes is well-built according to the desires of the eventual owner because he used a spirit level in building it. -------------------------- Desmond Schmidt School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering University of Queensland From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: RE: 21.030 coding and composing? Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 06:42:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 60 (60) [deleted quotation] From: "Juliana Tambovtseva" Subject: how to use Chi-square correctly? Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:37:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 61 (61) Dear Humanist colleagues, the discussion about reviewing process is quite on time. My article was turned away because the reviewer wrote that I use the Chi-square criterion in the way it was used 30 years ago. I am a linguist but I guess that the calcilation of the Chi-square should be the same then and now. Am I not correct? I wonder if anyone can help me to calculate it in the modern way? For example, we have 22 Verbials in Agatha Christie and 8 - in J.K. Rowling. Both texts are of the equal size 10 000 words. I calculated the Chi-square as 6.53. It means that there is a statistical difference between them at the level of 5%, since the table value is 3.84. I wonder if I calculate it correctly. Looking forward to hearing from you to yutamb_at_mail.ru Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev From: S.A.Rae Subject: OpenLearn2007 at Milton Keynes, UK Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:11:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 62 (62) The call for papers is open for the openlearn 2007 conference: researching open content in education. Deadline for submission by short papers (~1000 words) is 31st May 2007. The conference will be held 30-31 October 2007 near The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. There will be no charge for attendance with priority for registration given to those responding to the call for papers. Selected papers will be developed for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education. The four main themes are: -- Research agenda -- Sustainability -- User experience -- Software and tools Further information can be found at: <http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/openlearn2007/conference.php> Forms for submission of papers can be found at <http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/openlearn2007/papers.php> and should be emailed to by 31st May 2007. Thank you, Patrick McAndrew Research and Evaluation Director, OpenLearn Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/.= =20 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: Re: 21.025 online resource involves research Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:02:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 63 (63) <craig.bellamy_at_kcl.ac.uk> [deleted quotation]Hi Caroline, This is an interesting problem; one in that I have come across before. I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but in the Australian system (the one in which I have the most experience), the creation of an online resources isn't seen as research in itself unless it somehow advances ICT methods and creates new knowledge about those methods and the content that is being digitised (if this makes sense). The project that I am working on here in the UK, ICT Guides, has some information on this in the UK system. <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/>http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/ best, Craig -- Dr Craig Bellamy Research Associate ICT Guides, AHDS, King's College, London <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/>http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/ ----- 26 - 29 Drury Lane 3rd Floor King's College London LONDON, WC2B 5RL Phone: 020 7848 1976 -- Carolyn Guertin, PhD Director, eCreate Lab Department of English University of Texas at Arlington 203 Carlisle Hall, Box 19035 <http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/>http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/ Email: carolyn.guertin_at_gmail.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: understanding online Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 07:09:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 64 (64) Ostensible acceptance without understanding is a cheat. And we're the ones cheated. Having some part of a person's research in digital form is no longer a dirty secret to be concealed, indeed we exhibit the fact so that we may be considered up-to-date. But with some, young (undergraduate students) and old (colleagues), a "web page" is merely a web page. Anyone can do it, everyone does. It may be e-valu-ated with the help of widely published criteria as either good or bad, but its kind is not questioned. Few ask the harder question, what *kind* of knowledge is this resource giving me? How is that kind shaped by the fact that the resource is online? Ask yourself, how often is the specifically digital scholarship in a digital resource described by anyone? An historian comes to a technical practitioner, let us say. A long, probing conversation, taking place over many weeks or months, then ensues. The historian's view of his or her original questions and sources is profoundly affected. (We know this happens from individual testimony.) The technical practitioner's understanding of his or her craft is likewise affected. Let us say that a brilliant piece of work results. (We know this happens too.) The resource is put online, historians of the period and area flock to it virtually. A great success. BUT who writes about the profound changes to individuals' understanding of their fields? Who studies these effects so that anecdotes become evidence for a scholarship *of* as well as in the digital medium? Let us say, perhaps unfairly, that no one, or very few, write about these changes. As a result, their articulate existence remains only in the form of promotional claims made to support some ill-understood thing called "ICT". Among scholars, among the professors of the institutions, the only visible, real aspect of the resource is its historical, or literary, or linguistic, or whatever kind of scholarship, which thus seems to float free of its digital instantiation. When the "web page" is mentioned, it is only a web page, no different from any other, therefore not scholarship, except to "content specialists" (another pernicious term), who tends not to regard its online existence as anything other than a convenience. I suppose some progress has been made, in the sense that the servant is paid, and sometimes even fêted. But the servant remains a servant, and much quiet damage is done. So much more is possible! (I note the postdoc advertised in today's lot of Humanist. A good sign.) Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: isaac stephens Subject: new on WWW: Elizabeth Isham's "My Booke of Rememberance" Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 15:52:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 65 (65) "My Booke of Rememberance" The Autobiography of Elizabeth Isham Editied by Isaac Stephens After the recent discovery of a previously unknown seventeenth-century autobiography written by Elizabeth Isham from the manuscript collections of Princeton University, Isaac Stephens, a PhD candidate in British history at the University of California, Riverside, has produced an online edition of the autobiography and posted it at the following URL: <http://www.history.ucr.edu/people/grad_students/stephens/index.html>http://www.history.ucr.edu/people/grad_students/stephens/index.html or <http://www.history.ucr.edu/>http://www.history.ucr.edu/. In addition, the Northamptonshire Record Society Press is to publish a forthcoming annotated edition of Stephens' transcription. The autobiography is also the foundation of his nearly completed dissertation, "In the Shadow of the Patriarch: Elizabeth Isham and Her World in Seventeenth-Century Northamptonshire," a micro-history on Isham's life and world. His dissertation and edition of Elizabeth Isham's autobiography should prove of interest to both literary scholars and historians alike. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Tom Horton Subject: Postdoctoral Research Position in Software Studies Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 07:10:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 66 (66) POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION IN SOFTWARE STUDIES University of California, San Diego (UCSD) We are currently recruiting for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join a new Software Studies initiative at UCSD. The researcher will work with Dr. Lev Manovich (Professor, Visual Arts ) and Dr. Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Assistant Professor, Communication ) and will play a key role in research and field-building activities. The goals of the Software Studies initiative (http://softwaretheory.net) at UCSD are: * to foster research and develop models and tools for the study of software from the perspectives of cultural criticism, humanities, and social sciences; * to help establish the new field of "software studies" which will complement existing research in cyberculture and new media; * to investigate how next generation cyberinfrastructure technologies can be used by humanists, social scientists, and cultural practitioners POSITION DETAILS The position is full time (40 hrs/week). The initial appointment is for 1 year, with the possibility for renewal. The position comes with full benefits covered by UCSD (http://research.ucsd.edu/postdoc/benefits.aspx). The starting salary range is USD 38,000 - 42,000. The selected candidate can start immediately. Required qualifications: * a PhD in the humanities, social sciences, information science, or related interdisciplinary area which is completed and defended before starting the position at UCSD; * broad understanding of contemporary global culture and familiarity with current debates in one or more cultural fields; * familiarity with current IT developments, and understanding of Web 2.0 concepts and social media optimization; * the ability to write engaging and jargon-free texts that are accessible to diverse global audiences Desired qualifications: * experience installing and using research-oriented software tools (e.g., data mining tools, GIS packages, visualization technologies, databases, and/or other software used in digital humanities); * understanding of programming language and system integration concepts; some practical experience with computer programming or scripting; * previous experience working with computer scientists on joint projects; * previous research projects and/or publications which address software from the perspectives of the humanities, social sciences, or cultural criticism (for example: the history of software forms, work practices shaped by software infrastructures, studies of software operations and/or code). This position is supported by the UCSD Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2 - http://www.calit2.net), and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA - http://crca.ucsd.edu). Housing over 900 faculty, graduate students, and staff researchers, Calit2 is developing next-generation cyberinfrastructure tools with a particular focus on multidisciplinary collaboration. Calit2 is located on UCSD campus which is internationally renowned as a place for study and research in digital art, computer music, and digital theory. Between the departments of Visual Arts, Music, and Communication, there are close to 30 full-time faculty working in these areas. The technical facilities and staff support for research in digital media at UCSD are among the best in the world. They include a number of state-of-the-art research labs and performance spaces which provide both current and next-generation tools for immersive visualization, multi-channel audio spatialization, digital cinema, motion capture, interactive performance, 3-D fabrication, and computer gaming research. The position is open until filled, but we will begin reviewing applications June 10th, 2007. For priority consideration, candidates are encouraged to apply before this date. Applicants should send a current CV with cover letter to Helena Bristow (bristow_at_ucsd.edu) with subject line "Application for Software Studies Postdoc Position." Manovich and Wardrip-Fruin will be available for preliminary interviews at the 2007 Digital Humanities conference during the first week of June, 2007 (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/). Please indicate whether you will be attending DH '07 in your application. For further information, please contact: Helena Bristow, Administrative Director, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts bristow_at_ucsd.edu From: Methnet Subject: Reminder: Apply for Funding from the Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:47:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 67 (67) Dear Colleagues, This is just to remind you that the deadline for funding applications to the AHRC ICT Methods Network is 30 June 2007. The AHRC ICT Methods Network invites the arts and humanities Higher Education community in the UK to submit proposals for Methods Network activities. Activities may include workshops, seminars, focused workgroups, postgraduate training events and publications. The Methods Network is keen to support both single- and cross-disciplinary proposals and those that encourage new collaborative frameworks between technical specialists and arts and humanities researchers. The primary emphasis is on the use and reuse of digital resources. Proposals for hybrid activities such as workshop/seminar/workgroup combinations are also welcomed, as are proposals for any other activity which falls within the Methods Network remit to support and promote the uses of advanced ICT methods in academic research. Funding of up to £5000 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 £2000 is available for seminars. These may concentrate on highly-defined topics of interest and also problem areas within the community or may have a more general focus. For information on eligibility and how to apply for funding see the Methods Network website (www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk). Please be aware that all applicants are expected to submit fully-formed proposals with full programme, budget and projected outcome details and with particular emphasis on the research significance of the proposed activity. Applications that fail to provide all required details will not be considered for funding. For further information about submitting a proposal contact Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk). Forthcoming Methods Network Funded Activities We welcome applications from individuals who would like to attend Methods Network workshops and seminars, but must emphasise that registration is essential for these activities. Participants are also expected to make an active contribution to the activity. Occasionally a Methods Network event will be by invitation only, but all resulting materials, including (where appropriate) podcasts, wikis, training workbooks, reports and publications will be made freely available to the community via the Methods Network website. All enquiries about registration for the Methods Network activities listed below should be sent by email to methnet_at_kcl.ac.uk. For further information about the following activities see the Methods Network website. Data Sans Frontières: Web Portals and the Historic Environment - A workgroup organized by Stuart Jeffrey, ADS/AHDS Archaeology, University of York. (25 May 2007). Developing an International Framework for Audit and Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories - A seminar organized by Joy Davidson, HATII, University of Glasgow. (June 2007) New Protocols for Electroacoustic Music Analysis - A workshop organized by Leigh Landy, De Montfort University, Leicester (12 June 2007). From Abstract Data Mapping to 3D Photorealism: Understanding Emerging Intersections in Visualisation Practices and Techniques - A workshop organized by Julie Tolmie, 3DVisA, Kings College, University of London. (19 June 2007) Real-time Collaborative Art Making - A workshop organized by Gregory Sporton, University of Central England. (20 July 2007) Space/Time: Methods in geospatial computing for mapping the past - A workgroup organized by Stuart Dunn, AHeSSC, Kings College, University of London. (23 - 24 July 2007) Text Mining for Historians - A workshop organized by Zoe Bliss, AHDS History, University of Essex. (17 - 18 July 2007) Opening the Creative Studio - A hybrid activity comprising presentations and workshops, organized by David Gorton, Royal Academy of Music. (10 September - 30 November 2007) Annotating Image Archives To Support Literary Research - A workshop organized by Omer Rana, University of Cardiff. (October 2007) INTIMACY: Performing the Intimate in Proximal and Hybrid Environments - A hybrid workshop/seminar activity, organized by Maria Chatzichristodoulou (7, 8, 9 December 2007) Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Anthony Jones Subject: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop Date: 12 May 2007 20:29:44 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 68 (68) The Grant Institute's Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop will be held at North Dakota State University , August 1 - 3, 2007. Interested development professionals, researchers, faculty, and graduate students should register as soon as possible, as demand means that seats will fill up quickly. Please forward, post, and distribute this e-mail to your colleagues and listservs. All participants will receive certification in professional grant writing from the Institute. For more information call (888) 824 - 4424 or visit The Grant Institute at www.thegrantinstitute.com. Please find the program description below: The Grant Institute Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop will be held at North Dakota State University Fargo, North Dakota August 1 3, 2007 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM The Grant Institute's Grants 101 course is an intensive and detailed introduction to the process, structure, and skill of professional proposal writing. This course is characterized by its ability to act as a thorough overview, introduction, and refresher at the same time. In this course, participants will learn the entire proposal writing process and complete the course with a solid understanding of not only the ideal proposal structure, but a holistic understanding of the essential factors, which determine whether or not a program gets funded. Through the completion of interactive exercises and activities, participants will complement expert lectures by putting proven techniques into practice. This course is designed for both the beginner looking for a thorough introduction and the intermediate looking for a refresher course that will strengthen their grant acquisition skills. This class, simply put, is designed to get results by creating professional grant proposal writers. Participants will become competent program planning and proposal writing professionals after successful completion of the Grants 101 course. In three active and informative days, students will be exposed to the art of successful grant writing practices, and led on a journey that ends with a masterful grant proposal. Grants 101 consists of three (3) courses that will be completed during the three-day workshop. (1) Fundamentals of Program Planning This course is centered on the belief that "it's all about the program." This intensive course will teach professional program development essentials and program evaluation. While most grant writing "workshops" treat program development and evaluation as separate from the writing of a proposal, this class will teach students the relationship between overall program planning and grant writing. (2) Professional Grant Writing Designed for both the novice and experienced grant writer, this course will make each student an overall proposal writing specialist. In addition to teaching the basic components of a grant proposal, successful approaches, and the do's and don'ts of grant writing, this course is infused with expert principles that will lead to a mastery of the process. Strategy resides at the forefront of this course's intent to illustrate grant writing as an integrated, multidimensional, and dynamic endeavor. Each student will learn to stop writing the grant and to start writing the story. Ultimately, this class will illustrate how each component of the grant proposal represents an opportunity to use proven techniques for generating support. (3) Grant Research At its foundation, this course will address the basics of foundation, corporation, and government grant research. However, this course will teach a strategic funding research approach that encourages students to see research not as something they do before they write a proposal, but as an integrated part of the grant seeking process. Students will be exposed to online and database research tools, as well as publications and directories that contain information about foundation, corporation, and government grant opportunities. Focusing on funding sources and basic social science research, this course teaches students how to use research as part of a strategic grant acquisition effort. Registration $597.00 tuition includes all materials and certificates. Each student will receive: *The Grant Institute Certificate in Professional Grant Writing *The Grant Institute's Guide to Successful Grant Writing *The Grant Institute Grant Writer's Workbook with sample proposals, forms, and outlines Registration Methods 1) On-Line - Complete the online registration form at www.thegrantinstitute.com under Register Now. We'll send your confirmation by e-mail. 2) By Phone - Call (888) 824 - 4424 to register by phone. Our friendly Program Coordinators will be happy to assist you and answer your questions. 3) By E-mail - Send an e-mail with your name, organization, and basic contact information to info_at_thegrantinstitute.com and we will reserve your slot and send your Confirmation Packet. You have received this invitation due to specific educational affiliation. We respect your privacy and want to ensure that interested parties are made aware of The Grant Institute programs and schedules. This is intended to be a one-time announcement. In any event, you should not receive any more announcements unless there is a program next year in your area. To be unlisted from next year's announcement, send a blank e-mail to unlist_at_thegrantinstitute.com and write "Unlist" in the subject line. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminar programme Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 06:36:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 69 (69) [For all those within range of London this Summer.] Dear all, (With apologies for cross-posting.) We now have a programme for the Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminars which will be held at the Institute of Classical Studies between June and August this Summer. All seminars are in room NG16 at 16:30 on Friday. The seminar will be followed by refreshments, and then all are welcome to join us in entertaining the speaker at a local venue after. It would be great to have strong King's support for this event. Friday Jun 1 16:30 Richard Beecham (KCL), Using computer modelling to investigate relationships between Roman Wall Painting and Roman Theatre Friday Jun 8 16:30 Neel Smith (Holy Cross, MA), Digital infrastructure and the Homer Multitext Friday Jun 15 16:30 Boris Rankov (RHUL), 3D-Simulation of Ancient Naval Warfare Friday Jun 22 16:30 Timothy Hill (Cambridge), Wiser than the Undeceived? Past Worlds as Virtual Worlds in the Electronic Media Friday Jun 29 16:30 Michael Fulford (Reading), Silchester Roman Town: developing virtual research practice Friday Jul 6 16:30 Brian Fuchs (Imperial College), Title TBA Friday Jul 13 16:30 Dunstan Lowe (Reading), Intangible Cities: 'Authentic' Romes in Recreational Software Friday Jul 20 16:30 Eleanor OKell (Durham), Cary MacMahon (Glasgow), and Dejan Ljubojevic (London Metropolitan), Creating a Generative Learning Object (GLO) for Classics: working in an 'ill-structured' environment (and getting students to think!) Friday Jul 27 16:30 Janice Siegel (Hampden-Sydney, VA), The New AV Classics Database: a community-annotated resource Friday Aug 3 16:30 Melissa Terras (UCL), Can computers ever read Ancient Texts? Friday Aug 10 16:30 Stuart Dunn (KCL), Space as an artefact: understanding past perceptions and uses of space with and without computers Friday Aug 17 16:30 Charles Crowther (Oxford), A Virtual Research Environment for Documents and manuscripts Updates available at the programme website: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html. Posters and abstracts will be circulated before each event. Please pass on this programme to anyone who might be interested. If you could put up a poster in a central venue, please let me know and I shall email one to you. Many thanks in advance. Gabriel Bodard Simon Mahony Charlotte Tupman -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ From: IngentaConnect InTouch Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews vol. 21 no. 1 (March 2007) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 06:28:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 70 (70) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 21.1 (March 2007) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr ISR editorial Cattermole, Howard 1-1(1) What does sustainability look like? Green architecture as an aesthetic proposition Seibold-Bultmann, Ursula 3-6(4) Mutually assured pathogenicity Cockell, Charles S. 7-10(4) Surviving childhood in India and Ethiopia Sargent, Michael G. 11-26(16) The Antikythera Mechanism reconsidered Wright, M.T. 27-43(17) A strand of vermicelli: Dr Darwin's part in the creation of Frankenstein's monster Smith, C.U.M. 45-53(9) The two cultures, or the end of the world as we know it Luckhurst, Roger 55-64(10) Feminist epistemology after postmodernism: critiquing science, technology and globalisation Braidotti, Rosi 65-74(10) Science War II: the shift from physics to biology as the field of struggle Fuller, Steve 75-89(15) Book Reviews Knight, David 90-96(7) From: Willard McCarty Subject: on awareness Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 06:34:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 71 (71) Martin E. Müller, "Being aware: where we think the action is", Cognition, Technology & Work 9.2 (June 2007): 109-126. Abstract. The term awareness has become one of the core concepts in human (computer-) interaction. By awareness we usually try to describe a human’s capability of perception and the cognitive effort related to an apperception task as well as similar abilities of a computer system to act sensitively with respect to context. But what does it mean to be aware in or of some context? Are not all things assembled in a system affected by being in that system -- being aware of it or not? What does it take to be aware and what are the consequences of being not aware? This article discusses recent paradigms of computer science in the context of philosophy of mind, psychology of perception and sociology to shed light on awareness, context, perception and affection. The conclusion that is drawn is that any observation is inherently predetermined by our model of the world: the meaning of data we collect is determined by the model assumptions under which the observer is running. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: another new publication: Technicity Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:33:52 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 72 (72) Now available from Litteraria Pragensia Books ... TECHNICITY ed. Louis Armand & Arthur Bradley ISBN 80-7308-125-3 (paperback). 375pp. Publication date: December 2006 Price: Euro 12.00 (not including postage) <http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/technicity.html> This collection of writings explores the theory and praxis of technicity in contemporary thought. From the ground-breaking explorations of such figures as Freud, Heidegger, Deleuze/Guattari and Derrida to the work of more recent theorists like Bernard Stiegler, Friedrich Kittler and Katherine Hayles, it is becoming possible to speak of a new "technological turn" in contemporary continental theory. Yet despite the plethora of work in the field there has not been any sustained attempt to think through the larger philosophical, cultural and political implications of the new technologies. In this collection, a group of internationally-known figures within the fields of philosophy, linguistics and cultural studies come together to consider the meaning of "technicity" at the beginning of the 21st century. Contributors: Bernard Stiegler, Louis Armand, Arthur Bradley, Christopher Johnson, Hartmut Winkler, J. Hillis Miller, Belinda Barnet, Geert Lovink and Kenneth C. Werbin, Darren Tofts, McKenzie Wark, Niall Lucy, Laurent Milesi, Michael Greaney, Mark Amerika. About the editors: Arthur Bradley is senior lecturer in the Department of English at Lancaster University. He has published widely on continental philosophy and is the author of Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2004). Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other. For a full catalogue of LP books, please visit our website at <http://www.litterariapragensia.com/> For the latest issue of Litteraria Pragensia journal, visit <http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/journals/current_issue.html> From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.20 Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 06:30:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 73 (73) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 20 May 22, 2007 -- May 29, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: WHAT WILL REPLACE THE AUDIO CD? Analysis and prediction by Andreas Pfeiffer -- principal of Pfeiffer Consulting, an independent technology research institute and consulting operation focused on the needs of publishing, digital content production, and new media professionals. Pfeiffer says that the opportunity now is to provide customers with what they are really looking for: a true post-digital music experience. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i20_pfeiffer.html> From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: Interactions: Artifacts & Us Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:03:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 74 (74) [deleted quotation] From: "Joergen Villadsen" Subject: Final call for papers: CSLP_at_Context07 - EXTENDED DEADLINE Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:05:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 75 (75) Final call for papers: CSLP_at_Context07 4th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing 20-21 August 2007, Roskilde, Denmark http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2007.html Affiliated with CONTEXT07, http://context-07.ruc.dk DEADLINE for submissions: May 29, 2007 - EXTENDED The CSLP_at_Context07 workshop considers the role of constraints in the representation of language and the implementation of language processing. This theme should be interpreted inclusively: contributions from linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics and related areas are welcome, and an interdisciplinary perspective is of particular interest. The collocation with the CONTEXT07 conference underlines the application of constraints for context comprehension and discourse modelling. Motivation ---------- Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. These different perspectives are complementary, each one adding a piece to the puzzle. For example, linguistics proposes in-depth descriptions implementing constraints in order to filter out structures by means of description languages, constraint ranking, etc. The constraint programming paradigm, on the other hand, shows that constraints have to be taken as a systematic whole and can thus play a role in building the structures (or can even replace structures). Finally, psycholinguistics investigates the role of constraint systems for cognitive processes in comprehension and production as well as addressing how they can be acquired. Invited speakers: ----------------- 2 or 3 distinguished researchers will be announced on the workshop web pages. Topics ------ The workshop seeks contributions from different areas working with constraints in relation to language including, but not limited to the topics . Constraints in human language comprehension and production . Context modelling and discourse interpretation . Acquisition of constraints . Constraints and learning . Cross-theoretical view of the notion of constraint . New advances in constraint-based linguistic theories . Constraint satisfaction (CS) technologies for NLP . Linguistic analysis and linguistic theories biased towards CS or constraint logic programming (CLP) . Application of CS or CLP for NLP . CS and CLP for other than textual or spoken languages, e.g., sign languages and biological, multimodal human-computer interaction, visual languages, . Probabilistic constraint-based reasoning Submissions ----------- Authors are invited to submit extended abstract or a full paper of up to 12 pages. Papers should be prepared as PDF files using the format for Springer's LNCS/LNAI series, http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Each submission will be commented by two or three reviewers. Preliminary proceedings are distributed at the workshop and, depending on number and quality of submissions, a volume of revised and selected papers are under considerations at an international publisher. Please submit papers as PDF files, following the guidelines at http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2007.html Important dates --------------- Submission deadline May 29, 2007 - EXTENDED Notification June 14, 2007 Final version July 5, 2007 Workshop 20 and-or 21 August 2007 Registration ------------ Registration is done through the CONTEXT conference website, and the fee covers the conference and all workshops. http://context-07.ruc.dk At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the paper at the workshop. Program Committee ----------------- Philippe Blache (Provence University, France) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), co-chair Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Denys Duchier (INRIA, France) John Gallagher (Roskilde University, Denmark) Claire Gardent (University of Nancy, France) Barbara Hemforth (Provence University, France) Jerry Hobbs (University of Southern California, USA) M. Dolores Jim=E9nez-L=F3pez (Tarragona, Spain) Michael Johnston (AT&T, USA) Lars Konieczny (Freiburg university, Germany) Shalom Lappin (King's College, UK) Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University, USA) V=E9ronique Moriceau (Universit=E9 Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France) Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) J=F8rgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), co-chair Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, France) Organizing committee --------------------- Philippe Blache (Provence University, France) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), co-chair Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada) J=F8rgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), co-chair Inquiries --------- For any questions related to the workshop, do not hesitate to write to workshop co-chair Henning Christiansen, henning_at_ruc.dk More information at http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2007.html From: Kevin Kee Subject: Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference - June 4-5 Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:07:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 76 (76) REMINDER - INTERACTING WITH IMMERSIVE WORLDS CONFERENCE Interacting with Immersive Worlds An International Conference presented by the Interactive Arts and Science Program, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario JUNE 4-5, 2007 Register to attend at: www.brocku.ca/iasc/immersiveworlds Focusing on the growing cultural significance of interactive media, IWIW will feature over 50 academic papers organized along four streams: -- Theory of Immersive Worlds explores: i. the theory of interactivity, from perspectives such as narrative and gameplay (ludology); ii. analyses of the cultural and psychological effects of immersive worlds. -- Creative Practices in Immersion examines interactive new media art, and its exploration of new idioms and challenges in immersive worlds. -- Immersive Worlds in Education examines the application of immersive technologies to teaching and learning. -- Immersive Worlds in Entertainment examines entertainment applications of immersive technologies. The IWIW conference also features 4 keynote speakers: -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Director of the Quality of Life Research Center at the Drucker School, Claremont Graduate University -- James Paul Gee, Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading, University of Wisconsin at Madison (sponsored by Owl Children's Trust and the Brock Research Institute for Youth Studies) -- Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Director of the Computing Culture group at the MIT Media Lab -- Denis Dyack, Director/President, Silicon Knights Visit the conference Web site at www.brocku.ca/iasc/immersiveworlds Organizing Committee: -- Dr. Dale Bradley, Department of Communications, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 Dale.Bradley_at_brocku.ca -- Jean Bridge, Director, Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 Jean. Bridge_at_brocku.ca -- Denis Dyack, President, Silicon Knights, 1 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. denis_at_siliconknights.ca -- Dr. Barry Grant, Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 Barry.Grant_at_brocku.ca -- Dr. Dave Hughes, Department of Computer Science, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 hughesd_at_brocku.ca -- Dr. Kevin Kee, Department of History, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 Kevin.Kee_at_brocku.ca -- Dr. John Mitterer, Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 2J3 John.Mitterer_at_brocku.ca -- From: "Soraker, J.H. (Johnny, GW)" Subject: Call for participation: European Computing and Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:08:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 77 (77) Philosophy Conference (ECAP) 2007 Call for participation: European Computing and Philosophy Conference (ECAP) 2007 (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement - Please distribute widely) June 21-23, 2007, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, Program Chair: Philip Brey Local organisation: Johnny Hartz S=F8raker and Katinka Waelbers, More information: <http://www.utwente.nl/ecap07> We are proud to announce the fifth European Conference on Computing and Philosophy (ECAP), to be held on the campus of the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. E-CAP is the European conference on Computing and Philosophy, the European affiliate of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP, president: Luciano Floridi). The conference will deal with all aspects of the "computational turn" that is occurring through the interaction of the disciplines of philosophy and computing. The conference is interdisciplinary, and includes presentations by scholars from philosophy, computer science, social science and related disciplines. [...] A full description of the tracks and tentative program can be found at the website: <http://www.utwente.nl/ecap07/programme/>http://www.utwente.nl/ecap07/programme/ [...] From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 21.030 coding and composing? Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:58:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 78 (78) Dear Willard, Desmond Schmidt's distinction between the correctness of the program and the correctness of the model does get close to the heart of the issues you raise, inasmuch as a program can be wildly wrong, even when "correct", when the model on which it is based is inadequate. Writing programs in the classical form you were taught in -- which we've learned to call the "waterfall model", suggesting everything just moves along sedately until the moment of implementation, when it all crashes in at once (but see the link cited below), did seem like the way to do it in an age where intellectual labor was cheap relative to computers and the time and expertise required to code them. Such operations did not (or at least so they thought) have the luxury of getting it wrong a few times before they got it right. Perhaps they assumed the difference between "wrong" and "right" to be clearer than it often is; perhaps they simply assumed that the modeling problem was relatively straightforward and easy -- as any committee of intelligent and informed people could do it -- whereas the implementation in code was hard, required special expertise, and could only be done by a select few with expensive educations. And perhaps the sorts of problems they were trying to solve -- mapping trajectories or calculating payments due -- were easier to model than the problems we think about ("finding information"). Whatever the reasons, we now discover the reverse to be more often the case: it's the specification of what should happen that's the difficult part, not the making it happen once it's been specified. Yet while the problems have become harder, the means available for solving them have become more powerful. So we discover that with cheap machines, open-source platforms, web-based and self-directed learning, computer programming does, at length, become more like composition, in the sense that both become means whereby we can think with our hands. Just as the writer learns what she thinks by writing it (and striking it out and rewriting it), the programmer can come to better understandings of a problem by using the computer as a more plastic instrument, trying things out -- both in models and in implementation -- and then scrapping, recasting, refactoring. Accordingly, both design and implementation can become more iterative, evolutionary, "spiral", as it's called. This does not actually bring an end to the old way of doing it, any more than a writer necessarily spends less time in sentence composition than she did as a three-year-old child, when sentences were new. It's just that the waterfall has now become a cascading rapid, development pouring down through eddies and rivulets, sometimes gathering in calmer pools. Dare I cite Wikipedia, whose development has also followed a spiral, and entails both software development and natural language composition? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_model and add to these -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback To Nat Bobbit's citation of the "extreme programming" keyword we should also add "agile programming". Best regards, Wendell At 01:42 AM 5/18/2007, you wrote: [deleted quotation]====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Alexander Czmiel Subject: Job at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 06:56:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 79 (79) and Humanities Dear colleagues, I would like to point you to an open position at the Telota-Initiative ("The electronic life of the Academy") of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Though the job advertisement is in German and knowledge of German is advantageous the project language is not necessarily German. http://www.bbaw.de/schein/stelle/telota.html Basic data: - position: research associate - duration: as soon as possible until 31 December 2008 - qualifications: - knowledge in producing digital scholarly editions - knowledge of XML and related technologies - knowledge of a programming language You can find an overview of our last projects at http://pom.bbaw.de/index-en.html Applications should be addressed to Regina Reimann (reimann_at_bbaw.de). Please don't hesitate to contact me for further informations. Best Regards, Alexander Czmiel -- Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities "Telota-LAB - The electronic life of the Academy" Jaegerstrasse 22/23 Tel: +49-(0)30-20370-276 10117 Berlin - http://www.bbaw.de - http://www.telota.de From: "Wayne Hanewicz" Subject: Call for Papers: Humanities and Technology Association Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 06:58:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 80 (80) CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline 15 June 2007 Sustainable Transformations: Technology and Its Environments Humanities and Technology Association Conference Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana October 4-6, 2007 The theme of the 31st Annual Humanities and Technology Conference reflects the contemporary interest in the multiple interfaces of technologies and their environments. HTA invites individual papers and session proposals addressing the conference theme from the viewpoints of the humanities, the sciences, and engineering. In addition to the conference theme, papers on all other aspects of the interactions of technology, science, and the humanities are welcome. Next to innovations explicitly designed to protect the environment, modern technology creates new environments and alters existing ones, both natural and human-made. Whether it be with respect to aging, privacy, healthcare, education, transportation, or communication, new technologies keep redefining our environments for us. This conference (www.rose-hulman.edu/hta2007) invites contributions that explore, for example: *developments in environmental technology, as well as the political, social, and economic challenges they pose; *the destruction and/or creation through technology of natural, human made, or virtual environments of all kinds; *aesthetic and artistic reactions to the destruction or creation of new environments; *the sustainability of natural or virtual environments; *human adaptations to technological environments; *philosophical and ethical dimensions of technological environments; *the ecology of environments. Please submit a one-page proposal (200 words) by June 15, 2007 to: Andreas.Michel_at_rose-hulman.edu, call 812-877-8221, or write to Andreas Michel, HTA Conference Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 5500 Wabash Ave, Terre Haute, IN 47803 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 21.046 coding and composing (and modelling) Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 06:56:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 81 (81) Dear Willard, I don't disagree with anything Wendell says. However, his response raises a question about modelling which has been troubling me for some time. In your book you say "computational models, however finely perfected, are better understood as temporary structures in a process of coming to know rather than fixed structures of knowledge." (27) and later you say: "Eventually we realize that the perpetual impetus to construct a permanently elusive whole is the point." (188). You thus appear to see the computational model as a temporary interpretation that opens out the text, lets us see one aspect, one view through the dirty glass window of software tools. I think that Wendell would probably disagree with this picture of computational models - as I gather from his comments below, where he talks about "right" and "wrong". I also think that models are pictures of reality, as Wittgenstein said: "there must be something identical in the picture and what it depicts, to enable the one to be a picture of the other at all." (Tractatus 2.161) I thus see models as approximations of reality that are gradually refined. This is a scientific point of view. Humanists like to think that everything is an interpretation, for example that the tags that we choose to describe a text are an interpretation. The selection is, but the tags themselves usually describe facts about a text, e.g. that a word is underlined - what is interpretative about that? I know there are people who will argue even with this, but to say that it is ALL interpretation as is so often done I think misrepresents a more subtle situation. One of the reasons I suspect you say this about computational models is that the tools for constructing them are so poor. A compressed view of humanities computing over the past 40 years would seem to support your interpretation - after all, is that not what we have all been doing - creating models and then throwing them away? I am not so pessimistic, however. I like to think that we can get somewhere, and if the computational models are bad perhaps we just need to make better ones. I see models as data structures that are tied to the algorithms that process the text, like a hand that fits into a glove. ------------------------- Desmond Schmidt On 24/05/2007, at 5:26 PM, Willard McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 21.046 coding and composing Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 06:57:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 82 (82) I've worked in a commercial environment for the last five years, developing a natural language generation system that creates a narrative of the findings discovered during a doctor's encounter with a patient. We have used the Spiral Approach to software development for a number of reasons. Probably the most important one was that there was a lot of skepticism about my ability to accomplish this task. So we started with a "proof of concept" system that generated simple sentences to prove that we could do it at all. Then we moved to the "prototype" stage which gave us more credibility with more features and better narrative. Gradually we have continued to expand and elaborate both the model and the code, using continuous feedback from our users and the doctors within the company. In fact we just two weeks ago started a weekly meeting for the doctors to critique our output. The goal is to make the narrative sound as if a doctor wrote it, which is a noble endeavor, but we're getting closer! I don't believe the old Waterfall Method would be at all appropriate in today's world. In fact, we hear about spectacular failures in the government, where they've contracted with some company that's gone off with a set of initial specifications, written a huge system, and returned with it to discover that it didn't fit the needs of the organization -- or more likely the needs changed during that time. The FBI is a case in point, I believe. And since such systems take years to develop, then after the software has failed, the organization is even farther behind than it was before. Our system has proven quite robust! I designed it to be modular, to change as we added features, so it has been able to adapt to the new capabilities and larger and larger amounts of data. There are still new additions we intend to make over in the future, including translating the narratives into languages besides English, and so on. With language generation, there is no end to improvements, just as one can keep polishing any piece of text to make it better. Mary Dee Harris, PhD Chief Language Office Catalis, Inc. www.thecatalis.com 512-294-8110 mdharris_at_TheCatalis.com From: "Neal Audenaert" Subject: Re: 21.046 coding and composing Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 06:57:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 83 (83) Willard, [deleted quotation]For that matter, how exploratory is composition (e.g., an office memo, a UN resolution, a love letter, the OED, "the" Boeing 777 maintenance manual, a response to a mailing list) known to be these days? Designing software systems is very much like writing in one important respect - it is a skill (art) that requires a knowledge of the different techniques involved, and the selection and application of an appropriate technique based on experience and personal (institutional) aptitude. Some do it better than others, novices rarely do it best (though sometimes adequately for their purposes). The ONE RIGHT WAY approach to software engineering that is taught in school is no more fixed and final than the ONE RIGHT WAY of composition taught in school - and the best schools don't teach it that way. Some (possibly obvious, possibly uninteresting) thoughts on factors that influence "exploratory programming" follow. . . A critical factor in picking a software model is the size and the scope of the project. For small project (about 2 programmers working for about 2 years or less) the best approach (in my opinion) probably does look a lot like composition. Do a bit of pre-writing, sketch out the overall structure of the system, start coding (and testing) and see what works. Critique the code (and the system design) and rework things as you go along. As you get bigger (one might think of systems that involve thousands of programmers, plus support staff working over decades) you need a more formal process and much more control. This, of course, is much like composition as well - I suspect composing a work like the OED or the Encyclopedia Britanica involves a somewhat different process than what I learned in high school. A related question is what degree of correctness must be guaranteed? If I build a user interface and it is badly wrong, no one will be able to use the tool. In this case though, I build a new interface and everyone is happy again (or happier). On the other hand, if I accidentally delete (or worse, corrupt) the database containing a decade or so of painstakingly gathered information the problem is much worse. The same holds true if I design a data model that represents the information in ways that meet my needs now, but poorly model the data and hence, has only limited usefulness for future work. Accordingly, it makes sense to invest much more up-front effort in making sure the data model part of a system a) doesn't destroy things, and b) is "correct". The interface components of a system however, are likely to be best served by a highly exploratory process with frequent revisions. The waterfall approach would be (has been) a disaster for interface design. Of course, one lesson that has been learned quite well of the past 60 years of computer science is that you are NEVER right the first time (which brings to mind the fact that texts are really an ordered hierarchy of content objects . . . or something like that . . . sometimes for some purposes). The best designs will need revisions and we will always learn things in the process. Neal Audenaert From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 21.012 text visualization? Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 08:57:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 84 (84) [deleted quotation]A few months ago I saw a presentation by Jean-Daniele Fekete, a specialist on information visualization, who showed some interesting ideas on how to use these methods to make digital editions more accessible. He used tools like Compus and InfoZoom and the results were impressive. There is only an essay from 2004 online which is only discussing very few of his ideas: http://www.lri.fr/~fekete/ps/CrassonFeketeCifed04-final.pdf Didn't look like a waste of time to me, Fotis Jannidis From: Hugh Cayless Subject: Digital Library programmer position at UNC Chapel Hill Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 08:58:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 85 (85) Dear Digital Humanists, The newly-created Carolina Digital Library (working title) is looking for a programmer who will work primarily with UNC's institutional repository, but also on other digital library initiatives as needed. The new hire will have a lot of input in the planning and design of this important new system, as well as it's development. We need someone who is interested in developing and working with complex systems and has a passion for preserving and providing innovative ways to access digital materials. The position requires a thorough understanding of and familiarity with relational databases, a strong grasp of object-oriented programming and design, and an understanding of WWW programming, including protocols like HTTP and markup languages. Applicants should have experience with Java, especially servlet programming and XML processing, SQL, and at least one other language such as C/C++, Ruby, Python, PHP, or Perl. Experience with XSLT, MySQL, XML databases, information retrieval software (especially Lucene) institutional repository software, Tomcat, metadata standards such as METS and MODS, and the Text Encoding Initiative will be considered a plus. Should be comfortable working in Linux and able to administer a Linux workstation. A second, similar, position will be advertised soon. More details and application procedures are at: https://s4.its.unc.edu/RAMS4/ details.do?posID=0057419 UNC's Digital Library is home to Documenting the American South (http://docsouth.unc.edu) and other internationally recognized digital humanities initiatives. Programmers with digital humanities backgrounds are especially welcome to apply. I will be at the Digital Humanities conference in Urbana-Champaign and will be happy to talk to candidates there. Best, Hugh Cayless /** * Hugh A. Cayless, Ph.D. * Head, Digital Library Technology R&D * University Library * Chapel Hill, NC * hcayless_at_email.unc.edu */ From: "Juliana Tambovtseva" Subject: RE: 21.035 how to use Chi-square correctly? Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:37:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 86 (86) Dear Humanist colleagues, the discussion about reviewing process is quite on time. My article was turned away because the reviewer wrote that I use the Chi-square criterion in the way it was used 30 years ago. I am a linguist but I guess that the calcilation of the Chi-square should be the same then and now. Am I not correct? I wonder if anyone can help me to calculate it in the modern way? For example, we have 22 Verbials in Agatha Christie and 8 - in J.K. Rowling. Both texts are of the equal size 10 000 words. I calculated the Chi-square as 6.53. It means that there is a statistical difference between them at the level of 5%, since the table value is 3.84. I wonder if I calculate it correctly. Looking forward to hearing from you to yutamb_at_mail.ru Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev From: vogel_at_cs.tcd.ie (Carl Vogel) Subject: Early Registration: 19th European Summer School in Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 08:57:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 87 (87) Logic, Language and Information Dublin, Ireland 19th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Aug. 6-17, 2007 12th Conference on Formal Grammar, Aug 4 & 5, 2007 Postgraduate Student Grants (EACL) This is a gentle reminder of the June 1 early registration deadline for the 19th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information and co-located 12th Conference on Formal Grammar. At the bottom of this notice is information about six grants made available by the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Please see the ESSLLI website (http://www.cs.tcd.ie/esslli2007) for the current state of detail and online registration. The 19th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2007) is organized by the Computational Linguistics Group of the Department of Computer Science and the Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College Dublin, under the auspices of FoLLI, the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. The main focus of ESSLLI is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for students, researchers and IT professionals interested in the interdisciplinary study of these three fields. The 19th edition of ESSLLI offers 42 courses, given by leading scholars, organized into three interdisciplinary areas (Language & Computation, Language & Logic, Logic & Computation), at a variety of levels (foundational, introductory, advanced); 6 workshops; and a Student Session. The 12th Conference on Formal Grammar is a co-located event. The course and workshops generally consist of 5 once-a-day 90 minute session. The dates for Formal Grammar are August 4 and 5, 2007. ESSLLI runs August 6-17, 2007. Foundational courses cover elementary subjects of a foundational nature. They presuppose no background knowledge, and should be accessible to people from other disciplines. Introductory courses are intended to equip students and young researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques, and to allow experienced researchers from other fields to acquire the key competences of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Advanced courses enable participants to acquire more specialized knowledge about topics they are already familiar with. The 6 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. The Student Session has 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. For Workshops and the Student Session, see the web site for further information and CFPs. We are pleased to announce the availability of six 500 euro grants to postgraduate students funded through the generosity of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Applicants for these grants should supply the following documentation: o Name, email address, affiliation and status (PhD year etc.) of the candidate o Source and amount of yearly income o Letter of motivation o Whether the candidate makes a presentation at the event o Proof of student status o Letter of recommendation (e.g., from supervisor) Applications for grants should be sent to esslli2007_at_cs.tcd.ie As other grants become available, they will be announced. The Springer Student Sessions Prize will provide 500 euro of Springer published books to the presenter of the best paper in each of the student session streams. Sponsors include: Science Foundation Ireland, Kurt Godel Society, European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hodges Figgis, Springer, Oxford University Press. From: Wim Van Mierlo Subject: Summer School in Manuscript Studies 2007 at the Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 09:00:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 88 (88) Institute of English Studies Summer School in Manuscript Studies 2007 at the Institute of English Studies, University of London In 2007, the Summer School will run in conjunction with the London Rare Books School and will be running half day and full day courses on Friday 20th and Friday 27th July. The full programme for the Summer School 2007 is currently being developed so some course details may be subject to alterations. Friday 20th July Professor Charles Burnett (Warburg) Medieval Scientific Manuscripts Half Day - am Ms Patricia Lovett (CLAS) One thousand years of writing manuscripts Half day - pm Dr Marigold Norbye (UCL) An Introduction to Latin Palaeography Full Day Ms Mura Ghosh (ULRLS) Electronic Resources for Manuscript Studies Half Day - pm Friday 27th July Professor Michelle Brown (IES) and Professor Jane Roberts (IES), An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Full day Ms Patricia Lovett (CLAS) Writing Gothic Book Script Dr Mara Hofmann (IES) Late Gothic and Renaissance Mss in France Full Day For further details please visit the Summer School web page, where registration forms will become available shortly: <http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School07/index.htm>http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School07/index.htm Or contact: Miss Zoe Holman Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies Institute of English Studies Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Tel: +44 (0) 20 7862 8680 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7862 8720 Email: cmps_at_sas.ac.uk From: oxfordjournals-mailer_at_alerts.stanford.edu Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing for June 2007; Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 09:04:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 89 (89) Vol. 22, No. 2 A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: June 2007; Vol. 22, No. 2 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol22/issue2/index.dtl?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- A Default Inheritance Hierarchy for Computing Hebrew Verb Morphology Raphael Finkel and Gregory Stump 117-136. How to Handle Small Samples: Bootstrap and Bayesian Methods in the Analysis of Linguistic Change Alexander Hinneburg, Heikki Mannila, Samuli Kaislaniemi, Terttu Nevalainen, and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg 137-150. Processing Internet-derived Text--Creating a Corpus of Usenet Messages Sebastian Hoffmann 151-165. Trees and After: The Concept of Text Topology. Some Applications to Verb-Form Distributions in Language Corpora Xuan Luong, Michel Juillard, Sylvie Mellet, and Dominique Longree 167-186. Developing Web Databases for Aboriginal Language Preservation Marie-Odile Junker and Radu Luchian 187-206. Employing Thematic Variables for Enhancing Classification Accuracy Within Author Discrimination Experiments George Tambouratzis and Marina Vassiliou 207-224. Supporting Annotation as a Scholarly Tool--Experiences From the Online Chopin Variorum Edition John Bradley and Paul Vetch 225-241. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method. * Joseph A. Dane. Geert Lernout 243-244. Humanities Computing. * Willard McCarty. Susan Hockey 244-246. Qualitative Research for the Information Professional. A Practical Handbook. Second Edition. * G. E. Gorman and Peter Clayton. Melissa Terras 246-248. Making Knowledge Visible. Communicating Knowledge Through Information Product. * Elisabeth Orna. Claire Warwick 248-250. From: Wendell Piez < Subject: Re: 21.046 coding and composing Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:58:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 90 (90) wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com> Dear Willard, Desmond Schmidt's distinction between the correctness of the program and the correctness of the model does get close to the heart of the issues you raise, inasmuch as a program can be wildly wrong, even when "correct", when the model on which it is based is inadequate. Writing programs in the classical form you were taught in -- which we've learned to call the "waterfall model", suggesting everything just moves along sedately until the moment of implementation, when it all crashes in at once (but see the link cited below), did seem like the way to do it in an age where intellectual labor was cheap relative to computers and the time and expertise required to code them. Such operations did not (or at least so they thought) have the luxury of getting it wrong a few times before they got it right. Perhaps they assumed the difference between "wrong" and "right" to be clearer than it often is; perhaps they simply assumed that the modeling problem was relatively straightforward and easy -- as any committee of intelligent and informed people could do it -- whereas the implementation in code was hard, required special expertise, and could only be done by a select few with expensive educations. And perhaps the sorts of problems they were trying to solve -- mapping trajectories or calculating payments due -- were easier to model than the problems we think about ("finding information"). Whatever the reasons, we now discover the reverse to be more often the case: it's the specification of what should happen that's the difficult part, not the making it happen once it's been specified. Yet while the problems have become harder, the means available for solving them have become more powerful. So we discover that with cheap machines, open-source platforms, web-based and self-directed learning, computer programming does, at length, become more like composition, in the sense that both become means whereby we can think with our hands. Just as the writer learns what she thinks by writing it (and striking it out and rewriting it), the programmer can come to better understandings of a problem by using the computer as a more plastic instrument, trying things out -- both in models and in implementation -- and then scrapping, recasting, refactoring. Accordingly, both design and implementation can become more iterative, evolutionary, "spiral", as it's called. This does not actually bring an end to the old way of doing it, any more than a writer necessarily spends less time in sentence composition than she did as a three-year-old child, when sentences were new. It's just that the waterfall has now become a cascading rapid, development pouring down through eddies and rivulets, sometimes gathering in calmer pools. Dare I cite Wikipedia, whose development has also followed a spiral, and entails both software development and natural language composition? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_model and add to these -- <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_cycle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback To Nat Bobbit's citation of the "extreme programming" keyword we should also add "agile programming". Best regards, Wendell At 01:42 AM 5/18/2007, you wrote: [deleted quotation]online magazine that sometimes [deleted quotation]====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. <http://www.mulberrytech.com>http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | <http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/%7Ewmccarty/>http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ From: TEI Overlapping Markup SIG discussion list on behalf of Syd Bauman Subject: FW: Extreme pre-conference workshop on overlap Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 06:56:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 91 (91) Sent: Sun 27/05/2007 6:40 AM To: TEI-OL-SIG_at_listserv.brown.edu What: International Workshop on Markup of Overlapping Structures XML and SGML have revolutionized the representation of structured information, but not all information structures map easily into systems of hierarchically nested elements. Markup of overlapping structures is a perennially hot topic, reinvented and reimagined as often as it is solved. This full-day workshop will bring together the proponents of some of the major proposals for markup, representation, extraction, display, and validation of semantic overlap to summarize the systems they are developing and discuss topics of common interest. A morning of formal presentations will be followed by an afternoon of free-ranging discussion. When: Monday, 06 August 2007 the day before Extreme Markup Languages 2007, "The Markup Theory and Practice Conference" Where: Hotel Europa, Montreal, Canada (the Extreme hotel) Details: <http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/>http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/ Confirmed speakers and topics include: * Alexander Dekhtyar, California Polytechnic State University, on the Concurrent XML and the ARCHway Project * Steven DeRose, National Center for Biotechnology Information (National Institutes of Health), on Trojan Markup and other empty-element techniques * Patrick Durusau, Snowfall Software, on Topic Mapping overlap * Wendell Piez, Mulberry Technologies, on LMNL (Layered Markup and Annotation Language) * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, World Wide Web Consortium, on TexMecs and Goddag structures * Andreas Witt, University of Tubingen, on Multiple Annotations and XConcur Registration fee: $125 per person; there is a 20% discount for TEI-C members and subscribers, as well as for members of IDEAlliance, OASIS, SC34, & W3C, and for full-time academics & government employees) Registration and updated information at <http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/index.html>http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/index.html There's Nothing so Theoretical as a Good Practice From: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion list on behalf Subject: FW: TEI Live CD Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 06:57:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 92 (92) of Sebastian Rahtz Sent: Sat 26/05/2007 11:39 AM To: TEI-L_at_listserv.brown.edu <http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/tei-Ubuntu.iso> is an image of a TEI customization of the Ubuntu Live CD (Feisty series) for Intel PC. Grab a copy, make a CD from it, reboot your PC from the CD, and you should find yourself in a nice Linux system with the latest and greatest TEI-everything installed. It includes a state of the art eXist XML database system running with various TEI documents preloaded. I make these CDs mainly for teaching purposes, but it can also be used as an install medium to set up a new computer with a running Ubuntu system. As I have said before, if you have some nice software which should/can be be on here, let me know. There are three conditions: * it can't need _too_ much space * it must have an open source licence according to OSI definitions, and data files must be completely free (no "nocommercial" clauses) * it must be set up as a Debian package or something close (no "its got its own copy of Tomcat and Java with it") -- Sebastian Rahtz Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 From: Ken Friedman Subject: CFP: International Journal of Design Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 06:58:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 93 (93) International Journal of Design: Call for Papers http://www.ijdesign.org The International Journal of Design is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design. Our vision is to publish high-quality design research, and to disseminate this research to the widest possible audience. Our Editorial Board consists of leading design researchers from all over the world, all of whom are contributing their valuable time and expertise to help establish a high standard for this journal. The journal is published both online and in print. The online version is open access, freely available for anyone, anywhere to download, read, distribute, and use, with proper attribution of authorship, for any non-commercial purpose. A printed version of the journal will also be available. Submit your best work to the International Journal of Design! Topics include: - Social-Cultural Aspects of Design - Globalization and Localization Approaches to Design - Design Strategy and Management - Ergonomics & Perceptions in Design - Design Theories and Methodologies - Computer Applications in Design -- First issue is now available on-line: http://www.ijdesign.org -- International Journal of Design Vol. 1 (1) April 2007 | Table of Contents Editorial: Lin-Lin Chen International Journal of Design: A Step Forward Original Articles: Wen-chih Chang and Tyan Yu Wu Exploring Types and Characteristics of Product Forms Manlai You, Chun-wen Chen, Hantsai Liu and Hsuan Lin A Usability Evaluation of Web Map Zoom and Pan Functions Chien-Hsiung Chen and Yu-Hung Chien Effects of RSVP Display Design on Visual Performance in Accomplishing Dual Tasks with Small Screens Kin Wai Michael Siu Guerrilla Wars in Everyday Public Spaces: Reflections and Inspirations for Designers Pieter Desmet and Paul Hekkert Framework of Product Experience Design Case Studies: Toni-Matti Karjalainen It Looks Like a Toyota: Educational Approaches to Designing for Visual Brand Recognition http://www.ijdesign.org From: sramsay_at_unlserve.unl.edu Subject: ACH Jobs Table Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 06:55:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 94 (94) The ACH Employment Committee will be sponsoring a "jobs table" during the second poster session at this year's DH meeting. We'll have members of the Committee available to answer questions about employment and professionalization in Digital Humanities, and we'll also have a copy of the current jobs list on hand. If your institution is advertising a job that has not made it into the ACH jobs database, please do send it along so we add it to our printed list. This includes any jobs that might have had their deadlines extended (but which have "aged out" in the database). We do a pretty good job tracking advertisements posted to Humanist, but if you are advertising a position, you may want to check the current database listings to make sure it's there: http://curlew.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ach/ Late breaking job advertisements can be sent directly to me at sramsay_at_unlserve.unl.edu. Thanks, Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 21.035 how to use Chi-square correctly? Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 06:57:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 95 (95) Juliana, greetings, On 2007 May 21 , at 06.45, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]I don't believe anything has changed in the way that chi-squared is defined or used. Nor has much changed (unfortunately) in the way and extent that it is abused. If you'd like to send me a copy of your data off-list, I'm sure we can work out what the correct chi-squared should be, and post some summary to the list afterwards. Best wishes, Norman -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Norman Gray : http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK From: "Juliana Tambovtseva" Subject: how to calculate Sign test? Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 06:59:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 96 (96) Dear Humanist colleagues, nobody answered how to calculate the Chi-square in the modern way. So, I think that the old way is quite all right. I mean the reviewer who claimed to know the modern way was joking. Actually, do you know how to compare two numbers with the help of the Sign Test? Can you exactly tell me about two numbers 76 and 48 ? The Chi-square gives 6.30 which is greater 3.84 at the level of 0.05. It means these two numbers are statistically different. What about the Sign Test in this case? Please, teach me to calculate it. Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_mail.ru Be well, remain sincerely and cordially Yuri From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: 'Using computer modelling to investigate Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 06:24:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 97 (97) relationships between Roman Wall Painting and Roman Theatre' (seminar) Please circulate: Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007 Friday 1st June at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Richard Beacham (King's College London) 'Using computer modelling to investigate relationships between Roman Wall Painting and Roman Theatre' ALL WELCOME The presentation will provide a brief overview of current research into connections between Roman theatre, Roman frescos, and their spatial and cultural contexts. It will provide several illustrated case-studies of an intermedial research methodology that employs three-dimensional computer visualisation to assist in interpreting the complex interplays of 2D and 3D space in these ancient Roman art forms. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk or clyontupman_at_hotmail.com, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html Regards, -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ From: David Sewell Subject: Job: Project Editor at U of Virginia Press digital imprint Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 06:24:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 98 (98) The University of Virginia Press is seeking a full-time project editor for a 12-month appointment with our ROTUNDA imprint of digital scholarship: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ The incumbent will manage the digitization and conversion to XML of one or more print publications to appear in our American Founding Era collection, joing the Papers of George Washington Digital Edition. For further description and application details, please see: http://as400.hrs.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/db2www/jobs/ucdet06.mac/details?jva=PV%20UPR%20D10BC%20002 David Sewell -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 801079, 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: Willard McCarty Subject: a sleeping (or not) psychometric question Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:14:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 99 (99) Dear colleagues, Years ago I read a psychometric study of how people use computing systems as a function of the time between a user-initiated action and the system's response. The conclusion of the study was that if more than ca 1.5 seconds elapsed, the delay would begin to affect what the user then did. For example, this study suggested, if I put a query to a system and more than the threshold delay occurs, then I will begin to censor subsequent queries based on some assessment or other that I make of the probability of a useful response. The conclusion seems quite plausible. Consider, for example, unavoidable delays in conversation between saying something and getting a response. Spontaneity goes. My question is, can anyone here give me a reference to this or any similar study? Many thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 21.059 how to use Chi-square correctly Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 06:26:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 100 (100) At 09.35 30/05/2007, Norman Gray (Humanist Discussion Group) wrote: [deleted quotation]Am I the only one interested to know more=20 (possibly with examples) about how the chi-square test is abused? If you Norman could take us by hand and write=20 down a small description about how the test is=20 used correctly and how to avoid the abuse... With thanks in advance maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Universit=E0 del Piemonte Orientale a= Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 =20 From: Carl Vogel Subject: Re: 21.065 how to use Chi-square correctly Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:53:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 101 (101) [deleted quotation]Howdy, Of course, without knowing the full details of the article, one can only speculate on what the reviewer had in mind. The digested version of what was done in the paper in question was checking the relative distribution of one linguistic feature between two sources. It is possible that the reviewer was objecting to the articulation of the null hypothesis (that any differences in the distributions are random) or the alternative hypothesis (that the two texts could not have been drawn from the same population). One or other of those might have been given a different interpretation. Further, the fact that the null hypotheses was rejected might have been used to argue support for a hypothesis far more general than the test was actually focused upon. There's a very interesting article about the use of Chi-square testing in natural language research by Adam Kilgarriff: @Article{Kilgarriff05, author = {Kilgarriff, Adam}, title = {Language is never, ever, ever random}, journal = {Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory}, year = {2005}, OPTkey = {}, volume = {1-2}, OPTnumber = {}, pages = {263-275}, OPTmonth = {}, OPTnote = {}, OPTannote = {} } All the best, Carl From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 21.065 how to use Chi-square correctly Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:54:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 102 (102) I am interested as well. Michael S. Hart Founder of Project Gutenberg Who Minored In Statistics Some 33 Years Ago. . . . From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 21.065 how to use Chi-square correctly Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:54:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 103 (103) I can think of only three cases where Chi-Squared could be said to be abused: 1. Using Chi-squared in cases where it isn't appropriate (non-exclusive categories, too few observations, time-influenced data etc.) 2. Using Chi-squared after failing to follow appropriate observational & descriptive analysis. 3. Using Chi-squared when a parametric test (t-test, ANOVA) would do just as well. The first two just involve proper scientific procedure and analysis, and is not unique to Chi-squared. Of course, just popping data into SPSS and running a test is not a good way to go about any statistical analysis. The last one is bit of statistical snobbery, but it is valid enough to warrant a mention. If the parametric test can be run, you should run it instead of the Chi-squared (despite any preference for Greek letters). (see this tutorial for an explanation: http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/webtools/web_chi_tut.html ). The whole thing about the "new" way to run a Chi-squared confounds me, although I'd need a context for the quote. Mathematical distributions are not very useful if they change over time. If a more proficient or flexible distribution is discovered, I am sure they'd give it a new name to make note of that fact. Frankly, I can only see this happening for specific kinds of Chi-tests, and the Chi test would still be relevant because it is so easy to use. Sometimes economists will give the use a series of procedures a name and call it a "test" -- for instance, the Granger test uses Least-squares regression and ANOVA on time-series data -- but now I'm really grasping. Sometimes another test is required to make sure the data is appropriate for a particular statistical test. But Chi-squared is so basic that I cannot really think of case where that is necessary. (Still grasping). Hope this is helpful. For transparency sake, I am a diletant on statistical matters (ie. geeky enough to write about it on a wiki). Judging on my not-so-many years of statistical memory, I encourage further comments to straighten anything I've said out. Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Expected 2005 From: "Juliana Tambovtseva" Subject: Classification Accuracy Within Author Discrimination Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:55:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 104 (104) Dear Humanist colleagues, what are your impression on the article published in: Literary and Linguistic Computing for June 2007; Vol. 22, No. 2 Employing Thematic Variables for Enhancing Classification Accuracy Within Author Discrimination Experiments by George Tambouratzis and Marina Vassiliou, pages 207-224. The idea to compile a simple and understandable handbook on how to use Chi-square is appreciated. Especially with lots of exact examples. Looking forward to hearing from you to yutamb_at_mail.ru From: dhms_at_labe.felk.cvut.cz Subject: DHMS 2008 - Call for Papers Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:46:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 105 (105) 2008 IEEE SMC International Conference on DISTRIBUTED HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS 2008(DHMS 2008) MARCH 9-12, 2008 Athens, Greece Sponsored by the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society For information about DHMS 2008 visit http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: DHMS 2008 will provide a unique opportunity for participants from universities, industry, and government agencies to address challenges, share solutions, and discuss future research directions in distributed human-machine systems. A broad range of topics will combine theory and applications for human- robot/human-machine interaction and interfaces, distributed intelligent systems and networks, agent and holonic systems, swarm intelligence, with the goal of strengthening cooperation of academics, scientists, researchers and engineers with industry. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Agents and agent-based systems Biologically inspired systems Collective robotics Computational Intelligence Decentralized systems Distributed systems Embedded intelligence Evolutionary robotics Genetic and evolutionary computation Human-machine interfaces Human-robot interaction Industrial applications of holonic and agent-based systems Intelligent systems Knowledge systems for coalition operations Swarms, Swarm intelligence Unmanned systems Virtual enterprises Hybrid systems Virtual reality IMPORTANT DATES: The Program Chairs are soliciting contributed technical papers for presentation at DHMS 2008 and publication in the Conference Proceedings, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, special sessions, and panel sessions. September 1, 2007: Due date for papers and proposals for special sessions, workshops, tutorials November 30, 2007: Notification of acceptance/rejection December 15, 2007: Due date for camera-ready papers PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers must be submitted electronically by September 1, 2007, only via the DHMS 2008 submission system at http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008 From: Carlos Areces Subject: ESSLLI 2008: Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:48:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 106 (106) 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 Monday, 4 August - Friday, 15 August 2008 Hamburg, Germany CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. The ESSLLI 2008 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 20th annual Summer School on a wide range of timely topics that have demonstrated their relevance in the following fields: - Logic and Language - Logic and Computation - Language and Computation PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted through a web form available at http://www.folli.org/submission.php All proposals should be submitted no later than ******* Monday July 2, 2007. ******* Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Monday September 10, 2007. Proposers should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. [...] From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: psychometric question Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:49:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 107 (107) Ben Schneiderman published a number of studies on user interfaces with this kind of information. A quick search turns up this one: Ben Shneiderman: Response Time and Display Rate in Human Performance with Computers. ACM Comput. Surv. 16(3): 265-285 (1984) Jakob Nielsen also did this kind of research, and he might refer to the actual publication in his book on Usability Engineering. --elli From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- May 2007 Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:49:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 108 (108) TL INFOBITS 2007 No. 11 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitmay07.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... Teaching the "Net Generation" Technology and Change in Educational Practice Email: Too Much or Not a Bother? Help Digitize Books from Your Desktop Recommended Reading ...................................................................... TEACHING THE "NET GENERATION" The April/May 2007 issue of INNOVATE explores and explains the learning styles and preferences of Net Generation learners. "Net Generation learners are information seekers, comfortable using technology to seek out information, frequently multitasking and using multiple forms of media simultaneously. As a result, they desire independence and autonomy in their learning processes." Articles include: "Identifying the Generation Gap in Higher Education: Where Do the Differences Really Lie?" by Paula Garcia and Jingjing Qin, Northern Arizona University "MyLiteracies: Understanding the Net Generation through LiveJournals and Literacy Practices" by Dana J. Wilber, Montclair State University "Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students?" by John Thompson, Buffalo State College The issue is available at http://innovateonline.info/index.php. Registration is required to access articles; registration is free. Innovate: Journal of Online Education [ISSN 1552-3233], an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal, is published bimonthly by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. For more information, contact James L. Morrison, Editor-in-Chief; email: innovate_at_nova.edu; Web: http://innovateonline.info/. The journal also sponsors Innovate-Live webcasts and discussion forums that add an interactive component to the journal articles. To register for these free events, go to http://www.uliveandlearn.com/PortalInnovate/. See also: "Motivating Today's College Students" By Ian Crone PEER REVIEW, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2007 http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi07/pr-wi07_practice.cfm Peer Review, published quarterly by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), provides briefings on "emerging trends and key debates in undergraduate liberal education. Each issue is focused on a specific topic, provides comprehensive analysis, and highlights changing practice on diverse campuses." For more information, contact: AACU, 1818 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA; tel: 202-387-3760; fax: 202-265-9532; Web: http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/. For a perspective on educating learners on the other end of the generational continuum see: "Boomer Reality" By Holly Dolezalek TRAINING, vol. 44, no. 5, May 2007 http://www.trainingmag.com/msg/content_display/publications/e3if330208bec8f4014fac339db9fd0678e Training [ISSN 0095-5892] is published monthly by Nielsen Business Media, Inc., 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-9595 USA; tel: 646-654-4500; email: bmcomm_at_nielsen.com; Web: http://www.trainingmag.com. ...................................................................... TECHNOLOGY AND CHANGE IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE "Even if research shows that a particular technology supports a certain kind of learning, this research may not reveal the implications of implementing it. Without appropriate infrastructure or adequate provisions of services (policy); without the facility or ability of teachers to integrate it into their teaching practice (academics); without sufficient support from technologists and/or educational technologists (support staff), the likelihood of the particular technology or software being educationally effective is questionable." The current issue (vol. 19, no. 1, 2007) of the JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY presents a selection of papers from the Conference Technology and Change in Educational Practice which was held at the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, London in October 2005. The papers cover three areas: "methodological frameworks, proposing new ways of structuring effective research; empirical studies, illustrating the ways in which technology impacts the working roles and practices in Higher Education; and new ways of conceptualising technologies for education." Papers include: "A Framework for Conceptualising the Impact of Technology on Teaching and Learning" by Sara Price and Martin Oliver, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education "New and Changing Teacher Roles in Higher Education in a Digital Age" by Jo Dugstad Wake, Olga Dysthe, and Stig Mjelstad, University of Bergen "Academic Use of Digital Resources: Disciplinary Differences and the Issue of Progression Revisited" by Bob Kemp, Lancaster University, and Chris Jones, Open University "The Role of Blogs In Studying the Discourse and Social Practices of Mathematics Teachers" by Katerina Makri and Chronis Kynigos, University of Athens The issue is available at http://www.ifets.info/issues.php?show=current. The Journal of Educational Technology and Society [ISSN 1436-4522]is a peer-reviewed, quarterly publication that "seeks academic articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such systems." Current and back issues are available at http://www.ifets.info/. The journal is published by the International Forum of Educational Technology & Society. For more information, see http://ifets.ieee.org/. ...................................................................... EMAIL: TOO MUCH OR NOT A BOTHER? A couple of recent articles discuss people's aggravation with the masses of email that they receive and how they are curtailing or eliminating it altogether: "The supposed convenience of electronic mail, like so many other innovations of technology, has become too much for some people. . . . So some say they're moving back to the telephone as their preferred means of communication." ("E-Mail Reply to All: 'Leave Me Alone'" by Mike Musgrove, THE WASHINGTON POST, May 25, 2007, pg. A01; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402258.html) "More university professors are joining the ranks of those who have given up or severely curtailed their use of e-mail as a medium for personal -- and most of all -- private correspondence. They have had enough with electronic spam, come-ons, nonsense and smut-vertisements" (Paul McCloskey, "Academics Joining Ranks Declaring 'E-Mail Bankruptcy'," CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY, May 29, 2007; http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=48289). Conversely, "Spam 2007," a Pew Internet & American Life Project paper released this month, reports that "37% of email users said spam had increased in their personal email accounts, up from 28% of email users who said that two years ago. And 29% of work email users said spam had increased in their work email accounts, up from 21% two years ago. Yet fewer people say spam is 'a big problem' for them." The report is available at http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Spam_May_2007.pdf. ...................................................................... HELP DIGITIZE BOOKS FROM YOUR DESKTOP Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology is used to transform scanned book pages into searchable text. However, the accuracy of this method is dependent on the clarity of the characters being scanned. Fuzzy or indistinct printed texts are not always rendered correctly. Human proofreading of scanned texts can correct OCR errors, but it is labor-intensive and expensive. "Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online. The word puzzles are known as CAPTCHAs, short for 'completely automated public Turing tests to tell computers and humans apart.' Computers cannot decipher the twisted letters and numbers, ensuring that real people and not automated programs are using the Web sites." (Associated Press, May 24, 2007) According to the project website, "Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct." The results are then used to correct the word in the scanned texts. For more information about the project and to participate, go to http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. An excerpt from: KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY, DEVELOPMENT AND THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: RECLAIMING THE CULTURAL MISSION by Michael A. Peters (Book is part of a series: Educational Futures: Rethinking Theory and Practice) Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2007 288 pgs. ISBN 978-90-8790-070-0 hardback ISBN 978-90-8790-069-4 paperback E-book: http://www.sensepublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=287 UBIQUITY magazine has received permission to publish an excerpt (Introduction and Chapter 11) from this new book by Michael A. Peters, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Glasgow. The excerpt is available at http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i18_peter.html. Ubiquity associate editor A. Triptahi writes of it: "Prophetically, almost thirty years ago Jean-Francois Lyotard forecast the end of the modern research university based on Enlightenment principles. He envisaged the emergence of technical institutes in the service of the information-rich global multinationals. This book reflects on the post-war Western university and its discourses charting the crisis of the concept of the modern university. First, it examines the university within a global networked economy; second, it adopts poststructuralist perspectives in epistemology, politics and ethics to appraise the role of the contemporary university; third, it introduces the notion of 'development' in a critical fashion as a way of explaining its potentially new regional and international learning roles; fourth, it analyzes the rise of global science and the disciplines in the context of the global economy; and, finally, it raises Lyotard's 'logic of performativity' and the assessment of research quality within a neoliberal economy, linking it firmly to the question of freedom and the republic of science." [...] From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: 21.052 coding and composing Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:51:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 109 (109) I would like to endorse the position on agile methods put forward by Joris, and add to it the benefit of having an interface designer at the table throughout the process. Sometimes it is possible to think of design, whether visual communication design or sometimes also information design and visualization, as a polishing stage at the end of the process, but the interactions between designers and programmers are often fruitful, and the ideas and decisions of both groups can benefit from knowing what the others are about at each stage. Stan Ruecker Assistant Professor Humanities Computing Program Department of English and Film Studies University of Alberta Edmonton AB Canada From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: Two Digital Humanities Job Openings at Brown University Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:50:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 110 (110) Two Digital Humanities Job Openings at Brown University 1. Scholarly Technology Group=97Senior Research Programmer STG staff have expertise in text encoding standards, accessibility, database design, web programming, digital project design, information design, and grant-writing. We combine a strong background in the humanities and social sciences with a deep interest in the meaning of digital technologies for scholarly communication. Our research explores these issues as they affect faculty, institutions, and the ongoing evolution of the academic enterprise. The Senior Research Programmer Analyst works closely with faculty and STG staff to carry out digital humanities projects by performing project analysis, providing technical leadership, programming and software development in support of STG=92s projects. This person will recruit, plan and manage projects, write grant proposals, stay abreast of new methodologies and practices relevant to Digital Humanities and disseminate STG=92s work at conferences. Qualifications: =95 Minimum Bachelor=92s degree, advanced degree in the humanities preferred. Some formal CS coursework or equivalent preferred. =95 At least 2 years experience in Digital Humanities or comparable area. =95 Strong technical background in relevant areas: XML, web technologies, metadata standards, text retrieval. =95 interest in digital communications and collaboration, new media. =95 Strong analytical and problem solving skills; can formulate options, develop and recommend solutions, especially in a constantly changing work environment. =95 Can take a leadership role in a diverse team. For more information email elli_mylonas_at_brown.edu. 2. Women Writers Project=97Project Manager / Textbase Editor The Women Writers Project develops and publishes a digital research collection of early modern women=92s writing, and conducts ongoing research on digital editing and text encoding. The WWP Project Manager/Textbase Editor is responsible for the general management of the WWP, overseeing the development and editing of the textbase content, managing licensing for Women Writers Online, and managing the WWP=92s outreach and publicity activities. The Project Manager also works on WWP research projects and occasionally with the Scholarly Technology Group as opportunity permits. The position requires expertise in humanities computing, literary research, and computer project management, and a strong background in TEI/XML text encoding. Qualifications: =95 Minimum of three years successful experience in coordinating or supervisory role in scholarly editing, publishing, textbase projects. =95 Extensive experience in XML/TEI scholarly text encoding =95 Experience and relevant research in humanities computing and textual editing preferred, additional experience in women=92s literature or early modern studies preferred. =95 Excellent computing capabilities, must be comfortable with unix, XML tools, databases, advanced publishing software, etc. =95 B.A required, M.A. or Ph.D. preferred, in literary studies or another relevant humanities discipline For more information email julia_flanders_at_brown.edu. Brown University is an EEO/AA Employer. To apply, go to http://careers.brown.edu * About the Scholarly Technology Group The Brown University Scholarly Technology Group (STG) provides advanced technology consulting to Brown humanities faculty, departments, libraries, and research centers primarily through large and small projects in support of scholarly work in the digital medium. We also explore the critical new technologies that are transforming scholarly work and helping to maintain its longevity: data and metadata standards, XML publication tools, text encoding methods, new media forms, and accessibility standards. STG has three staff members: the Director, a Senior Research Programmer, and a Research Programmer. STG also employs between 3 and 5 student programmers and designers; students who are domain experts often contribute to projects. For more information visit the STG web site at http://www.stg.brown.edu. * Women Writers Project The Brown University Women Writers Project (WWP) is a long-standing digital research project focused on developing and publishing an online research collection of early women=92s writing. Since 1988 the WWP has been engaged in discovering, collecting, transcribing, encoding, and publishing rare texts by women for use in research and teaching. The WWP collection, published online since 1999 as Women Writers Online, is widely used in the USA and internationally. The project itself has been recognized as a leader in research on scholarly text encoding, and provides consulting, training, and research support to digital projects and individual scholars at Brown and many other institutions. The WWP group includes three staff members: the Director, the Senior Programmer/Analyst, and the Project Manager/Textbase Editor. The project also employs a group of between 5 and 10 graduate student encoders. For more information visit the WWP web site at http://www.wwp.brown.edu. * Digital Humanities at Brown University At Brown, the digital humanities have a long history which includes groundbreaking work in fields as disparate as hypertext, text encoding, linguistic corpora, and computer graphics. Digital support groups, long-standing research projects, and individual faculty members now make up a thriving community for research, discussion, instruction, and development. The Library=92s Center for Digital Initiatives focuses on digitizing important and distinctive library collections whose content lends itself to digital dissemination. The CDI also addresses institution-wide issues in digital research including metadata standards, digital repositories, and the long-term archiving and preservation of digital materials. The Scholarly Technology Group supports digital humanities research through its faculty grants program, through seminars and public lectures, and through the research of its staff. Research projects like the Women Writers Project, the Modernist Journals Project, the Virtual Humanities Lab, and many others work closely with the CDI and STG. * Brown University Brown University, located in Providence, Rhode Island, is a leading Ivy League institution with a distinctive undergraduate academic program, a world-class faculty, outstanding graduate and medical students, and a tradition of innovative and rigorous multidisciplinary study. A commitment to diversity and intellectual freedom has remained a hallmark of the University since its establishment in 1764. Brown students are distinguished by their academic excellence, self-direction, and collaborative style of learning. The Brown faculty is deeply committed to teaching, preeminent in their fields, and leaders in advancing knowledge that has broad scholarly, theoretical, and practical applications. Brown offers competitive benefits through a generous retirement plan, an employee education program, and a tuition aid program for employee=92s dependents. For details on these programs and eligibility please browse our web site at:=20 http://www.brown.edu/Administration/ Human_Resources/prospective_staff.html. From: Willard McCarty Subject: how do we know? Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:06:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 111 (111) On a walk the other day, here at Digital Humanities 2007, Stefan Sinclair raised a couple of questions worth much wider circulation than just around inside my brain. The first was in effect the degree to which we need to be practical when framing our research questions. If a question cannot be approached at all, given the current state of knowledge, is it worth the candle? The second one was, if one is investigating something not subject to proof, how much confidence can one place in the results one gets? In other words, what is the court of last resort? Oneself? A reasonably large sampling of specialists in the area of research? The first question had to do with some ideas I have about where to go with my own work. I agreed with him, that as far as I could see, no technology suits the problem I have. Let's say that we're both right about this. (I hope we are not.) What justification should I give myself for spending my most precious coin, time looking upon the light, to pursue ideas that cannot be implemented? Ok, I know the response of the liberal-arts-college-trained intellectual like me -- that the totally unknown, coming at us with no guarantees whatever, is the gold of the humanities. So-called "pure" research, or "wicked" problems, or whatever we call this sort of thing. But what is the value of such a response to someone whose passion is designing processes and building them to work? The second one haunts us all, I suspect. One colleague recently proposed of one particular kind of work that it would be validated when courts of law began using it. In other words, if society at large takes something on, then it's good. (But how long does one have to wait? How much longer than Socrates waited?) My response to Stefan was that the individual researcher was the court of last resort. If he or she found that using what I had in mind brought clearer thoughts about the material in question (judged by that individual), and provided stronger challenges to his or her way of thinking (here considerable honesty is required), then the tool or approach would be validated. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Antonella D'Ascoli Subject: Archaeology and Archaeometry Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:32:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 112 (112) Comunicazione 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' http:// www.jiia.it JIIA Eprints Repository (OAI-PMH) http://eprints.jiia.it/ University of Pisa-University of Parma (ITALY) 3rd International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry. Mediterraneo occidentale ed orientale a confronto. Parma e Pisa (Italia), 26-30 Marzo 2008 http://lrcw3.humnet.unipi.it/home_it.html The next LRCW Conference will be in Parma and Pisa (Italy) from the 26 to the 30 March 2008. The organizers are Sara Santoro (Dipartimento di Storia, Universita di Parma), Marinella Pasquinucci and Simonetta Menchelli (Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico, Universita di Pisa ) - ITALY- Best regards ______________ 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 From: Willard McCarty Subject: chasing themes vs finding structures Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:00:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 113 (113) In his keynote speech to the Digital Humanities conference, Franco Moretti (English & Comparative Literature, Stanford) said in passing that until humanities computing can get beyond a preoccupation with chasing themes in literary works to developing the ability to deal with their formal properties, it will have very little influence on literary studies. He did qualify his remark by saying that his knowledge of humanities computing is limited, but the challenge stands nevertheless. My reply to him was twofold: first, that chasing themes is so much easier than dealing with formal properties in literature that one is bound to find at this stage in our development much more of it; second, that people who take an interest in computing from the various disciplinary heartlands, like him but perhaps not him, tend to reach for what serves their conventional ways of work without disturbing these ways. So the actual impediment to greater influence is not merely that we yet to grow up but that our colleagues in other disciplines are stuck in their old ways. Is this a fair reply? Moretti's own use of computing, insofar as this was visible in the lecture, was confined to the use of spreadsheet graphing to illustrate formal trends in the novel. But how does computing itself become concerned with formal properties in literature (or in any other cultural mode of expression)? Markup can *describe* static formal properties that we perceive. So can a relational database design. But isn't this like approaching the study of living systems (past or present) only by describing their anatomy, their skeletal structures, their fossilized remains? And since for literary questions at least this involves significant interpretation every step of the way, what good is it for anyone other than the person describing the artefact in question? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Shana Kimball Subject: JEP Volume 10.2 now online Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:34:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 114 (114) Filtered Wisdom --Judith Axler Turner Edith Wharton once said something about wisdom needing to be filtered through personal experience. In this issue of JEP our authors bring personal experience to their work, sharing their interests as well as their scholarship. It is this personal view that makes this issue of JEP special. It is also telling that this collection of articles, which came to JEP one at a time, spell out a similar theme: publishing is inexorably moving away from its old paradigms, to new models where electronic will soon overtake paper. Even the last bastion--human resistance to change--is crumbling at the edges and the center cannot long hold. Hilary Wilder and Sharmila Pixy Ferris wrote an article for JEP a year ago on communication. They collaborated using a wiki, a Web space that allows anyone to read and edit its contents. In Using a Wiki to Write About Wikis they let JEP readers know what it was like to write so publicly. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.202> In Cross-Media Publishing Andreas Veglis looks at the top 10 U.S. daily newspapers from a Hellenistic perspective, and finds them only moderately committed to electronic publication compared to their European counterparts, but the ball is rolling. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.211> Felicia A. Smith finds drama and excitement in the journals pricing wars, and compares it to the horror movie Jaws in J.A.W.S. As in Jaws, the good guys finally win and the citizenry see the light. = <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.209> Bhaskar Mukherjee explores the value of open-access journals in the library and information science field based on impact factors and a host of other criteria in Evaluating E-Contents Beyond the Impact Factor. His research shows that standards are not affected by changing media. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.208> Frank Lester's Backlinks: Alternatives to the Citation Index for Determining Impact uses JEP as proof that links to an article may be better determinants of impact than citations for two reasons: they are not bound by discipline, and=ADbecause of the Web's dynamic nature=ADcan include links added to an article after its original publication. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.207> The Deep Niche by Michael Jensen suggests a new economic model for electronic publishers, one that could result in consistent best sellers over the life of a publication. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.206> Another new approach comes from Charles Henry , who explains how Rice University Press has re-invented itself to become the first fully digital university press, and is on its way to new successes. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.205> Diane Harley, Sarah Earl-Novell, Jennifer Arter, Shannon Lawrence, and C. Judson King carefully studied The Influence of Academic Values on Scholarly Publication and Communication Practices, and found that the major difference between electronic publishing and paper publishing was perception. The way to move scholars to accept electronic publication is to ensure that the publications meet the scholars' real needs, they conclude. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.204> Maria Filippi writes about a digital library in Italy that meets real needs and is thriving. In Implementing a Digital Library through National Cooperation, she explains how a library can help thwart marine pollution. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.203> Enjoy! From: Haradda_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 21.072 how do we know? Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:16:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 115 (115) In a message dated 6/4/2007 4:30:55 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU writes: Stefan Sinclair raised a couple of questions worth much wider circulation than just around inside my brain. The first was in effect the degree to which we need to be practical when framing our research questions. If a question cannot be approached at all, given the current state of knowledge, is it worth the candle? The second one was, if one is investigating something not subject to proof, how much confidence can one place in the results one gets? In other words, what is the court of last resort? Oneself? A reasonably large sampling of specialists in the area of research? In investigating questions the scientific method works well with everything but beliefs. How does one measure a persons feelings, beliefs, knowledge or experiences. And how does one know that he really feels that way or not. If it can be measured and repeated. If it can't then it's belief. I believe that there are some questions which can never be answered at all at the present time or even in the near future. I have hope that some day all my questions will have answers. So I would say that the amount of time one devotes to a problem is of course dependent on the amount of time one has and is willing to devote to that question. And the progress one is making. Often I have found myself finding that I have changed my perspective as I have gotten older and had more experiences. One has to know what the experts in a particular area think in order to agree or to disagree with them. However I have found that sometimes a persons training makes a person blind to alternative ways of examining problems. So I would say that the only one you really have to comvince is yourself. Though it is nice to have others around you rather than standing up alone exposed to the world. From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 21.072 how do we know? Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:17:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 116 (116) Willard, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]I am not sure I completely agree with the premise that work on "wicked" problems is necessarily divorced from "designing processes and building them to work." That is to say that while a solution to a "wicked" problem may prove elusive, it doesn't mean that other discoveries will not be made along the way that may result in "designing processes and building them to work." Personally I think that work on such problems and designing working processes should inform each other. For the working process researcher, they may become aware of limitations of the current art that are simply accepted. A deeper understanding of current art of processing may lead theorists to other paths to explore in searching for solutions. [deleted quotation]For expert evidence, courts rely upon a consensus of those working in a particular field. If your definition of "validation" is a consensus of people working in a field that works fairly well. While my sympathies lie with your position of the researcher being the court of last resort, I would not claim to consult a psychic about the vaidity of an XML schema as opposed to using an appropriate parser. There are boundaries, set by social convention of those working in a field that delimit "valid" approaches from those that are thought to be invalid. And those change over time. Instructive in this regard is Fish's essay, "Transmuting the Lump: Paradise Lost, 1942-1979." Fish traces the interpertation of books XI and XII of Paradise Lost to illustrate how the accepted interpertation of that work changed over time. I suspect the same is true of the methodogies that we apply to problems. Hope you are at the start of a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Patrick_at_Durusau.net Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! From: "RAM-Verlag" Subject: Glottometrics 13, 2006 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:57:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 117 (117) If you are interested in Glottometrics 13, 2006, please click here: www.ram-verlag.de. [Deleted reference to an attachment.] From: Springer Subject: Personal And Ubiquitous Computing - New Issue Alert Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:03:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 118 (118) Volume 11 Number 5 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Pervasive computing in the domestic space Steve Howard, Jesper Kjeldskov, Mikael B. Skov pp 329 - 333 Bringing emotion and physicality to domestic ICTs: interview with Steven Kyffin Frank Vetere, Frank Feltham pp 335 - 337 When home base is not a place: parents’ use of mobile telephones Leysia Palen, Amanda Hughes pp 339 - 348 Probing user values in the home environment within a technology driven Smart Home project Victoria Haines, Val Mitchell, Catherine Cooper, Martin Maguire pp 349 - 359 Designing home availability services Kristine S. Nagel, Ja-Young Sung, Gregory D. Abowd pp 361 - 372 Back to the shed: gendered visions of technology and domesticity Genevieve Bell, Paul Dourish pp 373 - 381 Homes that make us smart Alex S. Taylor, Richard Harper, Laurel Swan, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Mark Perry pp 383 - 393 Digital homes on wheels: designing for the unimagined home Alexandra Zafiroglu, Michele Chang pp 395 - 402 Designing technologies for presence-in-absence: illustrating the Cube and the Picture Frame Kasper Garnæs, Olga Grünberger, Jesper Kjeldskov, Mikael B. Skov pp 403 - 408 Kitchen stories: sharing recipes with the Living Cookbook Lucia Terrenghi, Otmar Hilliges, Andreas Butz pp 409 - 414 From: Dr Tatjana Chorney Subject: Re: 21.074 DH2007 keynote: chasing themes vs Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:23:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 119 (119) finding structures? Hi, I missed last night's keynote, but I find Willard's summary of the highlight below very provocative. With the understanding that I am responding to the message below and not the talk itself, I would have to say that the response strikes me as valid for the reason that DH encompasses many disciplines some of which do not rely on thematic analyses as much as we, in literatures, do. My own sense, reflected in my presentation (I apologise for the plug)is is that we need to start placing greater emphasis on the processes on which work in the various DH discipines depends, rather than contiue the traditional emphasis on content. The emphasis on process is made easier, I think, by the new medium, but I am using this statment inh a convceptual, symbolic sense as well as a formal one. Making the study processes focal to each discipline would probably reveal that most study and research in the humanities depends on similar processes (that is, for example, on revealing and learning how interconnectivity and transfer among various concepts, methods, approaches, interpretation is achieved in each discipline). I am not entirely sure what Moretti meant by form, but thininking in terms of process and content may roughly correspond to the suggested division between form and theme, but with a wider application. I am not working with statistical analyses or markup, so I am sure that these remarks leave many questions unanswered, such as a very basic one, which is do we need the digital for what I am suggestiung? I guess I believe that the computer and the activities it enables are more capable of facilitating the shift than any other traditional medium, and that the "how" is worth further investigation.... Best, Tatjana Tatjana Chorney Saint Mary's University Canada 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: Willard McCarty Subject: why it's important (for CS) to be a science Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:22:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 120 (120) In Ubiquity 8.3, http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v8i22_denning.html, referenced elsewhere in today's batch of Humanist, is the following exchange between an interviewer and Peter Denning, whose writings on computer science are well worth reading: [deleted quotation]Some (such as Michael Mahoney) would point out that the term "science" has several different meanings, i.e. that there are many sciences, but let's let that point go for now. Whatever it is (or, better, they are), Denning identifies these reasons for CS being one: (1) credibility (2) rationale (3) interconnections with other fields of enquiry (his 3 & 4) We've been struggling with the same basic needs. (Note that credibility is not the same thing as popularity, nor is acceptance for reasons of usefulness.) A few of us have been working on (2) by tirelessly, and perhaps tiresomely, attempting to articulate what humanities computing is. But now, it seems to me, the important thing is (3), because getting it right will lead to satisfactory resolution of the other two. CS achieves its interconnections by the fact that all the sciences have developed computational sub-varieties. Thus, for example, as a physicist said to me recently, there are three kinds of physics now, theoretical, experimental and computational. Perhaps we're going to see the development of similar sub-varieties in each of the humanities. (Before anyone drags out that truly tiresome quasi-Marxist argument about the withering away of humanities computing, note that the vigour of the computational sciences has not caused CS to wither!) But what is our principle(s) of interconnection with the disciplines? Is it (they) not ways or styles of reasoning? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.22 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:07:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 121 (121) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 22 June 5, 2007 -- June 11, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: A NEW INTERVIEW WITH PETER DENNING ON THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF COMPUTING. A computing visionary and leader of the movement to define and elucidate the "great principles of computing," Peter J. Denning is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is a former president of the ACM. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v8i22_denning.html> From: Mats Dahlstrom Subject: reminder CoLIS 6 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:56:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 122 (122) Reminder CoLIS 6 Registration; reduced conference fee until June 15! ************* * PROGRAMME AVAILABLE - REGISTRATION OPEN * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 6th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science: "Featuring the Future" Swedish School of Library and Information Science University College of Boras & Goteborg University Boras, Sweden 13-16 August 2007 www.hb.se/colis ************* From: Carlos Areces Subject: CFP: 5th Worskhop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-5) Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:24:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 123 (123) 5th Worskhop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-5) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M5 Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France November 29-30 Scope ----- The workshop ``Methods for Modalities'' (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term ``modal logics'' is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers and posters, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ [...] From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: The Semantic Web and Humanties Computing Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:55:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 124 (124) Willard, I am interested in hearing responses from the list regarding the so-called "semantic web" and its related buzzword "metaweb" and "Web 3.0." If I may try to precis the acronym-laden wikipedia article, Semantic Web refers to the design of rich information sites by exploiting web 2.0/social web services. A popular example of this is Freebase (www.freebase.com) which is attempting to cross-link all sorts of data from around the world using social softwares such as Wikipedia. There are a few recent tech developments that has me thinking about the semantic web as a discussion piece for Humanist. 1. Screen monitors that fold like paper: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0108/p14s01-stct.html 2. Microsoft's "surface computer": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgx9ygMXz8 3. Photosynth technology: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 Take these three technologies and add them to a "freebase-ish" datasource and you could conceivably have a mind-blowing experience. Imagine, if you will, a paper-based product that uses a multi-touch interface. You could have an electronic device that works pretty much like a book with the ability to "turn pages" with the fingers and re-size the screen to suit vision preferences. Using the photosynth technology, you could make a large number of text resources available in a small page. But it could be more than that. Imagine a footnote in a work that is, in fact, also a microscopic copy of the entire work being cited (highlighting the quoted or referred to text of course). Wikipedia articles could be included to help with word definitions and basic context for historical references in a work. And (to take the Notre Dame example from the Photosynth video), someone could have a virtual tour of the Notre Dame Cathedral to go along with Hugo's story about the Hunchback. These ideas are nothing short of what has been projected for the future thousands of times before, but the development of these technologies appears to be making them that much closer to a reality. Also, the "how" and the "why" of the ideas are far more intricate and (I hope) interesting. Of course, I would like to leave the intricate part to your readers. :) Sincerely, Ryan Deschamps BA (English) MLIS, MPA From: John Unsworth Subject: nora: the definitive demo Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:23:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 125 (125) At this URL http://www.noraproject.org/OL_demo.php you can see a publicly accessible demo that demonstrates nora, a text- mining application intended to allow the exploration of verbal patterns in text collections. Please note that from this introductory page, you will follow a link to http://monk.lis.uiuc.edu:7070/monk, where you will need to "signup" for an account (via the link directly beneath the username/password text-entry area). This account is used only to store your work products, and you can create the account unilaterally. Funding for this work was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Work on this project has been done by many individuals (all of whom are listed at http://www.noraproject.org/team.php) over the last two and a half years. The data is for this demo is being pulled live from eXist and Lucene; the user interface is written in OpenLaszlo. Text collections in the demo are used by permission of the Dickinson Electronic Archive and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, the University of Virginia Library, and the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Source code can be downloaded at http:// www.noraproject.org/downloads.php. The nora project is now concluded, but the work represented here is being carried on as part of MONK (http://www.monkproject.org). John Unsworth From: Ido Dagan Subject: ISCOL (June 20) at BISFAI 2007 - Call for Registration Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:16:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 126 (126) BISFAI 2007 Bar Ilan Symposium on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence in conjunction with ISCOL, The Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics June 20-22, 2007 Bar-Ilan University, Israel http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/bisfai07/ BISFAI, held every two years, is the premier regional meeting for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers in Israel. It boasts excellent talks in different subfields of AI. In addition to the general AI talks, BISFAI will hold a special track on robotics (sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology), and will be held in conjunction with ISCOL, The Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics. All talks will be given in English. In addition to papers presentation, invited speakers include: Yaacov Choueka (BIU), Dana Nau (UMD), Milind Tambe (USC), Manuela Veloso (CMU), and Mike Wooldridge (Liverpool). Detailed program is attached. Full information can be found at http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/bisfai07/ The symposium is sponsored by Bar-Ilan University, IBM Research and the Caesarea Rothschild Institute (CRI), Haifa University. There is no registration fee for BISFAI'07. But do please register (free) at http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/bisfai07/ So see you soon at Bar-Ilan! The BISFAI 2007 Organizers From: "Peter Ryan" Subject: Survey/Interview Requests: How literary fiction Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:17:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 127 (127) affects ICT research and development culture Dear Humanist List, I just wanted to thank everyone on this list who filled out my previous survey request. Your responses have definitely added to this research. This will be my last post concerning this research survey, because it will be up until the end of August for those who might have some extra time over the next few months to respond, especially if you could not previously during the original release: https://www.runner.ryerson.ca/PRSurvey/survey.cfm I've reproduced the original call below for anyone new to the list, if you would like more information on this project. I'll also be attending the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria next week, and I would appreciate setting up 15 minute interviews with anyone on this list who is attending the institute and has interest in the project. If you have time and interest, please e-mail me off list at: pryan_at_ryerson.ca Please accept my apologies for cross posting if you've seen this survey elsewhere. Thank you for your consideration of this message. Sincerely, Peter Ryan ------------------------------------------------------- Peter Malachy Ryan, PhD Candidate Rogers Fellow, Communication and Culture Programme Instructor, Department of Politics and Public Administration Ryerson University ********* Original Survey Post: I was previously referred to this list as a possible source for survey respondents concerning the following topic: How literary fiction affects ICT research and development culture. The scope of this research concerns North America, but I encourage people from around the globe to respond if they are interested in the topic. The brief contact survey can be found at the following URL, and it will take approximately 15 minutes of your time, depending on your level of participation: https://www.runner.ryerson.ca/PRSurvey/survey.cfm I would appreciate your time in filling out the survey because this is a part of my doctoral research project. If you would like more background on my research, I also have a blog at the following URL: http://prnetworks.blogspot.com *Please take the time to fill the survey out, especially if you are either 1) a published author of literary fiction, or 2) employed in the information communication technology sector. The survey should take about 15 minutes of your time, depending on your level of involvement. I appreciate any and all comments and feedback. The information recorded will help both quantitative and qualitative research analysis in the long run. *Importance of this Research* I hope that you will take the time to help because of its importance in the following listed areas of study. Specifically, this research aims to develop: 1) a better understanding of how to improve the potential of networked research via the use of computers. Computers have been called the "imagination machine", but are we using our new abundance of information effectively and imaginatively? 2) an interdisciplinary understanding of how the "two cultures" of the Arts and the Sciences do in fact work together (if they do at all). 3) recommendations for economic policy that is being led by the creative sector. In particular, funding for the Arts has been cut in recent years, despite the huge economic impact that the cultural industries have on local economies; however, the funding for ICT R&D continues to increase without any apparent regard for the environmental problems caused by the development of the infrastructure that is required by a technological society -- how can these two policy arcs be realigned in a focused and mutually beneficial way? 4) maps of ICT networks that emphasize and link these two cultures. If we can visualize how research networks overlap with artistic and literary capital, then perhaps improvements can be made to the systems of communication between the agents of these two cultures. Such an analysis can also be used as a valuable case study for other communities. Lastly, I would gladly ask that you forward on my e-mail address and survey if you know of any other listservs or research networks that might find this project of interest. At this point, I hope that the survey will travel far and wide like a stolen garden gnome taken around the world that will one day come back to its owner. Thank you for your time and kind consideration of this message. Sincerely, Peter Ryan ------------------------------------------------------- Peter Malachy Ryan, PhD Candidate Rogers Fellow, Communication and Culture Programme Instructor, Department of Politics and Public Administration Ryerson University From: Melissa Terras Subject: Job and phd studentship at Oxford Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:12:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 128 (128) UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF CLASSICS Sub-Faculty of Ancient History E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents Applications are invited for two posts for which funding has been secured through the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities E-Science initiative to support research on the application of Information Technology to ancient documents. Both posts are attached to a project which will develop a networked software system that can support the imaging, documentation, and interpretation of damaged texts from the ancient world, principally Greek and Latin papyri, inscriptions and writing tablets. The work will be conducted under the supervision of Professors Alan Bowman FBA, Sir Michael Brady FRS FREng (University of Oxford) and and Dr. Melissa Terras (University College London). 1. A Doctoral Studentship for a period of 4 years from 1 October, 2007. The studentship will be held in the Faculty of Classics (Sub-Faculty of Ancient History) and supported at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents and the Oxford E-Research Centre. The Studentship award covers both the cost of tuition fees at Home/EU rates and a maintenance grant. To be eligible for a full award, the student must have been ordinarily resident in the UK for a period of 3 years before the start of the award. 2. A postdoctoral Research Assistantship for a period of 3 years from 1 October, 2007. The post will be held in the Faculty of Classics (Sub-Faculty of Ancient History) and supported at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents and the Oxford E-Research Centre. The salary will be in the range of GBP 26,666 - GBP 31,840 p.a. Applicants must have expertise in programming and Informatics and an interest in the application of imaging technology and signal-processing to manuscripts and documents. The deadline for receipt of applications is 4 July 2007. Further details about both posts, the project, the qualifications required and the method of application are available from Ms Ghislaine Rowe, Graduate Studies Administrator, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles' , Oxford OX1 3LU (01865 288397, It is hoped that interviews will be held and the appointments made in the first half of July. _______________________________________________ Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE Lecturer in Electronic Communication School of Library, Archive and Information Studies Henry Morley Building University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax) Email: m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts Available now through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at: <http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780199204557> From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 21.080 The Semantic Web and Humanties Computing? Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:55:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 129 (129) Willard, I am interested in hearing responses from the list regarding the so-called "semantic web" and its related buzzword "metaweb" and "Web 3.0." If I may try to precis the acronym-laden wikipedia article, Semantic Web refers to the design of rich information sites by exploiting web 2.0/social web services. A popular example of this is Freebase (www.freebase.com) which is attempting to cross-link all sorts of data from around the world using social softwares such as Wikipedia. There are a few recent tech developments that has me thinking about the semantic web as a discussion piece for Humanist. 1. Screen monitors that fold like paper: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0108/p14s01-stct.html 2. Microsoft's "surface computer": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgx9ygMXz8 3. Photosynth technology: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 Take these three technologies and add them to a "freebase-ish" datasource and you could conceivably have a mind-blowing experience. Imagine, if you will, a paper-based product that uses a multi-touch interface. You could have an electronic device that works pretty much like a book with the ability to "turn pages" with the fingers and re-size the screen to suit vision preferences. Using the photosynth technology, you could make a large number of text resources available in a small page. But it could be more than that. Imagine a footnote in a work that is, in fact, also a microscopic copy of the entire work being cited (highlighting the quoted or referred to text of course). Wikipedia articles could be included to help with word definitions and basic context for historical references in a work. And (to take the Notre Dame example from the Photosynth video), someone could have a virtual tour of the Notre Dame Cathedral to go along with Hugo's story about the Hunchback. These ideas are nothing short of what has been projected for the future thousands of times before, but the development of these technologies appears to be making them that much closer to a reality. Also, the "how" and the "why" of the ideas are far more intricate and (I hope) interesting. Of course, I would like to leave the intricate part to your readers. :) Sincerely, Ryan Deschamps BA (English) MLIS, MPA ____________________________ Michele Pasin Phd Student Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA United Kingdom Tel: 01908 858730 Email: m.pasin_at_open.ac.uk < www.kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mikele > From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 21.080 The Semantic Web and Humanties Computing? Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:15:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 130 (130) I think Ryan has missed the point of the semantic web. While the technologies he mentions could be used well in Humanities Computing, I don't see any connection to the semantic web. It is a software approach, not hardware. It would be more appropriate to think of it as an extension of the existing markup languages, esp. XML, with a lot of extra bells and whistles. Here's the overview of the article in Wikipedia: The *semantic web* is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web> in which web content <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content> can be expressed not only in natural language <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language>, but also in a form that can be understood, interpreted and used by software agents <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent>, thus permitting them to find, share and integrate <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_integration> information more easily.^[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-0> It derives from W3C <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium> director Tim Berners-Lee <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee>'s vision of the Web as a universal medium for data <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data>, information <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information>, and knowledge <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge> exchange. At its core, the semantic web comprises a philosophy,^[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-1> a set of design principles,^[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-2> collaborative working groups <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_groups>, and a variety of enabling technologies. Some elements of the semantic web are expressed as prospective future possibilities that have yet to be implemented or realized.^[4] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-3> Other elements of the semantic web are expressed in formal specifications.^[5] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-4> Some of these include Resource Description Framework <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework> (RDF), a variety of data interchange formats (e.g. RDF/XML <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework>, N3 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_3>, Turtle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_%28syntax%29>, N-Triples <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=N-Triples&action=edit>), and notations such as RDF Schema <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schema> (RDFS) and the Web Ontology Language <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language> (OWL). All of which are intended to formally describe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_logic> concepts <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept>, terms <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology>, and relationships <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality> within a given knowledge domain. There is considerable disagreement whether the semantic web will ever exist in the same sense that the World Wide Web does, but it has provided an interesting forum for discussion of its concepts and potential uses. From: Willard McCarty Subject: secret ontologizing Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:55:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 131 (131) [Although I suspect few of us have the necessary clearance to attend the following, the existence of such things may be of interest to some here. --WM] [deleted quotation]Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Support: A Fable Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:22:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 132 (132) Once upon a time there was a country gentleman, who lived in a big manor house surrounded by spacious grounds with all manner of pleasant features. This house had a large domestic staff, which, jobs being quite scarce, performed every service he demanded. His head butler saw to that. The head butler kept the grumbling below stairs, sent the occasional troublemaker packing and so on -- like the character played by Helen Mirren in Robert Altman's Gosford Park, the perfect servant, with no life of his own. Our gentleman was very conservative politically, but he was not completely stupified by the privileges of birth and the social isolation this often brings. He knew times were a-changing, and so he invited rather left-leaning intellectuals to his parties and gatherings from time to time, so that he could learn from them and maintain his distinguished role among his peers -- as a bit adventurous and youthful in his inclinations. On more than one occasion, at one of his gatherings, a particularly eloquent leftist intellectual would argue with him on the subject of servitude. Generally the argument would present the case for allowing the more capable among the servants to become socially equal members of a collaborative society, in which he would be a first among equals. These intellectuals were not utopians, for they had experienced such a society in action, far away in a foreign country where conditions were rather different. They knew what such a society could do. Wonderful things. They had proof of this. Although our gentleman never had an adequate comeback to the revolutionary arguments, or at least did not present any to said leftists, he could not bring himself to make changes. He could see that were he to act as recommended he would be a leader among his peers, perhaps even be better prepared for longer-term social changes. "But", he reasoned to himself, "I'm comfortable as I am. I call for what I want, and it comes. All the powerful people of my world respect me. Why upset a good situation? Why make work for myself?" On their side, the leftist guests, time after time, went away, back to their more egalitarian world, muttering among themselves about wasting their time with this fellow. In a comforting fable our gentleman would undergo a change of heart, or come to a sticky end, in either case serving as a moral to the tale. Let us leave it, however, where it is and so invite some pondering on the situation. Any recommendations? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 21.089 the Semantic Web and humanities computing Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:27:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 133 (133) Many thanks for the response surrounding the "semantic web." I think I need to stage a small defense of my take on the semantic web versus the definition stated on Wikipedia. Mary Dee Harris wrote: "I think Ryan has missed the point of the semantic web. While the technologies he mentions could be used well in Humanities Computing, I don't see any connection to the semantic web. It is a software approach, not hardware. It would be more appropriate to think of it as an extension of the existing markup languages, esp. XML, with a lot of extra bells and whistles." I think that hardware provides the environment for software to do its fancy stuff. Thus, without innovations in hardware, the semantic web is not possible. A good illustration of this is the connection between the mouse and object-oriented programming. I would need a historian to clarify which chicken came before what egg, but the semantic link between "an object" and the "click and point" interfacing enabled by the mouse is fairly important. When you have instruction based interfacing ala DOS or Unix, process (the stages of actions) become important. When you interface by pointing at something, then the items being manipulated become emphasized (thus object-oriented programming). Assuming the multi-touch screen works the way Microsoft dreams it does (I still haven't seen it in action, nor have I seen much more than the ability to move pictures around a screen), there are apt to be changes in the way we think about our software. For one, the choosing of an object and the manipulation of that object are simultaneous occurrences. An immediate impact would be on something like AJAX, where interfacing would require the addition of rotations, resizing, distortions etc. to make the data make the kind of sense that the hardware is insisting it make. There is no doubt that XML and other standards will facilitate the semantic web but I would say the wikipedia article is largely unfinished (and likely being "worked on" by people connected to data standards in ways that the layperson is not -- there is a whole other discussion about this for another email, though). I would make the analogy that http protocol makes the internet possible, but http protocol is not the "web." The web does not exist unless there are people using the protocol and connecting their servers to lines in ways that make the web possible. In the same vein, I would say the semantic web is not XML with bells and whistles, but masses of people using XML in ways to help computers make connections that would have previously required awareness by a human. Watching a computer recognize that an object sitting on it is a digital camera is one example of this vision. Ryan Deschamps From: John Unsworth Subject: DH wikipedia article Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:02:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 134 (134) [The following, forwarded to me by John Unsworth, is a note about the student who started the Wikipedia entry on the digital humanities. Those of us who are involved in marketing the wares of humanities computing to students, alongside our colleagues flogging the rest of disciplines in the academies which employ us, would do well to pay attention, I think. What grabs those who end up hanging out with us? What's the glimmer -- the promise that attracts the promise? --WM] Begin forwarded message: [deleted quotation] From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Hypertext 2007 - Call for Posters and Demonstrations Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:26:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 135 (135) Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT 07). *** Hypertext, The Web, and Beyond: Five Autonomous Programmes, One Unified Conference *** DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Posters & Demonstrations (http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/posters.php): Provides a great way to test new ideas, generate interest in a research area, or describe useful or interesting work that is not substantial enough for a full paper presentation. Chair:Jessica Rubart (Arvato Direct Services, Germany) Publications ------------------- Poster abstracts and demonstration abstracts will appear in the official conference proceedings, published by ACM. Conference attendees will receive a copy of the proceedings. All material will be available through the ACM Digital Library. Dates --------- Submissions: 18 June, 2007 (Midnight HST) Notification of Acceptance: 25 June, 2007 Camera Ready: 2 July, 2007 Conference Details --------------------- Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT 07). *** Hypertext, The Web, and Beyond: Five Autonomous Programmes, One Unified Conference *** Dates: September, 10 - 12, 2007 Location: Manchester, UK Conference Website: http://www.ht07.org/ RSS News Feed: http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/news/atom.xml Hypertext and hypermedia involve a diverse range of technologies that support structured knowledge. The Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia is operating under the banner "Five Autonomous Programmes, One Unified Conference" to reflect that although there is a wide range of research areas within the community, all have a common interest in hypertext and hypermedia. Sponsors --------------- ACM Special Interest Group on Hypermedia and the Web (SIGWEB - http://www.sigweb.org/ ) Hoppers @ KWeb (http://hoppers-kweb.cs.manchester.ac.uk/) The University Of Manchester (http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ ) The Information Management Group (http://img.cs.manchester.ac.uk/) The ACM Student Research Competition - sponsored by Microsoft Research ( http://research.microsoft.com/) Eastgate Systems (http://www.eastgate.com/) Taylor & Francis Group (http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/ ) From: Methnet Subject: Student bursaries for EVA offered by the AHRC ICT Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:17:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 136 (136) Methods Network STUDENT BURSARIES FOR ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS - 9 -- 13 JULY 2007 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 offering a limited number of bursaries to post-graduate students who wish to attend EVA 2007 (programme below). The conference takes place on 9 -- 13 July 2007 at The London College of Communications, University of the Arts, London. Applications for bursaries are sought from post-graduate students registered at UK Universities whose research interests are grounded in areas covered by EVA. These include visualisation for the arts and culture, including impications, effects, and consequent strategies and policies, and the uses of digital media for creative productions and works of art, which may be considered to be within EVA'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 GBP 200 toward the cost of conference fees, accommodation and travel. If you wish to apply for a bursary please register for the EVA conference in the first instance. The EVA conference programme, abstracts and booking form are available on: http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/ Following your registration for EVA, please complete the bursary application form, available on the AHRC ICT Methods Network website: http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html If you have any queries about completing the form please contact Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk) using the heading - EVA Bursary Applications - in the subject bar. Bursary winners will be asked to submit a short report to the Methods Network following the conference. Please address any enquiries about the EVA conference to the appropriate contact: http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/contacts From: Hugh Houghton Subject: CFP: "Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence" Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:19:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 137 (137) CALL FOR PAPERS EVIDENCE OF READING, READING THE EVIDENCE A major international conference to be held at the Institute of English Studies, University of London 21-23 July 2008 Organised by the Open University and the Institute of English Studies Keynote speakers: Kate Flint, Jonathan Rose, David Vincent Studies centred on the history of reading have proliferated in the last twenty years. They have sprung from several different disciplines, encompassed different periods and geographical locations and chosen divergent methodologies, but their common quest has been to recover and understand the traces of a practice which is central to our understanding of human history, yet notoriously elusive. One such approach is "The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945" (RED), a project run by the Open University and the University of London. While RED is already proving its worth as a digital resource, its methodological parameters are necessarily limited and its vision therefore partial. What is needed in order for the study of the history of reading to progress beyond the boundaries of specific institutions, disciplines, methodologies, geographical locations and time periods is a forum in which as many diverse approaches as possible are brought into energetic debate. This major 3-day conference, the first of its type, seeks to provide such a forum. We invite 20- minute papers from international students and scholars of any discipline - both within and outside the Humanities =AD who are interested in the history and practice of reading in any period or geographical location. Topics may include, but are by no means limited to: _ Theories of reading _ Issues of literacy _ National and transnational histories _ Reading and readers in fiction _ Reading communities _ Quantitative versus qualitative methodologies _ Genre reading _ Digital resources and their development _ Visual representations of reading _ Reading across disciplines/languages _ Using historical data in contemporary research fields _ The sociology, psychology and neurology of reading experiences _ Evidence of reading from private audio recordings and blogs _ Finding, compiling, interpreting and preserving the evidence of reading Paper titles, abstracts of no more than 300 words and short biographies should be sent electronically by 31 January 2008 to all three organisers: Dr Shaf Towheed (S.S.Towheed_at_open.ac.uk); Dr Rosalind Crone (r.h.crone_at_open.ac.uk); Dr Katie Halsey (Katie.Halsey_at_sas.ac.uk). Conference website: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2008/RED/index.htm RED website: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/ From: Craig Bellamy Subject: cfp: Digital Archive Fever Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:05:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 138 (138) DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER CHArt TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE London Venue to be confirmed Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organisations such as publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated and controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the future of such 'top-down' institutions in the age of 'bottom-up' access to knowledge and cultural artifacts through what is generally known as Web 2:0 - encompassing YouTube, Bittorrent, Napster, Wikipedia, Google, MySpace and more. Will such institutions respond to this threat to their cultural hegemony by resistance or adaptation? How can a museum or a gallery or, for that matter, a broadcasting company, appeal to an audience which has unprecedented access to cultural resources? How can institutions predicated on a cultural economy of scarcity compete in an emerging state of cultural abundance? For the twenty-third CHArt conference we are looking for papers that reflect upon these issues, particularly in relation to visual culture. We particularly welcome contributions from those working in either 'traditional' cultural organisations or those involved in new forms of cultural access and distribution. We welcome contributions from all sections of the CHArt community: Art Practice; Art History; Museums; Galleries; Curation; Archives; Libraries; Education; Media and Broadcast Production; Cultural Assets Management and Access; Hardware; Software; Theory. Please email submissions (a three hundred word synopsis of the proposed paper with brief CV of presenter/s and other key figures) by 30 June 2007 to Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk). CHArt is delighted to be able to confirm that a limited number of bursaries are available (supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network) for Post Graduate students presenting papers. For further information about CHArt bursaries, please contact Hazel Gardiner. Dr Charlie Gere Chair, CHArt CHArt c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities Kings College, University of London Kay House 7 Arundel Street WC2R 3DX <http://www.chart.ac.uk>www.chart.ac.uk Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity8.23 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:18:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 139 (139) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 23 June 12, 2007 -- June 18, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: A NEW INTERVIEW WITH PETER DENNING ON THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF COMPUTING. Associate Editor Gutam Kuman Saha describes the general outline of a scheme for tolerating various operational faults during processing or during execution of an application through error detection and tolerating memory and register bit errors. He says, "An application system can be made a robust one with this software approach by establishing transient fault tolerance at a very low cost. We do not intend to tolerate software design bugs here. Rather we aim to tolerate any kind of fault that might appear due to environmental changes during the program execution time." See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i23_gautam.html> From: James Cummings Subject: JISC reviews its services in support of the Arts Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:29:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 140 (140) and Humanities *Press release* *Supporting research in the Arts and Humanities: JISC to review its services* 13 June 2007. Following the decision by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) to cease funding the AHDS <http://www.ahds.ac.uk/> (Arts and Humanities Data Service) from March 31st 2008, JISC has decided that it is unable to fund the service alone and that therefore its own funding of the service will, in its current form, cease on the same date. In its 11 years of existence the AHDS has established itself as a centre of expertise and excellence in the creation, curation and preservation of digital resources and has been responsible for a considerable engagement of the Arts and Humanities community with ICT and a significant increase in that community's knowledge and use of digital resources. Its contribution to the development of technical standards, its outreach to sectors beyond higher education, such as cultural heritage, arts, museum and archive organisations and its support for the development of a national e-infrastructure and repository system have been among its many significant achievements. In the light of these achievements and the consequent risks to the continued development of the Arts ands Humanities community's engagement with ICT, JISC is exploring with the AHDS, partner organisations and the wider community alternative approaches to maintaining its strong support for that community beyond March 2008. JISC has a long history of support for Arts and Humanities research, beginning with the founding of the AHDS in 1996 and continuing with its collaboration with the AHRC over the ICT Methods Network <http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/>, the Arts and Humanities e-Science initiative <http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humanities_e-science_initiative.asp> (with the AHRC and EPSRC), its contribution to the wider e-Science Initiative <http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/default.htm>, and in particular the Research Grants and Studentships Scheme <http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humanities_e-science_initiative.asp> and the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre <http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/> (AHESSC). JISC's Support of Research committee has also funded the Aria project <http://aria.dmu.ac.uk/whatIs.html> and a related Projects and Methods database <http://ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/pmdb-extension/#details> which have now been merged into an integrated resource, the ICT Guides <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/>. At its meeting yesterday, the JISC Board reaffirmed its strong commitment to continuing this engagement but in the light of wider developments reluctantly acknowledged that the AHDS as currently constituted would not be part of its service provision beyond next year. Chair of JISC, Professor Sir Ron Cooke, paid tribute to the AHDS, saying: "The AHDS has achieved a great deal in the last 11 years and we would like to thank its staff for their skill, dedication and hard work over these years. One of the AHDS's many achievements has been establishing capacity and expertise within the Arts and Humanities community. JISC will continue to support that community in its engagement with ICT in order to meet the many challenges of the future." 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Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: 3D-Simulation of Ancient Naval Warfare (DC/WiP seminar) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:26:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 142 (142) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007 Friday 15th June at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Boris Rankov (Royal Holloway) '3D-Simulation of Ancient Naval Warfare' ALL WELCOME A presentation of a grant proposal to the AHRC for a multi-disciplinary project on ancient naval warfare, using a computerised ship-manoeuvring programme and 3-D simulation. The project involves the Classics department at Royal Holloway, the War Studies department at King's College London, the Naval Architecture department at University College, London, and a commercial marine-research company, HR Wallingford. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony_at_kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ From: Methnet Subject: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities lectures in June Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:41:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 143 (143) Please find below details of the June lectures in the eSI Thematic Programme: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh. The lectures are free and open to all, though registration is required if you wish to request accommodation. The lectures will also be simultaneously webcast and available on demand after the event. Methods and Technologies for Enabling Virtual Research Communities Monday 18 June 2007 2pm - 4pm PART 1 The Potential of Access Grid for Collaborative Research in the Arts and Humanities David Shepherd, University of Sheffield Andrew Prescott, University of Wales Lampeter The Access Grid has been hailed as the 'Miramax of video conferencing'. However, its use to date by many arts and humanities researchers has chiefly been restricted to activities which could be supported by other videoconferencing tools and techniques. Between October 2006 and March 2007 a project was undertaken, under the auspices of the AHRC e-science programme, at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and in collaboration with a number of other humanities and other computing centres across Britain and Europe to identify and appraise critically the areas where the Access Grid could potentially support collaborative research activities between arts and humanities researchers in four activity areas: digital images; sound and moving image; electronic texts and databases; virtual reality and visualisation. An Access Grid workshop was held for each of these activity areas. This presentation will review the conclusions of these workshops and suggest future areas of development for Access Grid use by arts and humanities researchers. Where appropriate, extracts from recordings of the workshops will be shown, and prototype software developed in the course of the workshops will be demonstrated. PART 2: Agora: Easy to use collaboration software for the Arts and Humanities Rob Crouchley, Adrian Fish, Miguel Gonzalez, Centre of e-Science, Lancaster University Agora is an extremely easy to use online meeting tool, designed from the ground up with desktop PC and laptop users in mind. Agora facilitates the spontaneous use of video conferencing from your office; setting up a conference can be as easy as entering a few email addresses and clicking one button. Agora can also be integrated into several popular portal frameworks by simply running an installer. Agora has been designed to avoid many of the typical problems involved in configuring similar environments, environments where complexity and expensive equipment are a given, and skilled administrators are essential. Despite its simplicity and ease of use, Agora has all the features necessary for a rich e-collaboration experience. Our talk will highlight the key features of Agora and how these features can be used to greatly enhance research interaction carried out by geographically dispersed teams. We will illustrate Agora's usefulness with some use cases from the Arts and Humanities. The talk will be primarily aimed at the researcher although there will be a degree of technical content for anybody interested in deploying Agora at their institution. We will commence the talk with a live demonstration. More information: <http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/785/> On-demand webcast: <http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=785> Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability for Humanities Data 19 June 2007, 2007 1pm- 3pm The lecture will cover some of the problems of semantic interoperability for arts and humanities data. The central aim of this workshop is to discuss existing case studies and a research agenda for linking arts and humanities data in a semantic metadata management system across multiple heterogeneous collections. The lecture will cover an introduction to ontologies as a formal semantic view of data by structuring it and creating tags to define semantic relationships across collections. This introduction to ontologies will be followed by a set of examples for ontologies and annotation standards in general for the humanities. Afterwards, the scope of the investigation will be expanded and other disciplines will be included in order to present new semantic data and information integration approaches (from classical ones, like OBSERVER, TSIMMIS, Carnot, etc., to newer Semantic-Web approaches, like DWQ, KnowledgeParser, D2R, R2O, etc.). In the last part of the talk, conclusions will be delivered for the future use of ontologies in a humanities metadata management system by considering some requirements for such a system. The two speakers include experts from the humanities and from computer science specifialised in ontological engineering. Mark Greengrass (<http://www.shef.ac.uk/history/staff/early_modern/mark_greengrass.html>) is a Professor of Early Modern History in Sheffield. He is co-investigator at the 'Ontology-based Historical Mining in Armadillo' project and will report on the experiences of that project. The second speaker is Oscar Corcho (<http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ocorcho/> ) who is working as a Marie Curie fellow at the Information Management Group of the University of Manchester. His research activities include the Semantic Grid, the Semantic Web, and Ontological Engineering. He participates at the European project OntoGrid and published a book about 'Ontological Engineering'. Oscar will answer to Mark's experiences in the Armadillo project and will introduce some of the latest developments in ontological engineering that might help address some of the issues involved. More information:<http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/773/> On-demand webcast: <http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=773> Collaborative Text Editing 20 June 2007, 2007 2pm - 4pm Speakers Gabriel Bodard King's College London Open Source Critical (= Transparent, Technically Explicit, and Collaborative) Editions The interest I have in collaborative research is focussed on the question of protocols and standards for creating edited texts in useful digital format. I shall consider these issues under the general label of "Open Source Critical Editions", a term which I shall briefly explain. "Open Source" is a reference to publishing and making transparent the source code as well as the source data for the decisions, with the explicit expectation that this be reused and recirculated by future studies and editions. "Critical" indicates the assumption that these digital texts are not only critically respectably, but contain explicit machine-actionable indication of the scholarly thinking and evidence behind the decisions presented. "Editions" is not an entirely neutral term either, as it may encompass eclectic editions of multiple manuscripts, for example, as well as detailed transcriptions of individual witnesses and even unique textual objects such as papyri, inscriptions, coins, etc. I shall touch on the implications of collaborative editing and annotation of such texts, and I shall also consider some models of attribution for such work (the detailed mechanisms of both of these issues will be discussed in more detail by Juan Garces.) Juan Garces British Library Jean Carletta University of Edinburgh The AMI Meeting Corpus The AMI Meeting Corpus contains 100 hours of meetings captured using many synchronized recording devices, and is designed to support work in speech and video processing, language engineering, corpus linguistics, and organizational psychology. It has been transcribed orthographically, with annotated subsets for everything from named entities, dialogue acts, and summaries to simple gaze and head movement. Much of the annotation was created using the NITE XML Toolkit, which allows a distributed set of users to create, store, browse, and search annotations for the same base data that are both time-aligned against signal and related to each other structurally. I will describe the process of designing and creating this complex data set, how we are encouraging it to grow, and the technical challenges this presents for its future maintenance. More information: <http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/774/> On-demand webcast at: <http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=774> Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Anna Bentkowska Subject: The London Charter Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:03:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 144 (144) The London Charter www.londoncharter.org FOR THE USE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL VISUALISATION IN THE RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE The aim of this announcement is to draw the attention of relevant subject communities to the Charter, encourage discussion of its Draft Principles and invite expressions of interest and comments that may help in refining this document. The London Charter aims to establish internationally-recognised principles for the use of 3D visualisation by researchers, educators and cultural heritage organisations. Since the first draft was published in March 2006, the London Charter has attracted significant international interest, including strong endorsement by the 90-institution-strong EPOCH Network of Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage (EU FP 6), which has described the Charter as "one of its most important achievements", and by senior representatives of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and the Flemish Heritage Institute. Translations into Japanese, Polish and several other languages are planned. The Charter aims to establish principles essential to the achievement of intellectual integrity and transparency in the use of 3D visualisation for cultural heritage, and to provide guidelines for sustainability and access. The London Charter is advised by a Board of international experts and co-chaired by Professor Richard Beacham (King's College London) and Professor Franco Niccolucci (University of Florence), and benefits from the participation of a wider Interest Group. Activities are coordinated by Dr Hugh Denard (KCL) and Dr Sorin Hermon (Florence). The JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA) is Secretariat to the initiative. The Charter arose out of a symposium and expert seminar held in London in February 2006 convened by the King's Visualisation Lab funded by the AHRC, and jointly sponsored by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and EPOCH, during which over 50 international delegates debated approaches to the issue of intellectual transparency. For further information please contact: Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX, UK Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska_at_kcl.ac.uk 3DVisA www.viznet.ac.uk/3dvisa The London Charter www.londoncharter.org Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: sign of the times, or of time? Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:42:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 145 (145) In "Making a living from the rapidly changing British way of death" (The Guardian for Saturday, 16 June), Oliver Burkeman writes of new things at the biggest-ever gathering of the British funeral industry. "And the message it came to deliver was clear: reaping doesn't always have to be grim" -- nor traditional: [deleted quotation]One might wish to enquire into the guarantees of stability and longevity for the online service used to host the memorial site. Or is there a more subtle message to be read here? Mircea Eliade somewhere declared that certain ancient ways of burial provided a stone body for the departed soul -- when it was believed that there was an eternal soul who might be in need of a body to inhabit. But now that "carpe diem" comes closer to the dominant belief (if belief is the right word), perhaps the uncertainty of anything digital, no matter how well backed up, stands for us more profoundly than we had imagined. Indeed, the next sentence of the article from which I have quoted expresses more or less the same implication organically: [deleted quotation]Here is indeed a topic in the cultural studies of the world in which computing has emerged. But, then, before one makes too much of these thoughts as a sign of the these times alone, [deleted quotation]Yours, WM PS: Thanks to John Lavagnino for brightening this Sunday morning with the Guardian's messageof what must surely come. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Lorna Hughes Subject: AHeSSC e-Science Theme lectures Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:44:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 146 (146) [deleted quotation] From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Digital Humanities Summer Institute, 18-22 June 2007 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:44:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 147 (147) Dear Willard, and HUMANIST Readers, We're just in the final throes of our preparations for the sixth Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which runs June 18th to 22nd at the University of Victoria. On Monday, we're looking forward to opening our doors to some 125 participants, representing participation from all continents, save Antarctica -- and, I should note, we're already making plans for our 2008 offering; please keep an eye on our website, at http://www.dhsi.org/. This year's institute features a mix of foundational offerings and a number of new intermediate and advanced workshops and consultations, as well as a host of distinguished lecturers and speakers . . . as below. Workshop and Seminar Offerings, week-long: *Text Encoding Fundamentals (Julia Flanders, Syd Bauman) *Digitisation Fundamentals (Allison Benner, Cara Leitch) *Edition Production (Dot Porter) *Multimedia: Tools and Techniques (Aim=E9e Morrison) *Issues in Large Project Planning and Management (Lynne Siemens) *Textual Analysis, a Masterclass (Hugh Craig) *Interface Design for Humanities Visualization (Stan Ruecker, Alan Galey) Lectures (open to the public; Harry Hickman Rm 105): *Chad Gaffield (President, SSHRC) *Hugh Craig (U Newcastle) Word types, word tokens, and the language of Shakespearean drama *France Martineau (U Ottawa) The Corpus MCVF: from the Middle Ages to the New World *Matthew Driscoll (Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen) Everything but the smell: toward a more artefactual digital philology *David Hoover (New York U) What is Text Analysis & Why are They Saying Such Wonderful Things About It? *Bill Bowen (U Toronto) *Bertrand Gervais (UQAM) Presence, Flux and Trace Three Modalities of Representation in= Cyberspace *Ollivier Dyens (Concordia U) Why is there is no poetry on the Web? A look at the incompatible differences between written and digital media The summer institute is generously hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and is sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Acadia University, the Society for Digital Humanities / Soci=E9t=E9 pour l'=E9tude des m=E9dias interactifs, the= Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others. Please see our website for more information, at http://www.dhsi.org/, and don=92t hesitate to be in touch with us: Coordinator, Karin Armstrong, institut_at_uvic.ca Director, Ray Siemens, siemens_at_uvic.ca From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Re: 21.103 events: e-Science lectures; Digital Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:34:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 148 (148) Humanities Summer Institute From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 149 (149) [deleted quotation][. . .] [deleted quotation]A title one hopes is intended to be provocative, as opposed to merely naive. -- 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: Gabriel BODARD Subject: Open letter to AHRC Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:32:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 150 (150) [The following relates to a recent decision by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the primary funding body for the humanities in the UK, to terminate funding of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (http://www.ahds.ac.uk/), the UK national service aiding the discovery, creation and preservation of digital resources in and for research, teaching and learning in the arts and humanities. This decision was taken in the mistaken and ill-informed belief that each university is now capable of doing the work of the AHDS for itself, implying either (a) that perfect coordination will take care of itself, or (b) that arts and humanities data really don't matter in the long term. Response from the world-wide community would be most welcome. --WM] Dear colleagues, A letter has been sent to the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, asking for clarification on the future of digital preservation and dissemination of good practice given the AHRC's recent announcement [[1]] that funding for the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) will be terminated early next year. This information-seeking letter (copied at [[2]]) has been signed on behalf of the Digital Classicist, Antiquist, Digital Medievalist, and TEI communities. Any comments on this letter, or on the AHRC's eventual response, may be discussed here and/or in the comments thread at [[3]]. [[1]] http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/news/news_pr/2007/information_for_applicants_to_AHRC_june_deadline.asp [[2]] http://www.stoa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/ahrc-letter.pdf [[3]] http://www.stoa.org/?p=658 Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Announcing the TEI 2007 Members Meeting Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:44:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 151 (151) We are pleased to announce the TEI annual members meeting: ** TEI_at_20: 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities ** 31st October - 3rd November 2007, University of Maryland Pre-conference workshops: 31 October 2007 TEI conference: 1-2 November 2007 Business meeting: 3 November 2007 We invite you to come to the annual showcase of all things TEI. The meeting includes: * the launch of TEI P5 * a full programme of invited speakers, panels, roundtable discussion * special interest group sessions * TEI business meeting and elections. There will also be a day of pre-meeting training workshops (see web site below for details). Conference papers will be published by LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. The meeting will be held at the University of Maryland Libraries, University of Maryland, College Park, just outside Washington, D.C. The event is open to all and free of charge for TEI Consortium institutional members, subscribers and invited guests. Others will be charged $75, which entitles you to conference admission and subscriber benefits for the remainder of the calendar year. For program details , registration, hotel, and travel information, please visit the conference website at http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/ Sebastian Rahtz Chair, TEI Members Meeting 2007 (for TEI Board of Directors) -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib_at_umd.edu http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Ideal readers for a database? Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:43:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 152 (152) Dear all, after some experience with databases --- corpora, to be more precise --- of ancient Greek and Latin (and Neolatin) texts, a question occurs. What kind of an "ideal reader" (or "ideal user") did the designers of those databases / corpora have in mind? For whom are those databases designed? What is very easy to do with them --- and what is quite uncomfortably difficult to achieve? Greek and Latin corpora that I know make it very easy to find occurrences of words, and (therefore) verbal similarities between texts. On the other hand, it is difficult to create one's own subcorpora there; it is not quite simple to search writers just from one period (i. e. synchronically), or from just one genre. It requires, also, special skill to follow ideas, not words. It is difficult to annotate a text, to mark interesting places (you have to go outside the database for this). It is practically impossible to add other texts to databases. It is impossible to consult different readings (apparatus criticus) of a text. There is another kind of corpus --- the Perseus --- which makes it very easy to study the text as a student, providing access to the dictionary, translations, lexica (kind of "school" corpus). But this corpus is difficult to search (or research) as a corpus, as a collection of texts; and genres and periods are accessible with difficulty here as well. What are your experiences with databases / corpora in your fields of expertise? For whom do these databases / corpora seem to be written / designed? What do they enable you to do --- and what do they, excuse the pun, disable? Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 68, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:42:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 153 (153) Version 68 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,040 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is also available from Digital Scholarship. Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-digital-publications-changes/ Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics* Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing Images Legal* Preservation Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans/Flashback http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/ Open Access Bibliography/Webliography http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.24 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:45:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 154 (154) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 24 June 19, 2007 =96 June 25, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: FAOUZI KAMOUN ON BPM & SOA In this piece, Dr. Faouzi Kamoun (College=20 of Information Technology in the University of=20 Dubai ) returns to Ubiquity to sketch a roadmap=20 toward the coverage of Business Process=20 Management (BPM) and Service Oriented=20 Architecture (SOA). He looks at the BPM-SOA=20 convergence trend as a journey rather than a=20 destination, and explores the challenges facing=20 the broad adoption of converged BPM-SOA initiatives. See:=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i24_bmpsoa.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiq= uity/views/v8i24_bmpsoa.html=20 From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: RE: 21.107 no poetry on the Web??? [Digital Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:34:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 155 (155) Humanities Summer Institute From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 156 (156) [deleted quotation][. . .] [deleted quotation]A title one hopes is intended to be provocative, as opposed to merely naive. -- Hi Matt -- About the approach of the title: you'll be the best judge, I'd think, though the former is most likely, as you already suggest. The webpage and CV of Ollivier Dyens -- the digital poet and academic who is speaking to this topic -- is at this URL: http://francais.concordia.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=169&I temid=160. We intend to have video of all institute speakers available on the website as the week progresses (see www.dhsi.org). Dyens' talk is this coming Friday morning. Cheers, Ray From: schmidt_at_itee.uq.edu.au Subject: Re: 21.107 no poetry on the Web??? Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:44:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 157 (157) Quoting "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" : [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 158 (158) [deleted quotation]merely naive. [deleted quotation]I think this is at least partly due to our failure in finding a suitable form for poetry in the digital world. It differs from prose in that almost all poetical works go through a much longer series of drafts. The text emerges almost like a dimmer switch being turned up, gradually focussing on the images the poet wants to convey. I like the quote from Paul Valery: 'There are no finished poems, only abandoned ones'. We can't represent that yet in the digital medium where everything must be so stark and explicit. Actually the print medium was worse: one couldn't change a text once printed but one can change an electronic text. When the transformation to a digital society is finally complete there may be a place for poetry in it. From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Re: 21.103 events: e-Science lectures; Digital Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:34:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 159 (159) Humanities Summer Institute From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 160 (160) [deleted quotation][. . .] [deleted quotation]A title one hopes is intended to be provocative, as opposed to merely naive. -- 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: pedagogical value of simulations Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:22:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 161 (161) Thanks to my colleague John Lavagnino, I have come across a letter to the editor of the American Physical Society News 16.6 (June 2007), "Can Simulations Really Teach Physics?" by Robert Shafer (Los Alamos). He is responding to the assertion that since real events happen too fast to be observed in the laboratory, it's better to watch simulations of them in slow motion on the computer. He makes the case for "doing the real thing, even if the equipment has to be improvised", rather than watching it being done. Recently, in conversation with a physicist at UCLA, I asked about computing in his discipline, specifically whether simulations of otherwise unobservable realities -- let's say, just to have an example, subatomic events at the core of an imploding star -- produce anything anyone can be certain of. His answer was that now there are in essence three kinds of physics -- theoretical, experimental, computational -- and that in computational physics "they do things differently there" (to quote L. P. Hartley's novel). If the simulation is plausible, matching everything else one can know, then it takes on the status of something one can learn from. Where do we sort in all this? Is it fair to say that since the phenomena we study are also not directly observable, our simulacra play a similar role? If we make a distinction between modelling something we can get to otherwise, e.g. by reading or looking, and simulating that which we cannot get to except after the fact, such as possible patterns of influence, then could we draw a parallel between computational physics and, say, a computational literary studies? Are statistical studies of literature an example? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: the greatest threat? Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:15:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 162 (162) With good and laudable motivations we habitually identify and make much of the benefits that computing offers to the humanities. With more than a little cultural provincialism and personal forgetfulness, we treat change (a.k.a. innovation) as if it were in itself one of these benefits, or perhaps even the meta-benefit brought by computing. But, one would think, understanding of what's happening is a greater, more inclusive good, and in the long haul more prudent. So let me ask in this spirit what is the greatest threat posed by computing? For purposes of sharpening the discussion, if any ensues, let's begin with the world marked out by the research we do. What about computing most threatens this world? My own suggestion is to put near or at the very top of our list the quasi-Blakean "expanding eyes" which the perspective of humanities computing on the humanities demands of us. This demand is hardly new, of course. It isn't computing's unique gift to the crowded, landlocked bunch of self-obsessed intellectual principalities many seem in practice to take the disciplines to be -- as if they were abstractions derived from the academic departments of some powerful university (pick your favourite example). Indeed, a better argument is that contrariwise this demand is the humanities' gift to computing, or more accurately, the creative genius that computing has shared with the humanities from its beginning. Be that as it may, humanities computing is nothing of real and lasting interest, it seems to me, if practitioners do not reach out in every direction, into every discipline, for the help required by its interdisciplinary nature. Doing that *is* threatening, I suggest, to those who, like Bruegel's stolid farmer, plough their small patches of ground with no awareness of the great world beyond. In Poetics of Relation (Michigan, 1997) the philosopher Edouard Glissant uses the archipelago-like configuration of his native Caribbean islands as the metaphorical basis for construing the world differently from the dominant European model of landlocked intellectual principalities -- and the equally fixed Tree of Knowledge famously depicted by the 13C philosopher Ramon Llull (do a Google image-search for "arbor scientiae"). Glissant begins with Gilles Deleuze's and Felix Guattari's criticism of the idea of rooted knowledge, "a stock taking all upon itself and killing all around it", and their alternative, the metaphor of the rhizome, or enmeshed root-system. Glissant draws out their congruent praise of intellectual nomadism, which they contrast with the settled, rooted way of life. Glissant pulls apart the idea of nomadism into different kinds: the circular nomadism of those who move with the seasons, in an eternal return to familiar pastures; the invading nomadism of conquering hordes, restlessly arrow-like; and the nomadism of the exile, whose wanderings were, he points out, praised in antiquity as a necessary stage in one's intellectual development. (I like to think autobiographically in terms of the ex-patriot mentality, my colleague Simon Tanner in terms of being lapsed from one's original faith.) But Glissant goes further by linking the various ways of thinking precisely to where we are in the world as it now is being re-constituted. And from this follows the argument for re-constituting our academies, and so for re-configuring disciplinary and esp interdisciplinary practices to accord with the world as it is becoming. Humanities computing comes at a crucial moment. But, again, the greatest threat, which I experience and imagine as a matter of what papers get accepted to conferences and how they are reviewed, and what books and articles get written and how they are received. A matter of what we think we're about, but more immediately, what disturbs, what pricks us on, what serves as our Lenny Bruce.. My suggestion and question is to pay closest attention to all those signs of annoyance, impatience and misunderstanding -- not so that we may soothe ruffled feathers and get on with things but so that we can better detect where the real interest lies. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. From: "John G. Keating" Subject: Re: 21.110 ideal readers for a database? Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:38:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 163 (163) Dear Neven, you present some interesting questions for software engineers to consider. I am not sure that I manage to answer these questions below but I may be able to give you some insight into "the" database (or more accurately software) development process. Developing software is a tough job, and usually begins with a Specification of Requirements document from a client (who may or may not be the eventual user). Then, following a series of discussions between the client and analyst, a software design is produced. Traditionally, this design was handed over to the software developer and the software was eventually produced and presented to the client. Typically, the software met the requirements in the design document (as far as the developer was concerned) but may not have met the original client's requirements for a variety of reasons. More modern approaches (depending on the size of the project) attempt to include the client at all phases of the development process, in the hope that the eventual product meets the initial requirements. Most projects suffer from "requirements drift", however. This is because clients' requirements, software tools, and developers' humours naturally change over time, and this impacts on the eventual product. Including the user at all phases, in fact, also impacts on requirements drift. Returning to your question about the ideal user; these are usually modelled early in the development process (using something called the Universal Modelling Language; or the UML). This happens in a phase called "Use Case Scenario Modelling". Here, the user activities and interactions (with the software or other users) is "put down in black and white", and is seen as one of the fundamental "invariants" in modern software development. A change here (requirements drift) impacts on all later phases of development as this model is used to drive the development of software structure (called Class Models) and User Interaction (Interaction Sequence Diagrams). Your term "ideal user" is excellent, because this is what the Use Case model represents. In short, if the client doesn't specify all ideal users, then it is unlikely that the ultimate software will facilitate the requirements of non-ideal users. If it does, then one begins to worry about the software developer -- did he or she ignore the user model? If this is the case, then what other aspects of the other models have been ignored? I teach software engineering and in particular software development to second year computer science students. Most of the work is about forward engineering computer code form specifications. This is a tough job, as it requires human intervention and relies on human interpretation of users' requirements. The general consensus is always the same: we need users to become skilled in "requirements modelling" and also require software engineers to think about users as partners (and not "lusers"). So these are my thoughts on the general question you pose. I have assumed, from the content of your message, that you make no distinction between the software used to access the database and the database itself. I'll get back to you later on databases, and "what is possible" in a later message. It may be possible to do more with a database that was originally intended -- often this relies on the flexibility of the data manipulation interface. If you make it (the DML) too complex, users will not be able to use it to access the data; if you make it to simple then users will not be able to use it to answer their research questions. To quote the Rolling Stones ... "you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you might just get what you need". More later on how you can design a database to give you what you need. This is my first post to this list; apologies if it doesn't give you what you need. John. On 20 Jun 2007, at 06:47, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Dr. John G. Keating Associate Director An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND Email: john.keating_at_nuim.ie Tel: +353 1 708 3854 FAX: +353 1 708 3848 From: simon mahony Subject: Seminar: Representations of past worlds in electronic media Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:39:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 164 (164) Announcing this week's instalment of the Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Summer seminars Tim Hill (Cambridge) 'Wiser than the Undeceived? Past Worlds as Virtual Worlds in the Electronic Media' Time: Friday 22 June at 16:30 Place: Room NG16 Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Brief abstract: Despite frequent claims that the electronic media represent a decisive break with the textual past, when software designers claim to recreate historical realities in their work questions long-familiar to classicists immediately arise. What can or should be represented? What ought the relationship between reality and representation be? What is the relationship between cognition and emotion in artistic representations? In earlier periods, the limitations of computer processing speed and power rendered answers to such questions de facto or purely speculative; as the sophistication of digital representation increases, however, it is becoming clear that meaningful modern responses to these ancient philosophical questions must be based not upon computational, but formal and generic, criteria. All are welcome. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments after which everyone is also welcome to join us in entertaining the speaker at a local venue. Best regards Simon ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate 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 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX From: sramsay_at_unlserve.unl.edu Subject: Re: 21.112 pedagogical value of simulations Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:11:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 165 (165) On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 10:38:19PM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]I am reminded of a visit I made a few years ago to a robotics lab at a university CS department, where they were studying stereoscopic vision. Their main robot was a large, lumbering beast -- in essence, a full-size PC motherboard mounted atop a six-wheeled chassis -- that navigated the room by judging distances between objects. It was the sort of thing that required lots of people to keep it up and running. Being a software guy, I naturally asked the question: "Why build all this in hardware? Why not just create a simulation that can prove that your idea is sound?" I'll never forget the director's answer. He looked at me and said, "Because simulations are doomed to success." Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ From: "John G. Keating" Subject: Re: 21.112 pedagogical value of simulations Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:10:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 166 (166) Dear Willard, [deleted quotation]Having trained as an experimental physicist (at postgraduate level) and studies both experimental and theoretical physics at undergraduate level I was terribly excited by this letter, and the rekindling of internal debates I believed were settled! As a student, I was one of those kind that spent as much time writing programs to assist with the experiments, as I did conducting the experiments -- quiet often receiving no marks, and sometimes receiving less marks for my programs. Despite my inclinations towards simulation, I found that there was no substitute for "doing the real thing" ... until I encountered Quantum Mechanics. I then realised that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (which informs that the position and momentum of a particle cannot be simultaneously measured with arbitrarily high precision, i.e. there is a minimum for the product of the uncertainties of both measurements) informed that even with perfect instruments and techniques the uncertainty inherent in nature meant that physical experiments would provide limited understanding of physical phenomena. I spent a distressing final year searching for a new experiment that would verify any quantum mechanical effect, with no success. In the end, I adopted a "quantum like approach" -- all approaches (experimental, theoretical and computational) existed equally, until I was forced to fix on one or another (at which point I would be completely unsure about the appropriateness of the other two). [deleted quotation]This is interesting -- I believe simulations can tell you nothing, everything and something in between. I remember speaking to a physics professor, about the value of simulations, at a conference about simulating the dynamics of the Earth's mesosphere. He was presenting results from a semi- empirical model based on observed data and an established general circulation model. My concerns rested in the generation of the computer programs, and whether one could trust the programs? I believed that I could write a program that gave the same answers as his model -- my program would not encapsulate any physical theories nor use observed data. He challenged me to do so, and I wrote a program that interpolated the output of his model. My program was only a couple of hundred lines long and was just a simulation of his simulation. I cheated a little, but I had made my point. I believe that computational physicists certainly do things differently! In order to know what their programs are doing, we need to be involved in their generation, or have access to the program models, design, code and test suites. In response to your question, I believe that there is evidence from particle physics studies where simulations of unobserved realities (new particles) aid later discoveries. The greatest value of simulations, I believe, is that they can show you where to look. [deleted quotation] From a theoretical perspective, I think you would have to (i) establish if there are analogous concrete natural uncertainty laws that apply to your area of study, (ii) unambiguously determine the uncertainty model, and (iii) prove (or at least establish) relationships between observables, i.e. minimum for the product of the uncertainties of both measurements (or observables). Where, exactly, are the uncertainties that lead to phenomena not being directly observable? Are they emotional reactions, etc. arising from reading or observing something? I wold have reservations about selecting emotional reaction, for example, as an "uncertain observable," as I do not think is as invariant or absolute an observable as say (physical) position. Furthermore, if one subscribes to Baroness Susan Greenfield's theory that Tomorrow's people will be influenced (physically and emotionally) by today's technologies, then there is even less reason to be concerned about observables -- we'll just make people the way we want them (to be and to behave). Tomorrow's peoples' patterns of influence may, in fact, be programmable. [deleted quotation]I know very little about statistical studies of literature, Willard, but I'd like to tell you something of my ongoing arguments with humanities researchers about "statistical studies" of historical records. If I was mathematically, or physically minded, I would pay careful attention to source sampling. For example, if I wanted to take hundreds of manuscripts, digitise them, and optimise storage, I would perform sound techniques like principal component analysis to ensure that I could rebuild the source from the sampled data. However, I find that researchers who are dealing with textual records are often happy to only extract and make data sets from records of interest to them, for example, building a database of Irish prisoners in 1800 from prison records. Later someone may, using the same source, build a database of French prisoners for the same period, using the same records. It would appear, in such cases, that the observer is more important than the observation; something that would concern any physicist! I believe that there a problem with the latter approach; and it relates to the title of your post "pedagogical value of simulations". Students working with the digital (albeit image based) copy of the manuscript can essentially have a similar experiences to working with the original. Selective data set generation, however, is not a good sampling approach as it may not be possible to rebuild the source from the samples. This means that simulations using these data have poor pedagogical value as the simulations are really only valid for the original observations and not the source. Students, however, may draw conclusions about the source rather than the observation. It is a lot like my simulation of a simulation (described earlier). I believe that it is always a good idea to utilise the best possible digitisation schemes available to "capture" a source. There is little pedagogical value in learning with sources derived from poor sampling, especially in the absence of a complete theoretical model. Best wishes, John. Dr. John G. Keating Associate Director An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND Email: john.keating_at_nuim.ie Tel: +353 1 708 3854 FAX: +353 1 708 3848 From: Professor Arthur Sale Subject: Mandatory policy success Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:12:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 167 (167) The results of a survey carried out by the Australasian Digital Theses program have recently been released. The full report is available at http://adt.caul.edu.au/memberinformation/submissionsurvey/survey2006.doc. It applies to the deposit of open access electronic copies of research theses (eg PhD) in university repositories in Australia and New Zealand (and thence searchable through the ADT gateway http://adt.caul.edu.au/). It is apparent from the report (and indeed highlighted by the authors) that a mandatory deposit policy results in a submission rate of 95% of all theses accepted, while its absence results in a submission rate of 17-22% (in other words, a pitifully empty repository). While this should not be news to anyone, the report has hard quotable facts on the success of an institutional mandatory policy over a substantial population of universities. 59% (ie 33) of Australian and New Zealand universities have mandatory deposit policies in place in 2007, so the technological change has gone well beyond the tipping point. I expect the remaining 41% of universities to follow suit in the very near future; the report suggests that 24% had already started planning to this end in 2006. In another interesting fact, three universities have provision for a thesis to be lodged electronically only (in other words no paper copy) and one is considering it. It is not clear how much this provision is used for hypermedia theses, or if it will spread. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania From: "Patrick Rourke" Subject: Re: 21.115 ideal readers for a database Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:21:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 168 (168) I suspect that the TLG, at least, was originally conceived as a replacement for concordances, and so the software usually used to access its texts is oriented around the traditional uses of concordances. It never struck me as being intended for readers. Leaving out the app crit is a more interesting issue; when the TLG was first created, there was no TEI (I'm not even sure how far along SGML was), and so there was no standard way to mark variants in a text file. Now, for a purely speculative thought: I suppose it is also possible that the publishers of the editions that the TLG used as copy texts might have been concerned about putting themselves out of business; and since the app crit is probably the most important aspect of the publisher's editorial contribution to an edition of an ancient text (excluding, of course, texts with commentaries), it seems like an obvious element of the text for the publisher to exclude from any reprinting agreement. Patrick Rourke [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 169 (169) [deleted quotation][. . .] [deleted quotation]That plural possessive ("our") does not serve the conversation well. Many have found many suitable forms for poetry in the digital world. I know of no better place to start than http://collection.eliterature.org/ [deleted quotation]the images [deleted quotation]I love the Valery, but would have to take issue with the rest of the assumptions and generalizations here. Electronic poetry bears the mark of its own making in ways students of the form have worked to articulate. See http://eliterature.org/pad/elp.html, as well as my own (forthcoming) Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. [deleted quotation]Sometimes. [deleted quotation]What a terribly long time to have to wait! Best, Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Shuly Wintner Subject: NLP researcher required Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:20:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 170 (170) Begin forwarded message: [deleted quotation] From: Dr Tatjana Chorney Subject: Re: 21.113 the greatest threat? Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:16:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 171 (171) [deleted quotation]Could it also be that aspects of the so called "democratizing power of the digital media" threaten vestiges of the ivory tower mentality embodied-- sometimes-- in the idea of the peer-review system? It seems to me that in many ways, traditonally, the concept is built on the assumption of specialized disciplinary knowledge understood by many in terms of landlocked principalities--the quality assurance seems to rest on 'plowing small patches of (disciplinary) ground' for a reputable amount of time which bestows on the venture an air of deep truth, objectivity, solid disciplinary knowledge...I am not being facetios, nor skeptical, since there is a lot to be said about the need for a system related to quality control, but the kind of radical interdisciplinarity the digital medium often encourages does threaten the system thus conceived--it is asking it to be more flexible and expansive than it is, and this may be interpreted as a threat to quality assurance. Many before me have observed that any change concerning relatively stable realities in general will be experienced as threatening.... something to do with survival instincts that have nothing to do with academia. Best, Tatjana [deleted quotation] From: "Robert S. Tannenbaum" Subject: Re: 21.112 pedagogical value of simulations Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:19:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 172 (172) Willard, I have had several quite positive experiences using simulations for educational purposes. In physics, it is possible to give students a "feel" for the laws of planetary motion by allowing them to manipulate variables in a simulated solar system and arrive at Kepler's laws. It is also possible for them to gain a facility with the combination of vectors by "shooting" simulated free throws in basketball by inputting the horizontal and vertical components of force applied to the simulated ball and watching the resulting trajectory as the gravity vector is also applied. In the social sciences, I once taught an entire course using a large simulation called "APEX" (Air Pollution Exercise), that was based on Lansing, Michigan, with an emphasis on air pollution. Students played various roles in the community (politicians, industrialists, developers, air pollution control officers, news media, etc.) They were provided with a computer printout of their current status and had to interact, based on that status, making decisions for their roles for that cycle. Their decisions were then used as input for the computer to generate the status for the next cycle. On alternate weeks we had the interactions. In between we had seminars with guests on relevant basic social science topics, such as urban planning, government structure, economics, etc. The game served as the stimulus for all sorts of discussion and learning. The (unplanned by me) climax occurred when one of the air pollution control officers was observed accepting a "bribe" from an industrialist. That inspired me to invite a friend/neighbor who was an assistant U.S. Attorney to come to class and conduct a "trial." It was a wonderful learning experience, with students taking on the roles of attorneys, jurors, courtroom staff, etc. My friend orchestrated it and served as "judge." The student course evaluations as well as my own observations confirmed that they learned a wide range of social sciences and were able to relate what they learned to their own lives. It was a great success. I know also of industrial uses of simulations that are considered to be quite valuable. Caterpillar, the company that manufactures huge construction and farming equipment, routinely uses three-dimensional, virtual simulations of their prototypes before actually constructing them. It is far more efficient to "construct" them in software and make modifications than to build working models and find they need to be redesigned. As another example, my younger son creates the code for simulations of potential new supercomputers before they are actually built. The entire computer is simulated to determine whether it will perform as predicted, without having to go to the expense of actually building a prototype. Depending on one's definition of simulation, we might consider the virtual "unrolling" of ancient scrolls as a simulation. However, I cannot offer other good examples of positive benefits of simulations in the humanities; perhaps someone else can. Bob Tannenbaum On 6/21/07 5:38 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation]Robert S. Tannenbaum, Ed.D. Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies http://www.uky.edu/eureka Undergraduate Studies Editor. Kaleidoscope http://www.uky.edu/kaleidoscope 114 Bowman Hall Principal Investigator, AMSTEMM http://www.uky.edu/AMSTEMM University of Kentucky (859) 257 - 5644 (voice) Lexington, KY 40506-0059 (859) 257 - 8734 (fax) http://www.uky.edu/~rst (home page) rst_at_uky.edu (e-mail) I have no illusions that my pacifist views are going to prevail, none at all. But every great change in expanding the dimensions of human freedom has come from very small original beginnings: somebody said "no." -- Steve Cary (1916 - 2002) From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 21.110 ideal readers for a database? Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:19:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 173 (173) John Keating has shown how thinking about readers / users and the database / corpus fits well into "Coding and composing" theme we had recently on Humanist. But, I think, John's insight also implies that designing a database interface is more alike to staging a play, or making a movie, or performing an opera --- than to writing a novel. If, let us say, Umberto Eco writes a novel, he has, supposedly, an "ideal reader" of his novel in mind. His notion of such a reader may be foggy or unclear --- but he will stick to it throughout the novel; if the notion changes, chances are Eco will rewrite the whole text. There is no "third man" between Eco and reader (editors...?). But, if I want to produce a database of Latin texts, I will go and hire somebody to program an interface according to my needs (as John so clearly described). Here --- as with a play, a movie, an opera --- the result of performing together may be unexpected; the motives and interpretations may clash, or go their own separate ways. But the question --- the responsibility --- of the author, the prime mover, remains. Will the author --- the client --- first sit down and meditate on what does he want the database to be used for? Or will he simply go to the programmers and say, "well, here are all those classical Latin texts, I want to make them searchable" (remember Willard's fable)? Here we come to what Patrick Rourke has written about the TLG. Some things were not imaginable at the time the Thesaurus linguae Graecae was first designed and produced; immense practical difficulties (coding the alphabet, getting texts into the computer) had to be solved --- and were solved; questions of copyright were at the horizon (who owns the rights to apparatus criticus). It looks like people behind the TLG asked themselves, "What is the most time- and energy-consuming task in classical philology that the computers can be used for?" And the reply was, "concordances". But what can we do now, what is to be done today? At least two roads seem possible. We can look at the discipline --- in my case, the Classics --- and ask, what do we do today? And how can we enable people to do more of it, and better? Or, we can look at the corpus, and ask: what is *not* being done in the discipline today? How can we enable people to do *that*? This is why I am interested in what *other* disciplines are doing with their corpora and databases. Yours, Neven Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia From: Willard McCarty Subject: word and image Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:56:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 174 (174) From Siegfried Zielinski, Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (MIT, 2006), originally Archaeologie der Medien: Zur Tiefenzeit der technischen Hoerens und Sehens (Hamburg, Rowohlt, 2002): [deleted quotation]Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:07:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 176 (176) Hi Neven, The questions of who are the users and what do they want are the first ones that the human-computer interaction designers say we must ask, so I think these are the right questions. However, we should also realise that the "ideal user" changes with time, as do the things that they think they want. Often, it is only when one has built an interface that one can be in a position to criticise it. I think that the online corpora you are referring to, in spite of their many useful features, are probably too inflexible in their design. It would be nice if you could easily do the things you suggest - perhaps you are thinking of interfaces on other websites not related to Greek and Latin corpora that already do this. But there is one good reason why it is not already so for us too, and that is money. How do you find the funding to do these kinds of things? The humanities has a fraction of the financial support of other disciplines, so things change only slowly. I think the only solution to this can be co-operation in the design of software for humanities projects. There is enough money if we can all agree on how to spend it. The free software paradigm might emend this situation, though it hasn't yet. However, you make another valid point, when you complain that it is difficult "to consult different readings". When we directly transfer the printed structures of "edition" and "apparatus criticus" into the digital medium we are like the early printers who made books in the image of manuscripts. It took them 100 years to realise their mistake. We still think of the text as one version, whereas in fact it is many. This fact has to be built into the archive itself and made the fundamental structure of the text. Otherwise we will forever be scratching around trying to compare a text here in one format with a text there in another, or building closed systems that do what we want but don't interact with others. Markup can't record variation very well but markup is what we are seemingly stuck with, and that is why I think it is difficult to build the flexibility you crave. On 20/06/2007, at 3:47 PM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]------------------------- Desmond Schmidt School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia From: "John G. Keating" Subject: Re: 21.120 ideal readers for a database Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:09:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 177 (177) Dear Neven, It has been a busy week and I never managed to get to send the second half of my reply to your previous message; I was going to say something about databases. Traditionally, the user interaction part of (database) software was was the only route to accessing the data. This was typically stored in some proprietary organisational structure and encoding mechanism, presumably to protect the intellectual property of the developers, and to minimise copying and distribution. Nowadays, we want all of the data to be accessible via the Internet, so client-sever models abound. The problem with the latter approach is that the interaction mechanisms provided by the client software are are not as extensive as those provided by custom- developed user interfaces -- we end up with a "same old, same old" approach to layout, interaction, query models, presentation, etc. The HTTP protocol and web browsers, which have become the new operating system, are responsible I believe, for fundamentally limiting the way people think about accessing, visualising and utilising data extracted from databases. Another problem is protection of intellectual property, i.e. the encoding used by the development team is usually "hidden" from the client software (and the user). You referred to this in your recent post (the writings of Patrick Rourke). Usually, I find that there is no grand plan to data architecture; of course, there need not be! If data are available in one format then it is usually straightforward to write transformation programs to get them into another if one has access. This (access issue) is terribly important, because certain data manipulation and querying mechanisms are sometimes only achievable if data have a particular structure. To answer research questions, via a series of database queries may rely on first transforming the data representation in some way. Mathematicians do this all the time; for example, it may not be possible to analytically integrate a mathematical function in real-space, but if it is represented in complex space the integration becomes doable (analytically). Computer graphics programmers represent 3D points in a 4D world to help with transformations. I always encourage my humanities colleagues to think of data organisation as being flexible; it can and should change as often as the researcher requires. Doing something like this requires collaboration and agreement between research groups -- which is probably harder than developing new software! A co-ordinated approach to data sharing, and data-encoding standards sharing will go a long way towards developing database systems that aid researchers do more, and do it better. I really like your analogies with literature -- thank you; I'll share this with my students -- my personal analogy is formal dancing where are two key participants, the researcher and software engineer. Each work together to produce something transient, yet beautiful. Sometimes one partner takes the lead, or has focus, and then the other leads. The success and beauty of the dance depends on co-operation, fluidly of movement, and competencies of the partners. Finding the right partners is crucial, I expect, for dancing and software development projects. This can work, however; let me give you an example (as you asked what other people are doing). As part of the Irish in Europe project (http://www.irishineurope.ie/) partners are working towards building a virtual research platform for humanities researchers. I attended several colloquia where researchers presented data on their specialised research, however, I was concerned that no one partner could compare or merge his or her (prosopographical) data with another data set in any formal statistical, numerical, or organisational manner. This seemed the most natural thing for me do do (I trained as a Physicist) so I asked my History colleagues to work on an XML schema so that a publicly accessible database could be built. It has taken years, but we have a schema that most people are happy with; if we need to change it then we can do that with ease. Researchers are now offering substantial data sets for inclusion in the project and we have obtained funding to build an online virtual collaborative-working environment for contributors, researchers, students and the general public. For the moment all of the conversion to XML from other formats will be performed by myself and my students. Once we have finished the initial phase of XML encoding we will be in a position to make global data architectural changes with ease. Having all data in a similar format, and having an openly- accessible schema, means that other developers can build software tools knowing that if the tools work with one data set, they will work for all data sets. We also believe that a concentrated investment in developing open data architecture standards now, is the best way to enable future generations of researchers and developers do more, and do it better. We (historians and software engineers) have also been playing with the idea of incorporating "what can we do" features into the schema; in addition to the "what is it like" features. One of my MSc students built a nice piece of software which examined the XML encoded data, and informed the researchers what type of statistical queries would be possible using this field. My personal goal (as a software developer working with humanities researchers) is to develop databases containing lots of metainformation that will allow computer programs to write analysis- based computer programs based on researchers' requirements. My ideal future is where humanities researchers will be presented with a data set, and accompanying programs that help specify what is required of the data (queries, visualisation, analyses). These inputs are then used by the programs to write and develop other computer programs that are tailored to the researchers' requirements. If the requirements change, then new programs can be re-developed. I believe that many computer programs (especially the front-ends to database systems) are also just data, and can be specified and produced automatically. I believe this work is necessary because industrial influences will most certainly ensure that the software we use "today" won't work "tomorrow". So we need to concentrate some effort on formal specification of what we expect of data and how we work with data, in a general sense, not just with front-end software interfaces to databases. Them, when the software changes, we can still "do" what we want to "do" regardless of software change. There is a lot of work to be done in automated construction of ontologies in the field of software engineering, however! So, in response to your question on what is *not* being done -- we are not preparing for the future; software change and obsolescence will be detrimental to our progress. Deal with this issue now; challenge the computer scientists; and work towards developing open data architecture standards. Best wishes, John. Dr. John G. Keating Associate Director An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND Email: john.keating_at_nuim.ie Tel: +353 1 708 3854 FAX: +353 1 708 3848 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 21.120 ideal readers for a database Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:26:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 178 (178) In Humanist 21.120 Neven develops an implication in John Keating's response, [deleted quotation]Here Neven puts into a nutshell essential dynamics of a collaborative research project. Part of that which is unexpected, as my colleague Harold Short says, is the product of a bilateral curiosity. Under the best of circumstances, exercising this curiosity changes the understandings with which each side entered into the collaboration. If for a moment we leave aside the implications of there being a "prime mover", someone clearly in charge, we get to Neven's question: [deleted quotation]Experience suggests that the author/client is most likely to arrive with his or her research question in mind but little else, or perhaps with just a notion that somehow computing may provide some help for a left-over bit of research that would be nice to tidy away, if possible. (I suppose that if one did a proper study of the topic, one would discover a whole range of initial states, from the utterly vague to the tightly focused, but that the majority of author/clients would be clear about their research, vague about what computing might do.) Given curiosity sufficiently robust, what one would hope for is that a problem emerges in the interaction between the two sides that provokes new or better research questions *on both sides*. [deleted quotation]In the Bad Old Days when emergent humanities computing practitioners were stuck at help-desks, we were told that the question to ask was, "What do you want to do?" The idea was that the researcher, on the other side of an institutionally unbridgeable abyss, would then state a problem for which the technical practitioner would provide a solution by writing suitable code or, somewhat later, by pulling the right application off the shelf. Surely this actually happened a fair bit, but in those Bad Old Days I certainly witnessed the interchange that we now know to be an achievable -- and frequently achieved -- goal. So I may begin with the question to Neven, what do you want to be able to do? But we all know it has to go further than that, much further. [deleted quotation]Indeed -- more of the same faster and better, or something new? How does one arrive at that "something new"? [deleted quotation]I hope numerous responses to this interest are made here. Indeed, facilitating such cross-disciplinary talk is one of the major roles of humanities computing across the digital humanities and one if its best rationales. But meanwhile, perhaps as much or more productive, is for people like me to ask people like Neven, where is your research running into trouble? Where are the frustrations? What seems wrong or frustratingly limiting with the software you can get your hands on? What do the anomalies tell you? The result I expect from such an interchange is that we are much better able to adumbrate a data-model or kind of procedure that no existing software or design for software currently satisfies. Perhaps also -- this is my particular interest in such interchanges -- we come to a better understanding of the kind of language and the styles of reasoning we need to be able to ask the questions we need to ask. Mostly, I think, we're like Papageno with his padlocked lips, able only to make some noises -- in tune, if we try very hard. As we edge away from modelling something we know intellectually how to model, and administratively how to justify, toward the unknown, play enters the picture, and moving out into the unknown conjecturally, with no justification, becomes increasingly important. If Neven took up some gizmo X, something important might happen. How do we reduce the cost of that (primarily the time required to do it), so that he can afford to play? If he were to notice some curious analogy between what's happening in a text and, say, evolutionary biology, how can we make it an easy matter to try that analogy out? How can we maximize the speculative power and flexibility of computing? Finally to Neven's authorial "prime mover". What about the consequences of being in the role of the one whose job is to wait to be moved, and then, when the push comes, having no choice as to direction? This is even more basic a problem than who gets credit for publications from a collaborative project. Consider the builder whom you hire, say to extend your kitchen; let this person be an imaginative and highly skilled person. In early days, he or she will be learning constantly, whatever the assignment. But what are the satisfactions once this builder has learned what is to be learned from more or less random jobs? What happens to such a person when he or she gets particularly interested in kitchens, say? And then what happens when he or she has exhausted the imaginative possibilities of kitchens? Consider the cabinetmaker, who learns through apprenticeship, then on completion of a masterwork, becomes a master of the trade. Great satisfactions there, I would suppose, no matter what sort of cabinet is called for. Consider the architect, who starts as a dogsbody in someone's firm, then with considerable luck and talent progresses to his or her own firm. Few will make the grade to the kind of architect who takes on only the jobs that suit his or her interests. The majority, I suppose, will spend their careers drawing the designs of others. Enough, I think, to ask the further question: what kind of social role are we talking about here? What role will best ensure that when Neven asks his questions about research in classics there's someone with the right qualities of mind to engage in a worthy contest of imaginations with him? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 21.125 ideal readers for a database Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:30:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 179 (179) Willard, Desmond Schmidt notes: [deleted quotation]Which is true but the markup community (at least parts of it) have been working on solving that problem. In connection with the Extreme Markup conference in Montreal you will find: International Workshop on Markup of Overlapping Structures, see: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/overlap/index.html The workshop is on 5 August 2007 and the main conference is 6 - 11 August. I can't promise that you are going to find a solution you can just drop into a project to solve the problem but you will find the very latest thinking on how to work towards the sort of flexibility that you are seeking. If you are interested in cutting edge markup technology the Extreme conference is "the" conference to attend. Hope everyone is having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick_at_durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Acting Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Co-Editor, OpenDocument Format (OASIS, ISO/IEC 26300) From: "Mark Davies" Subject: new on WWW: 100+ million word corpus of American English Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:30:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 180 (180) A new 100+ million word corpus of American English (1920s-2000s) is now freely available at: http://corpus.byu.edu/time/ The corpus is based on more than 275,000 articles in TIME magazine from 1923 to 2006, and it contains articles on a wide range of topics - domestic and international, sports, financial, cultural, entertainment, personal interest, etc. The architecture and interface is similar to the one that we have created for our version of the British National Corpus (see http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc), and it allows users to: -- Find the frequency of particular words, phrases, substrings (prefixes, suffixes, roots) in each decade from the 1920s-2000s. Users can also limit the results by frequency in any set of years or decades. They can also see charts that show the totals for all matching strings in each decade (1920s-2000s), as well as each year within a given decade. -- Study changes in syntax since the 1920s. The corpus has been tagged for part of speech with CLAWS (the same tagger used for the BNC), and users can easily carry out searches like the following (from among endless possibilities): changes in the overall frequency of "going + to + V", or "end up V-ing", or preposition stranding (e.g. "[VV*] with ."), or phrasal verbs (1920s-1940s vs 1980s-2000s). -- Look at changes in collocates to investigate semantic shifts during the past 80 years. Users can find collocates up to 10 words to left or right of node word, and sort and limit by frequency in any set of years or decades. -- As mentioned, the interface is designed to easily permit comparisons between different sets of decades or years. For example, with one simple query users could find words ending in -dom that are much more frequent 1920s-40s than 1980s-1990s, nouns occurring with "hard" in 1940s-50s but not in the 1960s, adjectives that are more common 2003-06 than 2000-02, or phrasal verbs whose usage increases markedly after the 1950s, etc. -- Users can easily create customized lists (semantically-related words, specialized part of speech category, morphologically-related words, etc), and then use these lists directly as part of the query syntax. ---------- For more information, please contact Mark Davies (http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu), or visit: http://corpus.byu.edu/ for information and links to related corpora, including the upcoming BYU American National Corpus [BANC] (350+ million words, 1990-2007+). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Mark Davies Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics Brigham Young University (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906 Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases ** ** Historical linguistics // Language variation ** ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- From: Willard McCarty Subject: two threats Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:53:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 181 (181) The following in a private note to me from Geoffrey Rockwell: [deleted quotation]My response to him was as follows: [deleted quotation]Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 21.125 ideal readers for a database Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:06:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 182 (182) Dear Willard and HUMANIST: At 05:32 AM 6/24/2007, Desmond Schmidt writes a paragraph which gets close to the core of the problem raised by Neven, I think: [deleted quotation]This is an apt analogy, except what might have happened over the course of that century was that the reader of the printed book emerged, displacing the readers of manuscripts in the considerations of the printers. It wasn't a mistake as much as it was an evolution. To Gutenberg, having the red as well as the black ink on the page might have been terribly important because he knew it was important to his audience, if only as a proof of concept: "We can also have colors". A hundred years later, however, readers and collectors of books had decided that to demand a printed book with any more than "pro forma" gestures at manuscript facsimile (the "form" of such efforts being bounded implicitly by what was practicable in print technologies) was simply beside the point. A similar evolution is now underway with electronic media -- which is why the "use case" is both so important, and so difficult. In short (to recall an earlier thread), it's not just software that "spirals" in its development, it's the expectations, wishes and abilities of users themselves. [deleted quotation]This is an interesting statement that invokes long arguments that many readers of HUMANIST can trace better than I can. Even if accepted, it raises the issue of how best to represent many as one. The most devoted user of the apparatus criticus in a print edition will not, I hope, argue that such an interface is the best that can be imagined. [deleted quotation]I would emend this only to say not "markup" but "current markup-based systems". And use this opportunity to plug next month's meetings in Montreal -- ah, but I see Patrick already has: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/index.html Regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: 21.129 two threats Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:05:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 183 (183) On Jun 25, 2007, at 2:55 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]It's not so much anti-intellectualism as it is that commercial technology seems more efficient. Why spend money on text encoding and analysis when Google will do it for free (well, as long as we look at their ads)? Amazon poses the same kind of threat with its ability to seach the full text of many of the books its sells online. The threat is that the added value of specialization humanists bring to digital media is not perceived worth the cost. [deleted quotation]I tend to think of technology as a kind of trade-off between one form of knowledge and another. Two examples: with the ubiquity of computers in schools, students are becoming less proficient in handwriting. I attended college in the mid-80s when most students were still using typewriters. The process of writing was very different then, and at the risk of sounding like Sven Birkerts I think students produce different papers today. They eventually learn to use cut-and-paste responsibly, but the experience of preparing paper drafts with pencil and paper before committing them to a typed draft has obviated a certain kind of attentiveness to text. But it is true that technology has occasioned new perspectives on text. To see things in a new way is to forget the old way. The other is starting a fire. Anyone who has backpacked in the wilderness knows how helpless he or she becomes when the high-tech camp stove won't light and the matches are wet. Palaeolithic man knew stuff we have forgot. As I remember from my reading of Heidegger, technology is part of humanity's Being. Avoiding it or reversing it would be to deny who we are. To be fully human is to reflect constantly on our Being, including the ontological effects of technology. mw -- Mark B. Wolff Modern and Classical Languages One Hartwick Drive Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 431-4615 http://bumppo.hartwick.edu/~mark/ From: simon mahony Subject: Silchester Roman Town: developing virtual research practice Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:05:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 184 (184) This Friday's seminar in the Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Summer Series is: Professor Michael Fulford (Reading) 'Silchester Roman Town: developing virtual research practice' Time: Friday 29 June at 16:30 Place: Room NG16 Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Brief abstract: The Silchester Roman Town Life Project is experimenting with new digital approaches to the capture of data from the excavation and to the subsequent analysis and publication of the stratigraphic record and its associated sets of material and biological finds. The overarching aim is to speed up the process between excavation in the field and subsequent publication, including the more effective integration of the research team into the publication programme. All are welcome. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments after which everyone is also welcome to join us in entertaining the speaker at a local venue. Best regards Simon ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate 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 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX From: Christoph Flüeler Subject: New update - Digital Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:04:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 185 (185) Manuscripts of the Abbey Library of St. Gall Manuscripts of the Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland online - free access: <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en>www.cesg.unifr.ch - high resolution digital images: over 57'000 facsimile pages - regularly updated: now 144 complete manuscripts (including the musical manuscripts) - manuscript descriptions and many search options - accessible in: German: www.cesg.unifr.ch French: www.cesg.unifr.ch/fr English: www.cesg.unifr.ch/en Italian: www.cesg.unifr.ch/it Please recommend it to your colleagues and put a link to CESG on your homepage. CESG - Codices Electronici Sangallenses From: Willard McCarty Subject: dramaturgies of difference Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:38:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 186 (186) In the conclusion to an important book from which I quoted recently, Deep Time of the Media, Siegfried Zielinski argues that "Cultivating dramaturgies of difference is an effective remedy against the increasing ergonomization of the technical media world that is taking place under the banner of ostensible linear progress" (p. 259). In the 1990s, he notes, the aim was to make the human-machine boundary invisible, so that one would be unaware of the computing involved -- unaware of the fact of the algorithms behind the virtual reality of images and sounds; unaware of the transition from actual to virtual; unaware that one is dealing with a prestructured, calculated construction. Zielinsky extends Berthold Brecht's argument in his Short Organum for the Theatre (1948) that we require a dramatic art which does not invite its audience to illusion and catharsis but to continue thinking during the pleasure of theatrical experience. Senses and reason are not opposites by this view but forces engaged with each other in producing art. Zielinski's plea is for a comparable Organum of the Interface. (His first attempt is an essay with Nils Roeller, "On the difficulty to think twofold in one", in Sciences of the Interface, ed. Diebner, Druckery and Weibel, Genista Verlag, Tuebingen, http://genista.de/shop/i26.html.) From the world of contemporary art he pulls Perry Hoberman's Cathartic User Interface, an installation in which the audience is invited to throw balls at computer keyboards, as one would throw balls at tin cans or some such thing at a fairground sideshow. But Hoberman's installation rewards the successful throw not with a prize outside the game but with a technical image showing the keyboard, error messages, satirical distortions of interface graphics, faces of computer industry agents. No catharsis, rather frustration. Zielinski concludes: "The only effective form of intervention in this world is to learn its laws of operation and try to undermine or overrun them. One has to give up being a player at a fairground sideshow and become an operator within the technical world where one can work on developing alternatives." Or as I say, throw off the straitjacket of the end-user and become and end-maker! The dramaturgy of computational difference is what I've called "modelling", with the difference that the yearning is not back toward some object of study but is itself a work of art. Not only a born-digital work but a digitally awakened and aware work. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Cristina Vertan Subject: Workshop on eLearning Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:36:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 187 (187) CALL FOR PAPERS NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION FOR eLEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Borovets, Bulgaria September 26, 2007 DEADLINE APPROACHING : 30.06.2007 !!!!! ********** Workshop site: http://www.lt4el.eu/nlp_knowrep200709.html RANLP'2007 site: http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/ AIMS Several initiatives have been launched in the area of Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Knowledge Representation both at the national and international level aiming at the development of resources and tools. Unfortunately, there are few initiatives that integrate these results within eLearning. The situation is slightly better with respect to the results achieved within Knowledge Representation since ontologies are being developed which describe not only the content of the learning material but crucially also its context and the structure. Furthermore, knowledge representation techniques and natural language processing play an important role in improving the adaptivity of learning environments even though they are not fully exploited yet. On the other hand, eLearning environments constitute valuable scenarios to demonstrate the maturity of computational linguistic methods as well as of natural language technologies and tools. This kind of task-based evaluation of resources, methods and tools is a crucial issue for the further development of language and information technology. The goal of this workshop is to discuss: ? the use of language and knowledge resources and tools in eLearning; ? requirements on natural language resources, standards, and applications originating in eLearning activities and environments; ? the expected added value of natural language resources and technology to learning environments and the learning process; ? strategies and methods for the task based evaluation of Natural Language Processing applications. The workshop will bring together computational linguists, language resources developers, knowledge engineers, researchers involved in technology-enhanced learning as well as developers of eLearning material, ePublishers and eLearning practitioners. It will provide a forum for interaction among members of dierent research communities, and a means for attendees to increase their knowledge and understanding of the potential of computational resources in eLearning. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: geographical models? Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:33:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 188 (188) In Humanist 21.113 I referred to Edouard Glissant's geographical metaphor in Poetics of Relation (Michigan, 1997) but did not quote what he says. Forgive me for the repetition, but now I'd like to turn the reference into a question. Here is what he says: [deleted quotation]I became interested in the effects of native geography on how one constructs one's various worlds when I encountered the mathematician David Hilbert's imperial metaphor of the relation of disciplines in his 1917 lecture, "Axiomatic Thought" (in William Ewald, ed., From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics. Volume II. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.): [deleted quotation]In an article in Literary and Linguistic Computing (21.1, 2006) I pointed to some Australian examples, much closer to the Caribbean than the European. Does anyone here know of others? Are there British examples that differ significantly from the continental European, as one suspects they would? Any Canadian ones other than Northrop Frye's speculations on the relationship been geographically determined demography and his people's genius for communication? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: Great Principles of Computing Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:13:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 189 (189) Not long ago I passed on an announcement from the ACM magazine Ubiquity about an interview conducted with the computer scientist Peter Denning. In case you missed it, the URL of the interview is www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v8i22_denning.html. As some of you will know, Denning has devoted much of his career to articulating the principles of his discipline in more or less plain language, for which he has a gift. The interview holds much of interest for us, as nearby neighbours who really should have a basic understanding of computer science and who also worry a fair bit about getting the respect of older kids on the block. Denning's preoccupation with whether CS is "a science" may suffer from the belief that there is such a singular entity -- contrary to much current work in the history and philosophy of the sciences -- but his effort to articulate principles is intelligent and so worth the candle. A spinoff of the effort is the nascent Great Principles of Computing Project, which Denning discusses in the interview and which may be found at cs.gmu.edu/cne/pjd/GP/. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.25 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:36:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 190 (190) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 25 June 26, 2007 -- July 2, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: UBIQUITY ALERT: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Business Intelligence (BI) -- an interdisciplinary research topic that incorporates analytical technology to produce forecasts and identify causes and effects relationships corresponding to particular business scenarios -- involves the utilization of data mining. Here, Goutam Saha aims surveys various critical aspects of business intelligence computing. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i25_intelligence.html> From: Willard McCarty Subject: other interface experiences Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:37:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 191 (191) Yesterday, in Humanist 21.132 I mentioned Perry Hoberman's Cathartic User Interface. Of course this is not online, but many other fine things by Hoberman are. I strongly recommend you visit http://www.perryhoberman.com/, esp if your skies are overcast and the rain is falling. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Methnet Subject: Forthcoming lectures on arts and humanities e-science Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:32:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 192 (192) Dear All, The next lectures in the e-Science in the Arts and Humanities Theme (see http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme) begin next week. The Theme, organized by the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) and hosted by the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, aims to explore the new challenges for research in the Arts and Humanities and to define the new research agenda that is made possible by e- Science technology. The lectures are: Monday 2 July: Grid Enabling Humanities Datasets Friday 6 July: e-Science and Performance Monday 23 July: Aspects of Space and Time in Humanities e-Science In all cases it will be possible to view the lecture on webcast, and to ask questions or contribute to the debate, in real time via the arts-humanities.net blog feature. Please visit http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/ E-Science_in_the_Arts_and_Humanities, and follow the 'Ask questions during the lecture' link for more information about the blog, and the 'More details' link for more information about the events themselves and the webcasts. AHeSSC forms a critical part of the AHRC-JISC initiative on e-Science in Arts and Humanities research. The Centre is hosted by King's College London and located at the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and the AHRC Methods Network. AHeSSC exists to support, co- ordinate and promote e-Science in all arts and humanities disciplines, and to liaise with the e-Science and e-Social Science communities, computing, and information sciences. Please contact Stuart Dunn (stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk) or Tobias Blanke (tobias.blanke_at_kcl.ac.uk) at AHeSSC for more information. www.ahessc.ac.uk www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahessc (mailing list) From: staudek_at_fi.muni.cz (Jan Staudek) Subject: MEMICS 2007, 2nd Call for Papers Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:33:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 193 (193) Second Call for Papers 3rd Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science MEMICS 2007 http://www.memics.cz/ October 26--28, 2007, Znojmo, Czech Republic The MEMICS 2007 workshop is organized jointly by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, and the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology. The aim: To provide a forum for doctoral students interested in applications of mathematical and engineering methods in computer science with a special focus on the various aspects of parallel and distributed systems. Topics: Submissions are invited especially in the following but not exclusive areas: parallel and distributed computing, GRID computing, computer networks and advanced applications, models and techniques for formal verification, security; also simulation, testing and diagnostics, theory of formal languages, quantum computing, modern hardware concepts. Invited lectures will be given by Javier Esparza (Munchen), Tiziana Margaria-Steffen (Potsdam), Geraint Price (London), and Ian Taylor (Cardiff). Regular papers: Students are invited to register a paper before September 2, 2007 and submit the paper (not exceeding 8 pages in the LNCS style) before September 9, 2007. Authors will be notified of acceptance by September 28, 2007. Detailed instructions are available at http://www.memics.cz/. Presentations: Students may also present recent outstanding work, if it has been (or will be) presented at a leading computer science conference. Presentations to be included in the programme will be selected on the basis of a one-page abstract, which interested students are invited to submit. The one-page abstracts will be published in the proceedings. The proceedings will be available at the workshop in printed form. Selected best papers will be considered for journal publication (with a full journal review process). [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: the day-job Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:07:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 194 (194) At the end of his Deep Time of the Media (pp. 278-80), Siegfried Zielinski draws a parallel between the alchemists' laboratories of premodern Europe, paid for by the rich and powerful of the day, and the media laboratories nowadays. Behind the modern research facilities of today, he writes, lies the hope that the contemporary sorcerers' apprentices, engineers, programmers and artists will succeed turning the digital into gold. These facilities are set up to provide "the future of the information society", but those in them (i.e. people like us) are not content to do this. Hemmed in by various expressions of the mandate to be "productive", to give "value for money", our task, Zielinski writes, is to confront what is possible with its own dimensions of impossibility, to render the possible more vital and worthy of investment. The experiment cannot really fail, though our coin is the impossible: as with the alchemists, we humanists embark on projects of such significance that there is honour in failure. Earlier Zielinski quotes the Polish artist and writer, Bruno Schulz: "If art is only supposed to confirm what has been determined for as long as anyone can remember, then one doesn't need it. Its role is to be a probe that is let down into the unknown. The artist is a device that registers processes taking place in the depths where values are created." The same could be said of us (though one would want to check the original German, from Die Wirklichkeit ist Schatten des Wortes, 1992, p. 92, which I promise to do as soon as the one-clicked book arrives). The places of work that we need require, Zielinski goes on to note, not only the generous host or patron, as of old, but also the guest for whom artistic praxis with and in media worlds is more than a cleverly packaged affirmation of what we already know, the guest who understands the invitation to experiment as a call to continue working on the impossibility of the perfect interface (for which he cites Empedocles' model of perception). "The willingness to engage in wasteful activity oneself is the least this economy should demand of its guests; such willingness is also the trick that makes it work." "Artistic praxis on the Internet is superfluous", like the strange phenomena of bioluminescence with which Deep Media of Time begins. "Those who can afford this superfluity earn their living offline or through a second nonartistic identity in the form of productive work in the Net." What they do in the long haul that counts the most is what they give away, with no expectation of reward (though one does hope from time to time :-.). "As a further seriously wasteful activity, artistic praxis on the Net may have a brilliant future." Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: AI & Society 21.4 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:38:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 195 (195) [NB Don't let this one slip by without at minimim a glance at the titles and authors. --WM] Volume 21 Number 4 of AI & SOCIETY is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Editorial Birthday issue volume 21.4: from judgement to calculation Karamjit S. Gill Page 387 - 392 Preface AI & Society Birthday Issue Vol. 21.4 Mike Cooley Page 393 - 394 From judgment to calculation Mike Cooley Page 395 - 409 Technology of culture: the roadmap of a journey undertaken Parthasarathi Banerjee Page 411 - 419 Networking real-world knowledge David Smith Page 421 - 428 Tacit knowledge and risks Bo Göranzon Page 429 - 442 Information to control, knowledge to decide: a short account of a contemporary misunderstanding Massimo Negrotti Page 443 - 451 The global technology laboratory Dietrich Brandt Page 453 - 470 From human-centred to human-context centred approach: looking back over ‘the hills’, what has been gained and lost? Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen Page 471 - 495 From Taylorism to competence-based production Peter Brödner Page 497 - 514 Democratising change Francesco Garibaldo Page 515 - 535 Artificial Intelligence and learning, epistemological perspectives C. T. A. Schmidt Page 537 - 547 Socializing artifacts as a half mirror of the mind Toyoaki Nishida, Ryosuke Nishida Page 549 - 566 Entrainment and musicality in the human system interface Satinder P. Gill Page 567 - 605 Poetics of performative space Xin Wei Sha Page 607 - 624 The meaning of silence Richard Ennals Page 625 - 632 OPEN FORUM Reflections on the social function of the “Kyosei” Fumihiko Satofuka Page 633 - 638 Rethinking the cross-cultural interaction architecture Karamjit S. Gill Page 639 - 647 REFLECTIONS FROM THE PAST Editorial Page 649 - 650 Artificial Intelligence: Cannibal or Missionary? Margaret Boden Page 651 - 657 AI Bridges and Dreams Alan Bundy Page 659 - 668 AI and Accountability Ajit Narayanan Page 669 - 671 Engineering As An Art HH Rosenbrock Page 673 - 678 Open Forum Page 679 - 680 Page 681 - 682 The Creative Landscapes Column: Prologue Page 683 - 690 APPENDIX Short Biographies of Contributors to the AI & Society Birthday Issue Page 691 - 698 From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: Extreme Markup Languages Complete Program Posted Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:41:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 196 (196) The final program of Extreme Markup Languages 2007 is now available - including peer reviewed papers, late-breaking news, and pre-conference workshop! Topics at Extreme 2007 include: * Modeling and Schema Design * Ontologies and Vocabularies * Overlap * Processing XML * Search and Query * Validation * Office Documents * RDF, Topic Maps, and the Semantic Web * Transformation Scan the Schedule at a Glance or browse the detailed program and topical guide. * http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/at-a-glance.html * http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/abstracts.html * http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/topics.html You may also be interested in the preconference "International Workshop on Markup of Overlapping Structures" (http://www.extrememarkup.com/overlap/index.html). Extreme is an open marketplace of theories about markup and all the things that they support or that support them: the difficult cases in publishing, linguistics, transformation, searching, indexing, and storage and retrieval. At Extreme, markup enthusiasts gather each year to trade in ideas, not to convince management to buy new stuff. At Extreme we push the edges of markup theory & practice. * WHEN: August 7-10, 2007 (Preconference overlap workshop on August 6, 2007) * WHERE: Montréal, Canada * HOST: IDEAlliance * REGISTRATION and HOTEL INFORMATION: http://www.extrememarkup.com/ * DISCOUNTS: 20% discount on registration fees available to OASIS, IDEAlliance, DC XML UG, Philadelphia XML Users' Group, TEI, and W3C members, and academic and government employees * Extreme Markup Community Site: http://www.concretesyntax.com/ * QUESTIONS: Email to extreme_at_mulberrytech.com or call Tommie Usdin +1 301/315-9631 * MORE INFORMATION as available: http://www.extrememarkup.com/ * PROCEEDINGS of previous EXTREME MARKUP Conferences: http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme/proceedings/ The Extreme Markup Languages Conference, formerly a production of IDEAlliance, is now developed by Mulberry Technologies, Inc., which is solely responsible for its program. -- ====================================================================== Extreme Markup Languages 2007 mailto:extreme_at_mulberrytech.com August 7-10, 2007 http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme Montreal, Canada http://www.extrememarkup.com ====================================================================== From: "J. Trant" Subject: ICHIM07: Preliminary Program On-line Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:42:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 197 (197) ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings Toronto, October 24-26, 2007 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ ** The preliminary program for ICHIM07 is now on-line. ** Thanks once again goes to the Program Committee who helped review proposals and recommend selections. Speakers are coming from 20 countries around the world to present their work at the only conference at which senior policy makers from around the world gather with technology practitioners, researchers, information designers and the staffs of cultural repositories - libraries, archives and museums - to imagine and direct informatics services for culture and heritage knowledge. ** Briefing Opportunities still available. ** If you have a project you would like to tell others about, there is still a chance to feature your work. Briefing proposals will be accepted until June 30, 2007. Make your proposal on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/papers/ichim07.proposal.form.html ** Register Online ** We're looking forward to having ICHIM back in North America -- we haven't met on this side of the Atlantic since 1999. Our facility, the MaRS Centre at the University of Toronto, will be great [no hotel tech to deal with!, but it has one down-side: we have to limit registration because of the capacity of the auditorium. That will mean a more closely knit group and a better chance for conversations. Register on-line to reserve your place: http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/register/ *** Questions? *** Contact the ICHIM07 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman and Jennifer Trant , Archives & Museum Informatics e-mail: ichim07_at_archimuse.com [...] From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- June 2007 Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:11:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 198 (198) TL INFOBITS June 2007 No. 12 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitjun07.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... Report on Current Issues in Higher Ed IT Proposed Solution to "Broken" College Textbook Market Papers on Mobile Learning Humor in Online Classes New Chronicle Column on Scholarly Writing/Publishing Recommended Reading ...................................................................... REPORT ON CURRENT ISSUES IN HIGHER ED IT The report of the 2007 EDUCAUSE Current Issues in higher education information technology is now available online. The survey, now in its eighth year, asks "campus information technology leaders to rate the most critical IT challenges facing them, their campuses, and/or their systems." As it has been in five previous years, funding was ranked as the number one IT issue. Included in the top ten issues listed were faculty development, support, and training (number 6) and course/learning management systems (number 9). The report and related readings are available at http://www.educause.edu/2007IssuesResources. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The current membership comprises more than 1,900 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 200 corporations, with 15,000 active members. EDUCAUSE has offices in Boulder, CO, and Washington, DC. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at http://www.educause.edu/. ...................................................................... PROPOSED SOLUTION TO "BROKEN" COLLEGE TEXTBOOK MARKET "Most debates over high textbook prices devolve into a blame game . . . Publishers go after excessive profits, bookstores stock too few used books, professors ignore prices and switch books on a whim, colleges fail to guide their faculty members, and students are not smart shoppers. Such claims are unproductive, the [Education Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance] says, though it sides more with students than with publishers." [The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 1, 2007] After a yearlong study, the Committee, an independent panel that advises the U.S. Congress on student aid policy, has released "Turn the Page: Making College Textbooks More Affordable," a report that addresses the problem of rising prices of college textbooks. Long-term solutions would entail an "infrastructure of technology and support services with which institutions, students, faculty, bookstores, publishers, and other content providers can interact efficiently. This infrastructure would consist of a transaction and rights clearinghouse, numerous marketplace Web applications, and hosted infrastructure resources. . . . The hosted infrastructure would ensure that all systems interface, support a registry of millions of learning items, provide marketplace services to thousands of campuses and millions of users, and process hundreds of millions of transactions for both fee-based and no-cost content." The report and related materials are available at http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/acsfa/edlite-txtbkstudy.html. ...................................................................... PAPERS ON MOBILE LEARNING Mobile learning is the theme of the current issue of the INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH IN OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING. Papers include: "Mobile Distance Learning with PDAs: Development and Testing of Pedagogical and System Solutions Supporting Mobile Distance Learners" by Torstein Rekkedal and Aleksander Dye, Norwegian School of Information Technology "The Growth of m-Learning and the Growth of Mobile Computing: Parallel Developments" by Jason G. Caudill, Grand Canyon University "Mobile Learning and Student Retention" by Bharat Inder Fozdar and Lalita S. Kumar, India Gandhi National Open University "Instant Messaging for Creating Interactive and Collaborative m-Learning Environments" by James Kadirire, Anglia Ruskin University "m-Learning: Positioning Educators for a Mobile, Connected Future" by Kristine Peters, Flinders University The issue is available at http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/29. Papers are available not only in HTML and PDF formats, but you can also download and listen to them in MP3 audio versions. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) [ISSN 1492-3831] is a free, refereed ejournal published by Athabasca University - Canada's Open University. For more information, contact Paula Smith, IRRODL Managing Editor; tel: 780-675-6810; fax: 780-675-672; email: irrodl@athabascau.ca; Web: http://www.irrodl.org/. See also: "Are You Ready for Mobile Learning?" By Joseph Rene Corbeil and Maria Elena Valdes-Corbeil, University of Texas at Brownsville EDUCAUSE QUARTERLY, vol. 30, no. 2, 2007 http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm07/eqm0726.asp "Frequent use of mobile devices does not mean that students or instructors are ready for mobile learning and teaching." ...................................................................... HUMOR IN ONLINE CLASSES "A recently published study examined the intentional use of humor in two otherwise identical sections of an online psychology class . . . Statistical comparisons at the end of the semester showed no difference in final grades between sections, but did show that students in the 'humor-enhanced' section earned more participation points by more frequent participation in online discussions. Students in the 'humor-enhanced' section used the interactive class features more (including email and discussions), and were more likely to reply to other student's questions in the discussions." In "Using Humor in Online Classes" (EDUCATOR'S VOICE), Gail E. Krovitz presents some tips and cautions for instructors who are considering incorporating humor into their online classes. The article is available at http://www.ecollege.com/news/EdVoice.learn. Educator's Voice is published monthly by the eCollege Instructional Design Team. For more information contact eCollege, eCollege Building, 4900 S. Monaco Street, Denver, CO 80237 USA; tel: 888-884-7325; fax: 303-873-7449; Web: http://www.ecollege.com/. ...................................................................... NEW CHRONICLE COLUMN ON SCHOLARLY WRITING/PUBLISHING This month THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION launched a new monthly column on the writing and publishing process in academe. The column is written by Rachel Toor, formerly of Oxford University Press and Duke University Press. The first column is at http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/06/2007060101c/careers.html. 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From: "Natasha McCarthy" Subject: Philosophy of engineering seminar: AI and IT Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:12:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 199 (199) Dear all This is a reminder that on July 11, The Royal Academy of Engineering will be holding a seminar on 'AI and IT: Where Engineering and Philosophy Meet.' Speakers will be Professor Igor Aleksander FREng, Professor Nigel Shadbolt FREng and Dr Ron Chrisley of the University of Sussex. Full details, including information about registering for the seminar, are available on the flyer here: <http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Philosophy_flyer.pdf>. Kind regards, Natasha _______________________________ Dr Natasha McCarthy Policy Advisor The Royal Academy of Engineering 29 Great Peter Street London SW1P 3LW Tel: 020 7227 0575 Fax: 020 7227 7620 Email: natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk Web: <http://www.raeng.org.uk>www.raeng.org.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: geographical models? Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:33:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 200 (200) In Humanist 21.113 I referred to Edouard Glissant's geographical metaphor in Poetics of Relation (Michigan, 1997) but did not quote what he says. Forgive me for the repetition, but now I'd like to turn the reference into a question. Here is what he says: [deleted quotation]I became interested in the effects of native geography on how one constructs one's various worlds when I encountered the mathematician David Hilbert's imperial metaphor of the relation of disciplines in his 1917 lecture, "Axiomatic Thought" (in William Ewald, ed., From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics. Volume II. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.): [deleted quotation]In an article in Literary and Linguistic Computing (21.1, 2006) I pointed to some Australian examples, much closer to the Caribbean than the European. Does anyone here know of others? Are there British examples that differ significantly from the continental European, as one suspects they would? Any Canadian ones other than Northrop Frye's speculations on the relationship been geographically determined demography and his people's genius for communication? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p.= 26). From: Carlos Areces Subject: M4M-5 Call for Papers Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:54:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 201 (201) ==================================================================== 5th Worskhop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-5) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M5 Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France November 29-30, 2007 ==================================================================== Scope ----- The workshop ``Methods for Modalities'' (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term ``modal logics'' is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers and posters, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ Paper Submissions ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three categories. - Regular papers up to 15 pages, describing original results, work in progress, or future directions of research. - System descriptions of up to 12 pages, describing new systems or significant upgrades of existing ones. - Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to participants. Submissions should be made via Easychair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/M4M5/ Final versions of accepted papers will be published online in an Elsevier ENTCS volume. A preliminary version of the proceedings will also be available at the workshop. [...] From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: RE: 21.144 geographical models: the Netherlands Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:53:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 202 (202) Dear Willard and others, If you can bear with me a bit longer : just a further note on what I wrote in great haste on Saturday (before running off to the theatre). In addtion to the typo ("teleration" for "toleration"), I note that the direct url under which I accessed the pdf-file of Van Iterson's paper doesn't work now that I try it after distribution on this list. Because it's a quite interesting paper, let me mention, then, that you can get to it e.g. via the Research Papers in Economics service at EconPapers (http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/dgrumanib/1997008.htm) or the University of Connecticut Econ Dept.'s "Ideas" site (http://ideas.repec.org/p/dgr/umanib/1997008.html). It is perhaps furthermore useful to mention that this particular Netherlandish manifestation of a "native geographical model" came into some international prominence with the rise and fall of the so-called "polder model" * in the period of the 1990s through the first five or so years of the 21st century. ( An obvious reference here is the book _Exit polder model? : socioeconomic changes in the Netherlands_, by Lei Delsen [revised and translated from the Dutch. - Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002]. ) * The _OED_'s definition of "polder" being : "a piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea, a river, etc., and protected by dykes". The concept of a "polder mentality" is a fairly often-referred-to one in these parts. It also plays a small part, by the way, in Jared Diamond's _Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed_ (Allen Lane and Viking, 2005). - Laval Hunsucker UvAmsterdam [deleted quotation] From: Andrew Reinhard Subject: eClassics at the American Classical League Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:55:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 203 (203) conference, Nashville Omnes (and apologies for cross-posting), ACL is officially over and almost all of us have returned home, weary and elated. Things have been hopping on eClassics (<http://eclassics.ning.com>) this week: New Blog Posts: Digital Demosthenes: New Pedagogy for Old Languages (workshop write-up with links) ACL Days 1-3 technology summaries from talking to "the man on the street" (3 separate blog posts) Link from member Shawn to his Electric Archaeologist blog New Discussion Topics: Creating macros for macrons in Open Office Writer Podcasting workshop at ACL 2008 New Videos: The Seven Kings of Rome Prometheus Sock Puppet Show Rinse the Blood Off my Toga The Last Days of Pompeii: In Suburbia New Fables (thanks Laura Gibbs!): De Legato et Tubicinibus De Viro et Cardinale De Iuvene et Sene De Sene et Puella De Aquila et Pica De Turdo et Hirundine De Rustico et Mure Coming Soon: Veni, Wiki, vici eClassics demographic It was wonderful meeting so many bright, enthusiastic people at ACL (with such good singing voices!). See you in New Hampshire next year! 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Get your daily dose of Latin and BC news at <http://www.bcpublishers.blogspot.com/>www.bcpublishers.blogspot.com/ From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: Lexical Communities: networking morphological Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:45:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 204 (204) resources in the Archimedes Project (seminar) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007 ****Note the change of location**** Friday 6th July at 16:30 Room 273, Stewart House, Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN Brian Fuchs (Imperial College) 'Lexical Communities: networking morphological resources in the Archimedes Project' ALL WELCOME The Archimedes Project web services offer access to the project's morphological resources, such as tokenisation, normalisation, and lemmatisation services, based on a core dataset of ancient and modern scientific texts and lexica in several languages, including Greek, Latin, and Arabic. This talk will give an introduction to the services, and chart their evolution from the first services through the eSciDoc bundle to current networking proposals. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony_at_kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: 21.136 geographical models? Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:46:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 205 (205) Dear Willard, I don't know if this site will have anything along the lines of what you are thinking about, but they've been doing a lot of work. It's a Canadian participatory GIS project called the Aboriginal Mapping Network: http://www.nativemaps.org/?q=top_menu/1/88/90 yrs, Stan Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.26 Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:47:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 206 (206) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 26 July 3, 2007 -- July 9, 2007 BIQUITY ALERT: CELLPHONE CLONING In this technical (but very accessible) paper, Ramesh Singh of the National Informatics Center in New Delhi, India, and students Preeti Bhargava and Samta Kain offer an interesting discussion of cellphone cloning. Their topics include: 1. What is cellphone cloning? 2. How is a phone cloned? 3. Global Service for Mobile Communications (GSM). 4. Architecture of the GSM Network. 5. Cryptography Fundamentals. 6. Cryptography in GSM. 7. Breaking the Algorithms. 8. 3rd Generation Partnership (3GPP). See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i26_cloning.html> From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus on Humanist Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:58:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 207 (207) Dear colleagues, From today until ca. 13 July Humanist will be silent because I will be out of reach of e-mail. My automatic e-mail responder will give anyone who writes to me directly the following message, which applies to Humanist postings as well: [deleted quotation]So, please watch for the appearance of any posting you send to Humanist during this time. If it doesn't appear, please resend after my date of return. Many thanks. Yours,WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Excerpt on Intentional Software from Technology Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:45:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 208 (208) Review (Feb 2007) Willard, [...] Because of the perennial question of tool design, you may be interested in an article that appeared in the February 2007 issue of "Technology Review" (published by MIT). Scott Rosenberg's article is a profile of Charles Simonyi and Intentional Software. The article is accompanied a shorter piece by Wade Roush that explains the principles of Intentional Programming. Some excerpts: With the programmers' help, the domain experts list all the concepts and definitions the software will need to encompass. [...] each action the software must carry out is stored in a uniform format, an "intentional tree". Intentional trees have the advantage of being visually simple but logically comprehensive, which means they can be manipulated, revised, and "projected" or reenvisioned at will. [...] Both the domain experts and the programmers [...] edit and reedit the projections until they look right. After that, the domain code is fed into a "generator" [...] that churns out "target code" in a language such as C++ or Java that other computers are able to understand, compile and run. Once the target code is generated it can't be turned back into domain code. In that respect, the generator is like an encryption program that irreversibly transforms plaintext into ciphertext. However -- and this is perhaps intentional programming's biggest advantage -- it's easy to scrap old target code and generate improved code from scratch. Simply revise the domain code using the Domain Workbench's Wysiwyg editor and run it through the generator again. In most older approaches, even the slightest change in the original assumptions might require programmers to sift through millions of lines of code, updating every instance of a concept, definition, or computation by hand. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Everyone is a little bit crazy; everyone at some time has a learning disability; No one is ever a little bit positive. From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: learning and research in Second Life Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:17:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 209 (209) Call for Papers/Participation Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life on October 17, 2007 in Vancouver at Internet Research 8.0 (http:// wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR8.0) Paper Deadline August 15th. Second Life(R) is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab which has captured the attentions of researchers and teachers from around the world from a variety of disciplines. This workshop aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a Learning and Research environment. It will bring 35 researchers together to collaborate, discuss and workshop diverse topics related to research and learning in Second Life. We will pursue a full-day schedule in which participants will discuss their work and interests on four different topics: learning in Second Life, integrated learning, the contributions of research to the community and ethical research methods. How can we better enable learning in this sphere? How can we better enable research? As a highlight, Robin Linden will give a talk to the group, and members of Linden Lab will participate throughout the day. We encourage researchers to submit papers and short biography to slworkshop_at_tmttlt.com which will be selected and distributed amongst participants before the workshop. First invitations will be offered to those who provide full papers for consideration. These papers have two purposes: first is to provide a common platform for understanding our research and teaching and second submitted papers may be considered for publication in an edited volume being produced in relation to the workshop, or possibly in peer reviewed publication derived from the workshop (these are currently under discussion). Subsequent invitation will be made based upon research/teaching statement and biography. If you are interested in participating, please send an email containing your information to slworkshop_at_tmttlt.com. Decisions will be made by September 1st, barring incident. There is a limit of 35 participants at the physical meeting; the event will be simulcast into Second Life. We welcome professionals, faculty and graduate students to participate. This workshop is sponsored by Linden Lab creators of Second Life and is organized by Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski. Free lunch, coffee breaks and the room is included in participation. jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) () 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: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: UbuRadio! Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:12:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 210 (210) Hi, we've re-done our UbuRadio stream using ShoutCast. UbuRadio streams audio selected from the archives of UbuWeb. Currently we're streaming a few thousands selections and we'll add more soon. You can listen to Ubu 24/7 on your favorite media player. We had previously tried with QuickTime rather than ShoutCast, but had numerous problems. We think this version will be much more successful. Please give it a listen. I'm sending this announcement to a limited group to test it out before we annouce more widely. Apologies for any cross-posting! While there may be some re-buffering due to net traffic and/or connection, please let me know if it seems excessive. Send any other comments as well. Thanks! Here's the url: http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/projects/ubu_radio or the url for the .pls file (the script that launches the stream) is http://peacemaker.stat.wvu.edu:8000/listen.pls Sandy Baldwin West Virginia University Assistant Professor of English Director of the Center for Literary Computing www.clc.wvu.edu www.as.wvu.edu/~sbaldwin "... it is implicit that to speak is to exist absolutely for the other." Fanon "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights." Chapman From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publications Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:53:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 211 (211) Springer Verlag. Fieldwork for Design: Theory and Practice D. Randall, R. Harper, M. Rouncefield Written to provide an overview of the topic for researchers and graduates, as well as practitioners, this book will prove an invaluable resource for everybody in the field. "As an HCI researcher and practitioner, I am delighted to see, at last, a balanced view about the practice of ethnography within our field." Gary Marsden, Associate Professor of HCI, University of Cape Town, South Africa PEACH - Intelligent Interfaces for Museum Visits Editors: O. Stock, M. Zancanaro A coherent survey of the relevant technologies and environment for physical museum visits! This book includes reports on mobile guides, infrastructure and user modeling, the use of stationary devices, collaborative storytelling, 3D modeling, evaluation and usability, and future perspectives. The Disappearing Computer: Interaction Design, System Infrastructures and Applications for Smart Environments Editors: N. Streitz, A. Kameas, I. Mavrommati (Eds.) "The-computer-as-we-know-it" will have no role in our future everyday lives. It will be replaced by a new generation of technologies, moving computing away from the desktop and ultimately integrating it into real world objects and everyday environments. This book provides a unique combination of concepts, methods and prototypes of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, reflecting the current interest in smart environments and ambient intelligence. Balanced Website Design: Optimising Aesthetics, Usability and Purpose D. Lawrence, S. Tavakol BWD provides guidance, structure and detailed documentation / process support for designing and implementing your next website - helping you to maximise its effectiveness and relevance. Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon C. Chen Now in inexpensive paperback! This comprehensive introduction to visualization and virtual reality examines information visualization in a broader context. Easy to understand and practitioner-friendly Comprehensive coverage of knowledge discovery, network evolution and emergent patterns detection Citation visualization for chapters as roadmaps Virtual Reality The multidisciplinary nature of this field leads to research into a number of exciting areas including: virtual reality technologies and software systems, the design of virtual reality systems and virtual environments, human factors issues, and philosophical and ethical issues - amongst others. The forthcoming special edition for example, explores the extent to which VR is affecting the creation of an electronic society. The term E-Society describes the research areas covering aspects of digital technologies for large user communities and applies to a wide range of applications from e-government, e-democracy, and e-business to e-learning and e-health. Using VR technologies for these various applications can make them more tangible and real for the users. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Melissa Terras Subject: Phd Studentship at UCL - 3D scanning of museum objects Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:20:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 212 (212) Hello Everyone, Below is an advert for a phd studentship at UCL, which may be of interest to all you digital classicists (although the objects to be scanned wont just be classical items, but UCL does have some great classical collections....) Please do circulate to anyone you think may be interested. Melissa [deleted quotation] assessment [deleted quotation]sion> [deleted quotation]Sally MacDonald Director, UCL Museums and Collections Vice Provost's Office, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT tel: 020 7679 2825 mob: 07809 565349 fax: 020 7916 8505 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums _______________________________________________ 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 From: Enrico Franconi Subject: CFP: ACM Web Information and Data Management workshop Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:14:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 213 (213) [Submission date for the following has already passed us by. This is being circulated for purposes of information only. --WM] **** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** 9th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2007) November 9, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/WIDM2007 Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB In Conjunction with the 16th ACM CIKM 2007 ACM WIDM 2007 is the ninth in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007). The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how Web information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to provide useful knowledge to the end users for various advanced database and Web applications. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------- -- Web Mining: Web Usage Mining, Web Classification, Web Clustering, Resource Discovery, Web Personalization, Web Data Extraction, Web Structure Mining -- Formal Models for Web Data and Knowledge Management: Ontologies, Data Models and Metadata, Query Languages, Annotations -- System Issues for Web Applications: Performance of Web Applica- tions, System Design, Caching and Indexing of Web data, P2P -- Methodologies for Web Data Management: Data Integration, Archiving, Security, Personalization -- Tools and Infrastructure for Web Data Management: Web Site Modeling and Design, Web Visualization Tools, Intelligent Agents on the Web, Web Services -- Web Applications: Digital Libraries, Web Portals, Warehousing, Web Information Filtering, Web Commerce, Web Monitoring -- Web Exploration: Web Crawling, Web Search Engines IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission of abstracts & full papers: July 21st, 2007 Notification of acceptance: August 21st, 2007 Camera-ready copy due date: August 31st, 2007 PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Electronic submission will be used. The pdf version of the paper should be submitted to the WIDM 2007 electronic review system no later than July 3rd, 2007. The paper should be formatted in the camera ready ACM format and should be at most 8 pages long. The paper should present innovative ideas on the topics of interest and not be published or under consideration elsewhere. More detailed information about the paper submission procedure will be available at the workshop website. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by ACM Press. [...] From: Kuldar Taveter Subject: 3rd International Workshop on Vocabularies, Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:18:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 214 (214) Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise CALL FOR PAPERS (due to the delay of notifications for the main conference, the submission deadline has been extended until 17 July) *************************************************************************** The 3rd International Workshop on VOCABULARIES, ONTOLOGIES AND RULES FOR THE ENTERPRISE (VORTE 2007) http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/ In conjunction with the 11th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007) "The Enterprise Computing Conference" http://edoc.mitre.org/ 15-19 October 2007, Annapolis, Maryland, USA Selected papers accepted to the workshop to be invited for a special issue in Elsevier's ISI-indexed Information Systems journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys/ *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules are key components of a model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE 2007 is the third workshop associated with an EDOC conference that intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modelling, information systems, Semantic Web, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), business rules, and business processes. The goal of the workshop is to discuss the role that foundational and domain ontologies play in the conceptual development and implementation of next generation tools for enterprise computing. Since enterprise vocabularies and ontologies, as well as business rules do not exist in isolation but serve to support business processes, THIS YEAR WE ARE PLANNING TO PUT SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING AND MANAGEMENT. THEMES AND TOPICS The workshop contributions will be organized along four major thematic areas, under which the following topics of interest will be included, but not limited to: * Conceptual Modelling - Business Vocabularies, Terminologies, and Taxonomies - Ontological Approaches to Content and Knowledge Management - Enterprise Information Integration and Interoperability - Service Taxonomies and Service Registries (for example, UDDI-related research) - Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modelling - Languages for Conceptual Modelling (for example, OWL and UML) - Agent-Oriented Conceptual Modelling * Business Rules and Business Process Semantics - Semantic Web Services - Service Ontologies (for example, research related to OWL-S) - Business Rule Languages and Components - Rule-based Approaches to Web Service Policies and Choreographies - Ontologies for Business Process Management - Agent-based Business Rule and Process Management - Business Process Modelling and Execution Languages (for example, BPMN and BPML) * Ontologies for Enterprise Computing - Foundational Ontologies and Enterprise Computing - Ontological Evaluation of Enterprise Systems - Ontologies for Interoperability of Enterprise Systems - Ontology-based Enterprise Architectures - Ontology-based Software Engineering for Enterprises - Enterprise Components' Modelling * Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approaches to Enterprise Computing - Modelling and Architecture Frameworks - Domain Engineering - Domain-specific Business Information and System Engineering - Transformation between MDA layers [...] From: Dene Grigar Subject: Visionary Landscapes: ELO 08 Date: Jul 6, 2007 1:45 PM X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 215 (215) To: ELO-DIRECTORS_at_listserv.umd.edu Colleagues, Below is the CFP for our upcoming conference here at WSUV. Can we get this announcement added to the ELO website? And will you guys mind posting it to the various listservs of organizations that you belong to? Thank you, Dene Visionary Landscapes: Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference Thursday, May 29-Sunday, June 1, 2008 Vancouver, Washington Sponsored by Washington State University Vancouver & the Electronic Literature Organization Dene Grigar & John Barber, Co-Chairs http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/dtc/elo08.html (website, coming August 8) Producing a work of electronic literature entails not only practice in the literary arts but sometimes also the visual, sonic, and the performative arts; knowledge of computing devices and software programs; and experience in collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and hybridity. In short, electronic literature requires its artists to see beyond traditional approaches and sensibilities into what best can be described as visionary landscapes where, as Mark Amerika puts it, artists "celebrate an interdisciplinary practice from a literary and writerly perspective that allows for other kinds of practice-based art-research and knowledge sharing." To forward the thinking about new approaches and sensibilities in the media arts, The Electronic Literature Organization and Washington State University Vancouver's Digital Technology and Culture program are inviting submissions to the Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference to be held from May 29 to June 1, 2008 in Vancouver, Washington. "Visionary Landscapes: Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference" is interested in papers that explore forms of digital media that utilize images, sound, movement, and user interaction as well as or in lieu of ords and that explore how we read, curate, and critique such works. Topics may include: -- New, non-screen, environments for presenting multimedia writing= and /or electronic literature -- Research labs and new media projects -- Strategies for reading electronic literary works -- Curating digital art -- Innovative approaches to critiquing electronic literature -- Emerging technologies for the production of multimedia writing and /or electronic literature -- Building audience for new media literary works and writing -- Digital, literary performances -- Publishing for print or electronic media connecting literature and the arts through common archiving and metatag strategies -- Artistic methods of composition used in intermedia storytelling (improvisation, collaboration, sample and remix, postproduction art, codework, hactivism, etc. In conjunction with the three-day conference, there will be a juried Media Arts Show. Along with prizes for the most notable work, selected artists will be awarded bursaries to attend the conference featured at the show. Submission guidelines will be posted beginning August 15, 2007 on the conference website. The keynote speaker is internationally renown new media artist and writer, Mark Amerika, named a "Time Magazine 100 Innovator." His artwork has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the ICA in London, the Walker Art Center, and the Denver Art Museum and has been the topic of four retrospectives. Amerika is also the author of many books, including his recently published collection of artist writings entitled META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press), founder of the Alt-X Network, and publisher of the electronic book review. He currently holds the position of Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Deadline for Submissions for Presentations: November, 30, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2007 Vancouver, Washington, located in the Pacific Northwest just across the Columbia River from Portland, OR, is about a six hour drive south of Vancouver, Canada and three hours south of Seattle, Washington. The conference day events will take place at Washington State University Vancouver, a Tier One research Institution built in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains with views of Mt. Hood and Mt. Saint Helens. The official conference hotel is the Hilton Vancouver located in downtown Vancouver, Washington with easy access to restaurants, bars, and evening conference events. Special rates have been negotiated for conference attendees. A conference shuttle will take attendees to and from the campus daily. The recommended airport is PDX at Portland, which is about a seven minute drive to downtown Vancouver, WA. The cost of the conference is $150; graduate students and non-affiliated artists pay only $100. Conference registration covers access to all events, the reception, some meals, and shuttle transportation. For more information, contact Dene Grigar at Grigar_at_vancouver.wsu.edu. Dene Grigar, PhD Associate Professor and Program Director Digital Technology and Culture Washington State University Vancouver 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave. Vancouver, WA 98686 grigar_at_vancouver.wsu.edu Office Voice: 360-546-9487 MMC 102G Web: www.nouspace.net/dene From: Methnet Subject: Real Time Collaborative Art Making: AHRC ICT Date: July 20th 2007 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 216 (216) Venue: The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design Organiser: Dr. Grgory Sporton This workshop is focused on developing and applying technologies in the Visual and Performing Arts, exploring technologies that can be adapted for use in the arts and networking technologies being developed for use in the blurred area between the visual and performing arts. The workshop is geared for artists and academics in the visual and performing arts who are interested in the potential of networked technologies as a creative platform. The workshop will support and encourage work in this area, introduce some of the technologies and demonstrate applications. This is a free workshop but registration is required and numbers are limited, so please register as soon as possible. More information and a link to the registration form is available at: http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk/vru/collaborativeart/index.php From: "J. Trant" Subject: tagging in museums: steve.museum research Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:16:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 217 (217) Hi all, we've just deployed the second phase of the steve.museum tagging experiment, at http://tagger.steve.museum the steve tagger (a piece of open-source software) is a key tool in our IMLS-funded study of the contribution social tagging and folksonomy can make to on-line access to art collections. throughout our experiment we'll be varying the interface of the tagger to find out what encourages tagging, and we'll also be studying the results of tags, to see if they are: - real words (we're using word net) - terms from our discipline (we're using the AAT and ULAN) - new to the museum (we're comparing to museum documentation) - appropriate to the work of art (we're doing term-by-term review). we're looking forward to sharing the results of our study with the community. If you'd like to participate in tagging, please come by. [it's ok if you don't work in an art museum -- and ok if you do!] Go to http://tagger.steve.museum - create an account [this is important for our research] - Tag Art! To learn more about our research, visit http://www.steve.museum Thanks. jennifer -- __________ J. Trant jtrant_at_archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __________ From: "Gabriel Bodard" Subject: Creating a Generative Learning Object for Classics (seminar) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:18:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 218 (218) Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007 Friday 20th July at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Eleanor OKell (Durham) Cary MacMahon (Glasgow) Dejan Ljubojevic (London Metropolitan) 'Creating a Generative Learning Object (GLO) for Classics: working in an 'ill-structured' environment (and getting students to think!)' ALL WELCOME SC-HCA and RLO-CETL report on current developmental work on their "Guided Confusion" GLO. It replicates humanities teaching processes of developing critical thinking skills through student engagement with, and evaluation of, multiple scholarly interpretations. "Guided Confusion" is easily customisable for use within a variety of learning environments and disciplines: its first instantiation is a commentary on the Altar of Pergamum. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony_at_kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.27 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:21:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 219 (219) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 27 July 10, 2007 -- July 16, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: SOFTWARE EVOLUTION PATTERN RECOGNITION In a little paper called 'Situated Design and Universal Maintenance," Authors Yuwei Lin and Enrica Zini describe a software evolution pattern recognition that was inspired by the Free/Libre Open Source Software Development. Lin and Zinie are associated with ESRC National Centre for E-Social Science, University of Manchester and Debian GNU/Linux. They write: "While reusing and recycling software code and tools gradually becomes a common practice and understanding, the discussion on SDUM raises many key research questions in software development mainly on how to facilitate cross-boundary collaboration between diverse actors." See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i27_lin.html> From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The July/August 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:17:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 220 (220) Greetings: The July/August 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five 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 Encyclopedia of Earth" contributed by Ida Kubiszewski, University of Vermont; and Cutler J. Cleveland, Boston University. The commentary is: Select for Success: Key Principles in Assessing Repository Models Oya Y. Rieger, Cornell University The articles include: Enhancing Search and Browse Using Automated Clustering of Subject Metadata Kat Hagedorn and Suzanne Chapman, University of Michigan; and David Newman, University of California Irvine Government Information in Legacy Formats: Scaling a Pilot Project to Enable Long-Term Access Gretchen Gano, New York University; and Julie Linden, Yale University VIVO: Connecting People, Creating a Virtual Life Sciences Community Medha Devare, Jon Corson-Rikert, Brian Caruso, Brian Lowe, Kathy Chiang, and Janet McCue, Cornell University Size Isn't Everything: Sustainable Repositories as Evidenced by Sustainable Deposit Profiles Leslie Carr and Tim Brody, University of Southampton Actualized Preservation Threats: Practical Lessons from Chronicling America Justin Littman, Library of Congress [...] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.28 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:20:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 221 (221) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 28 July 17, 2007 -- July 23, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: THE MATHEMATICS OF PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION Writing from Brussels, Belgium, author Philp Yaffee writes: The success of an oral presentation depends on the precision of its structure. Mathematics is all about precision. It is therefore not so odd to think that applying some of the concepts of mathematics to oral presentations could make them substantially more effective.=94 And that insight provides the inspiration of an interesting, insightful, and useful paper. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i28_persuasive.html> From: Stuart Dunn Subject: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities lecture: Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:39:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 222 (222) Aspects of Space and Time in Humanities e-Science Dear All, The next lecture in the e-Science in the Arts and Humanities Theme will be: Monday 23 July: Aspects of Space and Time in Humanities e-Science (http://<http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/788/> It will be possible to view the lecture on webcast, and to ask questions or contribute to the debate in real time via the Digital Arts and Humanities blog feature. Please visit <http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/E-Science_in_the_Arts_and_Humanities> and follow the 'Ask questions during the lecture' link for more information about the blog, and the 'More details' link for more information about the events themselves and the webcasts. The e-Science in the Arts and Humanities Theme (see <http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme> organized by the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) and hosted by the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, aims to explore the new challenges for research in the Arts and Humanities and to define the new research agenda that is made possible by e-Science technology. Contact Stuart Dunn (stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk) or Tobias Blanke (tobias.blanke_at_kcl.ac.uk) at AHeSSC for more information. www.ahessc.ac.uk www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahessc (mailing list) From: Ken Friedman Subject: CFP: Case Studies in Research: Knowledge and Inquiry Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:36:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 223 (223) Friends, The new issues of Design Research Quarterly is about to appear. This issue features an important article by Linda Drew titled "Designing the Interface Between Research, Learning and Teaching." DRQ is both a quarterly peer-reviewed journal and a membership bulletin distributed to members of the Design Research Society. The editor -- Dr. Peter Storkerson -- is developing an exciting new series of articles for which we now seek submissions. Best regards, Ken Friedman Editorial Advisory Board (Chair) Design Research Quarterly -- Call for Papers: Design Research Quarterly announces a new series of articles: Case Studies in Research: Knowledge and Inquiry 'we want to hold a discussion on how research steers theory' Call for Papers: Designers use the term 'design' to cover a wide range of activities and types of problems, and we have many differing, often incommensurable and opposing models of design and its theoretical and methodological bases. As a result, we also have have a history of lively debates over specific theories. These debates have not been able to resolve differences. Many regions of design are not well defined, and in such situations, researchers can find that apparently straightforward problems can lead to fundamental questions about the nature of design, what kinds of philosophical and theoretical positions that can frame the research and ground the methods, and their implications with regard to knowledge: what kinds of knowledge are possible within the frames needed to do the research. In short, we want to hold a discussion on how research steers theory. Our idea is to look at research and theories in design not primarily as related to subfields per se, but to see theories as products of research problems themselves: the topics studied studied and the questions being researched. Rather than look at abstract problems of research and theory, we want to present actual problems as case studies. In this way, we can clarify design by mapping its terrain of activities and problem types with their fundamental theoretical and methodological requirements. Over the next two years, DRQ will collect and publish articles on these topics and replies to those articles, using its regular publication schedule to build a discussion. If you have an interest or idea for an article or other submission, please contact the editor, Peter Storkerson. -- Topics: We seek papers that explore issues including: - ontological and epistemological implications or require- ments of a research problem - status of knowledge, its bases and levels of certainty - conflicts between the knowledge that is possible in a given situation and the research goals. -how research fits into fundamental paradigms: scien- tific, humanist, phenomenological, pragmatic, etc., and how those approaches compare in their strengths and weaknesses - working across the boundaries of humanism and science: the extent to which a research problem requires use of more than one basic philosophical frame and how different frames can be reconciled Specifications: 3,ooo to 6,000 words APA guidelines For information or submissions: Peter Storkerson email: peter_at_drsq.org -- From: "Tim van Gelder" Subject: Dialogue Mapping in Rationale Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:40:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 224 (224) Austhink has recently released a new update (1.4) to Rationale, its argument mapping software. A major difference between this and previous versions is that it can incorporate images into maps. With images, Rationale can be useful deployed to support a range of activities beyond its core activities of hierarchical grouping, basic reasoning, and advanced ("analytic") reasoning. So for example it now has a set of templates supporting "Dialogue Mapping". This activity, based on a methodology known as IBIS, is a more free-form sort of inquiry into a issue, especially so-called "wicked" problems. For more information about dialogue mapping, see the Cognexus website (<http://www.cognexus.org>) Rationale can be downloaded from <http://ww.austhink.com> Regards Tim v.G. From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: Digital Document Quarterly 6(2) is available Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:36:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 225 (225) The latest number of the Digital Document Quarterly is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_2.htm It addresses: Archiving and Digital Preservation What is Digital Preservation? A Flawed Critique of "Durable Encoding" Seeking Software Preservation Volunteers Epistemology 20th-century Rift: Analytic and Continental Philosophies Information and Knowledge Deliberately Confounded News U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Patent Power Open Document Format Plug-in for Microsoft Office EU Book Digitization and the European Digital Library IBM Provides Free Access to its IP for Standards Reading Recommendations Alistair McGrath's Story of the King James Bible Ernst Cassirer's The Problem of Knowledge (Volume IV) Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge Niall Ferguson's The House of Rothschild: 1798-1848 New Methods for Image Discovery Practical Matters Touring with Your Data and Applications Inexpensive Software Resources Price Watch and PC Evolution Even Higher Performance Coming Memory and Storage Bargains Readers are reminded that embedded links provide quick access to other authors' discussions of topics that DDQ mentions, in case they want more depth than DDQ can provide. Cheerio, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Library Related Conferences Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:37:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 226 (226) Updated version of the Library Related Conferences is available at: <http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM>http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM Changes and additions are greatly appreciated. Marian Dworaczek University of Saskatchewan Library From: "Stanislav Roudavski" Subject: RE: 21.161 argument-mapping software Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:05:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 227 (227) Thanks for the links, looks interesting. Could you possibly explain what is different (specific to dialog/argument mapping) in the functionality of Rationale 1.4 in comparison to other mind/concept mapping software? Thanks again, Stanislav From: Willard McCarty Subject: parallel relations Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:04:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 228 (228) Michael Morange, in "Physics, biology and history" (Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 32.2, 2007, pp. 107-12), briefly tells the story of the changing relations between physics and biology from the genesis of the latter discipline (baptised as such in 1802) to the present. Much here sounds familiar in outline to practitioners of humanities computing and so gives us more raw material for our strategic arguments. As Morange tells this story, biology arose largely out of vitalism, or the notion "that the properties of organisms could not be explained except by the existence of a vital force, irreducible to physics or chemistry". Vitalism, which had begun about a century earlier, was a reaction against the prevailing attempt "to explain the functions of organisms in terms of the simple mechanistic devices known at that time" (p. 107). Though much reviled, vitalism was highly influential on biological thinking of the 19C. As a movement it was quite heterogeneous, including both spiritualists and scientists "simply cautious in the application of the models of physics to phenomena specific to life" (p. 108). The application of such models swept the field with the huge successes of physics up to the middle of the 20C. Philosophers of science in the Vienna Circle supported the foundation of all science on physics -- thus the birth of "molecular biology" (named by Waren Weaver in 1938), likewise hugely successful and even more ambitious: [deleted quotation]The reductionism that dissolves biological facts into various physio-chemical components, or explains biology wholly in such terms, ran into serious trouble, however. This trouble became easier to notice, perhaps, once physics (in its present form) had peaked. Robert Rosen, in "The Schrödinger Question, What is Life?" (Essays on Life Itself, Columbia Univ Press, 2000), notes Einstein's remark to Leo Szilard, "One can best feel in dealing with living things how primitive physics still is" (p. 7), then goes on to work out in detail Schrödinger's attempt to work toward a "new physics" adequate to life itself. Morange argues that physicists are these days much more collaborative with biologists: it has become increasingly difficult to do creative work in the field, so physicists are looking for possibilities elsewhere. In contemplating the history of the relations between physics and biology, what can be learned of value to the relations between computing and the humanities. The phrasing of the question suggests an analogical connection, physics to biology as computing to the humanities, and so raises the further question of how strong this analogy is. But, I think, if we are honest with ourselves there is a further, much more perilous question. As Marilyn Strathern puts it in "Interdisciplinarity: some models from the human sciences", Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 32.2, p. 126, "is the connection one of analogy (how language is being used) or is the connection an organic, that is a genetic, one (a demonstrable kinship)?" Is biology more of a friend to us than physics? More *than* a friend? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: S.A.Rae Subject: FLOSSCom Summer University - 'Learning the Open Source Way' Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:23:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 229 (229) FLOSSCom Summer University - 'Learning the Open Source Way' - Free and Open Education - Virtual & On-Campus Summer University - Participate NOW! For further information on: The FLOSSCom project: The Summer University Toolkit Development Space: <http://wiki.ubuntu.com/flosscom> The Summer University Work Space at Ubuntu / Launchpad: <http://launchpad.net/flosscom> The European Union funded FLOSSCom research project is investigating Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities as learning environments. The project aims to identify principles of FLOSS communities that could be transferred to educational settings, e.g. how the community model could help to improve education. FLOSS communities might be described as one of the best examples of open and free education, where thousands of individuals, from very different educational backgrounds and geographic areas, work together in project groups developing and improving new or existing systems (project work & learning). Translated to education this would mean that every citizen would be able to learn at no charge and throughout their life. In FLOSS communities one can find up to date learning resources that are provided by the community for the community and embedded in a large support network; provided voluntarily by the community members in a collaborative manner. Trying to explore and transfer the success factors of these kinds of communities to formal education is the objective of the FLOSSCom project. The FLOSSCom project consists of partners from 4 European countries (Greece, Portugal, Netherlands and United Kingdom) and is supported by the European Commission's Minerva Programme in education. The project will run a 'Virtual and On-Campus Summer University' starting at the beginning of July. The Summer University is a 12 week open access session with the objective of developing a toolkit on 'Learning the Open Source Way'. The summer university will be conducted as a joint event bringing in as a 'special guest' the Ubuntu community -- The world's famous Linux distribution with a community of 320.000 enthusiasts! We especially encourage students to take the chance and engage with experts throughout the globe. We ask everyone to feel free to bring in their knowledge, thoughts and energy, without any fees or enrolment criteria. The invitation is open to learners who have no, little or a great deal of experience with FLOSS communities. As a reward for their contribution, 10 students that proved a high commitment to the project at the 'Virtual & On-Campus Summer University' will be invited to an International Workshop in Portugal taking place in summer 2008! The FLOSSCom project will cover their travel and accommodation cost! All those who will participate voluntarily at the project and help us making the 'Virtual & On-Campus Summer University' a successful event will receive an e-certificate in the name of all FLOSSCom project partners of having participated in the project. For further information on the FLOSSCom project: Summer University Toolkit Development Space: <http://wiki.ubuntu.com/flosscom> Summer University Work Space at Ubuntu / Launchpad: <http://launchpad.net/flosscom> Simon Simon Rae Academic Collaboration Liaison Team (Science) Learning and Teaching Development IET, The Open University MILTON KEYNES, MK7 6AA. UK 01908 654650 <http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/s.a.rae/personal.html> Join me at ALT-C 2007: Beyond control: learning technology for the social network generation 4-6 September 2007, Nottingham, England <http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/> <http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/>ALT-C 2007 - <http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/conference_committee.html> Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "Tim van Gelder" Subject: Re: 21.161 argument-mapping software Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:26:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 230 (230) Stanislav, Rationale differs from other mind & concept mapping product in being designed specially for reasoning and argumentation. For more information see <http://www.austhink.com/rationale/>http://www.austhink.com/rationale/ Regards Tim v.G. On 20/07/07, Stanislav Roudavski <stanislav_at_stanislavroudavski.net> wrote: Thanks for the links, looks interesting. Could you possibly explain what is different (specific to dialog/argument mapping) in the functionality of Rationale 1.4 in comparison to other mind/concept mapping software? Thanks again, Stanislav -- Austhink Unit 15, 233 Cardigan St Carlton VIC 3053 Australia +61 3 8317 1002 <http://www.austhink.com>www.austhink.com From: "Melissa Terras" Subject: Research Assistant in the use of ICT in Archaeology at UCL Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:25:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 231 (231) Research Assistant in the use of ICT in Archaeology JISC-funded Research Project, VERA: Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology Applications are invited for the part-time post of Research Assistant in the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL to work on VERA: Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology. This project will research the development and use of a virtual research environment designed for archaeologists by the Roman Silchester Project at the University of Reading (our research collaborators). The post will involve: conducting qualitative studies and recording, analysing and writing up the results as part of a research team at UCL, collaborating with the team at Reading University, collaborating with archaeologists at Silchester, and collaborating with the wider archaeological community utilising the data being produced from the Silchester dig. We aim to discover how archaeologists are using advanced technology, and how new systems can be better designed to help them in their research. For further details on the project please see: http://www.vera.rdg.ac.uk . The post is available to start on 17 September 2007, with funding for 17 months (to 28 February 2009) on a part-time (50%) basis. Appointment to Research Assistant will be at Grade 6 of the UCL salary scales with a starting salary of =A311,501 per annum (i.e. 50% of =A323,002 per annum), plus London Allowance of =A31,286 per annum (i.e. 50% of =A32,572 per annum). Applications (e-mail or hard copy) including a covering letter and CV, plus contact details of three referees, should be sent to Kerstin Michaels, Departmental Administrator, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, k.michaels_at_ucl.ac.uk. Interested candidates can also contact Dr. Claire Warwick (c.warwick_at_ucl.ac.uk, tel. 020 7679 2548) or Dr. Melissa Terras (m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk, tel. 020 7679 7206). Further information on the post can also be found at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/circah/vera/ Interviews will be held on 22nd and 23rd August 2007. We particularly welcome applicants from an ethnic minority as they are currently under-represented within UCL at this level. The closing date for applications is Monday, 13th August 2007. --=20 _______________________________________________ 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: "hinton_at_springnet1.com" Subject: Re: 21.166 lessons from physics and biology? Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:56:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 232 (232) [deleted quotation]Since language relationships can demonstrably be of either kind, the question is not well put. From: "Patricia R. Bart" Subject: Physics : Biology / Computing : Humanities Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:56:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 233 (233) Dear Willard, As a textual critic who has worked on one of the most intractable manuscripts in the Piers Plowman tradition, I can say only that humanities computing has been both indispensable to the project and imperfectly suited to it in its present conception in my field. Things are getting better, but my own thought is that we have a continuous project ahead of us in suiting the computing to the phenomena--the physics to the biology on your analogy. Schemes for encoding, for example, get worked out based on some of the evidence and some of the goals--usually that at the crest of the bell curve--after which they can be very difficult to modify. The elegance of these encoding schemes--essential to their proper function on the computing side and also to the rigor with which the encoding can be applied to observed phenomena--can really falsify what is going on in a manuscript in relation to its text. Such problems can only be multiplied if fields other than codico-textual criticism are taken into account. We're still a long way from appreciating manuscript evidence in relation to the text computationally, though we are moving in that direction now in ways that we were not even three years ago. Documentation of my project is at: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=10 . At the time it was written, TEI manuscript encoding was not yet supporting study of the text in direct relation to the codex. It now seems to be on that general path. But a slightly more inductive spirit among those in computer science would be as salutary as a slightly more deductive one on the part of those thinking of applying computing to their observations. Patricia Bart The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive From: "Stanislav Roudavski" Subject: RE: 21.161 argument-mapping software Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:05:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 234 (234) Thanks for the links, looks interesting. Could you possibly explain what is different (specific to dialog/argument mapping) in the functionality of Rationale 1.4 in comparison to other mind/concept mapping software? Thanks again, Stanislav ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html From: catac_at_wirth.murdoch.edu.au Subject: CFP: Cultural Attitudes towards Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:55:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 235 (235) Technology and Communication (CATaC'08) CALL FOR PAPERS ICTs Bridging Cultures? Theories, Obstacles, Best Practices 6th International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC08) 24-27 June 2008 Université de Nîmes, France Conference languages: English and French www.catacconference.org The biennial CATaC conference series ­ 10 years old in 2008! ­ provides a premier international forum for current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives in their presentations and discussions of the conference theme and topics (listed below). Nîmes, inhabited by Celts since the 4th ct. B.C.E., became a Gallo-Roman city in 18 BCE, and is home to some of the best-preserved examples of Roman engineering and architecture. The Pont de Gard, an aquaduct bridge across the Gard river, serves as our primary metaphor for CATaC 2008: ICTs as technologies bridging cultures. Our venue in multi-cultural Nîmes further provides us with a number of cultural experiences and pleasures unique to the South of France. Finally, CATaC 2008 emphasizes francophone participation in a number of ways, including, translation provided for abstracts in French and English, and for questions and answers following presentations. 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Submission Schedule: Full papers (maximum 15 formatted pages) - 14 January 2008 Short and panel papers (3-5 formatted pages) - 21 January 2008 Notification of acceptance - mid February 2008 Final formatted papers - 28 February 2008 See the conference website for further information about submitting papers, travel and accommodations, etc. SPONSORS Université de Nîmes Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de Montpellier Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Béziers CONFERENCE CHAIRS Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, catac_at_it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac_at_it.murdoch.edu.au CONFERENCE VICE CHAIR Marie-Christine Deyrich, IUFM de Montpellier, France, marie-christine.deyrich_at_montpellier.iufm.fr PROGRAM CHAIR Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria ----- APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS Les TIC: des ponts entre les cultures? Théories, obstacles, bonnes pratiques/ICTs Bridging Cultures? Theories, Obstacles, Best Practices 6ème conférence internationale sur les Attitudes Culturelles dans la Technologie et la Communication (CATaC08) 24-27 juin 2008 Université de Nîmes, France Langues de la conférence : Anglais, Français www.catacconference.org La série de conférences biennales CATaC ­ 10 ans en 2008 ! ­ offre une tribune internationale pour faire l’état de la recherche sur la façon dont les attitudes culturelles dans leur diversité influencent l’introduction et l’utilisation des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC). Chaque conférence réunit des chercheurs du monde entier qui apportent des perspectives culturelles et disciplinaires diversifiées, tant dans leurs communications que dans les discussions sur les thèmes abordés dans le colloque (cf. liste ci-dessous). Ville celte depuis le 4e s. av. J.-C., devenue gallo-romaine en 18 av. J.-C., Nîmes regroupe un certain nombre de vestiges parmi les mieux protégés de l’architecture et de l’ingénierie romaine. Le Pont du Gard, aqueduc qui traverse la rivière Gard, sera notre métaphore principale pour CATaC 2008: les TIC établissent des ponts entre les cultures. Faire de Nîmes le lieu de cet événement sera l’occasion d’expériences culturelles qui font le charme du Sud de la France. Enfin, CATaC 2008 mettra l’accent sur la participation francophone, notamment par la traduction dans les deux langues de tous les résumés et par la traduction des questions et réponses à l’issue des présentations. Des propositions originales sont attendues, en version longue (concernant en particulier des modèles théoriques, en relation avec des exemples illustrant valeurs culturelles, pratiques, etc.), ou en version courte (ex. description de recherches en cours ou de résultats préliminaires) THÈMES abordés (liste non exclusive): - Le langage comme question centrale pour la diversité culturelle des TIC: les langues façonnent-elles un nouveau monde technologique? - La communication informatique : promotion et/ou menace pour la diversité culturelle - Approches théoriques/pratiques pour analyser la 'culture' et son impact sur l’utilisation et la mise en ouvre des TIC - Les TIC dans le monde francophone: influence au niveau global des usages des TIC francophones, comparaisons interculturelles - Par delà la glocalization et l’homogénéisation: nouveaux mélanges d’identités et de culture induits par les TIC - Répartition du pouvoir dans la communication informatique : questions du genre, des langues, du pouvoir (économique, politique, social). - Valeurs, éthique et justice dans l’emploi des TIC - Diversité culturelle et linguistique dans le e-learning PROPOSITIONS DE COMMUNICATION Toutes les propositions seront évaluées par un comité international de chercheurs. Les communications retenues seront publiées dans les actes du colloque. Il est impératif que ces propositions n’aient pas été soumises ou publiées ailleurs. Chaque proposition retenue sera présentée à la conférence par au moins un des auteurs. Les propositions pourront être rédigées en Français ou en Anglais. Il est fortement conseillé que deux résumés soient rédigés, l’un en Français et l’autre en Anglais, car, pour chacune des communications retenues, la publication dans les Actes comprendra un résumé dans chacune des deux langues. Si cela s’avérait nécessaire, nous procéderions à cette traduction. Le formatage des communications se fera selon le modèle Proceedings template, téléchargeable à l’adresse www.catacconference.org. Le program comprendra aussi un symposium sur la psychologie de la culture. Il sera presidé par le Professeur Alexander Voiskounsky. Calendrier: Communications longues (15 pages formatées maximum) - 14 janvier 2008 Communications courtes ou pour le symposium (3-5 pages formatées) - 21 janvier 2008 Notification d’acceptation - mi-février 2008 Version finale formatée - 28 février 2008 Voir le site de la conférence pour des informations complémentaires, sur les procédures de soumission, le voyage, le logement, etc. PARTENARIAT Université de Nîmes Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de Montpellier Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Béziers PRÉSIDENCE DE LA CONFÉRENCE Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, catac_at_it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac_at_it.murdoch.edu.au CO-PRÉSIDENCE Marie-Christine Deyrich, IUFM de Montpellier France, marie-christine.deyrich_at_montpellier.iufm.fr RESPONSABLE DU PROGRAMME Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria From: Willard McCarty Subject: explanation and prediction Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:07:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 236 (236) In our work, when we attempt to describe the significance of results we believe to be reliable, can we ever say that our procedures *predict* something or other that has yet to happen or that we have yet to test, or are we constrained only to say that these results *explain* what we have seen or tested? It seems to me that unhelpful cultural baggage (chiefly physics as understood by the Vienna Circle et al) privileges the former to such a degree, as the real arbiter of theory, that we're unwisely tempted to go for the more prestigious alternative without asking what we mean by this. In a weak sense, if we say that X may happen under conditions A, B and C, and then it does, we can say that we've predicted it, but such usage doesn't mean much by itself and blurs dangerously into the stronger sense normal to the physical sciences, that X will happen under those conditions. Again it may help at this juncture to consider older fields in which prediction in the strong sense is simply not on, in which theories are for explaining, not for predicting. Biology would seem to be one of these. Very good in this regard is an article by Michael Scriven, "Explanation and Prediction in Evolutionary Theory", Science NS 130.3374 (28 August 1959): 477-482. It's in JSTOR. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: lessons from physics and biology? Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:24:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 237 (237) Willard, Given the recent attention to the relation between physics and biology and the possible analogous situation of humanities computing, you may perhaps be interested in noting that during the 1950s, French biologist Boris Rybak explored similar territory. In a number of reviews he made the point that research is a psycho-manual affair, i.e. it involves both brain and hand. La recherche scientifique est une mobilisation psycho-manuelle constante du chercheur; dans ces conditions les notions meme de pratique et de theorique deviennent de moins en moins tranchees. He is quite eloquent on the place of the hands on nature of our involvement in the production of knowledge: Cette consience, prolongee par un organe polyvalent, la main, fait que non seulement Homo sapiens est capable d'une activite reflechie, qui le mene a poser notamment le probleme de sa signification et de celle du monde, mais aussi d'une activite creactrice concrete. The quotations are from a selection of reviews published under the title _Anachroniques_ (1962). From: Willard McCarty Subject: lessons from physics and biology Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:31:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 238 (238) In Humanist 21.168 Norman Hinton quotes me quoting Marilyn Strathern, then comments: [deleted quotation]He's right, of course. Perhaps Strathern should have said something more like this: "is the connection one of analogy, made only in language, or an organic, that is a genetic one, existing in nature as well?" Yet even so, my fumbling attempt to do better also raises at least one objection. An analogy speaks not to things but to a relationship, or perhaps better, to a relating of things. Is a relationship, or a relating, *only* in language? Sometimes surely it is a matter of statement only, or at least far from the organic, genetic sort: apples are to oranges as chalk is to cheese. Sometimes, in the classic example from Kepler, the relationship is much closer: as the sun radiates light, so it governs planetary motion. Or Francis Bacon's: "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark". Some analogies are weak, others strong. The point seems to be what can be learned from them, how far they can be pressed before the differences overpower the similarities. When an analogy is very strong, do we detect a connection that lasts, that will continue to yield, as Bacon's does to this day? Are we detecting something "in nature"? And then one must ask, I suppose: "the nature of what?" The question at which I was hinting in 21.166 was this: do we in humanities computing have a closer relationship to biology than to physics because our focus is on phenomena of living entities rather than on inert matter? Or is there a better question I should be asking? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "RAM-Verlag" Subject: Glottometrics 14, 2007 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:26:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 239 (239) If you are interested in Glottometrics 14, 2007, please click here: . Glottometrics 14, 2007 is available as: Printed edition: EUR 25.00 plus PP CD edition:EUR 10.00 plus PP Internet (download PDF-file): 5.00 EUR. If you have any questions,do not hesitate to contact me. 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For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony_at_kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate 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 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX From: holomas_at_labe.felk.cvut.cz Subject: EMCSR 2008 - 19TH EUROPEAN MEETING ON CYBERNETICS Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:54:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 242 (242) AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH NINETEENTH EUROPEAN MEETING ON CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH (EMCSR 2008) March 25 - 28, 2008 UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies in cooperation with the Institute of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna and the International Federation for Systems Research * * * * * An electronic version of this CfP (and further information whenever it becomes available) can be found at http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/ * * * * * The international support of the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research held in Austria in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 (when 500 scientists from more than 40 countries from all continents, except the Antarctica, met to present, hear and discuss 137 papers) encouraged the Council of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (OSGK) to organize a similar meeting in 2008 to keep pace with continued rapid developments in related fields. * * * * * Symposia A Systems Science R. Belohlavek, USA, and P.Prautsch, Czech Republic B Mathematical Methods in Cybernetics and Systems Theory Y.Rav, France, and J.Scharinger, Austria C The Cybernetics of Cybernetics: Cybernetics, Interaction and Conversation R. Glanville, UK D Living Systems Theory G.A.Swanson, USA E Biocybernetics and Mathematical Biology L.M.Ricciardi, Italy F Cultural Systems M.Fischer, UK, and D.Read, USA G Cognitive Rationality, Relativity and Clarity I. Ezhkova, Belgium H Management, Organizational Change, and Innovation M. Mulej, Slovenia I Socio-technical Systems: Design and Use G.Chroust, Austria, and S.Payr, Austria J Neural Computation and Neuroinformatics G.Dorffner, Austria K ACE 2008: Agent Construction and Emotions J.Gratch, USA, and P.Petta, Austria L Agent-Based Modeling & Simulation S.Bandini, Italy, and G.Vizzari, Italy M Natural Language Processing E.Buchberger, Austria, and K.Oliva, Czech Republic N Theory and Applications of Artificial Intelligence V.Marik, Czech Republic, and O.Stepankova, Czech Republic O Systems Movement and Systems Organisations - Challenges, Visions and Roadmaps G.Chroust, Austria, and M.Mulej, Slovenia [...] From: "Stanislav Roudavski" Subject: RE: 21.161 argument-mapping software Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:05:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 243 (243) Thanks for the links, looks interesting. Could you possibly explain what is different (specific to dialog/argument mapping) in the functionality of Rationale 1.4 in comparison to other mind/concept mapping software? Thanks again, Stanislav Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. <http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU>Try it now. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.29 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:51:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 244 (244) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 29 July 24, 2007 =96 July 30, 2007 BIQUITY ALERT: This short paper explains how to design a=20 fault tolerant web service application that=20 relies on an affordable redundancy in data and=20 function using Simple Object Access Protocol=20 (SOAP). The proposed approach relies on a=20 Single-Version Scheme (SVS) of a fault tolerance=20 model without using multiple versions or the N-Version fault tolerance= model. See:=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i29_services.html>http://www.acm.org/ub= iquity/views/v8i29_services.html=20 From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: 21.133 two threats Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:52:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 245 (245) Dear Willard, In the recent thread conducted under the rubric of "two threats" Mark Wolff pointed towards Heidegger's thoughts about technology as an enframing. The allusion to the philosopher sparked for me the recollection of this passage from Australian writer, Gay Bilson, who in introducing a section of Plenty: Digressions on Food quotes Octavio Paz. Octavio Paz, in an essay in his collection Convergences, wrote about 'seeing and using'. He suggested that craftsmanship 'in its perpetual movement back and forth between beauty and utility, pleasure and service ... teaches us lessons in sociability'. He wrote of the 'rationality' of industrial design, the impersonal uniformity. The handmade bowl is, by his definition, already sociable. So too is food prepared with discrimination and offered at the domestic table. Note that the origin of the object does not determine its being imbued with the sociable. Use does. Industry is quite capable of producing the mock-handmade. I quote the passage here not so much as a reminder of the importance of the social to any disciplinary enterprise than as a worthy recollection of the place of pleasure in intellectual work. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 32.1 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:02:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 246 (246) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 32.1 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr 1. Cattermole, Howard pp. 1-1(1) 2. What does sustainability look like? Green architecture as an aesthetic proposition Seibold-Bultmann, Ursula pp. 3-6(4) 3. Mutually assured pathogenicity Cockell, Charles S. pp. 7-10(4) 4. Surviving childhood in India and Ethiopia Sargent, Michael G. pp. 11-26(16) 5. The Antikythera Mechanism reconsidered Wright, M.T. pp. 27-43(17) 6. pp. A strand of vermicelli: Dr Darwin's part in the creation of Frankenstein's monster Smith, C.U.M. pp. 45-53(9) 7. The two cultures, or the end of the world as we know it Luckhurst, Roger pp. 55-64(10) 8. Feminist epistemology after postmodernism: critiquing science, technology and globalisation Braidotti, Rosi pp. 65-74(10) 9. Science War II: the shift from physics to biology as the field of struggle Fuller, Steve pp. 75-89(15) 10. Book Reviews Knight, David pp. 90-96(7) Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 32.2 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:20:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 247 (247) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 32.2 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr 1. ISR: Guest Editorial pp. 97-105(9) 2. Physics, biology and history Morange, Michel pp. 107-112(6) 3. Contenders for life at the dawn of the twenty-first century: approaches from physics, biology and engineering Keller, Evelyn Fox pp. 113-122(10) 4. Interdisciplinarity: some models from the human sciences Strathern, Marilyn pp. 123-134(12) 5. Synchrotron radiation sources: a focal point for multidisciplinary research Thompson, Andrew W. pp. 135-148(14) 6. The manipulation of single biomolecules Allemand, Jean-Francois; Charvin, Gilles; Croquette, Vincent; Lia, Giuseppe; Bensimon, David pp. 149-161(13) 7. Self-organisation processes in living matter Karsenti, Eric pp. 163-175(13) 8. Modelling collective phenomena in neuroscience Nadal, Jean-Pierre pp. 177-184(8) Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: theory as theft Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:43:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 248 (248) In "Some Random Thoughts about Chaos and Some Chaotic Thoughts about Randomness", Robert Rosen quotes Sir Arthur Eddington on the concept of "free information" -- information that is well known and dependable but not derivable from what you're looking at without considerable uncertainty. "A pure observer cannot obtain free information", Eddington writes in his book Fundamental Theory (1946). But an actual researcher is a human being "and therefore an inveterate theorist". He or she will likely proceed by stealing whatever free information comes to hand and substituting it for his or her uncertain observations. Nothing terribly surprising here, but as Rosen remarks, the tacit identification of theory with the stealing of free information, to which the pure (and quite unreal) observer is not entitled, "is as good a way of characterizing theory as I have ever found... it has to do not so much with data but with the extrapolability of data; it pertains to similitude". It is the Promethean act of stealing in order to build, of taking great risks in order to progress, of thwarting old Nobodaddy to bring about a permanent change in how things are done. Eddington was, of course, speaking about physicists, but I think we can steal this bit of intellectual stuff and be the better for it, don't you? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Suzana Sukovic Subject: Re: 21.171 prediction and explanation? Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:56:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 249 (249) Willard, a number of approaches in social sciences gave up competing with scientific procedures and theory building. Denzin's 'thick description' is well known: "'A thick description is one that goes beyond the mere or bare reporting on an act (that is, that individual A did B). This is a thin description.... A thick description describes and probes the intentions, motives, meanings, context, situations, and circumstances of action' (p.39). "Thick description replaces thin description. Prediction becomes interpretation. Explanation in terms of general laws is not sought". Denzin, Norman K. 1989. The research act: a theoretical introduction to sociological methods. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Cheers, Suzana At 06:09 PM 24/07/2007, you wrote: [deleted quotation]Suzana From: Kalle Korhonen Subject: CFP: Electronic corpora of ancient languages (Prag, Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:58:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 250 (250) Nov. 2007) (forwarding from ancientpglinguistics:) ELECTRONIC CORPORA OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES International Conference Prague (Czech Republic), November 16-17th, 2007 http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/ecal/ CALL FOR PAPERS *** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS *** * AIMS OF CONFERENCE Electronic corpora of ancient languages offer important information about the culture and history of ancient civilizations, but at the same time they constitute a valuable source of linguistic information. The scholarly community is increasingly aware of the importance of computer-aided analysis of these corpora, and of the rewards it can bring. The construction of electronic corpora for ancient languages is a complex task. Many more pieces of information have to be taken into account than for living languages, e.g. the artefact bearing the text, lacunae, level of restoration, etc. The electronic corpora can be enriched with links to images, annotations, and other secondary sources. The annotations should deal with matters such as textual damage, possible variant readings, etc., as well as with many features specific to ancient languages. Recent years have witnessed a considerable increase in electronic corpus construction for ancient languages, with the involvement of many institutions across the world. The time is ripe to see whether the experiences of scholars working on such projects can profitably be shared. * SUBMISSIONS We invite submissions on all aspects of the construction of corpora of ancient languages, as well as on their use for different purposes. We especially welcome submissions on the linguistic use of these corpora, and their linguistic annotation. * SUBMISSIONS PROCEDURE Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work on the topic of the conference. Submission of an abstract is required first, for the review process. After presentation at the conference, the papers will be published. They will be required in final form for publication in January 2008. Abstracts in PDF format should be sent to petr.zemanek_at_ff.cuni.cz not later than September 24th. * IMPORTANT DATES September 24th -- Submission deadline for abstracts October 4th -- Notification of acceptance November 16th-17th -- Conference held in Prague [...] From: "Drew VandeCreek" Subject: Digital Projects Technical Coordinator Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:58:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 251 (251) LIBRARY DIGITAL PROJECTS TECHNICAL COORDINATOR Northern Illinois University Libraries seek a dynamic individual to coordinate technical aspects of their award-winning digital projects. Responsibilities include setting markup and metadata standards for all of the library Digitization Unit's new projects, supervision of the digitization of materials on-site and at collaborating institutions, including training student workers and other staff members in necessary skills and processes, and development of searchable databases presenting online materials. Responsibilities also include supervising the maintenance and operation of existing online materials and maintenance and further development (as needed) of the Digitization Unit's large internal databases. For complete job description, see <https://www.ulib.niu.edu/jobs.cfm>https://www.ulib.niu.edu/jobs.cfm. The Digitization Unit's work is currently funded by the university, a variety of federal, state, and private foundation grants, and collaborations with the private sector. Successful candidate must be capable of extensive self-directed work and continuing professional growth and acquisition of new skills. Must also be eager to identify and solve new, technically oriented problems as they emerge in project work. Project materials include searchable text, image, sound, video, and interactive map resources. The library's digital projects are available for review at: <http://www.ulib.niu.edu/digitalprojlist.cfm>http://www.ulib.niu.edu/digitalprojlist.cfm. Northern Illinois University is located approximately sixty miles west of downtown Chicago, Illinois. Required: Bachelor's degree; working familiarity with markup and metadata standards in digital project development, including SGML/XML, Dublin Core, and METS. Strongly preferred: MLS or significant experience in digital project development; extensive experience with MySQL database development, PHP scripting language, and UNIX/Linux system administration; basic understanding of American history. Renewable, 12-month appointment; vacation and sick leave; competitive salary. To assure full consideration, apply by September 3, 2007. Direct letter of application, resume, and names/contact information of at least three references to: Kathy Sherman, Northern Illinois University Libraries, DeKalb, Illinois 60115. AA/EEO. Drew E. VandeCreek Director of Digital Projects Northern Illinois University Libraries DeKalb, IL 60115 (815) 753-7179 From: John Bradley Subject: Research Fellow Position at CCH, King's College London Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:58:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 252 (252) The Centre for Computing in the Humanities is a department within King's College London which has the responsibility for its own academic programme and is also a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research. In its latter capacity, it is looking for someone to assist with the technical research development in research projects. The projects cover a wide range of humanities disciplines, including medieval studies, history, literature and linguistics, and music, and also include a number of more general information management projects in both humanities and the social sciences. CCH is seeking someone to assist with the technical research development of research projects: Project Research Fellow Full-time, open-ended Closing date for applications: 10th August 2007 Reference: W2/AAV/123/07 The successful candidate to this position would be required to work with discipline specialists to analyse a wide variety of humanities materials and to model them using database and other highly-structured approaches; to design, write and modify programs to search, query, retrieve and display them; and to collaborate in the creation of integrated web-based interfaces to publish them. Experience in design and building environments powered by relational database technologies is essential. The department uses primarily Java and J2EE technologies to publish database materials on the web, and experience with these technologies is also critical. Familiarity with standards-compliant XHTML and CSS and issues around accessibility is highly desirable, as is familiarity with XML and some of the emerging XML technologies that work with highly structured data such as XSLT 2.0 and XQuery. Proven experience in creating integrated research applications using a range of technologies would be a significant advantage. In addition you will need to have a good understanding - and preferably experience - of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. The successful candidate should have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English. This appointment is on the RAII scale, currently ranging from GBP 29,927 to GBP 39,602 per annum plus of GBP 2,323 London Allowance. ---------------------- John Bradley john.bradley_at_kcl.ac.uk 020 7848 2680 From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: RE: 21.182 prediction and explanation Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:08:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 253 (253) [deleted quotation]Willard, This is a very tricky area, certainly for a non-philosopher-of-science like me. I enjoyed Suzana's interesting reaction, and really dare not put forward any comments of my own. Still -- it occurred to me that if one's really interested in exploring the whole matter further, one would do well to have look at all the (in my opinion sensible) stuff Mary Hesse has written, since the sixties, on explanation and prediction. A good start might be her _Revolutions and reconstructions in the philosophy of science_, a collection published in 1980. Just a friendly suggestion. I'm sure that others better enlightened than myself can offer more targeted ones. Regarding sociology and economics, one could have a look at the recent (and fairly technical) : Michael Hechter, Hyojoung Kim and Justin Baer, "Prediction versus explanation in the measurement of values", _European sociological review_ 21.2 (2005), p.91-108. - Laval Hunsucker UvAmsterdam, Universiteitsbibliotheek / Geesteswetenschappen From: Willard McCarty Subject: prediction and explanation Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:09:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 254 (254) It's good to know that social scientists have given up imitating the natural scientists in their procedures and theory-building, as Suzana Sukovic notes in Humanist 21.171, and esp good to have the reference to Denzin's notion of "thick description" (taken from Clifford Geertz, I assume). But my point was that an understanding of how the terms "prediction" and "description" play out across the disciplines, beginning with physics, proceeding on to biology (where my sights are currently fixed), medicine, the social sciences and then the humanities, is helpful not only to correct or clarify the claims some computing humanists may make but also to work out where humanities computing fits in, from whom it might borrow, what comes along with borrowed vocabulary, ideas and methods and how to adapt these borrowed intellectual goods. The history of disciplines shows again and again how new ones establish themselves by borrowing, then adapting. We're doing it in any case. How much better if we do what we do consciously, critically, judiciously. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: AI & Society 22.1 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:28:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 255 (255) AI & SOCIETY, Volume 22 Number 1 Editorial: Smart clothes and wearable technology David Smith pp. 1 - 3 Crafts praxis for critical wearables design Sarah Kettley pp. 5 - 14 Enabled apparel: the role of digitally enhanced apparel in promoting remote empathic connection Leah Heiss pp. 15 - 24 Unwearables David Bryson pp. 25 - 35 Mind the gap: technology as soma Stephen Thompson pp. 37 - 44 Applications for conscious systems Robert Pepperell pp. 45 - 52 Open Forum The significant other: the value of jewellery in the conception, design and experience of body focused digital devices Jayne Wallace, Andy Dearden, Tom Fisher pp. 53 - 62 Open Forum Wearables as 'relationship tools' Jessica Charlesworth pp. 63 - 84 Open Forum Wearable music in engaging technologies Franziska Schroeder, Pedro Rebelo pp. 85 - 91 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: Re: 21.183 theorizing as stealing Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:09:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 256 (256) Guattari has an essay 'I am an idea thief', from which you can infer much the same position, which is remarkably like lautreamont's thought on plagiarism and the implications of newton's thought 'standing on the shoulder of giants'. Human thought, and thus theorizing, steals ceaselessly taking whatever it can from the ideas we have available to find a way through the question at hand. On a more fundamental level, at least one of the practices of research and theorizing, the maintenance of a 'notebook' or commonplace book in which you copy the text and thus thought of others into your own contexts used to be a form of sharing, not stealing. More and more though... I suspect people believe that you can own ideas and information, that information and ideas aren't without value (capital), and thus stealing them becomes much more problemetized. The age of 'intellectual property' recreates 'theorizing as stealing' into violation of a property right instead of as Rosen indicates, being human. From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: 21.183 theorizing as stealing Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:10:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 257 (257) Willard, It is not clear in how you quote from Robert Rosen if the Promethean figure belongs to his discourse or if it is "free information" gleaned from an extrapolation... [...] [deleted quotation]Is there a chance that the "theft" of this characterization of theory making can be set in a less heroic (i.e. Promethean) context? From: simon mahony Subject: POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:16:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 258 (258) UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF CLASSICS (Sub-Faculty of Ancient History) POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP IN E-SCIENCE, IMAGING TECHNOLOGY AND ANCIENT DOCUMENTS Further Particulars 1. General Introduction Funding has been secured through the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities E-Science initiative to appoint a post-doctoral Research Assistant, for a period of three years from 1 October 2007, to work on the application of Information Technology (IT) to ancient documents under the supervision of Professors Alan Bowman FBA, Sir Michael Brady FRS FREng, and Dr. Melissa Terras (UCL). The Research Assistantship will be held in the Faculty of Classics and supported at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents and the Oxford E-Research Centre (Directors: Dr. Anne Trefethen and Prof. Paul Jeffreys). The initial salary will be in the range GBP 25,889 - GBP31,840 (Academic Related, Grade 7), according to qualifications and experience. 2. Aims and objectives of the project The postdoctoral Research Asssistantship is attached to a project which will develop a networked software system to support the imaging, documentation, and interpretation of damaged texts from the ancient world, principally Greek and Latin papyri, inscriptions and writing tablets. Full details of the project are available electronically from Professor Bowman on request (alan.bowman_at_classics.ox.ac.uk). The main focus of the project is to develop a support system by methods of aiding (by image enhancement), representing and tracking the reader's developing decipherment and understanding of documents, by iteratively and progressively facilitating the inclusion of new insights and conjectures over prolonged periods of study and by a building a computer-generated, human-readable representation of the range of possible 'solutions' as well as the contingencies of such possibilities derived from contextual knowledge or direct perception of the text. The RA will work in close collaboration with a doctoral student whose work he/she will help to supervise. The following should be viewed as indicating the area of work to be undertaken in collaboration with the doctoral student. a. Building an interface to image analysis software developed by Professors Brady and Bowman for analysis of Latin stilus tablets. b. Designing and implementing an interface to the components described in (a-c), in collaboration with the current JISC-funded VRE project 'A Virtual Workspace for the Study of Ancient Documents' (PI Professor Bowman). c. Acquiring familiarity with work at Oxford University and elsewhere on Virtual Research Environments and on the design and implementation of interfaces to enable scholars to access the system to be designed and implemented, typically over the Internet. d. Developing a decision support system, closely modelled on those developed in the Department of Engineering Science by Professor Brady and colleagues; e. Incorporating into the decision support system representations of letter shapes and words in Latin and/or Greek, and associated knowledge building upon the doctoral work of Dr. Melissa Terras. f. Acquiring familiarity with work done in the broader Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing community regarding the development of computational tools to aid humanities researchers in undertaking their complex research tasks Detailed tasks to be underaken by the RA: 1. The implementation of a set of image analysis algorithms, the majority of which have been developed on previous projects led by the Principal Investigators (PIs); 2. to enable such algorithms to be applied to images of a range of ancient documents, either locally or over the internet by a scholar who may access the system over the Internet and whose resources may not be in Oxford. 3. the development of an interface to a software system, which includes the image analysis algorithms developed in (1), import/display of a set of images of ancient documents, and the decision support tool developed by the postgraduate student associated with the project; and 4. provide documentation on how to use the system as well as appropriate levels of training and support in its use. 3. Qualifications, Training and Experience. Essential: --postgraduate degree, ideally a doctorate, in a subject that has a substantial computing component (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics) OR a postgraduate degree in the humanities, together with evidence of expertise in programming and Informatics; --Track record of published work concomitant with the age and experience of the candidate; --Evidence of experience in programming in modern computing languages such as Java, C++, and using internet standards such as XML; --Evidence of ability to work collaboratively as a member of an inter-disciplinary team; --Evidence of interest in Humanities based research, and research issues. Desirable. --Some knowledge or ability to acquire some basic knowledge of the language of Latin and Greek documents; and --Experience either of working in image analysis or with images of ancient documents. 4. Method of application Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a statement detailing the applicant's experience, qualifications and suitability for the post, along with any relevant publications and the names and addresses of two referees, who should be asked to send their references directly to the address below by the closing date. All application materials, including references, must be sent, preferably by email as well as in hard copy, to Ms Ghislaine Rowe, Graduate Studies Administrator, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles' , Oxford OX1 3LU (01865 288397, ghislaine.rowe_at_classics.ox.ac.uk) to reach her not later than 4 July 2007. It is expected that interviews will be held on Monday, 16 July. Any further enquiries may be addressed by email to Ms Rowe or to Professor Alan Bowman (alan.bowman_at_classics.ox.ac.uk). ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate 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 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=3DWC2R3DX From: mafua_at_cce.ufsc.br Subject: Mafua, Digital Literature Journal, vol 7 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:20:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 259 (259) PORTUGUÊS Está no ar o número 7 da Mafuá, Revista Digital de Literatura, que pode ser acessada pelo endereço www.mafua.ufsc.br. A revista entra renovada no seu quarto ano de existência, com uma mudança na equipe editorial e com um novo design que a torna visualmente mais interessante. Para esta edição foram aprovados 12 ensaios, produzidos por alunos representantes de 9 universidades do país. Poesia, religiosidade, mitologia, adaptação e literatura infantil, jornalismo e história, a relação entre literatura e sociedade compõem a variedade de temas trazidos ao leitor pelos ensaios publicados nesta edição. Enriquecem o conteúdo da Mafuá nº 7 as demais seções da revista. Seguindo o propósito de renovação, a seção Entrevista extrapola a Literatura e chega à área da Música, em uma conversa com o pianista, compositor e regente Alberto Heller. Do acervo da Biblioteca da UFSC, vem para a seção Obra Rara a coletânea Contos Brasileiros, uma rara reunião de contos de grandes nomes da nossa literatura publicada em 1922. Entre as Criações, estão trabalhos dos artistas Eliana Borges, Vera Casa Nova, Sinibaldo Gerbasi e Paulo Zapella, autor da capa da revista, que a partir desta terá uma capa produzida por um artista diferente a cada edição. Boa leitura! ENGLISH The seventh issue of Mafuá, Digital Literature Journal, is now online and can be accessed at www.mafua.ufsc.br. Mafuá enters it’s forth year of existence, fully renovated, with a new editorial board and design, making it visually more interesting. In this edition 13 essays where approved, written by students from 9 different Brazilian universities. Poetry, religion, mythology, children’s literature and adaptations, journalism and history, relation between literature and society, compose some of the variety of themes examined in this edition. Other sections further enrich Mafuá n°7. Continuing the journal’s path to renewal, the section Interview goes beyond the span of Literature, into the realms of Music, in a conversation with the pianist, composer and conductor Alberto Heller. From UFSC’s Library, to the section Rare Works, comes Contos Brasileiros, a rare reunion of short stories from great authors of Brazilian literature published in1922. In the Creations section one will find the works of artists Eliana Borges, Vera Casa Nova, Sinibaldo Gerbasi and Paulo Zapella, author of the journal’s cover. Mafuá, from this edition forth, will have a new cover for each edition. Good readings! ESPANHOL Está en el aire el número 7 de Mafuá, Revista Digital de Literatura, que se encuentra en la dirección www.mafua.ufsc.br . La revista empieza renovada su cuarto año de existencia, con un cambio en el equipo editorial y con un nuevo diseño la hace más interesante. Para la presente edición se aprobaron 12 ensayos, producidos por alumnos representantes de 9 universidades brasileñas. Poesía, religiosidad, mitología, adaptación y literatura infantil, periodismo e historia, la relación entre literatura y sociedad, todos son temas que componen la variedad proporcionada al lector por los ensayos publicados en esta edición. Enriquecen el contenido Mafuá nº7 las demás secciones de la revista. Siguiendo el propósito de renovación, la sección Entrevista sobrepasa la Literatura y entra en el campo de la Música, en una conversación con el pianista, compositor y regidor (maestro) Alberto Heller. Del acervo de la Biblioteca de la UFSC viene para la sección Obra Rara la compilación Contos Brasileiros, una rara reunión de cuentos de grandes nombres de la literatura brasileña publicada en 1922. Entre las Creaciones están trabajos de los artistas Eliana Borges, Vera Casa Nova, Sinibaldo Gerbasi y Paulo Zapella, autor de la tapa de la revista. Ésta, a partir de la edición actual, tendrá siempre una tapa diferente. Disfrútela! FRANCÊS Le septième numéro de Mafuá, revue littéraire, est déjà en ligne et peut être lu à l´adresse www.mafua.ufsc.br. Mafuá rentre renouvelée dans sa quatrième année d´existence : l´équipe d´édition a changé et la revue présente un nouveau projet graphique qui la rend visuellement plus intéressante. Pour cette édition, 12 essaies écrits par des étudiants représentant quelques universités brésiliennes ont été approuvés par notre conseil et, donc, publiés. Poésie, religion, mythologie, adaptation et litérature enfantine, journalisme et histoire, les rapports entre litérature et société, voici quelques-uns des sujets composant la variété des thèmes présentés au lecteur par les essaies. D´autres sections de Mafuá ont été enrichies davantage : Interview a oublié provisoirement la Littérature et est venue toucher le domaine de la Musique, dans une discussion avec le pianiste et musicien Alberto Heller. Une oeuvre de la Bibliothèque de l’UFSC a été numérisée dans la section des Oeuvres Rares : un recueil de nouvelles, Contos, publié en 1922. Parmi les Créations, il ya les travaux des artistes Eliana Borges, Vera Casa Nova, Sinibaldo Gerbasi et Paulo Zapella (celui-ci étant l’auteur de la page d’ouverture de la revue ; dorénavant, toutes les éditions en auront une, créée par un artiste different à chaque fois). Bonne lecture! From: Willard McCarty Subject: how to cite software? Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:40:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 260 (260) The Web has clearly affected the kinds of things that get into a bibliography. In the case of online materials, such as websites, one gives a URL and a date as a matter of course. If the item is no longer online, there's the Wayback Machine, http://www.archive.org/, which one assumes (a) will exist in whatever future when someone wants to follow up on a cited source, and (b) will be known to the person following the defunct citation. But what about software? Take, for example, Weka, a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks, http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/. Under "Citing Weka", the website says, [deleted quotation]Note the date of publication. Two years -- probably at least three if you count the time in press -- is a long time in the software trade. But how else will the fine work in Weka ever make it into the bibliographic citation services? And what does this say about recognition of software that for perfectly good reasons doesn't have a manual in print? What does the say about our intellectual objects as primary contributions to knowledge? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Nancy Ide Subject: First International Conference on Global Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:04:11 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 261 (261) ********************** Second Call for Papers ********************** I C G L First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources City University of Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong 9-11 January 2008 <http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk>http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/ Language resources, including not only corpora but also lexicons, knowledge bases and ontologies, grammars, etc. support the development of language processing applications that are increasingly important to the global society. Substantial effort has been devoted to the creation of such resources for the world's major languages over the past decades, and new projects are developing similar resources for less widely-used languages. Some standards and best practices have emerged for representing and linking language corpora and annotations, efforts such as "Global WordNet" and the development of framenets in multiple languages seek to create and link specific lexical and semantic resources across languages, and there are efforts to integrate such resources into general ontologies such as SUMO and to enable common access to ontologies spread across the World Wide Web. As the need for cross-lingual studies and applications grows, it is increasingly important to develop resources in the world's languages that can be compared and linked, used and analyzed with common software, and that contain linguistic information for the same or comparable phenomena. We envision the eventual development of a "global web" of language resources, wherein, for example, linguistically-annotated corpora in multiple languages are inter-linked via the use of common categories, or categories that are mapped to one another; resources such as wordnets and framenets are linked not only to versions in different languages, but also to each other; and common representations enable analysis and use of resources in different languages and of different types within available systems. The first international conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources will bring together designers, developers, and users of corpora and other language resources from across the globe, in order to: o assess the state of the art in methods and schemes for resource representation, annotation, interlinkage, and access; o consider the requirements for (and obstacles to) multi-lingual and multi-modal interoperability and standardization; o consider the requirements for achieving interoperability among multi-lingual resources of different types, including corpora, lexicons, knowledge bases, ontologies, etc., as well as the systems and frameworks that enable their creation and exploitation; o consider the ways in which web technologies are and may be used to enable resource interoperability and inter- linkage; o work toward the definition of best practice guidelines and standards for language resource representation, annotation, and use that will enable interoperability; o consider means to map or harmonize linguistic information in order to better enable cross-lingual studies; o provide direction for developers of resources for less widely used languages; o promote collaboration and cooperation among developers of language resources across the globe; o consider ways to provide central or distributed access to language resources developed throughout the world. Topics Paper submissions are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics: o multi-lingual and/or multi-modal language resources, with focus on the mechanisms enabling interoperability; o support for multi-linguality and multi-modality in systems/frameworks for resource creation, annotation, use, and access; o existing and proposed standards and best practice guidelines for language resources, including standards for linguistic annotations at any and all linguistics levels; o systems, frameworks, and architectures to support the development and exploitation of interoperable language resources; o evaluation of existing resources, systems and frameworks, and/or standards in terms of support for interoperability; o harmonization, integration, and/or linking of language resources, including corpora, wordnets, framenets, ontologies, etc.; o web-based technologies for resource interoperability, inter-linkage, and access; o interoperability of ontologies for language processing research; o support for multi-linguality, multi-culturality, and multi-modality. In addition to full-length paper presentations, the Program Committee also invites proposals for posters addressing any of the above topics. Posters describing existing or developing resources or tools that provide an assessment of needs and/or considerations for interoperability are especially encouraged. Proceedings Accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings, to be published by City University Press, Hong Kong. A selection of outstanding conference presentations will be published in a special issue of the journal "Language Resources and Evaluation". [...] Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: simon mahony Subject: Seminar in London, 3 August: Can computers ever Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:24:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 262 (262) read ancient texts? Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007 Friday 3rd August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Melissa Terras (University College London) 'Can computers ever read ancient texts?' Researchers in the Centre of the Study of Ancient Documents, and the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (and now UCL SLAIS), have been attempting to build a system to aid historians in reading damaged and deteriorated texts, specifically those from Vindolanda. But to what extent can computers ever hope to "read" ancient texts, and how can computers aid (not replace) historians in propagating readings from hard to read documentary material? ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony_at_kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate 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 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX From: Haradda_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 21.191 Seminar in London, 3 August: Can Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:39:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 263 (263) computers ever read ancient texts? [The question that has been asked is, "Can computers ever read ancient texts?" --WM] I would say that the answer is a qualified yes. As long as you understand what the translation you are getting is. The hard part I would imagine is the OCR of the manuscript texts. But even with all the aids we have at this time I don't believe that you could ever eliminate the human element from translations. David Reed From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 21.189 how to cite software? Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:42:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 264 (264) On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:49:23AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]The Weka folks undoubtedly would like you to use their (excellent) free software to advertise their commercial publication, but citing in this way is not an acceptable practice according to the style guides I have lying around (which makes sense, since most software is not associated with a print publication). For downloaded software, the MLA (for example) recommends the name of the program, the version number, the date it was downloaded, and the URL. Their example, in fact, uses the work of our revered colleague John Bradley: *TACT: Text-Analysis Computing Tools*. Vers. 2.1 gamma. 30 Apr. 1997 <gopher://gopher:epas.utoronto.ca:70/11/cch/hum_comp/software/TACT>. (Ah, gopher. Now that brings back memories!) The rules are slightly different for software that is published on some physical medium, but the emphasis remains on the version number and the date. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ From: textodigital_at_cce.ufsc.br Subject: Texto Digital 4 Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:40:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 265 (265) Prezados, Vimos divulgar o lançamento do quarto 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 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. Dear Friends, The fourth 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 who’s thematic regard Literature and Texts in the Digital Medium, also the implications of writing, reading, teaching and learning provided by this digital support. Chers amis, Le quatrième numero de Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288) vient de paraître, à l’adresse http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Cette revue, qui n’est publié qu’en version numérique, sur le web, propose un espace de publication en ligne ouverte à des travaux portant sur la littérature et les textes dans le numérique, ainsi que l’écriture, la lecture et l’apprentissage de littérature à l’aide des ordinateurs. Amigos, Venimos a divulgar el número 4 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 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. 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: "Natasha McCarthy" Subject: Philosophy of engineering: engineering and Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:46:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 266 (266) metaphysics (3 Sept) Dear all The details of the next philosophy of engineering seminar, on engineering and metaphysics, are now available on the flyer here: <http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf>http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf The seminar will explore a number of metaphysical issues concerning the nature of engineering, and the application of philosophical metaphysics to engineering practice. This should be a very interesting meeting covering highly novel topics, with plenty of time for discussion. If you would like to attend, please contact Sylvia Hearn using the details on the flyer. Kind regards, Natasha _______________________________ Dr Natasha McCarthy Policy Advisor The Royal Academy of Engineering 29 Great Peter Street London SW1P 3LW Tel: 020 7227 0575 Fax: 020 7227 7620 Email: natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk Web: <http://www.raeng.org.uk>www.raeng.org.uk From: "Natasha McCarthy" Subject: Call for Papers - philosophy of engineering Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:50:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 267 (267) Final Call for Papers WPE-2007 2007 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), The Netherlands October 29-31, 2007 (Monday-Wednesday) http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/wpe Workshop Theme: Engineering Meets Philosophy, and Philosophy Meets Engineering On October 19, 2006 a working group on Philosophy and Engineering was convened at MIT to discuss the need for greater interaction between philosophers and engineers. The result was an agreement to move forward with a workshop to encourage reflection on engineering, engineers, and technology by philosophers and engineers. The first Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering (WPE-2007) will be held in the Department of Philosophy, TUDelft, 29-31 October 2007 (Monday-Wednesday). Sessions will include talks by invited and selected speakers as well as a number of panels & special events. Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) are invited for submission in one of three tracks or demes: --Philosophy (Deme chair: Carl Mitcham) -- Philosophical Reflections of Practitioners (Deme chair: Billy V. Koen) -- Ethics (Deme co-chairs: Michael Davis & P. Aarne Vesilind) Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Those accepted for presentation at the workshop will be scheduled for 30-minutes talks (inclusive of Q&A) at the workshop. All accepted abstracts will published online on the workshop website (http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/wpe), and a printed volume will be assembled following the workshop in conjunction with a major publisher. Instructions: Extended abstracts should be submitted (in doc or pdf format) by 17 August 2007 to deg_at_uiuc.edu. Use ACM style files (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) in preparing manuscripts, and indicate choice of track/deme (philosophy, reflections, or ethics) in e-mail title line. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 17 September 2007. Confirmed Invited Speakers: Louis L. Bucciarelli, Jun Fudano, Alastair Gunn, Natasha McCarthy From: Wim Van Mierlo Subject: CFP BHRN Study Day Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:53:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 268 (268) Book History Research Network Study Day Friday, 26th October 2007 Institute of English Studies, University of London Call for papers Rethinking the Book: Between Text and Para-Text In their Introduction to A Companion to the History of the Book, Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose write that while "literary critics and theorists feel able to talk about a text as though it were some disembodied entity, for the book historian the text always takes an embodied form". The aims and objectives of criticism, exegesis and the history of ideas, on the one hand, and book history and historical bibliography on the other are not simply different. As tools for human communication, books carry meaning through their "text" as much as through their physical form, and the interaction between the two is the focus of this study. We invite scholars working on book history to look more deeply into how this interaction works. Topics that could be considered are physical form (mise-en-page, typography, format, paper type) and meaning, the relationship between history of the book and textual editing, "material" reception/reputation history, the sociology of the text and the idea of influence/intertextuality, para-text and the material book, the genetic text and the "biography" of an oeuvre, illustrations and dust jackets. Note that we welcome abstracts on any Book History related topic. Please send your proposal (200-300 words) to Christine Lees (Christine.Lees_at_sas.ac.uk) and Wim Van Mierlo (Wim.Van-Mierlo_at_sas.ac.uk) before 15 September 2007. This study day is free and open to postgraduates, academics and independent scholars with an interest in the History of the Book. (Dr) Wim Van Mierlo Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU http://ies.sas.ac.uk From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: NEH Announces Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:43:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 269 (269) ********************************** Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants ********************************** The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities. By awarding relatively low-dollar grants during the planning stages, the goal is to identify projects that are particularly innovative and have the potential to make a positive impact on the humanities. By having IMLS co-sponsor this grant opportunity with the NEH, our hope is to spark more collaborations among scholars, librarians, museum officials, and computer scientists. Deadlines: October 16, 2007 & April 2, 2008 The guidelines are available here: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html There is one major change in this grant opportunity from last year that I'd like to emphasize. Based on feedback from the digital humanities community, we now have two levels of funding available: LEVEL I START-UP: Awards of $5000 - $25,000. These are small grants designed to fund brainstorming sessions, basic research, workshops, early alpha-level prototypes, and initial planning. LEVEL II START-UP: Awards of $25,001 - $50,000. These are larger grants which can be used for more fully-formed projects that are ready to start the first stage of implementation or the creation of working prototypes. For more information, please contact us at: dhi_at_neh.gov To join our listserv, see: https://securegrants.neh.gov/dhi.asp Thank you, Brett ------------------------------------------------ Brett Bobley Chief Information Officer Director, Digital Humanities Initiative National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html (202) 606-8401 bbobley_at_neh.gov From: AHRC ICT Methods Network Subject: Methods Network Student Bursaries For Computing In Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:44:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 270 (270) History Teaching Conference STUDENT BURSARIES FOR COMPUTING IN HISTORY TEACHING 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 offering a limited number of bursaries to post-graduate students who wish to present a paper at the conference 'Distributed Ignorance and the Unthinking Machine: Computing in History Teaching'. The conference takes place on 17 November at The National Archives, Kew, London, and is organized by the UK branch of the Association of History and Computing (AHC-UK). Applications for bursaries are sought from post-graduate students registered at UK Universities whose research interests are grounded in areas covered by this years AHC-UK conference. These include: when and how you acquired your computing skills, what support and training you had or would like to have had, your perspective on the use of computers in history teaching and identification of key computing skills that history graduates should have and other areas which may be considered to be within the AHC's sphere of interest. Applicants should submit a paper proposal via the AHC-UK website in the first instance, see http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/hca/ahc/conf.htm The bursaries are intended to help towards conference expenses. Successful applicants will be able to claim funds up to a total of =A3200 toward the= cost of conference fees, accommodation and travel. If you wish to apply for a bursary please submit a proposal for the AHC-UK conference in the first instance. You will hear if your proposal has been accpeted by the 28 September. If you are successful please complete the bursary application form, available on the AHRC ICT Methods Network website: http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html If you have any queries about completing the form please contact Torsten Reimer (torsten.reimer_at_kcl.ac.uk) using the heading - AHC-UK Bursary Applications - in the subject bar. Bursary winners will be asked to submit a short report to the Methods Network following the conference. Please address any enquiries about the AHC-UK conference to i.anderson_at_hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- July 2007 Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:45:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 271 (271) TL INFOBITS July 2007 No. 13 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitjul07.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... Top Ten E-Learning Tools Mashups in Education University Publishing in a Digital Age Plagiarism Detection Tools Comparison Recommended Reading ...................................................................... TOP TEN E-LEARNING TOOLS Jane Hart, Head of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, asked e-learning experts to list their top ten tools. Sixty-four people responded; the most-frequently cited tool was the Firefox Web browser, mentioned by 37 respondents. To view all the responses and the summary of all contributions, go to http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html. The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies "provides advice and guidance on current and emerging tools and technologies for businesses and education." For more information, contact Jane Hart, Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, 16 Lansdowne Place, Wincanton, Somerset, BA9 9FB, England; tel: 44 (0)7778 063068; email: info@c4lpt.co.uk; Web: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/. ...................................................................... MASHUPS IN EDUCATION "For educators and policy-makers, already struggling with the many cultural and logistical challenges posed by digital technologies, mashups complicate the picture even while offering tremendous promise. What, exactly, constitutes a valid, original work? What are the implications for how we assess and reward creativity? Can a college or university tap the same sources of innovative talent and energy as Google or Flickr? What are the risks of permitting or opening up to this activity?" In "Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix" (EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 42, no. 4, July/August 2007, pp. 12-24), Brian Lamb discusses the conditions needed in universities to enable mashups and other Web 2.0 tools to play a significant role in education. The article is online at http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm07/erm0740.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/. ...................................................................... UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING IN A DIGITAL AGE "Publishing in the future will look very different than it has looked in the past. Consumption patterns have already changed dramatically, as many scholars have increasingly begun to rely on electronic resources to get information that is useful to their research and teaching. Transformation on the creation and production sides is taking longer, but ultimately may have an even more profound impact on the way scholars work." The Ithaka report, "University Publishing in a Digital Age" (July 23, 2007), "began as a review of U.S. university presses and their role in scholarly publishing. It has evolved into a broader assessment of the importance of publishing to universities." To assess the current state and future role of university-based scholarly publishing, the report's authors interviewed a variety of university provosts, press directors, and librarians from public and private institutions. Based on the interviewees responses, in the future of university publishing: -- Everything must be electronic -- Scholars will rely on deeply integrated electronic research/publishing environments -- Multimedia and multi-format delivery will become increasingly important -- New forms of content will enable new economic models The complete report is available online at http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing. Ithaka is an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide. "We work in close collaboration with JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/) and ARTstor (http://www.artstor.org/), and we are currently incubating three initiatives: Aluka (http://www.aluka.org/), a digital library of scholarly resources from and about the developing world; NITLE (http://www.nitle.org/), a collaborative effort to promote emerging technologies in liberal arts contexts; and Portico (http://www.portico.org/), a permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals." For more information about Ithaka, go to http://www.ithaka.org/. See also: "New Model for University Presses" By Scott Jaschik INSIDE HIGHER ED, July 31, 2007 http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/31/ricepress "The Rice University Press, which was eliminated in 1996, was revived last year with the idea that it would publish online only, using low-cost print-on-demand for those who want to hold what they are reading." "What a Difference a Publisher Makes" by Alma Swan July 7, 2007 http://optimalscholarship.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-difference-publisher-makes.html "[Copy editing is] a special little focus of interest at the moment because publishers claim it as an important area of added value and want to demonstrate how much they contribute to the integrity of scholarly literature through providing it, while the proponents of self-archiving counter-claim that the author's final version of an article -- the one which contains all the changes advised or required by the peer review process -- is a perfectly adequate version to be deposited in a digital repository for open access purposes." In her blog, OptimalScholarship, scholarly communication consultant Alma Swan discusses some studies that examine the value of what publishers contributed to final versions of scholarly works. ...................................................................... PLAGIARISM DETECTION TOOLS COMPARISON As part of her presentation, "Plagiarism Detection: Is Technology the Answer?" at the 2007 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference, Liz Johnson, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, provided a chart comparing seven plagiarism detection tools: Turnitin, MyDropBox, PAIRwise, EVE2, WCopyFind, CopyCatch, and GLATT. The chart is available online at http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/SER07017B.pdf. For more information about the 2007 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference and to view the proceedings, go to http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=248. ...................................................................... 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. WE THINK: WHY MASS CREATIVITY IS THE NEXT BIG THING (Draft version) By Charles Leadbeater http://www.wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx "We-Think: the power of mass creativity is about what the rise of the likes of Wikipedia and Youtube, Linux and Craigslist means for the way we organise ourselves, not just in digital businesses but in schools and hospitals, cities and mainstream corporations. My argument is that these new forms of mass, creative collaboration announce the arrival of a society in which participation will be the key organising idea rather than consumption and work. People want to be players not just spectators, part of the action, not on the sidelines." Leadbeater is making a draft of his book available online prior to formal publication to allow readers to comment and make suggestions. [Editor's note: Years ago I came across a study on the importance of professors' informal conversations in the hall for the exchange of ideas. Coming across the link to Leadbeater's book made me think on how much the Web has become a virtual hallway for informally sharing ideas and resources. Thanks to Seb Schmoller's posting (in his FORTNIGHTLY MAILING; http://fm.schmoller.net/) on David Jennings' posting on anarchism (http://alchemi.co.uk/archives/ide/is_web_20_a_man.html), I was led to the link to Leadbeater's book.] [...] From: Sergei Nirenburg Subject: Advances in Language Engineering conference Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:04:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 272 (272) Call for Participation NATO Advanced Study Institute on Advances in Language Engineering for Low- and Middle-Density Languages Batumi, Georgia October 15-27, 2007 Aims This Advanced Study Institute is devoted to the development of computational language resources for languages for which these resources are not available or are underdeveloped. Related research and development is being carried out around the world and progress on one language or group of languages can guide work on others. The Institute will seek to facilitate new language engineering initiatives for additional languages and to expose linguists and software engineers to a variety of techniques and case studies. Structure The Institute will include mini-courses, lectures, workshops, software demonstrations and, possibly, a poster session and a panel discussion. Target Audience The Institute is geared toward students and practitioners of computational linguistics, linguistics and computer science. Application for Participation If you would like to participate in the Institute, please submit the application form available on the Institute=E2=80=99s website: http://ilit.umbc.edu/ASI. Please pay attention to eligibility conditions related to your country of citizenship. The deadline for application submissions is August 17, 2007. (Apologies for such short notice.) Selection of participants will be carried out by the co-directors in consultation with the lecturers. Participant Support The Institute has funds to offset the travel and living expenses of those participants who do not have other sources of travel support. You can indicate on the Application for Participation whether you would like to be considered for financial support. If you are granted such support, you will be expected to attend the full two weeks of the Institute. Participation options Participants may: Simply attend the ASI. Attend the ASI and submit a proposal to do a system demonstration. Attend the ASI + submit a paper to be considered for workshop presentation or poster session. See the Web site for details about submissions. All submissions will be reviewed by a subset of the lecturers. Authors of outstanding papers may be invited to contribute to a collection to be published after the Institute by IOS Press. The program of the Institute will be made sufficiently flexible to accommodate any accepted presentations, demos and posters. Location Batumi is a resort town on the Georgian Black Sea coast. You can find more about it, for example, in=20 Wikipedia: http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batumi Courses (alphabetically by lecturer; a small number of courses may still be added) Building Computational Resources for Treebanks: from Syntactic Constituency to Dependency Structures Rodolfo Delmonte (Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy) Bi- and Multilingual Electronic Dictionaries, Their Design and Applications to Low- and Middle-Density Languages Ivan Derzhanski (Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, Sofia, Bulgaria) Applying Ontological Semantics and Finite State Morphology to Georgian Oleg Kapanadze (University of Tbilisi, Georgia) Hybrid Machine Translation for Low- and Middle-Density Languages Stella Markantonatou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece) Practical Computational Descriptive Linguistics=20 for Low- and Middle- Density Languages Marjorie McShane (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Building Computational Resources and Processors for Persian and Armenian Karine Megerdoomian (MITRE Corporation, USA) Ontological Semantics and Its Applications Sergei Nirenburg (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Developing Computational Morphology for Low- and Middle-Density Languages Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey) Extracting Bilingual Lexicons from Parallel Corpora Dan Tufis (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest Romania) Practical Syntactic Processing of Flexible Word Order Languages with Dynamic Syntax David Tugwell (St Andrews University, Scotland) Applying Meaning Text Linguistic Model to Automatic Text Synthesis of Low- and Middle-Density Languages Leo Wanner (ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain) Building lexicons and morphological and syntactic processors for Low- and Middle-Density Languages, With Examples from Hebrew and Arabic Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel) ASI Co-Directors Oleg Kapanadze, University of Tbilisi, Georgia Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Have questions? Send e-mail to Sergei Nirenburg: sergei AT umbc DOT edu -------------------------------------------------------- Sergei Nirenburg Professor, CSEE Director, Institute for Language and Information Technologies UMBC sergei_at_umbc.edu From: "Philipp Budka" Subject: Call for Papers - Indigenous Peoples Knowledge Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:07:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 273 (273) Society: Transformations and Challenges Dear Colleagues, I would like to bring to your attention the=20 following event and call for papers: KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity, and Transformation of Societies Vienna, Austria, 6 to 9 December 2007 Call for Papers for the section: Indigenous=20 Peoples Knowledge Society: Transformations and=20 Challenges / Indigene in der Wissensgesellschaft:=20 Transformationen und Herausforderungen=20 http://www.inst.at/kctos/sektionen_a-f/fiser_budka.htm Abstract: Of the more than 300 Million Indigenous Peoples=20 recognized by the United Nations, a growing=20 minority is actively shaping indigenous visions=20 of a knowledge-based society. These visions are=20 not simply indigenous responses to global=20 mainstream debates over post-industrial=20 development or techno-scientific culture, etc.=20 More importantly, they articulate the actual=20 deployment of new media and information=20 communications technologies (ICTs) by indigenous=20 communities to forward their own policies and=20 practices. They frame how indigenous communities=20 are mobilizing over the internet and on the Web=20 to communicate their lived experiences and extend=20 their local networks to global audiences,=20 including and especially, a global indigenous=20 audience. For academics in the field, online=20 indigenous communities are opening up spaces of=20 inquiry beyond the digital divide by actively=20 co-creating virtual communities and transforming=20 their cultural experience through ICTs (i.e.,=20 real life in cyberspace). Questions about=20 resources, knowledge/power and access continue to=20 be important, but they have become more=20 complicated by issues of networking and social=20 life, virtual reproduction, and information=20 policy. These new social, political, and cultural=20 forms of indigeneity will be discussed within=20 this section. Details on Submission: You are=20 invited to submit abstracts (250 words, English)=20 till the 24th of August 2007. Please include your=20 contact details (name, affiliation, email, and a=20 brief bio). Successful candidates will be=20 notified by the end of August. Full paper=20 submissions should be about 4.000 words long,=20 formatted according to the APA guidelines (e.g.=20 http://www-distance.syr.edu/apa5th.html), and=20 submitted by the 16th of November. Accepted=20 papers will be published in TRANS =AD Internet=20 Journal for Cultural Sciences=20 (htttp://www.inst.at/trans/index.htm) and=20 included in a book project (full text on CD-ROM,=20 more info at:=20 http://www.inst.at/kctos/publikationen_en.htm).=20 Please note that the conference organizers are=20 unable to fund travel or hotel costs for=20 conference attendees. Please send abstracts to=20 the section leads Adam Fiser (University of=20 Toronto) adam.fiser_at_gmail.com and Philipp Budka=20 (University of Vienna) ph.budka_at_philbu.net Abstracts should address one or more themes=20 reflected in the following research questions: -- How can/should social sciences describe and=20 explaiin local indigenous knowledge production in=20 a potentially global knowledge system? What are=20 the socio-cultural and political inter-linkages between local and global? -- How do indigenous communities integrate=20 new media practices and ICTs into processes of=20 local media production and networking to=20 participate in socio-cultural life, political=20 movements, economic development, healthcare, education, and so forth? -- How might indigenous communities' uses of=20 new media and ICTs reflect challenges for=20 diversity, conflict, global ethics, pluralism, gender, youth and heritage? -- What best practices have=20 indigenous organizations developed around the=20 inter-linkages of knowledge production, new=20 media, ICTs, and local/global community networks=20 (that could inform practitioners and scholars)? All the best, Philipp -- Philipp Budka philbu_at_gmx.net Dreyhausenstra=C3=9Fe=20 18/7 A-1140 Wien, Austria http://www.philbu.net From: Timothy Stinson Subject: CFP: Digital Media and Peer Review in Medieval Studies Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 10:32:14 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 274 (274) Call for Papers for the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-11, 2008, Kalamazoo, Michigan The Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources invites submissions to the following sponsored session: "Digital Media and Peer Review in Medieval Studies" Medievalists are increasingly turning to digital media both to produce new types of scholarship such as encoded texts and non-bookish digital projects (e.g. archives and interactive electronic resources) and to advance and increase the efficiency of traditional forms of scholarship such as critical editions. There is not yet widespread agreement, however, regarding how this new work should count for academic promotion, and many scholars working in these new media find that there are few established avenues for getting their work peer reviewed. At the same time, we are witnessing rapid and widespread changes in how we use print texts (e.g. often in scanned, searchable copies), and many traditional publishers of print journals and monographs are under enormous financial pressures from declining sales and print runs, thereby further limiting access to peer review and opportunities for publication. How can we, as a community, bring scholarship, publishing, and the need for peer review into balance? Please email abstracts (not to exceed 300 words) to Timothy Stinson ( stinson_at_jhu.edu). Please include name, professional/university affiliation, and contact information. ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate 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 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: EMLS 13.1 Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:41:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 275 (275) To whom it may concern, The latest issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (12.3) is now available online at http://purl.org/emls/emlshome.html The table of contents follows, below. EMLS invites contributions of critical essays on literary topics and of interdisciplinary studies which centre on literature and literary culture in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Contributions, including critical essays and studies (which should be accompanied by a 250 word abstract), bibliographies, notices, letters, and other materials, may be submitted to the Editor by email at M.Steggle_at_shu.ac.uk or by regular mail to Dr Matthew Steggle, Early Modern Literary Studies, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Articles: "The Golden Man and the Golden Age: The Relationship of English Poets and the New World Reconsidered." David McInnis, University of Melbourne. "The Rumbling Belly Politic: Metaphorical Location and Metaphorical Government in Coriolanus." Nate Eastman, Lehigh University. "Witchcraft, flight and the early modern English stage." Roy Booth, Royal Holloway University of London. "Milton's Titles." John K. Hale, University of Otago. Reviews: Sylvia Bowerbank. Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. [5] Valerija Vendramin, Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Steve Mentz. Romance for Sale in Early Modern England: The Rise of Prose Fiction. Ashgate, 2006. [6] Claire Jowitt, Nottingham Trent University. Sonia Massai, ed. World-wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance. London and New York, Routledge, 2005. [7] Daniel Cadman, Sheffield Hallam University. Jean-Christophe Mayer. Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith: History, Religion and the Stage. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. [8] Katherine Wilkinson, Sheffield Hallam University. Andrew Murphy. Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. [9] Tom Rooney, Central European University. Adam Smyth. "Profit and Delight": Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-1682. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2004. [10] Gillian Wright, University of Birmingham. Katharine Wilson. Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives: Euphues in Arcadia. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. [11] Steve Mentz, St. John's University. Theatre Reviews: The Shakespeare Summer, 2007. [12] Neil Forsyth, University of Lausanne. Notice: EMLS prize, 2006. From: Rhonda Dale Subject: online jobs for Latin instructors Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:42:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 276 (276) AMDG Online High School is currently hiring part-time Latin Instructors. This is the perfect opportunity for a graduate student. Please consider applying. Website: www.amdg.ws Since 1999, thousands of public, independent, home-schooled and adult students from all over the country have enrolled in AMDG's accredited online K-12 program. These students have anytime, anywhere access to a quality education through AMDG. In addition to more than 160 academic courses ranging from remedial to honors and AP, AMDG also offers foreign language, enrichment, and elective courses. How to Apply: Please send resume to teacherapp_at_amdg.ws. From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: Space as an artefact (Classics seminar) Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:54:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 277 (277) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007 Friday 10th August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Stuart Dunn (King's College London) Space as an artefact: understanding past perceptions and uses of space with and without computers ALL WELCOME This work in progress seminar will examine current thinking on human uses and perceptions of space in the past. In particular, it will provide an initial summary of the main points to emerge from the recent Methods Network workshop entitled 'Space/Time: Methods in Geospatial Computing for Mapping the Past'. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony_at_kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: risk-taking Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:36:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 278 (278) I expect that like many of you with mid 20C origins, I read Erwin Schrödinger's once famous little book What is Life? (1944) in my youth and then forgot about it -- until reminded recently by Robert Rosen's Essays on Life Itself. But for those of you who haven't read Schrödinger's book, allow me a small bit of background. Schrödinger (1887-1961) was an Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist whose fame came from his work on quantum dynamics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 for a quantum dynamical equation that bears his name. (The Wikipedia entries on Schrödinger and his equation will fill you in on some details.) Anyhow, shortly before the end of WWII, he turned his attention to theoretical biology, about which by his own admission he knew very little, comparatively speaking, and gave a series of lectures in Dublin that were published in 1944 under the title of the book I am recommending. He felt, as Einstein had once remarked, that physics as we know it is terribly primitive -- that although living systems are part of the natural world, the science that should be able to include them cannot. So he turned to organisms as respository of a "new physics". It must have taken considerable bravery for someone in his position, at the top of his field, so able to get an audience (of ca 400 people) and a publisher afterwards, but expected to produce goods of the highest calibre, to venture into the unknown. But he did. This is what he says at the beginning of the book after recognizing that experts, as "a matter of noblesse oblige", are usually expected not to write on any topic of which they are not master: [deleted quotation]The whole of which Schrödinger spoke may be far more complex than he imagined -- though, his imagination being what it was, I'd be cautious going too far in that direction. It is certainly now even fashionable to speak, as Nancy Cartwright has brilliantly written, of a "deeply dappled" physical world. Yet, I'd think, wholeness remains by some kind of reasoning the goal by which we operate intellectually, even if it never can be achieved. It certainly seems that a synthesis of what we're doing with computers is squarely on our agenda, and that to achieve it, Schrödinger-like bravery is required. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.31 Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:54:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 279 (279) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 31 August 7, 2007 -- August 13, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: THE CHANGING PARADIGM OF NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING The Internet and 'Web 2.0' technologies are shifting the newspaper publishing paradigm. Mohan Babu K. explains: "The current paradigm is being extended into a two-way communication, primarily by tech-savvy readers who are using Web 2.0 technologies: blogs, wikis, online discussion boards and forums. Readers are re-broadcasting the editorials and articles by superimposing their viewpoints and observations along with the original. If you were to think about it is a good thing: Real people with real perspectives, some of them shaped by an editorial." See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i31_mohan.html> From: "Helena Francke" Subject: new publication: Human IT 9:1 ? Electronic Records Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:55:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 280 (280) Dear all, [sorry for any x-posting] A new issue of Human IT (with some articles in English) has been published over the summer and is available on the Web at http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/ This issue's theme is Electronic Records, and it is guest edited by Anneli Sundqvist at Mid Sweden University. She writes: "Information technology has added new dimensions to the concept of records and to archival practices. For thousands of years the medium for records creation was stable and physically tangible, and thus the handling primarily concerned keeping order in a literal sense. Then from the middle of the 20th century, first microfilm, audio recordings, and later computer technology, have challenged the foundations of both practices and principles. The new technology has made an enormous proliferation of records possible, often in susceptible formats of short duration. The concept of a record as a fixed entity and of the archive as a definite assembly of closed records is questioned. This touches upon the intricate issue of the relation between technology and social change. All the contributions to this thematic issue of Human IT attend to the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on established practices in such various fields as administrative work, long-term preservation of official documents, and the conservation of art works." Table of contents: * Anneli Sundqvist Guest editorial: Electronic Records: An Introduction http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/index.htm#guest * David Brolin Den digitala hammarens filosof: Vilem Flusser-introduktion pÃ¥ svenska [The Philosopher of the Digital Hammer: An Introduction in Swedish to Vilém Flusser] (Review) http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/db.htm * Lars Ilshammar When Computers Become Dangerous: The Swedish Computer Discourse of the 1960s (Refereed Section) http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/li.htm Electronic Records: * Else Hansen Ny viden - gamle ideer: Elektroniske registre i den danske centraladministration [New Knowledge - Old Ideas: Electronic registers in the Danish Central Administration] (Open Section) http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/eh.htm * Kenneth Hanstrom Autenticitet i en digital varld: Langsiktsbevarande av allmanna handlingar [Authenticity in a Digital World: Long Term Preservation of Public Records] (Open Section) http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/kh.htm * Karin Wagner Internet Art and the Archive (Open Section) http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/kw.htm * Pauline Singh, Jane E. Klobas & Karen Anderson Information Seeking Behaviour of Electronic Records Management Systems (ERMS) Users Implications for Records Management Practices (Refereed Section) http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/psjkka.htm Human IT is a multidisciplinary, scholarly journal which publishes new research and discussion on digital media as communicative, aesthetic, and ludic instruments. It is published by the University College of Boras, Sweden. Best regards, Helena / co-editor From: Constanze Witt Subject: CFP: XIIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:33:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 281 (281) XIIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum Call for Papers What's Hippocratic about the Hippocratics? The XIIIth triennial Colloquium Hippocraticum will be held at the University of Texas at Austin August 11th-13th 2008. The objective of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of ancient medicine, science and philosophy to advance our understanding of the compass of the term "Hippocratic". The term is used primarily to refer to the authors, texts, theories and practices of the Corpus Hippocraticum, which share a basic scientific outlook but which are notoriously polemical one with another. To date most research has focused on the disparities between treatises and polemical relationships between authors. We are soliciting papers which look more closely for specific commonalities and which identify clusters of shared theories and practices. We are interested in considering in what ways, if any, the Corpus as a whole, or at least the major part of it, can be differentiated from other rationalist medical theories of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. as illustrated in, e.g., the theories contained in the Anonymus Londinensis, the writings of Diokles of Karystos, papyrus fragments of medicine not duplicated in the Corpus, references to medicine in non-medical texts. The main question we hope to address is, "Is the Corpus the result of a haphazard process of collection of rational medical treatises or were there criteria for selection that deemed some rational medicine ineligible for inclusion in the Corpus?" Examination of these issues could proceed either by intertextual study of two or more treatises within the Corpus or by comparison of treatises to works not included in the Corpus (literary, historical and philosophical as well as medical). We hope to elicit papers dealing with theory, therapy, chronology and geographical provenance. Papers dealing with the early catalogues of the Corpus or with later authors who can shed light on this question, such as Galen, are welcome. Innovative papers only tangentially related to the main theme of the Colloquium will also be considered. The languages of the conference will be English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Proposals of 500-750 words should be sent, preferably in electronic format, to Lesley Dean-Jones, ldjones_at_mail.utexas.edu. Surface mail: Department of Classics, 1 University Station C3400, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA. Deadline: February 8th, 2008. Authors whose papers are selected for presentation will be notified by March 15th, 2008. We particularly encourage proposals from graduate students and expect to have student bursaries to offset their expenses. -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-Constanze Witt, PhD Department Of Classics University of Texas 1 University Station #C3400 Austin TX 78712 cmwitt_at_mail.utexas.edu 512 471 8684 Save Alaskan Malamutes! Shop through http://www.igive.com/TAMR From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: TEI members meeting - call for late-breaking posters Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 22:31:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 282 (282) We still have some space for posters at the TEI members meeting being held at the University of Maryland from 31st-October to 3rd November. Have you done something interesting recently? Discovered a new way of using the TEI? written a cool piece of TEI-related software? Take the chance to come and show it to the TEI world! We can accept submissions right up to mid October or so, but we'll start filling up the available slots from now on as posters are offered. Send submissions to me and to Susan Schreibman (sschreib at umd dot edu), and we'll get them reviewed immediately. Make sure you send to both of us, to cover holiday periods. -- Sebastian Rahtz Chair, TEI Members Meeting 2007 (for TEI Board of Directors) From: Lou Burnard Subject: DRHA07: Registration Reminder Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:35:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 283 (283) A brief reminder that this year's conference on Digital resources in the Arts and Humanities will be held at Dartington College of Arts, 9 - 11 September inclusive. Visit the conference website at http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07 now to see the draft programme and register for this unique and extraordinary event. * Plenary speakers (in alphabetical order) *Paul Ayris*, *Gavin Bryars*, *Greg Crane*, and *Deke Weaver* * Panel sessions on *After the AHDS*, *Second Life*, *Representing Performance* * A dozen themed sessions on Virtuality; Performance and documentation; Linguistic Resources; Textual Resources; Digital Media and Community Building; Digital pedagogy; Tools and Resources; Music and musicianship. * A concert from leading British contemporary music ensemble Icebreaker, performing their recently recording of Philip Glass' "Music with changing parts" * Performances from Blind Ditch, Avatar Body Collision, Tim Sayer, Michael Young, and others "DRHA continues to defy the border guards and challenge cultural hegemonies, by demonstrating how Going Digital enriches our understanding, our abilities, and our achievements. A splendid time is guaranteed for all." Lou Burnard and Chris Pressler From: Willard McCarty Subject: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 11.6 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:28:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 284 (284) Volume 11 Number 6 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Editorial Personal and ubiquitous computing: special issue on location and context awareness Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Thomas Strang pp. 415 LuxTrace: indoor positioning using building illumination Julian Randall, Oliver Amft, Jürgen Bohn, Martin Burri pp. 417 - 428 Exploiting real world knowledge in ubiquitous applications Ashweeni Beeharee, Anthony Steed pp. 429 - 437 Improving the accuracy of ultrasound-based localisation systems Hubert Piontek, Matthias Seyffer, Jörg Kaiser pp. 439 - 449 GETA sandals: a footstep location tracking system Shun-yuan Yeh, Keng-hao Chang, Chon-in Wu, Hao-hua Chu, Jane Yung-jen Hsu pp. 451 - 463 Periodic properties of user mobility and access-point popularity Minkyong Kim, David Kotz pp. 465 - 479 Pedestrian navigation with high sensitivity GPS receivers and MEMS Gérard Lachapelle pp. 481 - 488 MoteTrack: a robust, decentralized approach to RF-based location tracking Konrad Lorincz, Matt Welsh pp. 489 - 503 From: Ken Friedman Subject: International Journal of Design 1.2 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:19:50 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 285 (285) Dear Colleagues, <http://www.ijdesign.org>I am very pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 1, Issue 2 of the International Journal of Design. It is now available online at www.ijdesign.org. The on-line version is open access, freely available for anyone, anywhere to download, read, distribute, and use for non-commercial purposes with proper attribution. We hope you will enjoy reading this issue of IJDesign. If you have any suggestion, please let us hear from you. Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts online at <http://www.ijdesign.org>www.ijdesign.org. Regards, Lin-Lin Chen Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Design -- International Journal of Design Vol. 1(2) August 2007 | Table of Contents Original Articles * Christena Nippert-Eng Privacy in the United States: Some Implications for Design * Vicki Karaminas Imagining the Orient: Cultural Appropriation in the Florence Broadhurst Collection * Hernan Pablo Casakin Metaphors in Design Problem Solving: Implications for Creativity Design Case Studies * Richie Moalosi, Vesna Popovic, and Anne Hickling-Hudson Product Analysis Based on Botswana's Postcolonial Socio-cultural Perspective * Rung-Tai Lin Transforming Taiwan Aboriginal Cultural Features into Modern Product Design: A Case Study of a Cross-cultural Product Design Model State-of-the-Art Reviews * Suzan Boztepe User Value: Competing Theories and Models -- International Journal of Design <http://www.IJDesign.org>www.IJDesign.org Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: Fwd: Literature Factory Announcement to forward Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:23:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 286 (286) Forwarded with permission:) Please distribute as appropriate. -jh [deleted quotation]jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series From: Lou Burnard Subject: DRHA07: Registration Reminder Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:35:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 287 (287) A brief reminder that this year's conference on Digital resources in the Arts and Humanities will be held at Dartington College of Arts, 9 - 11 September inclusive. Visit the conference website at http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07 now to see the draft programme and register for this unique and extraordinary event. * Plenary speakers (in alphabetical order) *Paul Ayris*, *Gavin Bryars*, *Greg Crane*, and *Deke Weaver* * Panel sessions on *After the AHDS*, *Second Life*, *Representing Performance* * A dozen themed sessions on Virtuality; Performance and documentation; Linguistic Resources; Textual Resources; Digital Media and Community Building; Digital pedagogy; Tools and Resources; Music and musicianship. * A concert from leading British contemporary music ensemble Icebreaker, performing their recently recording of Philip Glass' "Music with changing parts" * Performances from Blind Ditch, Avatar Body Collision, Tim Sayer, Michael Young, and others "DRHA continues to defy the border guards and challenge cultural hegemonies, by demonstrating how Going Digital enriches our understanding, our abilities, and our achievements. A splendid time is guaranteed for all." Lou Burnard and Chris Pressler From: oxfordjournals-mailer_at_alerts.stanford.edu Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 22.3 (September 2007) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:36:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 288 (288) Lit Linguist Computing -- Table of Contents Alert ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Quantitative Authorship Attribution: An Evaluation of Techniques Jack Grieve Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:251-270. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/251?etoc Multivariate Analysis of Finnish Dialect Data An Overview of Lexical Variation Saara Hyvonen, Antti Leino, and Marko Salmenkivi Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:271-290. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/271?etoc Metamorphosis: Remediation in Early English Books Online (EEBO) Diana Kichuk Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:291-303. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/291?etoc A Statistical Analysis of Editorial Influence and Author Character Similarities in 1990s New Yorker Fiction Katherine L. Milkman, Rene Carmona, and William Gleason Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:305-328. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/305?etoc Discovery of Language Resources on the Web: Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Documents Viktor Pekar and Richard Evans Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:329-343. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/329?etoc Delta for Middle Dutch Author and Copyist Distinction in Walewein Karina van Dalen-Oskam and Joris van Zundert Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:345-362. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/345?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Review Article ----------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Art and Technical Convergence: A Review of Silicon Remembers Carbon, an Exhibition Marilyn Deegan Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:363-366. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/363?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ----------------------------------------------------------------- Georeferencing: The Geographic Associations of Information. * Hill, Linda L. Stuart E. Dunn Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:367-369. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/367?etoc An Approach to Videogame Criticism. * Ian Bogost. Stephen Ramsay Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:369-370. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/369?etoc Aesthetic Computing. * Fishwick, Paul A. (ed). Stan Ruecker Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:370-372. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/370?etoc Challenge and Change in the Information Society. * Susan Hornby and Zoe Clarke (eds). Melissa M. Terras Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:372-374. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/372?etoc From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Survey on the Continuation of Digital Scholarship Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:37:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 289 (289) Publications If you are interested in the continuation of Digital Scholarship publications, such as DigitalKoans/Flashback, the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog/Resources, and the Open Access Bibliography/Webliography, please take a short survey on this matter (six multiple-choice questions and two optional questions). http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0UByvn6MY_2bYljXrnUGsdMA_3d_3d Thanks. -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans/Flashback http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/ Open Access Bibliography/Webliography http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: RFP-Cooperative Agreements: National Digital Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:30:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 290 (290) Newspaper Program Posted at the request of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access. Please feel free to forward as appropriate. Request for Proposals-Cooperative Agreements for the National Digital Newspaper Program (A Partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress) URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html Program Overview -- Award amount: up to $400,000 -- Deadline for submission: November 1, 2007 -- Award announcement: June 2008 -- Grant period: 2 years beginning July 2008 NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Ultimately, over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the Internet. [See the beta prototype Web site, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers at http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ .] An accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the Web site will direct users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. LC will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections during the course of this partnership between NEH and the Library. The NDNP will be implemented in several phases, gradually extending its chronological coverage. Since 2005, awards to state projects are supporting the selection and digitization of titles published in California, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Virginia between 1880 and 1910. The Endowment intends to fund projects in all states and U.S. territories provided that sufficient funds allocated for this purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded projects will be eligible for continued support to digitize pages from new decades, as the program increases its chronological span. During this phase of NDNP, successful applicants will select newspapers-published in their state in English between 1880 and 1922-and convert, primarily from microfilm, over a period of two years, approximately 100,000 pages into digital files, according to the technical guidelines (http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf) outlined by the Library of Congress. NDNP builds on the foundation established by an earlier NEH initiative: the United States Newspaper Program (USNP). Since 1982, the Endowment has supported a cooperative, national effort to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm American newspapers published from the 18th century to the present. NEH has funded newspaper projects in all the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. When completed in 2009, USNP will have provided bibliographic control to widely scattered newspapers and have preserved on microfilm (to consistent national standards) selected titles from this vulnerable corpus. LC has provided technical assistance for the USNP since its inception. NEH expects to award two-year cooperative agreements (of up to $400,000 each), depending on the availability of funds. The Guidelines for the Request for Proposals are located at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html . LC*s technical guidelines are found at: http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf . For information about the application process, contact the Division of Preservation and Access at 202-606-8570 or e-mail at preservation_at_neh.gov. The postal address is: National Digital Newspaper Program Division of Preservation and Access Room 411 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930. All questions relating to the technical guidelines should be directed to LC staff at ndnptech_at_loc.gov. [deleted quotation]Laura Gottesman Digital Reference Team The Library of Congress < http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-digital.html > From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.32 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:28:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 291 (291) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 32 August 14, 2007 -- August 20, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: COMPUTING IN HIGHER EDUCATION Just why the heck does Higher Ed need Chief Information/Technology officers? A Ubiquity associated editor who was one of those people at Michigan, Carnegie-Mellon, Northeastern, and Washington and Lee and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, reveals all. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i32_cio.html> From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Digital Scholarship Publications Survey Still Open Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:29:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 292 (292) There was a survey access problem around 9:00 AM. This has been corrected. The short survey about the continuation of Digital Scholarship publications is now open and will remain so through August 31, 2007. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0UByvn6MY_2bYljXrnUGsdMA_3d_3d The responses so far have been very helpful. Thanks again. -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans/Flashback http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/ Open Access Bibliography/Webliography http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm From: simon mahony Subject: A Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:27:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 293 (293) Documents and Manuscripts Announcing the last in this Summer's Digital Classicist/ICS work in progress seminar series. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments and as always, all are welcome. Friday 17th August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Charles Crowther (Oxford) 'A Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts' The scholar interpreting an ancient documentary text has a broad range of relevant electronic tools available; but the interaction is largely in one direction and the experience is fragmented by the dispersal of the electronic resources. Decipherment and transcription are scholarly activities that naturally benefit from shared visualisation and multiple perspectives, but the potential of ICT to mediate collaborative investigation has yet to be fully exploited. A VRE for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts is a two-year JISC funded project designed to explore these challenges through the construction of an integrated collaborative environment for the study of ancient documentary artefacts. ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate 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 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX From: Natasha Smith Subject: Position Announcement: Project Manager, Digital Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:29:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 294 (294) Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hello: We have just started reviewing applications for this position, so please apply if you are interested. Best wishes, Natasha Smith Head, Digital Publishing/Documenting the American South ______________________________________ This position description is available online: http://www.lib.unc.edu/jobs/epa/nc_maps.html Position: North Carolina Maps Project Librarian (**Fixed Term Appointment**) Available: July 1, 2007 The University of North Carolina seeks a knowledgeable and resourceful librarian for the position of North Carolina Maps Project Librarian. The Project Librarian will serve as project manager for "North Carolina Maps," a three-year digitization project funded by the Library Services and Technology Act through North Carolina ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online). The Library, in collaboration with the North Carolina State Archives and the Outer Banks History Center, plans to digitize and publish online a comprehensive selection of early North Carolina Maps. This new digital collection will become part of an ever-growing library digital publishing program that includes the internationally renowned Documenting the American South (http://docsouth.unc.edu) and is part of the newly-established Carolina Digital Library. The Project Librarian will work with staff from the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill and the two partner repositories, who will provide support for archival and digitization activities. The PL will be part of the Carolina Digital Library's Digital Publishing Group. The project team will include several graduate student research assistants dedicated to the project. The Project Librarian will oversee the project through all stages of implementation to its completion, coordinating efforts among participating departments and repositories, managing the daily operation of the project and its budget, and maintaining efficient workflow. The Project Librarian will train and supervise several graduate student research assistants who will prepare selected documents for digitization, scan page images, and assign technical and administrative metadata. Preparation of the selected documents for digitization includes matching maps with existing catalog records, investigating and resolving bibliographic irregularities, and identifying conservation work that needs to be done before items are digitized. The Project Librarian will be responsible for the production of descriptive item-level metadata for digital objects to promote searchability and discovery via locations, names, dates, and subjects. The Project Librarian will also be responsible for the quality of digital conversion and conformity with national standards and best practices and oversee the online publication of materials. The Project Librarian and the CDL staff will develop the website architecture and design and conduct usability studies to assess the site interface and functionality. The Project Librarian will work with North Carolina Collection staff to develop a North Carolina map cataloging manual, which will serve as a guide for identifying and describing state maps for use by cultural heritage professionals around the state. The Project Librarian will also work with the Digital Library staff on the content synthesis and is responsible for the ongoing refinement of the Web presentation. The Project Librarian will work closely with other Library departments and University departments as needed for the successful and timely completion of the project. *Qualifications* *Required*: Graduate degree from an ALA-accredited program; demonstrated knowledge of archival and digital library technologies, standards, and best practices for metadata and information exchange; working knowledge of relational databases; enthusiasm for maps and other cartographic materials. Strong oral and written communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills; ability to work with faculty, staff, and students in a culturally diverse environment; commitment to service and to professional growth and development. *Preferred*: Practical experience with creating and managing digital library projects; working knowledge of HTML, MySQL, XML, and GIS; experience with cataloging maps and/or other cartographic materials. *The University and The Libraries* The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <http://www.unc.edu/> is the country's oldest state university. UNC-Chapel Hill has an enrollment of approximately 27,000 students, employs more than 3,100 faculty, offers 77 doctoral degrees as well as professional degrees in dentistry, medicine, pharmacy and law, and the Library collections include over 5.7 million volumes. The Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries<http://www.arl.org/>, the Center for Research Libraries, the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) and SOLINET <http://www.solinet.net/>. The TRLN libraries, including the Health Sciences <http://www.hsl.unc.edu/> and Law<http://library.law.unc.edu/home.shtml>libraries at Chapel Hill plus the libraries at Duke University <http://www.lib.duke.edu/>, North Carolina Central University<http://www.nccu.edu/library/shepard.html>, and North Carolina State University <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/>, have combined collections of over eleven million volumes. *The Region* The Triangle region <http://triangle.citysearch.com/> is one of the most desirable places to live and work in North America and offers its residents a wide array of recreational, cultural, and intellectual activities. The mountains or the seashore are less than half day's drive from Chapel Hill. The University of North Carolina is an equal opportunity employer and is strongly committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. *Salary and Benefits* This is a *twelve-month fixed-term appointment, with the possibility of a two year renewal*. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Standard state benefits of annual leave, sick leave, and State or optional retirement plan. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, librarians enjoy the benefit of academic status and are represented on the faculty council. *Deadline for Application* Review of applications will begin on August 4, 2007. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. *To Apply*: Send a letter of application, a resume and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three professional references to: North Carolina Maps Project Librarian c/o Tiffany Allen, Personnel Librarian The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3900, 213 Davis Library Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 Email: Tiffany_Allen_at_unc.edu *An Equal Opportunity Employer* From: Tanya Clement Subject: Getting to know TEI P5 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:16:45 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 295 (295) Upcoming Workshops: Getting to know TEI P5 and an Educational Roundtable (31 October 2007) -- The 20th Anniversary Text Encoding Initiative Consortium Members' Meeting is offering two pre-conference workshops to interested participants. Both workshops take place on October 31 in McKeldin Library. I. Getting to know TEI P5 : Everything you wanted to know about TEI P5 (but were afraid to ask)! [Instructors: Dot Porter and James Cummings] This day long hands-on workshop will begin with a basic overview of the TEI Guidelines: the structure of the TEI as a text encoding system and the major changes from P4 to P5 in the way the TEI is generated and organised. This full-day workshop runs from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with a mid-day break for lunch. Fee: $120.00 II. TEI training: "Education Roundtable" [Convenor: Werner Wegstein] This half-day event offers a platform for instructors to exchange ideas and concepts about teaching TEI to different groups of users (from undergraduates to researchers), at different levels of detail, using different media and environment (distance teaching vs. a classroom approach), for different modes of scholarly discource (dictionaries or scholarly editions), and using different methods (e.g. Teaching TEI by translation). This half-day workshop will run from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The workshop is free, but registration is required. For more workshop information and to register, please visit <http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/workshops.html>. -- For more information on TEI_at_20: 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities, October 31 - November 3 at the University of Maryland, College Park, please visit <http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/>. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Aguera, Helen Subject: National Digital Newspaper Program (US) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:01:43 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 296 (296) National Endowment for the Humanities: Division of Preservation and Access Cooperative Agreements for the National Digital Newspaper Program (A Partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress) URL: <http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html>http://www.neh.gov/grants/gu= idelines/ndnp.html Program Overview -- Award amount: up to $400,000 -- Deadline for submission: November 1, 2007 -- Award announcement: June 2008 -- Grant period: 2 years beginning July 2008 NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Ultimately, over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the Internet. [See the beta prototype Web site, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers at <http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/> An accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the Web site will direct users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. LC will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections during the course of this partnership between NEH and the Library. The NDNP will be implemented in several phases, gradually extending its chronological coverage. Current awards to state projects are supporting the selection and digitization of newspapers published in California, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Virginia between 1880 and 1910. The Endowment intends to fund projects in all states and U.S. territories provided that sufficient funds allocated for this purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded projects will be eligible for continued support to digitize pages from new decades, as the program increases its chronological span. For this competition, successful applicants will be selecting newspapers=ADpublished in their state in English between 1880 and 1922=ADand digitizing approximately 100,000 pages, according to the technical guidelines (<http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf> outlined by the Library of Congress. NDNP builds on the foundation established by an earlier NEH initiative: the United States Newspaper Program (USNP) <http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html>. Since 1982, the Endowment has supported a cooperative, national effort to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm American newspapers published from the 18th century to the present. NEH has funded newspaper projects in all the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. When completed in 2009, USNP will have provided bibliographic control to widely scattered newspapers and have preserved on microfilm (to consistent national standards) selected titles from this vulnerable corpus. LC has provided technical assistance for the USNP since its inception. NEH expects to award two-year cooperative agreements (of up to $400,000 each), depending on the availability of funds. The Application Guidelines are located at: <http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html> . LC=92s technical guidelines are found at: <http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf> From: Willard McCarty Subject: breaks of unknown effect Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:40:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 297 (297) Dear colleagues, From Sunday 19 August until Saturday 15 September, while I am away from usual haunts, my access to e-mail will be otherwise than it usually is, so there may be delays in the posting of messages to Humanist, even the possibility that some messages may be lost. Please be especially watchful for anything you may send, and resend if necessary. One of the activities that keeps me away is worth much notice and will be of professional interest to some -- the Contextualizing Classics programme (www.proclassics.org) of the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, University of Sofia "St Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria. The session for 2007 is the last of three. The website describes the factual details. What it does not say is that this has been a splendid success in every way and is more than worthy of imitation elsewhere. The Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) is to be commended for its wisdom in funding this programme. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "Donald Waters" Subject: Position announcement Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:20:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 298 (298) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Associate Program Officer Scholarly Communications Program The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seeks applications for the position of Associate Program Officer in its Scholarly Communications program. The Foundation's programs in this area provide support for the creation, cataloging, dissemination and preservation of scholarly resources necessary for teaching, learning, and research in higher education, particularly in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. The Program Officer will work primarily with, and under the supervision of, the Foundation's senior Program Officer in Scholarly Communications. The primary responsibilities will be to assist in the design of new programs, screen and evaluate proposals, monitor and provide detailed analysis of grantees' reports, prepare written reports and grant recommendations for the Trustees, and make site visits as necessary. The ideal candidate will have recently earned a PhD in a humanities or social science discipline, have experience in higher education, preferably in academic libraries, with an understanding of the roles of publishers, libraries, museums, and archives in the advance of scholarship. Candidates should also have a deep interest in building long-term capacities for scholarly communications in the research universities, liberal arts colleges, and other institutions that the Foundation supports. Personal initiative, strong oral and written communication skills, excellent analytical and organizational abilities, attention to detail, and facility with online communication and data-management systems are all essential. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that makes grants in the areas of higher education and scholarship, arts and culture, public affairs, and conservation and the environment. The Foundation is an equal opportunity employer that offers a competitive salary, outstanding benefits, and excellent working conditions. Applications, including a cover letter, resume and salary requirements, should be sent by October 1, 2007 to: Oscar De La Cruz Human Resources Manager The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 140 E. 62nd Street New York, NY 10065; Electronic submissions are welcome and should be addressed to: APOScholCom_at_mellon.org. From: Robert Barrick <rbarrick_at_stanford.edu> Subject: Stanford Humanities Center, Date: Aug 20, 2007 1:48 PM X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 299 (299) Humanities Fellowship To: undisclosed-recipients Announcement of Digital Humanities Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center We would appreciate if you would share this information with colleagues who may be interested: The Stanford Humanities Center seeks to award one Digital Humanities fellowship for the academic year 2008-2009 to a junior or senior scholar. Fellows are in residence at the Center during the regular academic year (September to June) and participate in the Center's intellectual life, sharing ideas and work in progress with a diverse community of scholars from across the spectrum of academic fields and ranks. The Digital Humanities fellowship online application deadline is October 15, 2007. The Digital Humanities Fellowship reflects the Stanford Humanities Center's commitment to supporting new directions in humanities research. The fellowship is intended for humanities scholars whose research methods are critically shaped by information technology. Projects should be oriented to producing new research outcomes rather than focusing primarily on the creation of archives or software. Appropriate projects will approach significant questions in humanistic study with the aid of new research tools or methodologies. Especially appropriate are candidates whose research is likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a diverse group of scholars within the disciplines of the humanities. Applicants normally will have received their PhD in or before September 2005 to be eligible for 2008-2009 fellowships. Fellows are awarded stipends of up to $60,000. In addition, a housing and moving allowance of up to $15,000 is offered, dependent upon need. For the online application and more information, please see our website: <http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/digital_hum.htm> email: phone: (650) 723-3054 --- Robert Barrick Fellowship Administrator Stanford Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street Room 151 Stanford, CA 94305-4015 (T) 650.723.3054 (F) 650.723.1895 rbarrick_at_stanford.edu From: Melissa Terras Subject: Post Doc and PhD at Oxford Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:15:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 300 (300) UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF CLASSICS Sub-Faculty of Ancient History E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents Applications are invited for two posts for which funding has been secured through the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities E-Science initiative to support research on the application of Information Technology to ancient documents. Both posts are attached to a project which will develop a networked software system that can support the imaging, documentation, and interpretation of damaged texts from the ancient world, principally Greek and Latin papyri, inscriptions and writing tablets. The work will be conducted under the supervision of Professors Alan Bowman FBA, Sir Michael Brady FRS FREng (University of Oxford) and and Dr. Melissa Terras (University College London). 1. A Doctoral Studentship for a period of 4 years from 1 January, 2008. The studentship will be held in the Faculty of Classics (Sub-Faculty of Ancient History) and supported at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents and the Oxford E-Research Centre. The Studentship award covers both the cost of tuition fees at Home/EU rates and a maintenance grant. To be eligible for a full award, the student must have been ordinarily resident in the UK for a period of 3 years before the start of the award. 2. A postdoctoral Research Assistantship for a period of 3 years from 1 January, 2008. The post will be held in the Faculty of Classics (Sub-Faculty of Ancient History) and supported at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents and the Oxford E-Research Centre. The salary will be in the range of £26,666 - £31,840 p.a. Applicants must have expertise in programming and Informatics and an interest in the application of imaging technology and signal-processing to manuscripts and documents. The deadline for receipt of applications is 21 September 2007. Further details about both posts, the project, the qualifications required and the method of application are available from Ms Ghislaine Rowe, Graduate Studies Administrator, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’ , Oxford OX1 3LU (01865 288397, ghislaine.rowe_at_classics.ox.ac.uk). It is hoped that interviews will be held and the appointments made on 11 October. Professor Alan Bowman Camden Professor of Ancient History Brasenose College, Oxford OX1 4AJ +44 (0)1865 277874 Director, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents The Stelios Ioannou School for Research in Classical and Byzantine Studies 66 St Giles’ Oxford OX1 3LU +44 (0)1865 610227 _______________________________________________ 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/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts Available now through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at: <http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557>http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557 From: Carlos Areces Subject: M4M-5: EasyChair Submission Page Now Open Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:10:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 301 (301) ==================================================================== 5th Worskhop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-5) http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M5 Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France November 29-30 ==================================================================== The EasyChair Submission Page is now open at: http://www.easychair.org/M4M5/ ==================================================================== Scope ----- The workshop ``Methods for Modalities'' (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term ``modal logics'' is conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers and posters, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. More information about the previous editions can be found at http://m4m.loria.fr/ [...] From: "Natasha McCarthy" Subject: Philosophy of engineering - engineering and metaphysics Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:12:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 302 (302) Dear all This is a reminder that The Royal Academy of Engineering is holding its next philosophy of engineering seminar, on engineering and metaphysics, on Monday September 3rd at 2 for 2.30pm. The seminar will explore a number of metaphysical issues concerning the nature of engineering, and the application of philosophical metaphysics to engineering practice. This should be a very interesting meeting covering highly novel topics, with plenty of time for discussion. The details of speakers and their talks are available on the flyer here: <http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf>http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf If you would like to attend, please let me know using the details below. Please feel free to pass on this message to anyone who may be interested. Kind regards, Natasha _______________________________ Dr Natasha McCarthy Policy Advisor The Royal Academy of Engineering 29 Great Peter Street London SW1P 3LW Tel: 020 7227 0575 Fax: 020 7227 7620 Email: natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk Web: <http://www.raeng.org.uk>www.raeng.org.uk ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________ From: Martin Mueller Subject: Program for Chicago Colloquium Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:16:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 303 (303) on Digital Humanities and Computer Science The program for the Second Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science has now been set, and you can see it at http:// dhcs.northwestern.edu/index.html. The Colloquium will take place on Sunday and Monday, October 21-22, 2007 at Northwestern University. This is an event jointly sponsored by the Illinois Institute for Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. Registration is free, and you are cordially invited to attend. Information about logistics will appear shortly on the web site. You may also contact the conference coordinator, Nathan Mead (n- mead2_at_northwestern.edu). There still is room for poster sessions, and we will be delighted to receive and review submissions on a rolling basis. Please send them to dhcs-submissions_at_listhost.uchicago.edu. The theme of this year's colloquium is "Exploring the scholarly query potential of high quality text and image archives in a collaborative environment." The presentations range widely across cultures and technologies. There are digital surrogates of Mesopotamian cylinder seals and of 3,000 clay statuettes from a Chinese Buddhist temple that make you see things you could not easily see "in the flesh." How to find readable and manipulable representations of the symbols that appear in Isaac Newton's alchemical writings. How to explore the "countless links" that are at the heart of the Orlando Project about Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. How to make the history of North Carolina speak in different ways when the print records (a massive work of late nineteenth century scholarship) are translated into a digital medium. A special session on Monday will explore the different ways in which quite similar technologies of text mining support different goals in legal, literary, and business analysis, and it will ask what these different approaches can learn from each other. The keynote speakers, Matt Kirschenbaum (The Remaking of Reading) and Lew Lancaster (Beyond 2-D Text/Plan: The Chinese Buddhist in 3-D) nicely define the range of topics. Ray Siemens will sum it all up. I hope you will find this attractive enough to come. For the Program Committee Martin Mueller From: "J. Trant" Subject: MW2008 Call For Participation: Deadline Sept 30, 2007 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:17:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 304 (304) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION. Deadline: September 30, 2007. Museums and the Web 2008 April 9 - 12, 2008 Montréal, Québec, Canada http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION. Deadline: September 30, 2007. You are invited to participate in the twelfth annual Museums and the Web Conference. Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, the MW program reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Proposals are invited from professionals and researchers in all areas actively exploring the creation, on-line presentation and use of cultural, scientific and heritage content, and its re-use and evaluation. MW is very international; the 2007 conference welcomed over 800 delegates from more than 30 countries. Full details are available on the conference web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ Search the bibliography of past papers (all on-line since 1997) at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum/ * PROPOSAL FORM * On-line proposal submission is required. Use the form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/mw2008.proposal.form.html [...] From: Stefan Sinclair Subject: Terry Butler Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:14:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 305 (305) Dear colleagues, It's with great sadness that I write with news of the passing of Terry Butler, from the University of Alberta. Through the years he has been a valuable and enthusiastic member of the humanities computing community at his home institution, in Canada, and beyond. Terry has led and participated in several important research projects in humanities computing, including TAPoR (for which he was Executive Manager at the UofA), the Coleridge Notebooks Project, and the Orlando Project. He also had a strong interest in education and technologies – he developed several software applications himself and, more recently, led the TechEdge Project that is studying the IT competencies of liberal arts graduates. Terry was instrumental in the design and development of the M.A. in Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta. Terry was a tireless force in promoting a better understanding of the potential of computing in the humanities and social sciences. He founded the Technology for Learning Centre at the University of Alberta, and was an invaluable resource to many colleagues there. One of Terry's most striking qualities was his ability to be effective both as administrative staff and as a researcher – he had a knack for putting in place the structures that facilitated collaborative scholarship and teaching with computers. Speaking more personally, Terry was always a supportive and generous friend and colleague who played an essential mentoring role for me as a new faculty member when I was at the University of Alberta. I learned a great deal from his organizational competencies, I benefitted from his experience and knowledge in humanities computing, and I enjoyed his company and our discussions on a broad range of topics. Thanks for everything you did Terry – you will be greatly missed. My thoughts and sympathies are with your family. Stéfan -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 <http://stefansinclair.name/>http://stefansinclair.name/<http://stefansinclair.name/> From: Suzanne Gossett Subject: Textual Studies Departments Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:57:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 306 (306) Dear Textual Scholars: For my own department's future planning, I need to compile a list of departments of Textual Studies/ Humanities Computing, and of those departments of English that have this as a stated area of expertise. I am only concerned with Departments in the US and the UK. I would be very appreciative if list members could supply me with any information they have, either about their own departments or others. Thank you very much, Suzanne Gossett From: "OKELL E.R." Subject: Discipline input sought into needs discovery for Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:13:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 307 (307) digital manuscript resource The Higher Education Academy/JISC collaboration team are currently requesting subject specific input to feed into a HEFCE funding bid to digitise Islamic manuscripts. If anyone knows of Islamic manuscripts which it would be useful for classicists to have access to through a digital resource (for either teaching or, more likely, research - arabic manuscripts of Aristotle spring to my mind and I think there are Euclidean geometry texts, so the researchers in the fields of Ancient Medicine and Ancient Science may well have suggestions) could they please contact Dr Sonja Cameron at s.cameron_at_arts.gla.ac.uk Many thanks, Eleanor From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.33 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:12:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 308 (308) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 33 August 21, 2007 -- August 27, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: WRITING TO MAKE SENSE OF WHAT YOU KNOW Clear, concise, persuasive writing is a fundamental skill needed by every educated person whatever his or her profession. Unfortunately, very few people ever truly master it. Not because it is so difficult, but because schools seldom teach its true essence. IT people, perhaps more than most, know the importance of understanding the fundamentals of a discipline (e.g. mathematics) before it can effectively be put to use. Although a professional writer, Philip Yaffe has degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of California. His articles on persuasive communication (writing & speaking) reflect this background by going straight to the essence of the matter. His article in this issue of Ubiquity, How to Improve Your Writing by Standing on Your Head, should be read together with his previous article The Mathematics of Persuasive Communication (<http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/pf/v8i28_persuasive.pdf).>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/pf/v8i28_persuasive.pdf). See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i33_yaffee.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i33_yaffee.html From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22St=E9fan_Sinclair=22?= Subject: sessional lecturer at McMaster for "Interactive Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:35:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 309 (309) Digital Culture" course Dear colleagues, Please forward the job ad below to anyone who may be interested... DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND MULTIMEDIA SESSIONAL LECTURER POSITION AVAILABLE Course: MULTIMEDIA 3EE3: INTERACTIVE DIGITAL CULTURE FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING : Covers works, forms, theories of digitally interactive culture. Works may include hypertext fiction, computer games, interactive digital art, video, music; theories may cover hypertext, interactivity, immersion, simulation, reception, participatory culture. Term/Session: One day section to be offered in Term 1, Fall, from September 6 to December 3, 2007, with the final examination to be held during the period December 5 to 19, 2007, as scheduled by the Office of the Registrar. Qualifications: Applicants should have professional and educational background in the field, plus experience in classroom teaching. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and Permanent Residents will be given priority. McMaster University is strongly committed to employment equity within its community, and to recruiting a diverse faculty and staff. The University encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including women, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, members of sexual minorities, and persons with disabilities. Wages: Are as per "Schedule A" of the Collective Agreement between McMaster University and Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 3906, Unit 2, minimum rate per 3 unit course: $5,650.00. Applications: Must include the following information: Curriculum Vitae; statement of teaching philosophy; and an indication of how applicant would implement course description. Applicants must also include information necessary to determine their seniority as defined in Article 10.01(f) of the CUPE Local 3906, Unit 2 Collective Agreement. Submit to: Graham Knight, Chair, Communication Studies and= Multimedia McMaster University TSH/33- - 1280 Main St. W. Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M2 e-mail cmstdir_at_mcmaster.ca Deadline: No later than 4:00 pm Friday, August 31, 2007 -- [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name <http://mcmaster.ca>mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. St=E9fan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 <http://stefansinclair.name/> From: John Bonnett Subject: CFP: Oral History, Digital Storytelling Conference Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:37:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 310 (310) From Steven High, Department of History, Concordia University. -- John Bonnett Call for Papers SHARING AUTHORITY: Building Community-University Alliances through Oral History, Digital Storytelling and Collaboration A Bilingual (English/French) International Conference Workshop Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Conference 7-10 February 2008 Deadline for Proposals: October 5, 2007 Please send a one-page abstract of your proposal and curriculum vitae to the chair of the organizing committee: Steven High, Canada Research Chair in Public History (shigh_at_alcor.concordia.ca) Historian Michael Frisch coined the phrase "shared authority" in 1990 to describe the dialogical nature of the oral interview. The interaction between the researcher asking questions and the community narrator providing answers results in a unique source. At its best, sharing authority is about much more than speaking to new audiences; it requires the cultivation of trust, the development of collaborative relationships, and shared decision-making. It cannot be rushed. Yet sharing authority has become something of a mantra in oral and public history circles in recent years. It is sometimes said that the promise of extending this idea outward from the interview toward a more broadly based democratic practice has generated enthusiasm but few concrete results. The proposed conference, and a special issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies that will come out of the conference, will test this assertion. It is our belief that the desire to democratize historical "writing" (broadly defined) has animated a growing number of people, both inside and outside university-settings. The 1970s, for example, saw the birth of the "history workshop" in Great Britain, the "=E9comus=E9e" movement in France, and community oral history projects in the United States. The "new museumology", "movement history" and "progressive public history" also emerged at this time. But what has happened since? Despite the growth of funding for collaborative research, there has been remarkably little discussion of the public's place in the research process: how, when, and should, authority be shared between university-based researchers and "community" members. What role does the "public" (in all its variations) play in our research? How successful have collaborative research projects been thus far? In what ways have new digital technologies (blogs, digital memory banks, and "Web 2.0" user communities such as YouTube or Flickr) been used to bridge divides? How might we "share authority" in the history classroom? Can the local, national and transnational communities we study become true partners in research? Proposals are invited from a broad range of university researchers,= community organizations, educators, oral historians, public historians, and others that are building research alliances that bridge the university-community divide. We want to initiate a conversation about sharing authority. What can past practice teach us? What are the possibilities and pitfalls in "sharing authority"? Can history become a catalyst for social change and community building? How has the digital revolution helped to democratize and expand the collaborative process? A wide variety of proposals for individual papers, round table discussions, and other kinds of presentations are welcome. Sponsored by the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University and the Life Stories CURA Research Group (Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Abuses) which includes 40 researchers and community co-applicants, including 18 community groups in the Montreal area. For more on us, see: http://storytelling.concordia.ca From: Dot Porter Subject: Second Call: Digital Media and Peer Review in Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:37:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 311 (311) Medieval Studies Call for Papers for the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-11, 2008, Kalamazoo, Michigan The Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources invites submissions to the following sponsored session: "Digital Media and Peer Review in Medieval Studies" Medievalists are increasingly turning to digital media both to produce new types of scholarship such as encoded texts and non-bookish digital projects ( e.g . archives and interactive electronic resources) and to advance and increase the efficiency of traditional forms of scholarship such as critical editions. There is not yet widespread agreement, however, regarding how this new work should count for academic promotion, and many scholars working in these new media find that there are few established avenues for getting their work peer reviewed. At the same time, we are witnessing rapid and widespread changes in how we use print texts ( e.g. often in scanned, searchable copies), and many traditional publishers of print journals and monographs are under enormous financial pressures from declining sales and print runs, thereby further limiting access to peer review and opportunities for publication. How can we, as a community, bring scholarship, publishing, and the need for peer review into balance? Please email abstracts (not to exceed 300 words) to Timothy Stinson (stinson_at_jhu.edu). Please include name, professional/university affiliation, and contact information. -- Timothy L. Stinson Postdoctoral Fellow Johns Hopkins University <http://dkc.jhu.edu/%7Etstinson/>http://dkc.jhu.edu/~tstinson/ _______________________________________________ Digital Medievalist Project Homepage: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org>http://www.digitalmedievalist.org Journal (Spring 2005-): <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm>http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm RSS (announcements) server: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm>http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm Wiki: <http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php>http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php Change membership options: <http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l>http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l Submit RSS announcement: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm>http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist_at_uleth.ca dm-l mailing list dm-l_at_uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l -- *************************************** 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: Shuly Wintner Subject: Research assistantships available: Machine Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:00:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 312 (312) translation / Hebrew processing For an ISF-funded project on Hebrew to English machine translation, the following positions are available immediately: Research Assistant (doctoral or post-doc level) - MSc or PhD in computer science or a closely related field - Background in computational linguistics or natural language processing - Good programming skills, preferably in Java and Perl - Fluency in Hebrew and English; knowledge of Arabic a great plus - Excellent communication skills You will lead the development of a transfer-based Hebrew-to-English machine translation system. This is an excellent opportunity to combine practical, large-scale software development with cutting-edge research. This position can be part of a doctoral dissertation, leading to a PhD. The position is offered for one year, with a likely extension of up to two more years. Research Assistant (Masters level) - BSc or BA in computer science - Knowledge of computational linguistics or natural language processing preferred - Excellent programming skills, preferably in Java, Perl and SQL - Fluency in Hebrew and English; knowledge of other languages a plus - Good communication skills You will develop methods for lexical representation, morphological processing and automatic identification of multi-word tokens in Hebrew. This position combines practical software development with original research. This position can be part of a masters thesis, leading to an MSc. The position is offered for one year, with a likely extension of up to two more years. For more information on both positions please contact Shuly Wintner either by e-mail or by phone: 04-8288180. From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: TAPoR and Text Analysis Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:57:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 313 (313) Dear Colleagues, If any of you are thinking of teaching students to analyze texts this year using TAPoR tools we would be interested in working with you. Some of things we would like to see tried are: 1. We have recipes for tasks that students might want to do as part of their research. The recipes include examples and walk new users through the tools needed to achieve a task. See, http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/TaporRecipes 2. Instructors with a TAPoR account can create a myLinks web page that has a list of e-texts which students can search across and which students can individually analyze. See and example with texts about humanities computing, http://tapor2.mcmaster.ca/myLinks/HumComp 3. Students can use tools without TAPoR accounts. They can search for a tool and use it from, http://portal.tapor.ca/tools/ 4. Students can, of course, get free accounts on TAPoR where they can manage their own research environment. If you are serious about trying TAPoR in a class we would like to help you. Contact either of us: Geoffrey Rockwell, georock (at) mcmaster (dot) ca St=E9fan Sinclair, sgs (at) mcmaster (dot) ca We need your feedback! From: Shana Kimball Subject: University Publishing in a Digital Age Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:38:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 314 (314) Dear JEP readers: On behalf of the Journal of Electronic Publishing and its publisher, the Scholarly Publishing Office, I am writing to announce the availability of the recent Ithaka report, "University Publishing in a Digital Age," in interactive, commentable form at <http://scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/>http://scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/ From: Nancy Ide Subject: Global Interoperability for Language Resources Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:09:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 315 (315) First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 9-11 January 2008 http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/ Language resources, including not only corpora but also lexicons, knowledge bases and ontologies, grammars, etc. support the development of language processing applications that are increasingly important to the global society. Substantial effort has been devoted to the creation of such resources for the world's major languages over the past decades, and new projects are developing similar resources for less widely-used languages. Some standards and best practices have emerged for representing and linking language corpora and annotations, efforts such as "Global WordNet" and the development of framenets in multiple languages seek to create and link specific lexical and semantic resources across languages, and there are efforts to integrate such resources into general ontologies such as SUMO and to enable common access to ontologies spread across the World Wide Web. As the need for cross-lingual studies and applications grows, it is increasingly important to develop resources in the world's languages that can be compared and linked, used and analyzed with common software, and that contain linguistic information for the same or comparable phenomena. We envision the eventual development of a "global web" of language resources, wherein, for example, linguistically-annotated corpora in multiple languages are inter-linked via the use of common categories, or categories that are mapped to one another; resources such as wordnets and framenets are linked not only to versions in different languages, but also to each other; and common representations enable analysis and use of resources in different languages and of different types within available systems. The first international conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources will bring together designers, developers, and users of corpora and other language resources from across the globe, in order to: o assess the state of the art in methods and schemes for resource representation, annotation, interlinkage, and access; o consider the requirements for (and obstacles to) multi-lingual and multi-modal interoperability and standardization; o consider the requirements for achieving interoperability among multi-lingual resources of different types, including corpora, lexicons, knowledge bases, ontologies, etc., as well as the systems and frameworks that enable their creation and exploitation; o consider the ways in which web technologies are and may be used to enable resource interoperability and inter- linkage; o work toward the definition of best practice guidelines and standards for language resource representation, annotation, and use that will enable interoperability; o consider means to map or harmonize linguistic information in order to better enable cross-lingual studies; o provide direction for developers of resources for less widely used languages; o promote collaboration and cooperation among developers of language resources across the globe; o consider ways to provide central or distributed access to language resources developed throughout the world. TOPICS Paper submissions are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics: o multi-lingual and/or multi-modal language resources, with focus on the mechanisms enabling interoperability; o support for multi-linguality and multi-modality in systems/frameworks for resource creation, annotation, use, and access; o existing and proposed standards and best practice guidelines for language resources, including standards for linguistic annotations at any and all linguistics levels; o systems, frameworks, and architectures to support the development and exploitation of interoperable language resources; o evaluation of existing resources, systems and frameworks, and/or standards in terms of support for interoperability; o harmonization, integration, and/or linking of language resources, including corpora, wordnets, framenets, ontologies, etc.; o web-based technologies for resource interoperability, inter-linkage, and access; o interoperability of ontologies for language processing research; o support for multi-linguality, multi-culturality, and multi-modality. In addition to full-length paper presentations, the Program Committee also invites proposals for posters addressing any of the above topics. Posters describing existing or developing resources or tools that provide an assessment of needs and/or considerations for interoperability are especially encouraged. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings, to be published by City University Press, Hong Kong. A selection of outstanding conference presentations will be published in a special issue of the journal "Language Resources and Evaluation". SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be no more than 8 pages in length,including bibliography and any appendices. Author instructions are provided on the conference web site (http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/2008/html/paper.jsp). Submissions are made through the START system, accessible at http://icgl08.cs.vassar.edu. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 31 August 2007 Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2007 Camera-ready papers due: 15 November 2007 Conference dates: 9-11 January 2008 INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Nicoletta Calzolari Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University, USA Charles Fillmore International Computer Science Institute, UC Berkeley, USA Nancy Ide Vassar College, USA D. Terrence Langendoen University of Arizona and the U.S. National Science Foundation Eric Nyberg Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA [...] Dr Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: dhms_at_labe.felk.cvut.cz Subject: DHMS 2008 - Submission deadline postponed to September 15th Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:57:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 316 (316) SUBMISSION DEADLINE POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 15th!!! 2008 IEEE SMC International Conference on DISTRIBUTED HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS 2008(DHMS 2008) MARCH 9-12, 2008 Athens, Greece Sponsored by the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society For information about DHMS 2008 visit http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: DHMS 2008 will provide a unique opportunity for participants from universities, industry, and government agencies to address challenges, share solutions, and discuss future research directions in distributed human-machine systems. A broad range of topics will combine theory and applications for human- robot/human-machine interaction and interfaces, distributed intelligent systems and networks, agent and holonic systems, swarm intelligence, with the goal of strengthening cooperation of academics, scientists, researchers and engineers with industry. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Agents and agent-based systems Biologically inspired systems Collective robotics Computational Intelligence Decentralized systems Distributed systems Embedded intelligence Evolutionary robotics Genetic and evolutionary computation Human-machine interfaces Human-robot interaction Industrial applications of holonic and agent-based systems Intelligent systems Knowledge systems for coalition operations Swarms, Swarm intelligence Unmanned systems Virtual enterprises Hybrid systems Virtual reality [...] From: simon mahony Subject: English Medieval Latin Charters: Attribution and Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:59:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 317 (317) Exploration through textual analyses Seminar in Humanities Computing, King's College London The first seminar in this year's Humanities Computing series will take place at 1pm on Thursday 30th August 2007 in the Seminar room, 1st floor, Kay House, 7 Arundel St; *** English Medieval Latin Charters: Attribution and Exploration through textual analyses *** Dr Michael Gervers, University of Toronto It is estimated that about a million charters survive as originals or copies from twelfth- and thirteenth-century England, the great majority of which were issued without dates. The DEEDS Project, founded at the University of Toronto in 1975, has developed an XML encoded database of over 9,500 charters from c. 1100 to 1310, dated either internally, or by an editor, to within a year of the actual date of issue. These conveyances have been extracted from over 190 printed sources, which in total contain over 100,000 documents. Charter metadata includes chronological and topographical information, details of the religious house or lay household from which the document came, and the roles, titles and social status of grantors and recipients. All are welcome! Each year the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, presents a series of lectures and demonstrations by leading scholars, postgraduate students and practitioners from across the disciplines of the humanities and nearby social sciences. The series aims not only to present work at the leading edge of application but also to provide a forum in which this work is subject to critical reflection and thoughtful probing. ---------------------------------------- Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7 Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Tel: 020 7848 2861 Fax: 020 7848 2980 Email: cch_at_kcl.ac.uk --- End Forwarded Message --- ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate 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 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.34 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:16:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 318 (318) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 34 August 28, 2007 -- September 3, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: PROCESS EXPRESSION Ubiquity associate editor Ross Gagliano begins this book review: "Karl Fant has written a very compelling book that should be read by both academicians and practitioners alike. Here I speak from experience, having assumed a role in both in prior incarnations. Fant's rejection of commonly held mathematical foundations should pique the curiosity of those in the theoretical computer science community. On the other hand, those in the "real world" of circuits, architecture, compilers, programming, operating systems, and applications need to be aware of Fant's proposed clockless systems design." Suggestion: First read the review by Ross Gagliano, and then read Karl Fantd's new book, "Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression." See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v8i34_invocation.html> From: Katherine L Walter Subject: text-encoding seminar Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:14:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 319 (319) Seminar: Text Encoding for Humanities Scholarship We are pleased to announce a one and a half day seminar in digital text encoding for humanities scholars to be held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, in conjunction with the Nebraska Digital Workshop. The Text Encoding for Humanities Scholarship seminar will be held Oct. 4-5, beginning at 1 p.m. on the 4th. The event will followed by the Nebraska Digital Workshop on Oct. 6. Participants in the Text Encoding seminar will examine the theoretical and practical ramifications of text encoding for humanities scholarship, and the impact of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines on current approaches to digital research. The goal of the seminar is to provide humanities faculty and students with an opportunity to examine the significance of text encoding as a scholarly practice, through a combination of discussion and practical experimentation, and to provide supporting resources for humanities researchers who want to experiment with text encoding on their own, or would like to start or become involved with a digital research project. To register for the Text Encoding event, please send your name, institution, email address, and a 2-paragraph statement of interest and background to Katherine Walter at kwalter1_at_unl.edu. The seminar cost is $35 US and can be paid on site. Participation is limited, so please submit information soon. This seminar is the third in a two-year series funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and sponsored by the Women Writers Project at Brown University. For more information on the seminar series, visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/. ***************************************** Katherine L. Walter Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections Dept. University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln NE 68588-4100 voice: (402) 472-3939 kwalter1_at_unl.edu <http://cdrh.unl.edu>http://cdrh.unl.edu From: Hazel Gardiner Subject: CHArt Conference 2007 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:52:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 320 (320) CHArt TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE -- BOOKING NOW OPEN! http://www.chart.ac.uk/ DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007, Birkbeck, University of London. PROGRAMME Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organisations such as publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated and controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the future of such "top-down" institutions in the age of "bottom-up" access to knowledge and cultural artifacts through Web 2:0 technologies. Will such institutions respond to this threat to their cultural hegemony by resistance or adaptation? How can a museum or a gallery or, for that matter, a broadcasting company, appeal to an audience which has unprecedented access to cultural resources? How can institutions predicated on a cultural economy of scarcity compete in an emerging state of cultural abundance? The twenty-third CHArt conference will reflect upon these issues. KEYNOTE SPEAKER -- TO BE ANNOUNCED THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER SESSION 1 -- New media and Web 2.0 Challenges for Cultural Organisations. Eva Moraga, Madrid, Spain. "Immersion" An Interactive Archive of Sound Art. J Milo Taylor, London College of Communication, London, UK. SESSION 2 -- Virtually the "real thing"? Changing definitions of authenticity in the display and interpretation of a virtual artefact. Tara Chittenden, the Law Society, London,UK. A Visual Arts Perspective on Open Access Institutional Repositories. Jacqueline Cooke and Dafna Ganani-Tomares, Goldsmiths College, University of London,UK. SESSION 3 -- ArtPad: A Collection. A Connection. Melanie Kjorlien and Quyen Hoang, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Your Paintings: Institutions, Identities and Interactions Bridget McKenzie, Flow Associates, London, UK; Jon Pratty, 24 Hour Museum, Brighton. UK. SESSION 4 -- Transforming the Methods Network: Where"s My Community Dude? Neil Grindley, JISC, London, UK; Torsten Reimer, AHRC ICT Methods Network, London, UK Saatchi "Your Gallery" Website"s Problems and Potentials. Ana Finel Honigman, University of Oxford, UK. FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER SESSION 5 -- Merlin on the Web: the British Museum Collection Database goes public. Tanya Szrajber, Head of Documentation, The British Museum, UK. Designing the Electronic Archive: Archive Fever and the Archival Economy of Getty Images Online Operations. Doireann Wallace, Dublin Institute of Technology, Eire. SESSION 6 -- Marketing Visual Culture: Liberty Fabrics" Digital Archive Anna Buruma and Peter Taylor, Liberty, London, UK.; Annette Ward, University of Dundee, UK. Does Information Really Want to be Free? Archival Access and Accountability in Aboriginal Australia. Kimberly Christen, Washington State University, USA. SESSION 7 -- From Information to Knowledge: An Unfinished Canadian Case Study. Sarah Parsons, York University, Toronto, Canada. Understanding Value and new space: The Key to Effective Provision of and Engagement with Digitised Cultural Resources. Heather Robson, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University,= UK. SESSION 8 -- Curation in the Digital Age. Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK. Computer Art Then and Now: Evaluating the V&A"s Collections in the Digital Age. Douglas Dodds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. DEMONSTRATIONS: To be announced [...] ........................................................ 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: Hazel Gardiner Subject: CHArt Conference 2007 - Student Bursaries Offered Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:07:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 321 (321) STUDENT BURSARIES FOR CHART 2007 - DEADLINE 19 OCTOBER 2007 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 2007 CHArt conference, DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER (programme below) The conference takes place on Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007 at Birkbeck, University of London, Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD. 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 GBP toward the cost of conference fees, accommodation and travel. 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). Following your registration for CHArt, please complete the bursary application form, available on the AHRC ICT Methods Network website: <http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html>. If you have any queries about completing the form please contact Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk) using the heading - CHArt Bursary Applications - in the subject bar. Bursary winners will be asked to submit a short report to the AHRC ICT Methods Network following the conference. [...] From: "Marie Suchanova" Subject: Conference "Humans in Outer Space" Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:14:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 322 (322) Dear colleague, It is our pleasure to announce the ESF-ESA-ESPI Conference "Humans in Outer Space =96 Interdisciplinary Odysseyss", to be held in the Vienna Konzerthaus, Austria, on 11-12 October 2007, locally organized by ESPI with support of BMVIT.... Further information on this conference can be found on the following web site: <http://www.esf.org/research-areas/space/activities/inif-activities.html>htt= p://www.esf.org/research-areas/space/activities/inif-activities.html For human exploration of the Moon and Mars nations and agencies might soon be prepared with regards technology development. But what of the contribution from the humanities and social sciences? This conference, co-organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), will aim at being the first comprehensive trans-disciplinary dialogue in Europe on humans in outer space. It will go further than regarding humans as mere tools for exploration, or better robots, and will investigate the human quest for odysseys beyond the atmosphere and reflect on the possibilities to find extraterrestrial life. The conference shall open up new perspectives in assessing humankind's present and future outside the Earth and document this in a "Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space". You are invited to attend this event, by registering your participation through the above link. The registration fee for this event is 130 euros. Should the link not direct you to the page immediately, please copy the link and paste it directly into the internet address bar. We hope to have the pleasure of seeing you in Vienna. The organisers From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Online Copyright Workshops Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:16:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 323 (323) Center for Intellectual Property 2007-2008 Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop Series http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml Join the CIP for four (4) engaging online workshops this fall & spring! This year's moderators include Siva Vaidhyanathan, Arnold Lutzker, Georgia Harper, Gary Pavela and Kim Bonner -- all scholars in their respective areas of study and practice. In addition there will be guest chat sessions with other noted scholars. This asynchronous online workshop series has proven to be of interest to faculty, librarians, distance educators, instructional designers, curriculum specialists, and information professionals. Sign up for just one workshop or the whole series (see below). Not familiar with online workshops? It's easy. Visit our FAQ for answers to most of your questions- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml --------------- Copyright and Academic Culture: New Issues and Developments Dates: October 1-12, 2007 (early registration by September 21 ) Moderator: Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Media Studies and Law, University of Virginia Please see site for a detailed description & course objectives - http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#copyright --------------- DMCA, P2P Filesharing and Campus Responses Dates: November 5-16, 2007 (early registration by October 19) Moderator: Arnold Lutzker, J.D., Senior Partner, Lutzker & Lutzker LLP *Back by popular demand. See website for details - http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#DMCA --------------- Integrating Access to Digital Course Materials: Blackboard/WebCT, Coursepacks, e-Reserves, Licensed Materials, e-Books, Open Access...What Will They Think of Next? Dates: January 28 - February 8, 2008 (early registration by January 11) Moderator: Georgia Harper, J.D., Scholarly Communications Advisor, University Libraries, University of Texas at Austin Please see site for details - http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#integratingaccess ------------------- Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity Dates: February 25 - March 7, 2008 (early registration by February 8 ) Moderators: Gary Pavela, M.A., J.D., Director of Judicial Programs and Student Ethical Development, University of Maryland -- College Park & Kimberly Bonner, J.D., Executive Director, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College Please see site for details - http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#AI TO SIGN UP: http://tinyurl.com/29jg53 [Secured Server] -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 Phone: 240-582-2964 ofrancois_at_umuc.edu From: Craig Bellamy Subject: new on ICT Guides Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:10:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 324 (324) Dear All, ICT Guides is a service offered by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) at King's College, London. It seeks to promote the use of ICTs in research and learning through cataloging good-practice digital arts and humanities projects along with the tools and methods they employed. A number of new projects have been added to ICT Guides: <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/allProjects.jsp>http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/allProjects.jsp Highlight: 3D Reconstruction of the Unbuilt Project Pont destiné à réunir la France à l’Italie (1829) by Henri Labrouste " Henri Labrouste (1801-75) is best known as the architect of two important public buildings in Paris, both libraries. The Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, completed in 1851, demonstrated Labrouste's unconventional use of classical elements, much disputed at the time, and his structural innovation of introducing an exposed iron frame. The Bibliothèque Nationale, completed in the year of his death, is renowned for its eclectic reading room reminiscent of a Seljuk mosque: a light, top-lit round space with slender cast-iron columns, which support a multitude of small domes. Both these buildings are representative of the so-called Beaux-Arts style that flourished at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris of which Labrouste was a student. ". " See: <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=766>http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=766 Suggestions for new projects most welcome. Kind Regards, Craig Bellamy -- Dr Craig Bellamy Research Associate ICT Guides, AHDS, King's College, London <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/>http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/ ----- 26 - 29 Drury Lane 3rd Floor King's College London LONDON, WC2B 5RL Phone: 020 7848 1976 From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- August 2007 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:26:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 325 (325) TL INFOBITS August 2007 No. 14 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitaug07.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... Web 2.0 Technologies for Use in Higher Education Strategies for Online Training of Online Faculty Reducing Attrition in Online Classes Community College students' IT Experiences New Google Research University Services Recommended Reading ...................................................................... WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES FOR USE IN HIGHER EDUCATION As part of the June Sloan-C workshop, "Learning Online 2.0: Engaging, Interacting and Syndicating Applications" (http://www.sloan-c.org/workshop/learningonline_june07.asp), presenters Burks Oakley and Ray Schroeder provided a list of their top 20 Web 2.0 technologies. These technologies are linked to from http://www.sloan-c-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Burks_Oakley_and_Ray_Schroeder:_Top_20_Technologies. You can join workshop participants in evaluating these technologies in the SloanCWiki at http://www.sloan-c.pbwiki.com. 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/. ...................................................................... STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE TRAINING OF ONLINE FACULTY In "Online Training for Online Faculty" (CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY, August 8, 2007) Ron Thomas, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, offers a checklist of ten "best strategies for designing and delivering online courses to train online faculty." Some of the suggestions include: "Be their instructor, not their colleague." "Train faculty on the same platform their students will use." "Provide multiple safety nets for faculty during and after their training." "Respect the faculty members' previous teaching experience." The article is available at http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=49570. Campus Technology [ISSN: 1089-5914] is a print and electronic publication that focuses exclusively on the use of technology across all areas of higher education. For more information, contact: Campus Technology, 101communications LLC, 9121 Oakdale Ave., Suite 101, Chatsworth, CA 91311 USA; tel: 818-734-1520; fax: 818-734-1522; Web: http://www.campus-technology.com/. ...................................................................... REDUCING ATTRITION IN ONLINE CLASSES "Attrition rates for classes taught through distance education are 10- 20% higher than classes taught in a face-to-face setting. . . . Finding ways to decrease attrition in distance education classes and programs is critical both from an economical and quality viewpoint. High attrition rates have a negative economic impact on universities." In "Strategies to Engage Online Students and Reduce Attrition Rates" (THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATORS ONLINE, vol. 4, no. 2, July 2007), the authors provide a review of the literature to determine methods for "engaging students with the goals of enhancing the learning process and reducing attrition rates." Their research identified four major strategies: -- student integration and engagement Includes "faculty-initiated contact via phone calls, pre-course orientations, informal online chats, and online student services." -- learner-centered approach Faculty "need to get to know their students and assess each student's pre-existing knowledge, cultural perspectives, and comfort level with technology." -- learning communities "[S]trong feelings of community may not only increase persistence in courses, but may also increase the flow of information among all learners, availability of support, commitment to group goals, cooperation among members and satisfaction with group efforts." -- accessibility to online student services. Services might include "assessments, educational counseling, administrative process such as registration, technical support, study skills assistance, career counseling, library services, students' rights and responsibilities, and governance." The paper, written by Lorraine M. Angelino, Frankie Keels Williams, and Deborah Natvig, is available at http://www.thejeo.com/Volume4Number2/Angelino%20Final.pdf. The Journal of Educators Online (JEO) [ISSN 1547-500X ]is an online, double-blind, refereed journal by and for instructors, administrators, policy-makers, staff, students, and those interested in the development, delivery, and management of online courses in the Arts, Business, Education, Engineering, Medicine, and Sciences. For more information, contact JEO, 500 University Drive, Dothan, Alabama 36303 USA; tel: 334-983-6556, ext. 1-356; fax: 334-983-6322; Web: http://www.thejeo.com/. ...................................................................... COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS' IT EXPERIENCES A new EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) research bulletin, "Impressions of Community College Students' IT Experiences," "highlights some of the similarities and differences between students attending four-year institutions and those attending community colleges, focusing on those areas where there are challenges and opportunities for using IT to improve students' academic experiences." Since 2004, ECAR has studied undergraduate students and the impact of information technology on their academic experiences. Now in its third year, the study surveyed 96 institutions, including eight community colleges. Compared to students at four-year institutions, community college students reported: -- "less use per week for most course-related activities, similar use for some social activities, and less use of social networking and instant messaging " -- "fewer basic and fewer advanced skills with presentation software, spreadsheets, library resources, and CMSs" -- "higher levels of ownership of PDAs, smart phones, gaming devices, digital cameras, and wireless hubs" -- a high desire for computer labs, student IT training, and free access to software required for their courses The research bulletin is available online at http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImpressionsofCommuni/44739 for all faculty, staff, and students from institutions that have subscribed to ECAR. ECAR "provides timely research and analysis to help higher education leaders make better decisions about information technology. ECAR assembles leading scholars, practitioners, researchers, and analysts to focus on issues of critical importance to higher education, many of which carry increasingly complicated and consequential implications." For more information go to http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=4. ...................................................................... NEW GOOGLE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY SERVICES Google,Inc. recently announced two new services as part of its Google Research University program. Google Search "is designed to give university faculty and their research teams high-volume programmatic access to Google Search, whose huge repository of data constitutes a valuable resource for understanding the structure and contents of the web." For more information and to register for the service, go to http://research.google.com/university/search/. Google Translate "offers tools to help researchers in the field of automatic machine translation compare and contrast with, and build on top of, Google's statistical machine translation system." For more information and to register for the service, go to http://research.google.com/university/translate/. For an overview of all Google Research activities visit http://research.google.com/. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. This month's recommendation is two essays by Philip Yaffe. Yaffe is a former reporter/feature writer with THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and a marketing communication consultant. "The Mathematics of Persuasive Communication" UBIQUITY, vol. 8, issue 28 (July 17, 2007 - July 23, 2007) http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i28_persuasive.html "At first glance mathematics and persuasive communication -- writing, and particularly public speaking -- would seem to have little in common. After all, mathematics is an objective science, whilst speaking involves voice quality, inflection, eye contact, personality, body language, and other subjective components. However, under the surface they are very similar." "How to Improve Your Writing by Standing on Your Head" UBIQUITY, vol. 8, issue 33 (August 21, 2007 - August 27, 2007) http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i33_yaffee.html "Clear, concise, persuasive writing is a fundamental skill needed by every educated person whatever his or her profession. Unfortunately, very few people ever truly master it. Not because it is so difficult, but because schools seldom teach its true essence." [...] From: "Anna Bentkowska" Subject: 3DVisA Bulletin, September 2007 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:26:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 326 (326) 3DVisA Bulletin Issue 3, September 2007 Published by the JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA) Edited by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel is now available at http://3dvisa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/bulletin.html Featured 3D Method: 3D VISUALISATION USING GAME PLATFORMS by Maria Sifniotis 3DVisA Discussion Forum: BEYOND PHOTOREALISM IN 3D COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Daniela Sirbu responds to Angela Geary and Michael Greenhalgh ILLUSIONS OF VIRTUAL REALITY by Hanna Buczynska-Garewicz Featured 3D Project: VIRTUAL WORLDS, REAL LEARNING? Education in Second Life by Andy Powell News and Reviews: 3DVisA Award - Call for Submissions 3D Visualisation at EVA'07. A review by Graeme Earl ISSN 1751-8962 (Print) ISSN 1751-8970 (Online) ________________________ Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX, UK Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska_at_kcl.ac.uk 3DVisA www.viznet.ac.uk/3dvisa The London Charter www.londoncharter.org CHArt publications_at_chart.ac.uk Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland www.crsbi.ac.uk From: Kalina Bontcheva Subject: RANLP'07: Call for participation Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:29:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 327 (327) Call for Participation: "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING" International Conference RANLP-2007 September 27-29, 2007 Borovets, Bulgaria http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007 Supported by the European Commission through project BIS-21++, INCO grant 016639/2005 Further to the successful and highly competitive 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th conferences 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' (RANLP), we are pleased to announce the sixth RANLP conference to be held in September 2007. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus presentations of peer-reviewed individual papers. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. The conference is preceded by tutorials (23-25 September 2007) and workshops (26 September 2007). For a full list see the URL above. REGISTRATION: http://www.euromap.bas.bg/reg/ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Lauri Karttunen (Palo Alto Research Center and Stanford University) - Ellen Riloff (University of Utah) - Karin Verspoor (Los Alamos National Laboratory) - Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) LOCATION The picturesque resort of Borovets is located in the Rila mountains and is one of the best known winter resorts in South-East Europe, a frequent meeting place for the elite in world skiing. The resort is 1350m above sea level, at the foot of the highest peak on the Balkan Peninsula - Moussala (2925m). The resort of Borovets is 73km from Sofia and the International airport of Sofia can serve as arrival/departure point. In addition to regular public transport, the organizers will provide daily shuttle buses from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. A taxi from Sofia to Borovets is relatively cheap; it is also possible to take a taxi from the international airport in Sofia to the conference venue. [...] From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: MITH Fall 2007 Digital Dialogues Schedule Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:30:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 328 (328) Dear colleagues, Once again, MITH at the University of Maryland is pleased to offer a full semester of digital humanities talks, free and open to the public. All talks are Tuesdays at 12:30 in the MITH Conference Room (McKeldin Library on the University of Maryland campus). Anyone in the Washington DC area should feel free to attend! A PDF version of this schedule, suitable for printing and posting, is available here: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/programs/mith_speakers_fall_2007.pdf Matt [deleted quotation] -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate 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: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2007-8 Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:53:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 329 (329) Dear colleagues, This autumn the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship begins its second year of events. The complete calendar, with abstracts, may be found via the events page of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, at http://ies.sas.ac.uk/, Events, Seminars. With one exception, seminars are on Thursdays, starting at 5.30 pm. They are held in Senate House, Malet Street (just behind the British Museum), or in the adjacent Stewart House, Russell Square. The following is a brief summary: 10 October: David Ganz (King's College London), "Medieval Libraries in the Digital Age" 15 November: Paul Eggert (New South Wales), "Text as Algorithm and as Process: A Critique" 13 December: Jan Christoph Meister (Hamburg), "The Myth of the Digital or: Why Humanities Computing is Really Business as Usual" 17 January: James E. Tierney (Missouri-St. Louis), "British Periodicals, 1660-1800: An Electronic Index" 21 February: Andrew Prescott (Wales, Lampeter), "Digital Manuscripts: Retrospects and Prospects" 13 March: Charles Henry (Council on Library and Information Resources), "The Talisman of Format: Celebrating the End of the Book" 17 April: Marilyn Deegan (King's College London), "I've read the news today, oh boy!" All are cordially invited. Refreshments (wine in addition to truth, or water if you prefer) are provided. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Wolfram Horstmann Subject: LIBER and DRIVER collaborate to build the European Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:54:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 330 (330) digital repository research infrastructure LIBER and DRIVER collaborate to build the European digital repository research infrastructure ----- Initiatives to build the European digital repository research infrastructure have received new support by the collaboration of LIBER, the association of European Research Libraries and DRIVER, a project and initiative co-financed by the European Commission. On Wednesday, the 29th August, Hans Geleijnse, Tilburg University, the President of LIBER and Norbert Lossau, Goettingen University, Scientific Coordinator of DRIVER, have signed in Tilburg, the Netherlands, a Memorandum of Understanding in order to progress and enhance the provision, visibility and application of European research outputs through digital repositories, i.e. systems providing access to texts, data or other types of scientific and scholarly content. LIBER and DRIVER share the vision that research libraries should contribute actively and cooperatively to a common, pan-European data and service infrastructure based on digital repositories. LIBER and DRIVER will also take into account developments in the area of subject based or disciplinary repositories and seek actively collaboration with the organisations involved. *** DRIVER is a project under EU-FP6 and a joint initiative of European stakeholders, co-financed by the Commission, setting up a technical infrastructure for digital repositories and facilitating the building of an umbrella organisation for digital repositories. DRIVER relies on research libraries and organisations for the sustainable operation of repositories and provision of high quality content through digital repositories. http://www.driver-repository.eu http://www.driver-support.eu LIBER represents and promotes the interests of research libraries in Europe and assists these to become a functional network across national boundaries. LIBER and DRIVER share the vision that research libraries should contribute actively and cooperatively to a common, pan-European data and service infrastructure based on digital repositories. http://www.libereurope.eu Contacts: DRIVER, Dr. Norbert Lossau, lossau_at_sub.uni-goettingen.de LIBER, Hans Geleijnse, Hans Geleijnse_at_uvt.nl From: Yorick Wilks Subject: research assistant/associate's position Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 15:33:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 331 (331) Research Assistant/Associate in Dialogue Systems and Machine Learning Salary: 20,842 -- 31,000 GBP per annum There are two open positions for a research assistant/associate in computer dialogue systems with a special emphasis on machine learning and large-scale web-based applications, (depending on whether they are filled full or half time, the latter having the possibility of studying for a PhD as a staff candidate on this topic while working on the project). The post is associated to the EU-funded Companions <http://www.companions-project.org/> one of the largest projects funded by the European Union as part of Framework 6, Information Society Technologies. This is a four year project starting in 2006 and ending in 2010. Initial contracts will be for one year. (for online applications and formal details please look at <http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs>or enquire from . DEADLINE September 30, 2007. Dr Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.35 Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:48:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 332 (332) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 35 September 4, 2007 - September 10, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: WEB ONTOLOGY AND THE SEMANTIC WEB G.K. Saha explains that Tim Berners-Lee's design for the Semantic Web "will enable automatic collection and correlation of various parts of information about an object, available at various different web resources. The Semantic Web will save the valuable time we spend on navigating from one web resource to another in order to obtain meaningful information on a particular object. We would be happy then on finding out, for example, our old friend's complete information on giving partial hints on the fly without the need of our manually visiting various related web pages!" But wait, there's more!!! Go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i35_saha.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i35_saha.html From: Shuly Wintner Subject: CFP: CICLing-2008 Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:50:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 333 (333) Begin forwarded message: [deleted quotation] From: "Alison Holgate" Subject: Special issue of ISR: science Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:47:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 334 (334) and humanities at the physics/biology interface PRESS RELEASE 05 September 2007 Leeds, UK Journal explores science and humanities at the physics/biology interface Working at the Interface: Physics meets Biology is the June 2007 special issue (volume 32, issue 3) of the journal Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, and features a selection of high level papers from the inaugural Entre-Sciences colloquium hosted by the French Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme at the National Museum of Natural History and the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris. Drawing together an audience of scholars from the human sciences and 'practitioners' working at the interface of physics and biology, the meeting prompted extensive and lively discussion. The special issue features papers from historians and philosophers of science, physicists, biologists and anthropologists, which highlight the tumultuous relations between the physical and biological sciences. Papers include: -- 'Physics, biology and history', Michel Morange (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) -- 'Contenders for life at the dawn of the twenty-first century: approaches from physics, biology and engineering', Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) -- 'Interdisciplinarity: some models from the human sciences', Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge, UK) -- 'Synchrotron radiation sources: a focal point for multidisciplinary research', Andrew W. Thompson (Synchrotron SOLEIL, France) -- 'The manipulation of single biomolecules', Jean-François Allemand1, Gilles Charvin2, Vincent Croquette1, Giuseppe Lia2 and David Bensimon1 (1Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France 2 Rockefeller University, USA, 3Harvard University, USA) -- 'Self-organisation processes in living matter', Eric Karsenti (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany) -- 'Modelling collective phenomena in neuroscience', Jean-Pierre Nadal (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) In the past, physics was in the position of giving the life sciences the theoretical apparatus they lacked. At present, in contrast, physicists seem unable to answer the foundational question, 'What is life?', and some may think physics now of use to the life sciences merely as a purveyor of instrumentation. In practice, however, the situation is much more complex. While the historians concur in the view that physics cannot supply the theoretical tools that could explain the fundamental questions, for example how life appeared on Earth, the practitioners have a more positive vision of the relationships between their disciplines: statistical physics and the physics of dynamical systems can permit the modelling of at least some biological issues. The guest editorial can be viewed at www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr. For more details on the individual papers, please see below or view the PDF on the ISR homepage at www.maney.co.uk/journals/isr About the Association Entre-Sciences The prestigious Association Entre-Sciences, based in Paris, has the remit of promoting discussion on interdisciplinarity. By organising forums for researchers drawn from different disciplines within the natural sciences but working on common problems, and by enabling discussions with specialists from the human sciences, the Entre-Sciences approach is to bring together differing viewpoints, and to encourage scientists to reflect on their practice in the light of this interaction. For more information please visit www.entre-sciences.msh-paris.fr About Interdisciplinary Science Reviews The journal Interdisciplinary Science Reviews aims to set contemporary and historical developments in science and technology in their wider social and cultural context. Contributions span the physical, biological, social and historical sciences, the arts and humanities. ISR transcends boundaries of subject and method to provide a truly interdisciplinary forum. For more information please visit www.maney.co.uk/journals/isr About Maney Publishing Maney Publishing was founded in 1900 and has offices in the UK in Leeds and London, and in North America. With a collection of over 70 journals in materials sciences, the humanities and healthcare, Maney is committed to publishing high quality journals in print and electronic formats that are international in scope and peer-reviewed. Please visit www.maney.co.uk for more information. For further information please contact Alison Holgate, Marketing & PR Assistant, Maney Publishing. Email: a.holgate_at_maney.co.uk Tel: 0113 386 8160 From: Computational Philosophy Subject: CPLab/MBR - NEW BOOKS Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:49:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 335 (335) ******************************************************************* LORENZO MAGNANI and PING LI (eds), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine Proceedings of the International Conference MBR06_CHINA (Guangzhou, P.R. China, July 2006) Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 64 525 p. 77 illus., 10 in color. Also available online., HardcoverISBN: 978-3-540-71985-4 Springer, Berlin/New York, 2007 http://www.springer.com/west/home/engineering?SGWID=4-175-22-173736544-0 ******************************************************************** LORENZO MAGNANI, Morality in a Technological World. Knowledge as Duty, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007 Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521877695) http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521877695 Author's Website: http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/site.php ********************************************************************* From: DH2007 Subject: DH2008: call for papers Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:45:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 336 (336) Digital Humanities 2008 Oulu, Finland June 25th-29th The joint international conference is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. Submissions are invited on all topics concerning digital humanities, e.g. text analysis, corpora, language processing, language learning knowledge management for digital humanities resources computer-based research in cultural and historical studies computing applications for the arts, architecture, and music research issues such as o information design, modelling, and management o the cultural impact of new media o the role of digital humanities in academic curricula Submissions may be of three types: Papers. The submission should be of 1500 words maximum. The duration of the paper is 20-25 minutes. Submissions are peer reviewed. Poster presentations and software demonstrations. This is especially suitable for work in progress to be discussed with delegates. Poster presentations will be reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. Sessions. These can be either 3-paper sessions or panel discussions on a chosen topic. Sessions will be peer reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. The deadline for submissions is November 18, 2007. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 13, 2008. -- Digital Humanities 2008 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/index.php?conf=main From: Mandell, Laura C. Dr. Subject: NINES Summer Conference 2008 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:53:20 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 337 (337) The NINES group spearheaded by Jerome McGann at UVA is trying to help people get started with state-of-the-art digital projects. NINES held a workshop in Summer 2005 which was extraordinarily successful in helping people develop their digital editions. We'll hold another one 2008 at Miami of Ohio for anyone who is interested. This summer workshop will include instruction from Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman of the Brown Women Writer's Project about how to code digital archives, as well as seminars on database design, visualizing information, and mapping. We expect two people to come from any given project -- more or less is fine. Details appear on the CFP, attached, and here: <http://www.muohio.edu/visualrhetoric/Miamiworkshop.pdf> Please apply, and please pass this CFP to other lists. Laura Mandell Associate Director, NINES Associate Professor English / Miami Univ. Oxford, OH 45056 US mandellc_at_muohio.edu Dr Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Borovsky, Zoe Subject: three positions in digital humanities at UCLA Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:50:54 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 338 (338) UCLA - Division of Humanities - Digital Humanities Faculty Position The University of California, Los Angeles, invites applications for an open-rank faculty position in Digital Humanities beginning July 1, 2008. Specializations may include, but are not limited to: new media and cultural/literary studies, computational sciences and culture, globalization and media, visual studies, GIS and cultural mapping, advanced visualization, Internet culture, and media theory. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to work across disciplines on broad-based humanities projects that build bridges between humanists and technologists through interdisciplinary collaboration. Applicants should demonstrate a strong commitment and innovative approach to teaching and research. Administrative experience working with technology staff and funding agencies is desirable. The successful candidate will be appointed in one or more academic departments. He/she will work closely with interdisciplinary centers, including the Center for Digital Humanities, and is expected to assume a central role in UCLA's vibrant digital humanities community. Please note that UCLA is conducting two additional searches in the field of Digital Humanities, as follows: A search by the Department of English in the area of New Media and a search for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities. A Ph.D. is required by July 2008. To apply, please send an application letter, CV, three letters of recommendation, and representative research publications by November 20, 2007, to: Chair of Digital Humanities Search Committee 2300 Murphy Hall, Box 951438 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1438 Position subject to final budgetary approval. UCLA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. For more information, please visit our website: <http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/> UCLA -- Division of Humanities -- Assistant/Associate Professor in New Media The English Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, is searching for a specialist in New Media/New Media Theory; assistant professor level is preferred but we will also consider recently tenured associate professors. Areas of specialization include New Media Theory, electronic literature, media-specific analysis with emphasis on electronic textuality, computer/video games, and digital art forms with an emphasis on the literary. Strong teaching credentials are desirable and demonstrated potential for innovative research and publication is essential. Send application letter, C.V., and 25-30 page writing sample by November 10, 2007, to: Professor and Chair Rafael Perez-Torres UCLA Department of English, 149 Humanities Building, Box 951530 Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1530. Position subject to final budgetary approval. UCLA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The English Department has a strong commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff. Women and minorities are encouraged apply. UCLA College -- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities The Division of Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, will appoint one Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities for a 1-year term beginning in the fall of 2008. The Fellow must have earned a doctoral degree no earlier than January 2002 and no later than June 2008. The Mellon Fellowship provides a stipend of $50,000 a year, standard fringe benefits, a one-time moving allowance of $1,500, plus a small research budget of $1,000. The Fellow will be housed in a relevant home department for which he/she will teach two courses. The Fellow is required to be in residence and to participate in the monthly Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities. For 2008-09, the theme is "Technologies of the Text" and explores, through attention to both "new" and "old" media, the tremendous range of technologies of access to, and preservation of, language and accompanying image and sound across the millennia. There is no application form. Applicants should send a cover letter, a description (no more than 1500 words) of the scholarly project relevant to the program, a CV, and three letters of recommendation by February 1, 2008, to: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities 2300 Murphy Hall, Box 951438 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1438 UCLA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. For more information, please visit our website: <http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/> From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.36 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:39:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 339 (339) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 36 September 11, 2007 - September 17, 2007 UBIQUITY ALERT: LANGUAGE IS NOT JUST FOR LINGUISTS In this age of globalization of business and communication, it is increasingly necessary for scientists and technologists to know more than one language. Of course, learning a new language is easier said than done. Philip Yaffe returns again to Ubiquity to show us new ways to think about all this. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i36_yaffe.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i36_yaffe.html From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Programmer opening at UM Libraries Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:34:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 340 (340) UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND LIBRARIES TITLE: Coordinator (Digital Libraries Developer) CATEGORY: Exempt Staff, Full-Time SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Excellent benefits. Exciting opportunity to help build a dynamic program in digital collections and research at the largest university library system in the Washington DC-Baltimore area. The UM Libraries serve the College Park campus, the flagship of the 13-member University System of Maryland. See http://www.lib.umd.edu/ for more information. RESPONSIBILITIES: This new position will support the office of Digital Collections and Research (DCR) http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr. The success of this initiative depends on the development of a technical infrastructure based on open source software, including Fedora and Lucene, integrated with vendor products such as Helix. The successful candidate will work to support the creation of a framework for the development and support of digital library collections and initiatives. The successful candidate will work as part of a team that includes curators, metadata specialists, web designers, a project manager, and other IT staff. This position will be managed by the Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections and Research (DCR). QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with two years relevant experience or MS in Computer Science or related field and at least one year work experience. Demonstrated ability to program in Java and significant experience working in a UNIX/LINUX environment. Ability to work collaboratively and to set and manage priorities in a team environment. Service oriented with strong interpersonal and communication skills. APPLICATIONS: Electronic applications are preferred. For full consideration, submit cover letter, resume, and names/addresses of three references by September 28, 2007. Applications accepted until position is filled. Send resume to Guadalupe Fernandes, gfernan1_at_umd.edu or by mail to Guadalupe Fernandes, Library Human Resources, Room 6115 McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011. Full Job Description at http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/PASD/LPO/LibJobs/0807.html The University of Maryland is an EEO/AA Employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib_at_umd.edu http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org From: "Jason Rhody" Subject: Funding Opportunity: JISC/NEH Transatlantic Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:35:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 341 (341) Digitization Collaboration Grants As part of its Digital Humanities Initiative, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States is joining with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom to offer support for digitization projects in the humanities. These grants provide funding for one year of development in any of the following areas: - new digitization projects and pilot projects, - the addition of important materials to existing digitization projects, or - the development of infrastructure (either technical "middleware," tools, or knowledge-sharing) to support U.S.-England digitization work. Collaboration between U.S. and English institutions is a key requirement for this grant category. Awards range from $100,000 to $240,000 (approximately =A350,000 to =A3120,000) for a one-year period, with projects starting from April 2008 for up to 12 months. The receipt deadline for applications is November 29, 2007. For further information, review the full guidelines on the NEH website: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/JISC.html For further information about NEH's Digital Humanities Initiative, please= see: http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html ------ Jason Rhody < jrhody_at_neh.gov > Senior Program Officer National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Initiative http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html 202.606.8364 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ issue 1.2 now available Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:34:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 342 (342) Please circulate: Please circulate: We are very pleased to announce that the second issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly is now up and ready for reading at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/. A table of contents is below. Some of its contents have already achieved a kind of celebrity (Slashdot! Boing Boing!) and you can read about this in the opening editorial. The issue builds on the first with an expanded range of digital humanities topics, including game studies, text analysis, and new media. We're really pleased with the quality of all the articles and we hope you will be as well. Thanks to all of our reviewers who provided such thoughtful and constructive feedback; our authors appreciate it very much. This issue also introduces a much-requested RSS feed, so that you can learn of new DHQ material as it's posted. Although the journal makes a formal announcement of each new issue, articles for upcoming issues become visible in a preview space as soon as they are ready, so the RSS feed will keep you informed of this process. If you'd like to submit an article, or serve as a peer reviewer, please visit the DHQ web site at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ to learn more. Thanks as always are due to our editorial team and in particular to the production group at Indiana University, headed by John Walsh and Michelle Dalmau, that brings the issue together so beautifully. Julia Flanders Editor-in-chief Brown University Wendell Piez General Editor Mulberry Technologies, Inc. Melissa Terras General Editor and Associate Interactive Media Editor University College London **************** DHQ 1.2 Table of Contents Editorials "DHQ in the Public Eye", Melissa Terras, University College London Articles "Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original Adventure in Code and in Kentucky", Dennis G. Jerz, Seton Hill University "All Hope Abandon: Biblical Text and Interactive Fiction", Eric Eve, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford "Aporias of the Digital Avant-Garde", Steve F. Anderson, University of Southern California "The End of the Irrelevant Text: Electronic Texts, Linguistics, and Literary Theory", David Hoover, New York University Issues in Humanities Computing "Revista Digital Universitaria: A Workshop of Digital Editing at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México", Ernesto Priani Saisó, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México From: ken.friedman_at_bi.no Subject: International Journal of Design Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:40:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 343 (343) - CFP - Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design CALL FOR PAPERS A Special Issue on "Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design" The notion of interaction design has become an indispensable aspect of product design and development, especially for those products with embedded information technologies. While traditional industrial design focuses on a product's functionality and its physical features, interaction design focuses on the interactive experience of users. Since products are becoming more pervasively and more tightly interwoven with our daily activities, design calls for a deeper understanding of the diverse perspectives of product use. Culture has been considered to play a critical role for users in their understanding, acceptance, positioning, and use of an artifact. The quality of an interactive experience is produced in a particular cultural context and is determined or evaluated in that context. Yet, when it comes to incorporating cultural factors effectively in design practice, knowledge is insufficient at all levels -- conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and practical. Cultural factors need to be integrated in the design process in order to achieve the high quality of product interaction that enables our experience with a product to be effective and enjoyable. For this special issue of the International Journal of Design, we are seeking papers that present breakthroughs in conceptual, theoretical, methodological and practical research that enhance the formalization of design knowledge with regard to the "cultural aspects of interaction design." In particular, these contributions should focus on representing cultural factors in describable, operable, and usable forms of design knowledge with relevance to interaction design. The following topics are of particular interest, covering fundamental and contemporary issues in this domain: - Conceptual framework of cultural factors in interaction design - Acquisition and representation methods for cultural factors in design - Formal models of cultural factors in interaction design - Planning, design, and evaluation methods that involve cultural perspectives - Cultural aspects of interaction methods and languages - Assessment of the cultural effects of new interactive products - Cultural factors in Kansei/emotional/affective aspects of interaction - Cultural contexts of interaction design for ambient intelligence environments - Cultural factors related to usability Schedule: Full Paper Due: 28 February 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 30 April 2008 Final Version of Paper Due: 31 May 2008 Special Issue Publication Date: 1 August 2008 Submission of Papers: Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the guidelines found at www.ijdesign.org/authorGuidelines Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. A double-blind review process will be employed for this special issue. Manuscripts should be sent through the on-line system at www.ijdesign.org/submissions Authors should choose "Special Issue on Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design" as the Journal Section when submitting papers. Special Issue Editors: Keiichi Sato Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Tel: 312-595-4912 E-mail: sato_at_id.iit.edu Kuohsiang Chen Department and Institute of Industrial Design National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Tel: +886 6-2757575, ext. 54335 E-mail: kchen_at_mail.ncku.edu.tw From: Mark Davies Subject: Final CFP: American Association for Corpus Date: March 13-15, 2008 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 344 (344) Place: Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, USA Website: http://corpus.byu.edu/aacl2008 ---------------------------------------- Invited speakers (alphabetical order): Harald Baayen, University of Alberta (Canada) Doug Biber, Northern Arizona University (United States) Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia (Canada) Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham (UK) Tony McEnery, Lancaster University (UK) ---------------------------------------- General AA(A)CL Information Previous conferences of the American Association for (Applied) Corpus Linguistics have been held at different universities in the United States since 1998, including Northern Arizona University (2006, 2000), the University of Michigan (2005, 1999), Montclair State ( 2004), IUPUI (2002), and Univ. Massachusetts-Boston (2001). ---------------------------------------- Submission of Abstracts and Proposals Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts for 20-minute papers on any aspect of corpus linguistics. Papers are welcome from a range of subfields, including corpus creation, corpus annotation, linguistic analyses of corpora, register/genre variation, lexicography, parallel corpora, tagging and parsing, software development, and the use of corpora in language learning and teaching. Abstracts are due Sep 28, 2007. Abstracts for 20-minute papers should be no longer than 350 words. Abstracts and proposals should be submitted as e-mail attachments in MS Word format to . Abstracts will undergo anonymous review. Please provide author name and contact info and the paper title in the body of the email to which the abstract is attached, and omit author information from the abstract itself. Please send abstracts as PDF files as well as MS Word files if they contain any specialized fonts. --------------------------------------- Important dates: Sep 28 2007: Abstracts due Oct 26 2007: Notification to presenters Jan 25 2008: Registration due Mar 13-15 2008: Conference From: "J. Trant" Subject: ICHIM07: Regular Registration Ends Sept. 15, 2007 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:37:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 345 (345) -------------------------------------------------------------- ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting Toronto, October 24-26, 2007 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Join us in Toronto for a series of in-depth conversations about new developments in digital heritage policy and practice. Opening Keynote: Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada --------------------------------------------------------------- ICHIM07 will open with a keynote from Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada. A pioneer in shaping the united "memory institution" Ian will challenge us to consider what it now means "To hold infinity in the palm of your hand". See http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001615.html Regular Registration Deadline: September 15, 2007 ------------------------------------------------- Registration at ICHIM07 is limited to 300 people, ensuring that we will have an ideal forum for in-depth discussion and debate. The deadline for Regular Registration is this Saturday, September 15, 2007. Register on-line with a credit card to ensure reduced rates. See https://www2.archimuse.com/ichim07/ichim07.registrationForm.html Join Us On-line --------------- There are now over 700 people from around the world registered in the conference.archimuse.com on-line community. Join us at http://conference.archimuse.com and contribute to our developing understanding of cultural heritage informatics. In Memoriam: ICHIM07 dedicated to Xavier Perrot ------------------------------------------------ We dedicate ICHIM07 to the memory of Xavier Perrot, our friend and colleague, and a past co-chair of ICHIM, who died of cancer on July 20, 207. Your recollections and remembrances are invited at http://conference.archimuse.com/blog/dbear/ichim07_in_memory_of_xavier_perrot Questions? ---------- Contact the ICHIM07 Conference Co-Chairs: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant , Archives & Museum Informatics 158 Lee Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 e-mail: ichim07_at_archimuse.com http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ [...] From: "Olga Francois" Subject: CIP Copyright Workshops: Early Bird Reminder Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:38:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 346 (346) [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this announcement.] The fall semester creeps past us very quickly. This is just a friendly reminder that early registration for the first workshop in the 07-08 Workshop Series ends next week. Take this opportunity to register for the first two workshops. One will be moderated by noted scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D. and the other by Arnold Lutzker, J.D.: COPYRIGHT AND ACADEMIC CULTURE: NEW ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENTS http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml Moderator: Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Media Studies and Law, University of Virginia Dates: October 1-12, 2007 [early registration by September 21] Please see linked website for a detailed description & course objectives - http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#copyright ----- DMCA, P2P FILESHARING AND CAMPUS RESPONSES http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml Moderator: Arnold Lutzker, J.D., Senior Partner, Lutzker & Lutzker, LLP Dates: November 5-16, 2007 [early registration by October 19] *Back by popular demand! See website for detailed course objectives - http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#DMCA SIGN UP TODAY! Early Bird Rates $150 each http://tinyurl.com/29jg53 [Secured Server] Online Workshop FAQ- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources & services please see our homepage- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 Phone: 240-582-2803 ofrancois_at_umuc.edu From: dhms_at_labe.felk.cvut.cz Subject: DHMS 2008 - Submission deadline postponed to September 30th Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:38:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 347 (347) Reacting to many request from contributors, we have decided to postpone the deadline to September 30, 2007!!! ------ 2008 IEEE SMC International Conference on DISTRIBUTED HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS 2008(DHMS 2008) MARCH 9-12, 2008 Athens, Greece Sponsored by the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society For information about DHMS 2008 visit http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: DHMS 2008 will provide a unique opportunity for participants from universities, industry, and government agencies to address challenges, share solutions, and discuss future research directions in distributed human-machine systems. A broad range of topics will combine theory and applications for human- robot/human-machine interaction and interfaces, distributed intelligent systems and networks, agent and holonic systems, swarm intelligence, with the goal of strengthening cooperation of academics, scientists, researchers and engineers with industry. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Agents and agent-based systems Biologically inspired systems Collective robotics Computational Intelligence Decentralized systems Distributed systems Embedded intelligence Evolutionary robotics Genetic and evolutionary computation Human-machine interfaces Human-robot interaction Industrial applications of holonic and agent-based systems Intelligent systems Knowledge systems for coalition operations Swarms, Swarm intelligence Unmanned systems Virtual enterprises Hybrid systems Virtual reality [...] From: Marc Subject: eHumanities Track at IEEE DEST 2008: Call for Papers Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:42:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 348 (348) Dear Colleagues, I am happy to announce the call for papers of the eHumanities track at the IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies at Phitsanulok Thailand on 26th-29th February 2008. In addition to hopefully offering a series of interesting talks, it will be an excellent opportunity to discuss major trends in the current development of inter-organizational cooperation frameworks in the humanities. Should you have questions, please do not hesitate to reply either online on HUMANIST or directly to my office email, kuester AT fh-worms DOT de Best regards, Marc Kuester ----------- IEEE DEST 2008 IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies 26th-29th February 2008 Phitsanulok Thailand Deadline for full paper submissions: October 14th, 2007 http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2008/tracks.php#trackE-humanities eHumanities -- Track Chairs: Marc Wilhelm Kuester and Matthew Allen Digital Ecosystem is defined as an open, loosely coupled, domain clustered, demand-driven, self-organising collaborative environment, where each species is proactive and responsive for its own benefit or profit. Digital eco-systems occur through the interactions between both human and computer-based agents, operating in a manner that creates both relationships of cooperation and conflict within the system as well as the overall system itself. Analysis of the role of human perception, engagement and expectation is critical, therefore, to understanding the complexity of digital ecosystems as well as the operational dynamics of any specific system. Furthermore, our capacity to build, maintain and further develop viable digital ecosystems rests on clear, theoretical and applied, understanding of the way in which humans and computers interact with one another in digital, networked environments. Put simply, the e-Humanities researchers will pursue a research agenda that will explore the social, cultural, political and economic determinants that constitute the foundational terrain within which ecosystems exist. In doing so, they will also analyse the manner in which, through human action within a digital ecosystem, human beliefs, understandings and desires come to influence that system. Through consideration of the results of human endeavours within digital eco-systems, these researchers will also come to understand the ways in which networked digital communications can enhance or, indeed, imperil social and cultural development. There are several research directions of the work in e-Humanities. The first concerns the manner in which 'intelligent' interactive expertise networks might be developed to solve the problems of knowledge-based distributed collaboration between experts and those who draw on their expertise. A 'networks of interactive knowledge=E2'(NIKs) approach can be usefully applied to education (both formal and informal), sustaining professional competence, e-research, e-participation, e-government and other forms of scholarly collaboration, as well as other situations in which people need to collaborate through exchanges of partial knowledge so that they might construct a collective expertise greater than the sum of its individual parts. This is related to a second component, working in standards-based, interoperable distributed service and resource environments, e. g. service and resource networks or grids that allow seamless integration on both tool and the resource side. The third component of research concerns the broader relationship of technology and society, with particular reference to the cultures and politics of society's adoption of, and adaption to, new forms of technologically mediated communication and information sharing and of technology's requirements to adapt to existing cultural semiotic processes. This research is largely being pursued through individual research projects involving the development of theoretical knowledge to guide further practical development, or deeper understandings of previous technological developments, though in the future these projects can link together to form a larger digital eco-system of systems. To foster such cooperation is a major longterm goal of the track. --=20 FH Worms - University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich Informatik/Telekommunikation Tel.: +49 6241 509 118 Fax: +49 6241 509 221 Erenburgerstra=C3=9Fe 19 * D-67549 Worms http://people.fh-worms.de/~kuester From: Shuly Wintner Subject: Haifa Workshop on Formal Approaches to Language Acquisition Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:43:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 349 (349) You are cordially invited to attend The Haifa Workshop on Formal Approaches to Language Acquisition which will be held at the University of Haifa on Sunday, October 7th, 2007, 9:30-18:00. Keynote speaker: Ewa Dabrowska, University of Sheffield, UK Program: http://cl.haifa.ac.il/LangAcq07/program.shtml More information: http://cl.haifa.ac.il/LangAcq07/ Participation in the Workshop is free and open for all. However, to be able to plan rooms, refreshments, etc., we request that participants pre-register on-line at: http://cl.haifa.ac.il/LangAcq07/ reg.shtml The Workshop is funded by The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science at the University of Haifa. -- Shuly Wintner Dept. of Computer Science, University of Haifa, 31905 Haifa, Israel Phone: +972 (4) 8288180 Fax: +972 (4) 8249331 shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Copyright and Academic Culture: New Issues and Developments Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:43:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 350 (350) Colleagues, Please join the CIP for the first of our four (4) engaging online workshops! Copyright and Academic Culture: New Issues and Developments http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml Moderated by: Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Media Studies and Law, University of Virginia Where? Online When? October 1-12, 2007 (early registration ends September 21) Would you like to step behind the legal battles and economic interests in order to think more about the cultural values that influence how we think and talk about copyright? In a clear, straightforward, engaging style, cultural historian and media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan will offer insight to help untangle some of the intricate web of culture, law, and technology. This workshop is an opportunity for both the theorist and the practitioner of copyright law and policy to explore some of the complex issues behind the management of copyrights on campus. Goals for the course: * Review the purpose, role, and scope of copyright and its relation to academic culture; * Consider some of the problems, challenges, changes, and opportunities facing academia; * Examine the relationship of the academy to copyright via the Google Library and consider important questions for both libraries and Google; * Explore the current controversy surrounding e-reserves as an example of copyright and academic culture in conflict; * Examine the evolving relationship between the publishing industry and libraries. * Register- http://tinyurl.com/29jg53 Other titles in the 2007-2008 Workshop Series include: ------------- DMCA, P2P Filesharing and Campus Responses Dates: November 5-16, 2007 (early registration by October 19) ------------- Integrating Access to Digital Course Materials: Blackboard/WebCT, Coursepacks, e-Reserves, Licensed Materials, e-Books, Open Access...What Will They Think of Next? Dates: January 28 - February 8, 2008 (early registration by January 11) ------------- Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity Dates: February 25 - March 7, 2008 (early registration by February 8 ) Workshop Descriptions & Goals- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml Moderator Bios- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/moderators.shtml FAQ- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml SIGN UP TODAY! Early Bird Rates $150 each http://tinyurl.com/29jg53 [Secured Server] For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources & services please see our homepage at- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 Phone: 240-582-2803 ofrancois_at_umuc.edu From: "Jane Ellis" Subject: Seminar: What Good is e-Learning? Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:44:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 351 (351) This message is sent on behalf of Margaret Cox, Chair of the EIGER Group Seminar: What Good is e-Learning? When: Friday 5 October, 2007, 6.30-9.00pm Where: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London WC1N 3QS Will the new media technologies increasingly to be deployed in schools really change how children learn? In promising a more personalised approach to learning, they offer a vision of each child reaching their full potential, through being actively involved in choosing their own learning paths and styles. While the national curriculum may remain in place as an overall set of objectives, schools will cease to offer a 'one size fits all' system of education. Teachers will do less teaching in the traditional sense, but will become guides helping children along their chosen learning paths, facilitated and mediated through 'virtual learning environments' . Not everyone accepts the idea that children are best taught in this way and some fear that this new direction may fragment education and undermine its capacity to give children a broad view of the world and a clear sense of their future within it. What is the best way of thinking about the innovatory potential of new technologies in education? How can we make the most of what they can offer while keeping the best of what a teacher-led, subject-based curriculum has provided in the past? Confirmed speakers: Professor David Buckingham, London Knowledge Lab; Chris Poole, Microsoft, BSF; Toby Marshall, FE teacher and writer on learning technologies; Keri Facer, Futurelab Chair: Wendy Earle Organised by the Institute of Ideas as part of The Battle of Ideas (www.battleofideas.org.uk) October 27 & 28, 2007. Sponsored by the London Knowledge Lab (www.lkl.ac.uk) For more information, please go to: http://wendyearle.wordpress.com/seminar-what-good-is-e-learning/ To book a place, please go to: http://www.instituteofideas.com/events/battleofideas2007/satellite_learning.html Best wishes Wendy Earle ____________________________________________ Jane Ellis Administrative Officer to the EIGER Group King's College London Strand LONDON WC2R 2LS Tel: 020-7848-1923 Fax: 020-7848-1777 E-mail: cs-admin_at_kcl.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: change threatens Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:11:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 352 (352) Many here will know the book by Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (1994), and perhaps also Jerome McGann's response in "A Note on the Current State of Humanities Scholarship", Critical Inquiry 30.2 (2004): 409-13. Against the evident fact that digital textualities are in explosive growth, and the narrowing bottleneck in scholarly publication, McGann asks, "how prepared are we to emulate the humanists of the fifteenth century who were confronted with a similar upheaval of their materials, means, and modes of knowledge production?" By "prepared" McGann means not just emotionally ready-to-go but imaginatively, intellectually fit for the task. Most of our colleagues, I'd guess, would express the former preparedness, but evidence for the latter is thin on the ground -- hence the seriousness with which he takes Birkert's "very bad advice" to a great refusal. Birkerts is not the only dangerous false prophet of doom. Now there's Andrew Keen, whose Cult of the Amateur: How today's internet is killing our culture (2007) is well reviewed by Paul Duguid (Berkeley & PARC), whose essay "Material Matters: Aspects of the past and futurology of the book", in the excellent collection edited by John Seely Brown, The Future of the Book, and online at www2.parc.com/ops/members/brown/papers/mm.html, should be required reading. His review, "Is the Web a threat to culture", has just been published in the Times Literary Supplement for 12 September and is fortunately online as well, from http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/ (grab it while you can). Apart from pointing out that Keen's argument is flawed in several ways, Duguid puts his finger on what seems to me the central question: what "culture" is threatened by the likes of Wikipedia? He refers to Raymond Williams' wonderful, brilliant and magnanimous essay, "Culture is ordinary", contrasting it with the frightened impulse to shut down anything that threatens old days falsely remembered as entirely good, prior to a Decline and Fall which must be pinned on something. "Keen is clearly outraged," Duguid writes, "and his book yearns for the... power to stamp it all out. Failing that, his last chapter proposes a range of government interventions, few of which are new and fewer likely to be effective." Keen's proposed measures may be doomed, but the problem is not legislation that (we must hope) will never be. The problem is that frightened, antintellectual impulse, which blocks understanding, slowing down the vital work to be done. The resurfacing argument, however weak as well as false, is a problem for us. It is an argument that must be faced in the public sphere, by a species we've not yet had the time to grow, the public intellectual. Change *is* threatening. I suppose the question is *what* it threatens, and how we respond. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The September/October 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:25:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 353 (353) is now available. Greetings: The September/October 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles, a two-part commentary, six conference and workshop reports, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the "University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections" contributed by Ann Lally, University of Washington. The two-part commentary is: Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 1: A Cyberinfrastructure Primer for Librarians Anna Gold, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Anna Gold, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The articles include: Overview - Repositories by the Numbers Chuck Thomas, Florida Center for Library Automation; Robert H. McDonald, San Diego Supercomputer Center; and Cat S. McDowell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Measuring and Comparing Participation Patterns in Digital Repositories: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 1 Chuck Thomas, Florida Center for Library Automation, and Robert H. McDonald, San Diego Supercomputer Center Evaluating Institutional Repository Deployment in American Academe Since Early 2005: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 2 Cat S. McDowell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro The Data Curation Continuum: Managing Data Objects in Institutional Repositories Andrew Treloar, David Groenewegen, and Cathrine Harboe-Ree, Monash University Developing Handle System(R) Web Services at Cornell University Adam J. Smith, Cornell University The conference reports include: Report on the Seventh ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2007) - Building and Sustaining the Digital Environment: June 18-23, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Lillian Cassel, Villanova University; and Jose Borbinha, Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) Series of Workshops on Digital Library Foundations Donatella Castelli, ISTI-CNR; and Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech The 3rd Annual Digital Libraries Workshop at the JCDL 2007 Conferences Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Report on the 7th International Workshop on Web Archiving (IWAW 2007) Andreas Rauber, Vienna Technical University Contextualized Attention Metadata: Personalized Access to Digital Resources Jehad Najjar, Martin Wolpers and Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Belgium Global Access to Science- Scientific Publishing for the Future: A Report of IATUL 2007 Conference Held at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, June 11 - 14, 2007 [...] From: Ken Friedman Subject: International Journal of Design - Cultural Aspects Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:24:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 354 (354) of Interaction Design - 2nd Call Friends, This is a follow-up to remind you of an exciting special issue of the International Journal of Design on "Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design" edited by Keiichi Sato and Kuohsiang Chen. IJD has been growing with excellent contributions and a robust, international perspective. Whether or not you wish to propose an article for this issue, the journal is worth a visit at URL: http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/ While all contents are open access, I'd like to suggest that you register. This will bring you an automatic Table of Contents with new issues, calls, and it will give access to new web-site features that will become available to registered users. Registration is free -- the main purpose is that the register allows the editors to communicate more effectively with the journal community, both to provide information and to develop improved services on the web site. If this call interests you, I hope you'll consider proposing an article. Kuohsiang Cheng and Keiichi Sato are developing a terrific issue, and they hope for a rich survey of the field. Yours, Ken Friedman -- CALL FOR PAPERS A Special Issue on "Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design" The notion of interaction design has become an indispensable aspect of product design and development, especially for those products with embedded information technologies. While traditional industrial design focuses on a product's functionality and its physical features, interaction design focuses on the interactive experience of users. Since products are becoming more pervasively and more tightly interwoven with our daily activities, design calls for a deeper understanding of the diverse perspectives of product use. Culture has been considered to play a critical role for users in their understanding, acceptance, positioning, and use of an artifact. The quality of an interactive experience is produced in a particular cultural context and is determined or evaluated in that context. Yet, when it comes to incorporating cultural factors effectively in design practice, knowledge is insufficient at all levels -- conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and practical. Cultural factors need to be integrated in the design process in order to achieve the high quality of product interaction that enables our experience with a product to be effective and enjoyable. For this special issue of the International Journal of Design, we are seeking papers that present breakthroughs in conceptual, theoretical, methodological and practical research that enhance the formalization of design knowledge with regard to the "cultural aspects of interaction design." In particular, these contributions should focus on representing cultural factors in describable, operable, and usable forms of design knowledge with relevance to interaction design. The following topics are of particular interest, covering fundamental and contemporary issues in this domain: - Conceptual framework of cultural factors in interaction design - Acquisition and representation methods for cultural factors in design - Formal models of cultural factors in interaction design - Planning, design, and evaluation methods that involve cultural perspectives - Cultural aspects of interaction methods and languages - Assessment of the cultural effects of new interactive products - Cultural factors in Kansei/emotional/affective aspects of interaction - Cultural contexts of interaction design for ambient intelligence environments - Cultural factors related to usability Schedule: Full Paper Due: 28 February 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 30 April 2008 Final Version of Paper Due: 31 May 2008 Special Issue Publication Date: 1 August 2008 Submission of Papers: Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the guidelines found at www.ijdesign.org/authorGuidelines Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. A double-blind review process will be employed for this special issue. Manuscripts should be sent through the on-line system at www.ijdesign.org/submissions Authors should choose "Special Issue on Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design" as the Journal Section when submitting papers. Special Issue Editors: Keiichi Sato Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Tel: 312-595-4912 E-mail: sato_at_id.iit.edu Kuohsiang Chen Department and Institute of Industrial Design National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Tel: +886 6-2757575, ext. 54335 E-mail: kchen_at_mail.ncku.edu.tw From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 21.252 change threatens Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:57:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 355 (355) Willard, I've been following Andrew Keen as well. I thought I'd share two debates via my del.icio.us bookmarks. One is by David Weinberger that is especially good. http://del.icio.us/Greebie/keen Your readers are also welcome to share in any other of my links. I have a few related to philosophy, the humanities and others that may be of use -- although I appreciate the potential for information overload via social bookmarking tools. Ryan. . . From: Peter Brantley Subject: andy abbott and The Traditional Future Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:59:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 356 (356) hello - I am a newby just joining this list. At the invitation of the list owner, I'm throwing something out for your consideration. I just blogged a fascinating paper by the sociologist Andrew Abbott of the univ of chicago called The Traditional Future, which discusses the nature of library-based research, and the ramifications for its conduct and results of the growing dominance of large repositories of digitized texts. I amplify those themes somewhat, as they are of great concern to me. any comments here, or on the blog, are much appreciated. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/the_work_of_lea.html pb -- __________________________________________________ peter brantley - executive director digital library federation | http://www.diglib.org __________________________________________________ cell: +1-510-599-5159 | office: +1-510-643-8665 skype: naypinya | http://radar.oreilly.com/peter/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.37 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:58:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 357 (357) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 37 September 18, 2007 - September 24, 2007 TECHNOLOGY AS POLITICS Charalambos Tsekeris writes: "More activist approaches to technology are indeed more productive and useful than any pessimistic (technophobic) diagnosis reducing it to a mere instrument of domination and oppression. The "it could be otherwise" clause of liberal intellectual inquiry must remain central to our current critical theoretical efforts." (Tsekeris graduated from Brunel University and earned his doctoral degree in Sociology from Athens Panteion University. He is a member of the Greek scientific group Intellectum and a researcher on the complex relationships between technoscience, culture and politics.) See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i36_yaffe.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i37_tsekeris.html From: Methnet Subject: 'Digital Arts & Humanities' launched Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:45:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 358 (358) The Digital Arts & Humanities site was launched on Sunday 11 September at a reception at the 'Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities and Arts' conference. Digital Arts & Humanities is a place to share and discuss ideas, promote your research and discover the digital arts and humanities. This virtual community of arts and humanities researchers has been developed by the AHRC ICT Methods Network in collaboration with several other institutions and communities and is hosted by King's College London. http://www.arts-humanities.net/ As a member of the community you can: - announce activities in your field to a wide audience - keep up to date with what others are doing - exchange ideas and experience with the community in our group forums and user blogs - build your profile to show your research interests and background and search others' profiles to find contacts and identify future collaborations - use our wiki to learn more about tools and methods for your research. Digital Arts & Humanities is also used as a community platform by various groups and projects. We would be happy to host your community and offer features including blogs and open or private discussion groups. Even if you are already using such features on your own website, a presence on Digital Arts & Humanities is a good way of letting the wider community know what you are up to and to make new contacts. Discussions and postings are automatically announced on other websites and integrated into social bookmarking and networking sites to make them available to a wide audience. Our RSS feeds make it easy to add our community content to your site. Several other groups support and contribute to Digital Arts & Humanities. These include: Arts and Humanities Data Service, Arts and Humanities eScience Support Centre, CHArt - Computers and the History of Art, ICT Guides. The site already has over 220 registered members and active discussions. You might be especially interested in a forum thread where we discuss 'After the AHDS: The End of National Support?' This thread continues the discussion from a panel at the DRHA conference (David Robey, David Sheperd, Lorna Hughes) earlier this month: http://www.arts-humanities.net/366 For further information please contact Torsten Reimer (torsten.reimer_at_kcl.ac.uk). From: John Unsworth Subject: Fwd: Position announcement: Breslauer Professorship Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:00:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 359 (359) in Bibliography, UCLA [deleted quotation] From: Perry Trolard Subject: Digital Humanities position at Wash U in Saint Louis Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:46:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 360 (360) Greetings, With apologies for cross-posting, please see the job advertisement below for a humanities computing position at Washington University in Saint Louis. * To apply, go to http://www.wustlcareers.com & search for position number ("requisition number") 080451. For questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at Perry Trolard Assistant Director, Humanities Digital Workshop Washington University in Saint Louis ptrolard at artsci dot wustl dot edu +1 (314) 935-8806 Thanks, Perry Humanities Computing Specialist, Humanities Digital Workshop ============================================================ Arts & Sciences Computing (A&SC) has an opening for an individual with strong technical abilities and a background in the digital humanities for the position of Humanities Computing Specialist. The successful candidate will have the ability to work with faculty, staff, and students to develop technological tools for research needs. The Humanities Computing Specialist will work as a part of the A&SC team to support digital research projects in the humanities that are sponsored by the Humanities Digital Workshop (HDW). Specific projects include a literary archive of Edmund Spenser's writings, a digitization project involving a local museum, an archive of children's literature, an archive of literary recordings, and maintenance of a historical records web site. The Humanities Computing Specialist will aid these and future projects through a variety of core digital humanities tasks, including designing and implementing text encoding workflows in TEI XML and XSLT, designing and maintaining relational databases, and web publishing. Together the Humanities Digital Workshop, the Computing Center, Social Sciences Computing, and a variety of other technology facilities and services make up A&S Computing. Among other services, A&SC provides instructional technology to students, faculty, and staff in the school of Arts & Sciences. The primary e-mail system, artsci.wustl.edu, hosts over 11,000 accounts. A&SC makes over 100 computers available for general and specialized faculty and student use. A&SC relies heavily upon collaboration with other parts of the University to serve common goals. Partner departments include the Teaching Center, Olin Library, Network Technology Services, and Information Systems. Areas of responsibility ------------------------------ 90% Provide programming, project management, and other forms of support for faculty digital projects sponsored by the HDW, including designing, managing, and documenting TEI encoding practices; mounting web publishing and interface systems (HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, etc.); and other tasks as required by projects. Serve on various committees that contribute to campus-wide infrastructure for digital scholarship. Keep abreast of developments in digital humanities technologies and standards. 5% Provide basic client support for the Artsci server, modem dial-up services, A&SC facilities in Eads Hall, etc. as necessary 5% Provide backup coverage for Arts & Sciences Computing staff including the 24/7-support rotation. Minimum Qualifications ------------------------------ * Bachelor's degree, in a humanities field or computer science. * Demonstrated experience working on humanities computing projects. * Familiarity with XML and XSLT, especially as tools for implementing descriptive markup. * Demonstrated strong project management and problem solving skills, attention to detail. * Ability to work effectively with a wide variety of faculty, students, and staff. * Excellent communication skills. Preferred Qualifications ------------------------------ * Master's degree in a humanities field, computer science, or library science. * Experience with web design, scripting, and relational databases. * Experience with or skills supporting data visualization. From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: ISR 32.3 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:44:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 361 (361) Dear colleagues, To explain: although matters of water policy do not usually concern us as humanists, several of the articles of ISR 32.3 do address the question of interdisciplinarity, which is something of interest to disciplinary wanderers like us. Yours, WM --------------------- Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 32.3 1. ISR Editorial Cattermole, Howard 32.3 pp. 185-185(1) 2. Building a research agenda on water policy: an exploration of the Water Framework Directive as an interdisciplinary problem Hodgson, Susan M.; Smith, Jonathan W.N. 32.3 pp. 187-202(16) 3. Increasing the frame: interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and representativity Meyer, Morgan 32.3 pp. 203-212(10) 4. Studying water: reflections on the problems and possibilities of interdisciplinary working Connelly, Steve; Anderson, Clive 32.3 pp. 213-220(8) 5. Collaborative research in sustainable water management: issues of interdisciplinarity Dixon, Jennifer; Sharp, Liz 32.3 pp. 221-232(12) 6. Drought, demand and the scale of resilience: challenges for interdisciplinarity in practice Medd, Will; Chappells, Heather 32.3 pp. 233-248(16) 7. Getting a measure of nature: cultures and values in an ecosystem services approach Hodgson, Susan M.; Maltby, Lorraine; Paetzold, Achim; Phillips, David 32.3 pp. 249-262(14) 8. If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail: traditional versus participatory model building Prell, Christina; Hubacek, Klaus; Reed, Mark; Quinn, Claire; Jin, Nanlin; Holden, Joe; Burt, Tim; Kirby, Mike; Sendzimir, Jan 32.3 pp. 263-282(20) 9. The mosquito, the elephant and the House of Lords Water Management Inquiry Cashman, Adrian; Ashley, Richard 32.3 pp. 283-297(15) 10. Science-driven integrated river basin management: a mirage? Surridge, Ben; Harris, Bob 32.3 pp. 298-312(15) Dr Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: Washington Post Neologisms Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:56:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 362 (362) None of the following has anything whatever to do with computing, in the humanities or anywhere else, but it will delight those who love words. Yours, WM [deleted quotation]Dr Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Maura Ives Subject: job: Lead Software Applications Developer, Texas A&M Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:33:38 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 363 (363) The College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University is hiring a Lead Software Applications Developer to assist in the development of digital humanities projects. The job description is posted at <http://tamujobs.tamu.edu/>http://tamujobs.tamu.edu/ (click on "search postings" on the left hand menu, enter the N.O.V. number: 080058, and click on "search"). --Maura Ives Dr Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "Olga Francois" Subject: October Copyright Workshop with Siva Vaidhyanathan Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:00:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 364 (364) [Please excuse any duplication of this announcement.] Copyright and Academic Culture: New Issues and Developments http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/ Online: October 1-12, 2007 Early registration ends September 21st! If you can't register by then, call to reserve your place today 1-800-283-6832, ext. 2965! Join the CIP for the first of four (4) engaging online workshops this fall & spring! This asynchronous online workshop series has proven to be of interest to faculty, librarians, distance educators, instructional designers, curriculum specialists, and information professionals. Moderator: Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Media Studies and Law, University of Virginia Would you like to step behind the legal battles and economic interests in order to think more about the cultural values that influence how we think and talk about copyright? In a clear, straightforward, engaging style, cultural historian and media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan will offer insight to help untangle some of the intricate web of culture, law, and technology. This workshop is an opportunity for both the theorist and the practitioner of copyright law and policy to explore some of the complex issues behind the management of copyrights on campus. Goals for the course: * Review the purpose, role, and scope of copyright and its relation to academic culture; * Consider some of the problems, challenges, changes, and opportunities facing academia; * Examine the relationship of the academy to copyright via the Google Library and consider important questions for both libraries and Google; * Explore the current controversy surrounding e-reserves as an example of copyright and academic culture in conflict; * Examine the evolving relationship between the publishing industry and libraries. SIGN UP TODAY! Early Bird Rates $150 each http://tinyurl.com/29jg53 [Secured Server] Online Workshop FAQ- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml Complete 2007-2008 Workshop Series see- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/ For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources & services please see our homepage- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 ofrancois_at_umuc.edu From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: Reading Digital Literature Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:45:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 365 (365) Conference at Brown University, Oct 4-6 Reading Digital Literature: American-German Conference organized by Roberto Simanowski and the Department of German Studies, Brown University Exhibition in List Art Center, opening: Oct 4, 8 PM Conference Opening: Oct 5, 4:30 PM Sessions: Oct. 5, 5:00-6:30 and Oct. 6, 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM Performances of Digital Literature: Oct. 5, 7:00-8:00 PM and Oct 6, 8:30-10:00 PM Sessions and Performances in Smith-Buonanno 106 Details: http://www.interfictions.org/readingdigitalliterature * Katherine Hayles: The Literary as Distributed Cognition in Strickland and Jaramillo's slippingglimpse * Rita Raley: List(en)ing Post * Jörgen Schäfer: Looking Behind the Facade: Playing and Performing an Interactive Drama * Fotis Jannidis: Understanding S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or the hermeneutics of popular digital art * Peter Gendolla: The Art of Poetry Machines * Chris Funkhouser: Kissing the steak: The Poetry of Text Generators * Thomas Swiss: Reading "Wrong": Flash Work by Motomichi Nakamura, Nils Muhlenbruch, and Yoshi Sodeoka * Karin Wenz: The Demon Machine or 79 Ways to Face a Demon * George P. Landow: Symbolic (but unreadable) Texts in Digital Culture * Mark Tribe: Reading Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries: An Ornithology of Digital Art A curtain of tiny screens with live quotations from Internet chat; stories generated by computer programs; narratives generated by their readers; words that disappear or reveal themselves depending on their readers position, texts that peels off the wall and require the 'reader' to push it back. How shall we read such moving letters? How do we catch their meanings? How might they make us feel? The conference brings together ten specialists from the USA and Germany to search for answers through in-depth analyses. From: max.saunders_at_kcl.ac.uk Subject: Human and Post-Human: Cultural Origins and Futures Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:29:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 366 (366) Human and Post-Human: Cultural Origins and Futures King's College London, Saturday 29th / Sunday 30th September 2007. The aim of the conference is to bring together scientists and experts in the humanities, to discuss 'interfacing sciences, literature and humanities'. The conference will concentrate on debates about the concept of the 'human' and the possibilities of its transformation. Topics to be covered include: Discourses and representations exploring the nature of the human and post-human, whether in scientific and pseudo-scientific writings, popular science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, genetics, fiction, utopian writing, cinema, or the media. For more information please see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/english/events/ or: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/phpnews/wmview.php?ArtCat=3 Max Saunders Professor of English King's College London From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: Final CfP - The Third Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:31:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 367 (367) Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ***Deadline of submission of abstracts (no more than 1,000 words): September 30, 2007*** The Third Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference November 2-4, 2007 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Website: http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/APCAP2007/ The Third Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference will again take place at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference is being held in succession to the successful Second Asia- Pacific Conference in January 2005 (http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/CAP/AP-CAP.html). AP-CAP2007 is part of the series of conferences organized by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (http://www.ia-cap.org). The conferences have been in held in various regions of the world. As of now there are three major regions where these conferences are held, namely in North America (NA-CAP), Europe (ECAP) and Asia- Pacific. As with the other CAP conferences, AP-CAP2007 will also deal with all aspects of the "computational turn" that is occurring through the interaction of the disciplines of philosophy and computing. And in continuation from the second conference, papers dealing with 'cultural' aspects of computing and philosophy would be specially emphasized, though papers in other areas will of course be welcome. The conference is interdisciplinary: We invite papers from philosophy, computer science, social science and related disciplines. INIVTED SPEAKER Rafael Capurro SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Please send an extended abstract of not more than 1,000 words to Dr. Soraj Hongladarom. Files in .DOC, .RTF, .TXT, or .PDF formats are acceptable. Deadline for submission: 30 September 2007. Authors will be notified of the committee's decision before October 15th. PhD and master students are especially encouraged to submit. Student speakers will not have to pay a conference fee. Abstracts should be sent to Soraj Hongladarom at s.hongladarom_at_gmail.com PUBLICATION Papers presented at the Second Asia-Pacific Conference were successfully placed in a variety of publications, including Computing and Philosophy in Asia (Cambridge Scholars Press) and a number of academic journals. It is foreseen that papers at the Third AP-CAP will be published in the same way. [...] CONTACT Dr. Soraj Hongladarom, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Tel. +66(0)2218-4756; Fax +66(0)2218-4755 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Seminar: Project and Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:35:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 368 (368) perspectives on Digital Philology (Verona - Italy - October 2007) Università degli Studi di Verona Dipartimento di Germanistica e Slavistica Sezione di Filologia Germanica ----- Progetti e prospettive di Filologia Digitale - Project and perspectives on Digital Philology ----- Verona, 4-5 October 2007 Aula Barbieri - Palazzo Giuliari For more information, see http://www.dgs.univr.it/dol/main?ent=3Dseminario&id=3D897. -- Dr Arianna Ciula Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS (UK) Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch From: "John Maguire" Subject: Royal Irish Academy - Digital Humanities Observatory Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:15:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 369 (369) DIRECTOR Digital Humanities Observatory Republic of Ireland Applications are invited for a 3 year fixed term contract position of Director of the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO). Funded under Cycle 4 of PRTLI, the Academy and its partners will build a joint national platform for the coordination and dissemination of humanities research, teaching and training at an all-island level. The key infrastructural element of the consortium will be the DHO. The DHO will be an electronic access portal and research resource for the humanities, designed, hosted and operated by the RIA. Reporting to the Academy's Executive Secretary and Principal Investigator, the Director will be responsible for: -- establishing, servicing and providing leadership for this shared on-line national data service for the humanities -- coordinating distributed networks and the delivery of a digital data archive -- managing the recruitment of specialist and support staff and establishing the project's physical infrastructure -- providing both academic and administrative leadership for the DHO -- developing a network of national and international partnerships and sourcing new funding opportunities. The Director will have a minimum of five years' postdoctoral experience with a strong background in humanities research and teaching, as well as significant expertise in the field of digital humanities. Further information and details of the application process are available on www.ria.ie. The closing date for applications is Friday 19th October 2007. Applicants will be shortlisted for interview on the basis of the information provided in their application. Further positions in the DHO will be advertised in early 2008. The Royal Irish Academy is an equal opportunities employer. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.38 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:19:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 370 (370) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 38 September 25, 2007 -- October 1, 2007 APPLICATIONS OF MOBILE RESEARCH IN JAPAN This Ubiquity article outlines representative applications of mobile research in Japan from various perspectives including engineering, cognitive science, and education. Its distinguished authors are associated with top Japanese educational and research institutions. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i38_japan.html> From: Arianna Ciula Subject: correction of URL for th Verona conference Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:19:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 371 (371) Unfortunately the link to the Verona conference, in Humanist 21.261, is broken. [Mea culpa! WM] It should be http://www.dgs.univr.it/dol/main?ent=seminario&id=897. -- Dr Arianna Ciula Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS (UK) Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch From: Subject: LATA 2008: 2nd call for papers Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:20:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 372 (372) ******************************************************************************* 2nd Call for Papers 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2008) Tarragona, Spain, March 13-19, 2008 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2008/index.html ******************************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a 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, LATA 2008 will reserve significant room for young computer scientists at the beginning of their career. It 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 - extended automata - combinatorics on words - language varieties and semigroups - algebraic language theory - computability - computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized complexity - decidability questions on words and languages - patterns and codes - symbolic dynamics - 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 - symbolic neural networks - quantum, chemical and optical computing - biomolecular nanotechnology - automata and logic - algorithms on automata and words - automata for system analysis and programme verification - automata, concurrency and Petri nets - parsing - weighted machines - transducers - foundations of finite state technology - grammatical inference and algorithmic learning - text retrieval, pattern matching and pattern recognition - text algorithms - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics - mathematical evolutionary genomics - language-based cryptography - data and image compression - circuits and networks - language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life - digital libraries - document engineering [...] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 69, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:20:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 373 (373) Version 69 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,120 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is also available from Digital Scholarship. Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-digital-publications-changes/ Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal Preservation Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans Open Access Bibliography Open Access Webliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog From: Willard McCarty Subject: full details of the Director's position, Digital Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:10:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 374 (374) Humanities Observatory Dear colleagues, Subsequent to the Humanist posting about the position as Director of the new Digital Humanities Observatory -- a creation of the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin) and a *very* promising opportunity for the right candidate -- I've been informed that full details of the position are now available on the RIA website - www.ria.ie. Recently I served as external assessor for the funding round conducted by the Irish Higher Education Authority, so I can say with authority (pun intended) that the Observatory has the potential to be among the best of the good news for our field. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: CS and the humanities? Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:10:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 375 (375) Dear colleagues, In 2004-5 I spent some time cataloguing interactions between computer science and the humanities, with interesting results. I'm now doing this again, for a couple of talks I am due to give fairly soon. I would be very grateful if anyone here who knows of events, publications, collaborations and so forth would let me know via Humanist. If you know of anyone who has theorized these interactions, written an historical/chronological account, I'd be especially grateful for the pointers. Many thanks. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "J. Trant" Subject: reminder: MW2008 proposal deadline: sept 30, 2007 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:24:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 376 (376) just a quick reminder that the deadline for=20 proposals for Museums and the Web 2008 (Montreal,=20 April 9-12, 2008) is coming up fast. (it's this weekend to be exact!) for full details see the conference web site at=20 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ hope to see you in Montreal, jennifer --=20 Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2008 produced by April 9 - 12, 2008, Montr=E9al, PQ Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2008_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 ------------- Museums and the Web 2008 is presented in conjunction with the Department of Canadian Heritage through the=20 Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online= (CCO). From: Willard McCarty Subject: CS and the humanities? Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:10:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 377 (377) Dear colleagues, In 2004-5 I spent some time cataloguing interactions between computer science and the humanities, with interesting results. I'm now doing this again, for a couple of talks I am due to give fairly soon. I would be very grateful if anyone here who knows of events, publications, collaborations and so forth would let me know via Humanist. If you know of anyone who has theorized these interactions, written an historical/chronological account, I'd be especially grateful for the pointers. Many thanks. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Job opportunity at AHeSSC Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:59:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 378 (378) Apologies for any cross postings. Also available=20 online at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde= x=3D6011>http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php= ?jobindex=3D6011. Division: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) Job ref: E2/QL/230/07 Closing date: 15/10/2007 Summary The Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) is the support service and central resource base for issues and activities related to e-Science in the arts and humanities in the UK. The Centre is hosted by King's College London and located at the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and the AHRC Methods Network. AHeSSC exists to support, co-ordinate and promote e-Science in all arts and humanities disciplines, and to liaise with the e-Science and e-Social Science communities, computing, and information sciences. AHeSSC will carry out a range of research into the adoption and use of e-Infrastructure, a rapidly emerging set of advanced, interoperable technologies, tools and services intended to support large scale, multi=96disciplinary research collaborations. The aim of this project is to address barriers to the wider adoption of e-Infrastructure. We are now seeking to appoint a Research Associate to work on this project. The appointee will undertake research to help to understand the barriers to the wider take-up of e-Science and e-Research and to help develop a coordinated set of responses involving awareness-raising and training materials in a variety of formats, for delivery both online and offline. DetailsThe ideal candidate will have a post-graduate degree in an arts and humanities subject or related disciplines with significant experience in education and training research. S/he will have experience in investigating learning and training requirements, and in translating them into effective materials, preferably in higher education, for online and workshop delivery to a variety of audiences that range from technical experts to novices. Excellent communication skills are essential. Candidates will need to demonstrate multi-disciplinary understanding, and have the ability to learn quickly to absorb new approaches, methods and techniques employed across the range of e-Science in the arts and humanities. Salary Salary will be within the ALC Grade 2, currently GBP 27,162 to 34,470, per annum, inclusive of GBP 2,323 London allowance per annum. Equality of opportunity is College policy Post duration This post will be fixed term to 28th February 2009. Contact For further details and an application form please see the Word document at the website above. Alternatively, email ps-recruitment_at_kcl.ac.uk or send a large, self-addressed envelope with the post reference number clearly marked on the outside to Human Resources, Rm 7.20, James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA. Please quote reference number: E2/QL/230/07 Dr Stuart Dunn Research Associate Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre www.ahessc.ac.uk www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahessc (mailing list) Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 2980 stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX From: Willard McCarty Subject: the tyranny of technology Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:23:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 379 (379) The following appeared recently in the Times Higher Education Supplement and was forwarded to me by a colleague. [deleted quotation]A colleague of mine who runs a large teaching programme remarked some time ago that in order to protect his staff members from becoming overwhelmed with e-mails from students, who were expecting answers almost immediately whatever the day and hour, he had to write a policy document defining what could be considered reasonable expectations for replying to questions by that medium. On the other hand, given the style and kind of work that I do, I have yet to develop a problem with what Marshall calls "pinging" (which is a technically inaccurate phrase, since one can choose when to respond). So I wonder: what *is* the problem? Someone with hundreds of students would clearly have to do something, but still I think more is involved here. Marshall's statement that, [deleted quotation]seems right to me, because what he is talking about in this sentence is not some inherent or inevitable property of the medium but our understanding of how to use it to effect what we want. This means in part mastering our own reactions. As with the spectacular problem of "infoglut" that was once all the rage to complain about, in the early years of Humanist, for example, the problem is at least in part how we react, which includes the mechanisms, formats and procedures we set up to shape and direct the potential of something with significant potential. Getting involved for hours managing discussion forums is a choice one can make. When I was a graduate student at Toronto teaching one class a term, I found myself spending nearly all my time on it -- a convenient excuse not to face the challenges of my doctoral research. I imagine that's a common experience. One can also find administrative tasks irresistible because they provide that perfect excuse (yes, there are nobler reasons!). Marshall concludes by saying that, [deleted quotation]This seems to me quite wrong -- and in a way that is typically wrong in reactions to new inventions: first to determine what the subject needs or wants to do, then to design some form of the invention to fit the need or want. This seems to me the irritated reaction of someone who does not want to change rather than a question from someone who sees that we all need to negotiate our place in a changing world. Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: CS & the humanities: what's interesting for both? Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:49:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 380 (380) Dear colleagues, As a followup to the question I just asked about interactions between CS and the digital humanities, let me ask another. What are the interesting problems & "grand challenges" arising in the digital humanities that interest or should interest people in CS? Similarly, excluding the funding concepts, what's in computer science research that interests or should interest us in the humanities? All comments welcome. Many thanks. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Andreas Aschenbrenner Subject: Re: 21.267 CS and the humanities? Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:25:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 381 (381) Dear Mr McCarty, just a very brief note, since it is a cheeky self-reference: TextGrid - www.textgrid.de ... we are the German grid/humanities project and attempt to employ grid technologies for scholars in the humanities. we are 4 technical partners and 4 from literature and language. first step: (a) a virtual archive / trusted repository, and (b) an extensible tool network for text-based scientific work. based on grid technology. I'm sure you know Tobias Blanke at the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC, KCL) - he'd be able to give you a host of exciting references for the UK ... greetings, andi Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) schrieb: [deleted quotation] From: Michael Norton Subject: Re: 21.267 CS and the humanities? Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:26:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 382 (382) Willard, I did a presentation on this as "audition" for my current position teaching in a computer science department. My academic training was as a musicologist (Medieval Liturgical Drama), but I spent most of my career as a computer programmer (I had to make a living somehow!). My presentation, "A Bridge Too Far?: Computing and Humanities Research" can be found at: <http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonJMU2001.ppt>http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonJMU2001.ppt (use 134.126.20.61 if the URL doesn't work - there is a DNS problem on my end). My own take on this was guided largely by my contact, for the first time really, with "true" computer scientists, who viewed the world quite differently than did I. I was really quite struck by the gulfs in understanding and outlook that I encountered, and this presentation was my means for trying to come to terms with it. A couple of later papers that extend some of the ideas expressed here are: "Modeling the Visitatio Sepulchri: Some Problems of Representation" <http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonRutgers2002.pdf>http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonRutgers2002.pdf and "Representation, Interpretation, and Integration: A Layered Architecture for the Encoding of Medieval Liturgical Manuscripts" <http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005.pdf>http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005.pdf (paper) <http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005-Slides.pdf>http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005-Slides.pdf (slides) I hope this helps. Michael /*********************************** * Michael Norton, Ph.D. * Computer Science Dept. * School of Music * ISAT/CS #209 * MSC 4103 * James Madison University * Harrisonburg VA 22807 * * 540-568-2777 * nortonml_at_jmu.edu ***********************************/ On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:39 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Julia Flanders Subject: Re: 21.271 the tyranny of technology? Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:25:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 383 (383) I agree with Willard's final assessment--this sounds like the kind of article that organs like the THES and other similar journals like to write, without either studying the actual habits of academics overall (and the wide range of actual responses to the effects and opportunities of technology) or thinking carefully about what's really going on. It seems to me, perhaps uncharitably, that the perceived need to answer email as soon as it comes in is: --a new expression of an old urge: procrastination and bad time management has always been endemic in a profession where the things you're really supposed to be doing are difficult and sometimes painful, with a long-deferred horizon of reward; this problem is not produced by technology --a little passive-aggressive: "your expectation that I answer in 30 minutes forces me to answer in 30 minutes..." --not that difficult to solve in practical ways if one wants to (change the setting on your email program so that it doesn't check for new mail every two minutes) What is fascinating about this article is the way it slips quietly from the problem of technology (too much email, too urgent, not enough time for research) to recast the problem as a competition between research and teaching/assessment, with a weird implicit alignment of teaching and technology: [deleted quotation]This is fine on the face of it, observing that academics don't necessarily possess the technical skills to develop their own online course materials efficiently. But it seems to me that what's beneath this line of thought is the idea (more explicitly expressed a little further down) that teaching and assessment are really the problem in a domain where research is really the goal, and that technology can help if one doesn't try to take responsibility for it but instead delegates that role to instructional technologists or developers of online courseware: [deleted quotation]The implication is that academics are fools to put the same kind of imagination and individual effort into their teaching as they do into their research, and that they are fools to try to engage directly with the technologies that form their teaching practice. In other words, it positions technology as instrumental for rather than constitutive of both teaching and research, and as a result assesses it purely for the success or failure of its instrumental effects. This, I think, is also why its analysis of the email problem is off the mark: it treats email as something external that is visited upon us, rather than as a communicative habit that arises out of the same urges and motivations we've had all along. The idea of "a few simple fixes" is about as helpful, as an analysis of the impact of technology on the academy, as the idea that we could all increase our research output if we would just all sit down and write 100 words each day. Best wishes, Julia [deleted quotation] From: "hinton_at_springnet1.com" Subject: Re: 21.271 the tyranny of technology? Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:26:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 384 (384) [deleted quotation]I had a friend whose office was nearby -- he was a Professor of Biology who later became Dean of the School of Sciences. His approach to phone messages -- the Internet had not yet loomed over the horizon -- was "if you just wait long enough to reply to them, the matter isn't important any more." Later, when the Internet came along, he behaved in the same manner. From: "J. Trant" Subject: ICHIM07 papers on-line Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:05:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 385 (385) -------------------------------------------------------------- ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting digital culture and heritage Toronto, October 24-26, 2007 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ -------------------------------------------------------------- ICHIM07 Papers are now on-line http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html The first group of papers to be presented at the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting are now on-line. See the full list at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html But conferences aren't about people reading papers. They are about seeing first hand the diversity of work being done, having conversations and asking questions. So plan to join us in Toronto for some stimulating discussions and debates. -------------------------------------------------------------- Closing Plenary: Ranjiit Makkuni on the Eternal Gandhi http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001589.html Ranjit Makkuni, of the Sacred World Foundation, India, will speak about the making of the Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum. He will present a language of physical interface actions derived from classical symbols of the spinning wheel, turning of the prayer wheels, touching symbolic pillars, the act of hands touching sacred objects, collaboratively constructed quilts, sacred chanting in the collective group, the satsanga and the touching and rotating of prayer beads. These tradition-based interactions inspire a rich panorama of tactile interfaces that allow people to access the multimedia imagery and multidimensional mind of Gandhiji. 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Contact the ICHIM07 Conference Co-Chairs: Jennifer Trant and David Bearman ichim07_at_archimuse.com We hope to see you in Toronto! jennifer and David -- ________ International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings - ICHIM07 October 24-26, 2007 produced by Toronto, Ontario, Canada Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ 158 Lee Ave, Toronto ichim07_at_archimuse.com Ontario, M43 2P3 Canada ICHIM07 is produced by Archives & Museum Informatics in association with the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, and in conjunction with the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO), and the MaRS Collaboration Centre. ________ From: staudek_at_fi.muni.cz (Jan Staudek) Subject: MEMICS 2007, Call for participation Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:06:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 386 (386) Call for Participation Early Payment Date Approaching! 3rd Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science MEMICS 2007 http://www.memics.cz/ October 26--28, 2007, Znojmo, Czech Republic The MEMICS 2007 workshop is organized jointly by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, and the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology. The aim: To provide a forum for doctoral students interested in applications of mathematical and engineering methods in computer science with a special focus on the various aspects of parallel and distributed systems. Topics: Submissions are invited especially in the following but not exclusive areas: parallel and distributed computing, GRID computing, computer networks and advanced applications, models and techniques for formal verification, security; also simulation, testing and diagnostics, theory of formal languages, quantum computing, modern hardware concepts. Invited lectures will be given by Javier Esparza (Munchen), Tiziana Margaria-Steffen (Potsdam), Geraint Price (London), Ian Taylor (Cardiff), and Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund). The proceedings will be available at the workshop in printed form. Selected best papers will be considered for journal publication (with a full journal review process). Venue: The workshop will be held in Znojmo, a beautiful town on the Austrian borders famous for a number of examples of medieval architecture and nearby vineyards. Programme Committee Chair Ludek Matyska, Brno Programme Committee Co-Chairs Milan Ceska, Brno Petr Hlineny, Brno Mojmir Kretinsky, Brno Organizing Committee Chair Jan Staudek, Brno Important Dates Early payment: October 2, 2007 Workshop dates: October 26-28, 2007 More information: http://www.memics.cz From: Willard McCarty Subject: CS & the humanities: what's interesting for both? Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:49:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 387 (387) Dear colleagues, As a followup to the question I just asked about interactions between CS and the digital humanities, let me ask another. What are the interesting problems & "grand challenges" arising in the digital humanities that interest or should interest people in CS? Similarly, excluding the funding concepts, what's in computer science research that interests or should interest us in the humanities? All comments welcome. Many thanks. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: the tyranny of old technology Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:50:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 388 (388) In reference to the recent conversation provoked by the opinions of Ian Marshall on the tyranny of technology, especially e-mail, the following will give you pause to reflect on a somewhat deeper matter. In his delightful Portraits from Memory, Bertrand Russell has the following to say about Alfred North Whitehead (with whom he wrote the Principia Mathematica): [deleted quotation]Unoriginally yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Carlos Areces Subject: CFP: JOURNAL OF LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:36:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 389 (389) ***CALL FOR PAPERS*** JOURNAL OF LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION (http://www.springer.com/west/home/philosophy/logic?SGWID=4-40392-70-35503189-0) Special Issue on HYBRID LOGIC IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: March 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2008 Publication: by the end of 2008 GENERAL INFORMATION 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 often actually improves the behaviour 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. This special issue has its origin in the International Workshop on Hybrid Logic (HyLo 2007), which was held 6-10 August in Dublin, Ireland as part of the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2007). The HyLo 2007 workshop continued a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic. TOPICS Topics of interest include not only standard hybrid-logical machinery like nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder, but generally extensions of modal logic that increase its expressive power. SUBMISSIONS This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. All submissions will be refereed to usual journal standards. Submissions should not exceed 30 pages and preferably be formatted according to the guidelines for Journal of Logic, Language and Information (see "Instructions for Authors" at the web-page of the journal). Submissions should be sent to Torben Braüner (as PDF file): torben_at_ruc.dk. Please put "JoLLI submission" in the subject field and include the following information in the body of the email: paper title, author names, email address of the contact author, and a short abstract. GUEST EDITORS OF SPECIAL ISSUE Torben Braüner, Roskilde University, Denmark (editor-in-chief) Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark ================================================================== Carlos Areces phone : +33 (0)3 54 95 84 90 INRIA Researcher fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 e-mail: carlos.areces_at_loria.fr INRIA Lorraine. www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces Equipe TALARIS - Batiment B 615, rue du Jardin Botanique 54600 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- September 2007 Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:36:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 390 (390) TL INFOBITS September 2007 No. 15 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitsep07.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... Online Instructors and Burnout Study of Students and IT Tips for Online Teaching Creative Commons Celebrates Fifth Anniversary New Version of bFree Available Recommended Reading ...................................................................... ONLINE INSTRUCTORS AND BURNOUT "The growth of distance education in higher education establishes a need to examine burnout specific to online instructors. Although burnout among educators has been studied, no specific work has been conducted relative to burnout among higher education online instructors." A 2005 study of 76 online instructors by R. Lance Hogan and Mark A. McKnight explored burnout in this segment of educators. Their research sought answers to three questions: "To what degree does burnout occur in higher education online instructors?" "Is there a significant relationship between gender and burnout level of higher education online instructors?" "How do measures of burnout among higher education online instructors compare with the existing normative data of educators?" Their findings are reported in "Exploring Burnout among University Online Instructors: An Initial Investigation" (THE INTERNET AND HIGHER EDUCATION, vol. 10, no. 2, 2007). The paper is available on the Web at http://www.usi.edu/business/mamcknight/publications/INTHIG281.pdf. The Internet and Higher Education [ISSN 1096-7516] is a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by Pergamon, an imprint of Elsevier. It is "devoted to addressing contemporary issues and future developments related to online learning, teaching, and administration on the Internet in post-secondary settings." For more information, see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620187/description. ...................................................................... STUDIES OF STUDENTS AND IT Since 2004, the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) has conducted longitudinal studies of students and information technology. The latest report, "The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2007," presents data from a spring 2007 survey and interviews with nearly 28,000 freshman, senior, and community college students at 103 higher education institutions. Some of the findings from this year's study include: -- "Today's students spend a lot of time online. Respondents report spending an average of 18 hours per week actively doing online activities for work, school, or recreation, and 6.6 percent (more often male) spend more than 40 hours per week." -- Students surveyed "overwhelmingly (85.1 percent) favor e-mail for official college and university communications. . . . A resounding 82.5 percent say they prefer a university account" rather than a commercial account for these communications. -- "While most respondents are enthusiastic IT users and use it to support many aspects of their academic lives, most prefer only a 'moderate' amount of IT in their courses (59.3 percent)." The research bulletin is available online at http://www.educause.edu/ers0706. ECAR "provides timely research and analysis to help higher education leaders make better decisions about information technology. ECAR assembles leading scholars, practitioners, researchers, and analysts to focus on issues of critical importance to higher education, many of which carry increasingly complicated and consequential implications." For more information go to http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=4. Other Related Studies: "Faculty Integration of Technology into Instruction and Students' Perceptions of Computer Technology to Improve Student Learning" By Jared Keengwe JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, vol. 6, 2007 http://jite.org/documents/Vol6/JITEv6p169-180Keengwe218.pdf "[R]eports indicate that faculty members are not integrating technology into instruction in ways that make a difference in student learning. To help faculty make informed decisions on student learning, there is need for current knowledge of faculty integration practices. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the nature of the relationship between faculty integration of technology into classroom instruction and students' perceptions of the effect of computer technology to improve their learning." 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/. "Student Expectations Study: Key Findings from Online Research and Discussion Evenings Help in June 2007 for the Joint Information Systems Committee" July 2007 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/studentexpectations.pdf The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is a strategic advisory committee working on behalf of the funding bodies for further and higher education in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. For more information on JISC, see http://www.jisc.ac.uk/. ...................................................................... TIPS FOR ONLINE TEACHING Rosemary Lehman and Richard Berg's book 147 PRACTICAL TIPS FOR SYNCHRONOUS AND BLENDED TECHNOLOGY TEACHING AND LEARNING has recently been published. The authors draw on their extensive experience in distance education at Instructional Communications Systems, University of Wisconsin-Extension. Tips range from initial planning for synchronous or blended technologies, through developing and implementing programs, to evaluating the results. The book's table of contents, purchasing information, and a link to the authors' companion website and blog are available at http://www.atwoodpublishing.com/books/295.htm. 147 Practical Tips for Synchronous and Blended Technology Teaching and Learning By Rosemary M. Lehman and Richard A. Berg Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-891859-69-4 $12.50 paperback ...................................................................... CREATIVE COMMONS CELEBRATES FIFTH ANNIVERSARY Creative Commons (CC) is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works. This year it celebrates five years of giving intellectual property owners alternatives for sharing their work. To read about future CC projects and for more information about Creative Commons licenses go to http://creativecommons.org/. ...................................................................... NEW VERSION OF BFREE AVAILABLE bFree, developed by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services' Teaching and Learning division and announced in the March 2007 TL INFOBITS (http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitmar07.php#1), is a course extractor that makes a stand-alone website from any Blackboard course content. The tool has recently been updated. The interface is easier to use and the program now extracts more types of course materials. To learn more about bFree or to download the program, go to http://its.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree. ...................................................................... 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. "Damn Spam: The Losing War on Junk E-Mail" by Michael Specter THE NEW YORKER, August 6, 2007 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/06/070806fa_fact_specter Specter charts the history of spam email from its beginnings in the 1970s to the present. Spam haters will find no predictions of relief from the onslaught. The spammers are at least one step ahead of filters and trappers designed to ward off their messages: "Last year, spammers began to take advantage of the fact that computers can't see, and buried their messages in images. Most filters look for words and phrases or Internet address information. A picture contains so much more data that it is hard for the computer to find the message embedded in all the noise. Humans who click on the message have no trouble seeing it, though. Image spam consumes far more bandwidth than written messages, and that means it will devour even more space on computer servers throughout the world, costing more money and wasting more time. But spammers aren't stopping there. They are learning to send out polymorphic spam, thousands of variations of the same message, which makes each message unique and therefore hard to categorize." ...................................................................... INFOBITS RSS FEED To set up an RSS feed for Infobits, get the code at http://lists.unc.edu/read/rss?forum=infobits. ...................................................................... [...] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.39 Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:37:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 391 (391) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 39 October 2, 2007 -- October 8, 2007 An Interview with Steven Levy Steven Levy, the chief technology writer for Newsweek magazine, has written a number of best-selling books, the latest of which is "The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Culture, Commerce, and Coolness." When we asked acclaimed software developer Marney Morris to comment on this interview and she responded: "I've been reading Steven Levy's thoughts on technology for over 20 years, and he is still as fresh and insightful as he was back then -- in the beginning days of the personal computer. Steven weaves the implications of technology change into social meaning with wit and intelligence. He was the best, brightest and funniest guy in the tech arena before he moved to Newsweek in '95, and he still is. He is a great guy and a great journalist. I'm honored that I got to say so." See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v8i39_levy.html> From: Wendell Piez Subject: next August -- Balisage conference Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:38:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 392 (392) Dear Willard and HUMANIST -- First there was the Hytime conference. Then,=20 Metastructures. And then, Extreme. Now -- it's Balisage -- MARK YOUR CALENDAR Balisage: The Markup Conference August 12 - 15, 2008 (workshop: August 11, 2008) Montréal in August has always been the place and time for serious markup geeks to meet, and this year there's an all-new conference for them. Balisage is designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It's all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space) - in short, changing the world and the web through the power of marked-up information. See: http://www.balisage.net/ for details on Balisage Updates: subscribe to the Markup Conference Announcement list http://www.balisage.net/MarkupAnnounce.html Questions: info_at_balisage.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML From: Hazel Gardiner Subject: CHArt Conference 2007 - Reduced Rate Deadline 12 October 2008 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:48:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 393 (393) Dear Colleagues, In case you haven't had a chance to book, this is a reminder that the reduced conference fee for CHArt is still available, but don't forget to submit your booking form before 12 October. The booking form and conference abstracts are available on the CHArt website (www.chart.ac.uk). We hope to see you at CHArt 2007! With all good wishes. Hazel Gardiner CHArt ----- DEADLINE FOR REDUCED CONFERENCE RATE - 12 OCTOBER 2007 CHArt TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE -- BOOKING NOW OPEN! DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007, Birkbeck, University of London. PROGRAMME Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organisations such as publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated and controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the future of such =91top-down' institutions in the age of =91bottom-up' access to knowledge and cultural artifacts through Web 2:0 technologies. Will such institutions respond to this threat to their cultural hegemony by resistance or adaptation? How can a museum or a gallery or, for that matter, a broadcasting company, appeal to an audience which has unprecedented access to cultural resources? How can institutions predicated on a cultural economy of scarcity compete in an emerging state of cultural abundance? The twenty-third CHArt conference will reflect upon these issues. KEYNOTE SPEAKER -- Dr Charlie Gere, Director of the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University and Chair of= CHArt. THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER SESSION 1 -- New media and Web 2.0 Challenges for Cultural Organisations. Eva Moraga, Madrid, Spain. =91Immersion' An Interactive Archive of Sound Art. J Milo Taylor, London College of Communication, London, UK. SESSION 2 -- Virtually the =91real thing'? Changing definitions of authenticity in the display and interpretation of a virtual artefact. Tara Chittenden, the Law Society, London,UK. A Visual Arts Perspective on Open Access Institutional Repositories. Jacqueline Cooke and Dafna Ganani-Tomares, Goldsmiths College, University of London,UK. SESSION 3 -- ArtPad: A Collection. A Connection. Melanie Kjorlien and Quyen Hoang, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Your Paintings: Institutions, Identities and Interactions Bridget McKenzie, Flow Associates, London, UK; Jon Pratty, 24 Hour Museum, Brighton. UK. SESSION 4 -- Transforming the Methods Network: Where's My Community Dude? Neil Grindley, JISC, London, UK; Torsten Reimer, AHRC ICT Methods Network, London, UK Saatchi =91Your Gallery' Website's Problems and Potentials. Ana Finel Honigman, University of Oxford, UK. FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER SESSION 5 -- Merlin on the Web: the British Museum Collection Database goes public. Tanya Szrajber, Head of Documentation, The British Museum, UK. Designing the Electronic Archive: Archive Fever and the Archival Economy of Getty Images Online Operations. Doireann Wallace, Dublin Institute of Technology, Eire. SESSION 6 -- Marketing Visual Culture: Liberty Fabrics' Digital Archive Anna Buruma and Peter Taylor, Liberty, London, UK.; Annette Ward, University of Dundee, UK. Art Criticism 2.0? Stijn Van De Vyver, Ghent University, Belgium. SESSION 7 -- From Information to Knowledge: An Unfinished Canadian Case Study. Sarah Parsons, York University, Toronto, Canada. Understanding Value and new space: The Key to Effective Provision of and Engagement with Digitised Cultural Resources. Heather Robson, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University,= UK. SESSION 8 -- Curation in the Digital Age. Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK. Computer Art Then and Now: Evaluating the V&A's Collections in the Digital= Age. Douglas Dodds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. DEMONSTRATIONS: To be announced The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk. Bookings made before 12 October 2007 will be entitled to a discount. Conference fees (pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch. Send bookings to: Francesca Franco, CHArt, c/o CCH, Kings College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, WC2R 3DX, fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980, francesca.franco_at_courtauld.ac.uk (please use the subject heading CHArt Conference 2007 in any email queries). BOOKING CHArt Member: TWO DAYS £110 (£90 before 12 Oct 2007) CHArt Member: ONE DAY £70 (£60 before 12 Oct 2007) Non-member: TWO DAYS £140 (£120 before 12 Oct 2007) Non-member: ONE DAY £90 (£80 before 12 Oct 2007) CHArt Student Member: TWO DAYS £65 £45 before 12 Oct 2007) CHArt Student Member: ONE DAY £45(£35 before 12 Oct 2007) Student Non-member: TWO DAYS £85 (£65 before 12 Oct 2007) Student Non-member: ONE DAY £55 (£45 before 12 Oct 2007) ........................................................ 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: Kuldar Taveter Subject: Call For Participation: 3rd Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:45:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 394 (394) International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise Call for Participation 3rd International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2007) http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/ Annapolis, Maryland, USA, October 15, 2007 The goal of the workshop is to discuss the role that foundational and domain ontologies play in the conceptual development and implementation of next generation tools for enterprise computing. The VORTE workshop covers research topics relevant to description formalisms for enterprise application architectures, services, content, and regulations. Since enterprise vocabularies and ontologies, as well as business rules do not exist in isolation but serve to support business processes, this year a special emphasis is on business process modelling and management. Fundamental research aspect covered by the workshop includes ontological evaluation of enterprise systems and their interoperability, and ontological analysis of business process modelling. Applied research aspect includes enhancing business rule engines and business process management systems by ontologies. In the area of modelling, our topics include how process modelling and execution languages, such as Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), relate to business ontologies. The workshop also covers ontology-based service description technologies for inter-enterprise collaboration like extensions to UDDI or OWL-S. This definitely promises a lot of fun, and we are looking forward to meeting you in Annapolis. Please, do not forget to register at http://edoc.mitre.org/. Workshop Program -------------- Session 1: Introduction, Keynote, and Process Modeling -- Introduction -- Keynote: Prof. Marcus Spies - An ontology modelling perspective on business reporting languages -- Michael zur Muehlen, Jan Recker and Marta Indulska, Less is Sometimes More: Are Process Modeling Languages Overly Complex? Break Section 2: Ontologies and Rules: Tools and Evaluation -- Jennifer Fang and Joerg Evermann, Evaluating Ontologies: Towards a Cognitive Measure of Quality -- Leo Ferres, Michel Dumontier and Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, An OWL Ontology of Time-Series Data Graphs in the Statistical Domain: Semantic Annotation of N-Variable Line Graphs -- Mark Linehan, Ontologies and Rules in Business Models -- Aqueo Kamada and Manuel Mendes, Business Rules in a Model Driven Service Environment -- Mini-panel -- paper presenters in Sessions 1 and 2 answer to additional questions Lunch Session 3: Applications - Luis Alvarez Sabucedo and Luis Anido-Rif=F3n, An Ontology Based Architecture for eGovernment Environments -- Nikolaos Loutas, Vassilios Peristeras, Sotirios Goudos and Konstantinos Tarabanis, Facilitating the Semantic Discovery of eGovernment Services: The SemanticGov Portal -- Suzette Stoutenburg and Leo Obrst, Ontologies and Rules for Rapid Enterprise Integration and Event Aggregation -- Frederick Yip, Alfred Ka Yiu Wong, Nandan Parameswaran and Pradeep Ray, Towards Robust and Adaptive Semantic-Based Compliance Auditing -- Mini-panel -- paper presenters from Session 3 answer to additional= questions Break Session 4: Enterprise knowledge modeling languages -- Mounira Harzallah, Giuseppe Berio and Andreas L. Opdahl, Incorporating IDEF3 into the Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML) -- Reyes Grangel, Ricardo Chalmeta and Cristina Campos, Using UML Profiles for Enterprise Knowledge Modelling -- Michael zur Muehlen, Marta Indulska and Gerrit Kamp, Business Process and Business Rule Modeling: A Representational Analysis -- Mini-panel -- paper presenters from Session 4 answer to additional= questions -- Final discussion and workshop summary Looking forward to meeting you in Annapolis. Best reagards, Kuldar Taveter University of Melbourne, Australia Dragan Gasevic Athabasca University, Canada From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Days and Disappearances Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:44:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 395 (395) On or about the disappearing day... Dear Willard, Canadian Thanksgiving this year falls on October 8. Curious, I checked Wikipedia for pointers on events in history. Consulting the "October 8" entry I found the following: * 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. I found myself drifting towards reflecting upon the difference between "day" as a part of a date and "day" as an experiential unit independent of the the date. It perhaps a mark of being a frequent reader of Humanist that I thought an elucidation of the distinction would be a perfect prize exam question ... With thoughts of humanities computing in mind I continued with my meditations on time by turning to some lines from the poem "The Drunken Clock" by Gwendolyn MacEwen. [In my universe everything connects.] Clocks count forward with craze, but bells count backwards in sober grace. Volume One: The Early Years. ed. by Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan. By analogy we can appreciate how the of evolution of computing power has spawned clock-driven projects that attempt to do more in less time and how distribution of such computing power has placed bells ready to chime in many more places. It is perhaps a truism that rhythm and synchronization, hallmarks of multimedia p,r,o,d,u,c,t,i,o,n, depend upon careful alignments and segmentations. A day is to a bell as a date is to a clock? Or vice versa? Next, I turned from poetry to scholarship. I have been plunged of late in Anthony Grafton's wonderful book on Joseph Scaliger. I found myself thinking that Scaliger's "turn to chronology" amounts to a moment in the prehistory of humanities computing. Historical chronology is where the disciplines of astronomy and critical editing intersected and where evidence and model building operated closely. And so Grafton gives us a picture of The craze... Scaliger's reconstruction also required him to ignore or distort other texts directly relevant to his enterprise. The grace... Still, whatever Scaliger's errors, he had assembled the data and raised the problems on which legions of learned chronologers would gnash their teeth and exercise their wits for centuries to come. A Scaliger prize for future students, prize devoted to time in computing? And so as the day disappears and the bell tolls, you find me thankful for your kind moderation of such an excellent seminar and leaving you to ponder further the clocks and bells of our mind machines. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 24/6 From: John Unsworth Subject: faculty positions at UIUC Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:46:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 396 (396) GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (GSLIS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Faculty Positions GSLIS seeks to hire more than one outstanding full-time faculty to join our dynamic and collegial program. The primary appointment will be in GSLIS, but the position could be part of a cluster hire or a joint appointment with another academic unit. This year, hiring interests include: digital libraries, data curation and digital preservation, bibliometrics/informetrics, software engineering, information systems design, user-interface design and usability engineering, ubiquitous computing, data mining and machine learning, information visualization, geographic information systems, computational linguistics and natural language processing, information retrieval (including multimedia), grid-based computing and cyberinfrastructure, informatics in any domain (social science, humanities, health, life sciences, museums, organizations, communications, arts etc.), digital narratives, development and analysis of collaborative and sociotechnical systems, organizational theory and program evaluation in libraries and related information- based institutions. Appointments made under this announcement will be effective August 16, 2008 or as negotiated. Rank is open, and salary is commensurate with experience. A Ph.D. degree or equivalent is required though we will consider candidates who are close to completion of the doctoral degree. A complete announcement and information about GSLIS, its programs, and its environment can be found on the Internet at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/. To ensure full consideration, send nominations, letters of application, a current resume and a list of three professional references including contact information referencing search #11420, by email (preferably) to: cledward_at_uiuc.edu by January 18, 2008. Interviews may be conducted before the closing date, although no hiring decisions will be made until after the search has closed. Candy Edwards Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, Illinois 61820-6211 Phone: (217) 244-3809 / Fax: (217) 244-3302 The U of I is an AA-EOE. From: Peter Heslin Subject: Announcing: Diogenes version 3.1 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:22:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 397 (397) Announcing the release of version 3.1 of Diogenes, a free program for reading the databases of Latin and Greek texts published on CD-Rom by the Packard Humanities Institute and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/ The major new feature in this version is that, thanks to the generosity of the Perseus project, morphological data and dictionaries for Latin (Lewis-Short) and Greek (LSJ) and are built-in. This means that you can: * Click on a word in the texts and get a morphological analysis and the corresponding dictionary entry instantly, even if you are not connected to the Internet. * Click to analyze words in the dictionary entries themselves, or click on the citation information of a passage cited in the dictionary to jump to the context of the passage in the Latin or Greek database. * Do morphologically intelligent searching, i.e. search for all of the inflected forms of a given dictionary headword. * Look up words in the dictionaries. In addition, version 3 of Diogenes is newly based on the Firefox browser and should be very easy to install, much more so than previously. Easy-to-install packages are provided for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Installation just takes a couple of clicks. Version 3.1 also includes a number of new features that had long been requested: * Unicode input (now the default). * Saving user-defined subsets of the databases for repeated searching. * Running marginal numeration when browsing through a text. * Improved Unicode output. * For network installations, individual user settings (via cookies). -- Dr Peter Heslin | Durham University Tel. +44 (0)191 334 1682 Department of Classics and Ancient History Fax. +44 (0)191 334 1671 38 North Bailey | Durham DH1 3EU | England http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.40 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:23:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 398 (398) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 40 October 9, 2007 -- October 15, 2007 Economic Recognition of Innovation Balkrishna C. Rao or Purdue University's School of Industrial Engineer writes in this week's Ubiquity about the economic recognition of innovation against the backdrop of globalization. Though it's a bitch on the technical side, it's well worth your perusal. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i40_rao.html> UBIQUITY CITED BY TOM FRIEDMAN OF THE NEW YORK TIMES In the new edtion of his best-selling book "The World Is Flat," New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman favorably cited the Ubiquity article by Espen Anderson titled "Why You Should Choose Math in High School." From that article Friedman called particular attention to the words: "Choose math because you will meet it more and more in the future. Math becomes more and more important in all areas of work and scholarship. Future journalists and politicians will talk less and analyze more. Future police officers and military personnel will use more and more complicated technology. Future nurses and teachers will have to relate to numbers and technology every day. Future car mechanics and carpenters will use chip-optimization and stress analysis as much as monkey wrenches and hammers. There will be more math at work, so you will need more math at school." See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i11_math.html> UBIQUITY ASSOCIATE EDITOR JOHN STUCKEY TAKES CTO POSITION IN EGYPT The American University in Cario, Egypt, has announced that Ubiquity Associate Editor John Stuckey has been appointed its Chief Technology Officer: See: <http://www.aucegypt.edu/newsatauc/inner4.cfm?ArticleId=3D883>. We are pleased to report that John will be sending Ubiquity periodic "Letters from Cairo" in information technology there and everywhere. From: EUROS 2008 Subject: European Robotics Symposium 2008 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:14:46 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 399 (399) The European Robotics Research Network (EURON II) is proud to announce the second European Robotics Symposium 2008 ( <http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/>http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/) European Robotics Symposium 2008 - EUROS 2008 Hotel Diplomat, Prague, Czech Republic March 26-27, 2008 SCOPE This event continues to provide a single-track and high quality scientific forum and presents leading edge research on robotic across the latest topics in fundamental research and applications. EUROS 2008 (in connection with the EURON Annual Meeting on March 28) will bring participants into the symbolic and attractive environment of Prague, Czech Republic, the birthplace of the word "robot". The Symposium is a 2-in-1 concept: it brings both top-quality scientific research results and extended features for young researchers and PhD students. The young scientists will be able to come in touch with European leading researchers, to participate in a Best PhD and Junior Researcher Paper Award, and to meet the European robotics industry that can become their future employers. TOPICS Authors are requested to submit original work on all topics related to the following Symposium key areas: COGNITION, AUTONOMY, ADAPTIVITY and ROBUSTNESS in robotics. In addition to innovative new research results, the Symposium explicitly solicits practical papers about "Good experimental practices" and "Benchmarking" in robotics. DATES Submission due: November 5, 2007 Author Notification: December 5, 2007 Final Manuscript Submission: December 20, 2007 Early Registration at Reduced Fee: January 21, 2008 Diplomat Hotel Booking Deadline: January 21, 2008 The Symposium proceedings will be published in the Springer Star Series. LINKS <http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/>http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/ Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Telos Press Subject: Telos Press Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:14:58 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 400 (400) Dear Listers, Given your specific interests on this list-serv, and after having lurked inactive for a short while, I wanted to send out an invitation to take a look (if you have not already had the chance) at the quaterly journal TELOS, and the accompanying bookline (for which serious academic submissions are encouraged). Telos enjoys a 40 year tradition as a vanguard of critical thinking in culture and politics, and devotes substantial work to aesthetics, hermeneutics, critical theory, German studies, Jewish studies, Socialist as well as Marxist theory, and pretty much all else of philosophical ilk. Our archives include original publications from Agnes Heller, Georg Lukács, Herbert Marcuse, Edmund Husserl, Jean-Paul Sartre, Russell Jacoby, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Andrew Arato, Theodor Adorno, Jurgen Habermas, Catherine Pickstock, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Claude Lefort, Lucien Goldmann, Jean Baudrillard, and many others. Recent issues of our journal have focused on Carl Schmitt, Peter Szondi, and Italian Fascism, while recent book titles include "Global War on Liberty" by Jean-Claude Paye, and "Jihad and Jew-Hatred" by Matthias Kuntzel. For further edification, please check out <http://www.telospress.com>http://www.telospress.com, and enjoy! Russell Berman Andrew Gemmell Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature Telos Press Publishing Stanford Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "John Maguire" Subject: Royal Irish Academy - Digital Humanities Observatory Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:28:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 401 (401) Dear One and All, I wish to advise that an advertisment, for the contract position of the Director of the Digital Humanities Observatory appeared in the Times Higher Education on Friday 28th September. The Digital Humanities Observatory is a new and exciting initiative which is funded under cycle four of the Irish Government's Programme of Research for Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI). The closing date for the receipt of applications is Friday 19th October. Full details are on the Academy website - www.ria.ie and on www.jobs.ac.uk. Further positions in the DHO will be advertised in early 2008. Kind Regards Dr. John Maguire Programme Manager Research Programmes and International Affairs Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann 19 Dawson Street Dublin 2 Ireland Telephone: + 00353 (0)1 6090640 Email: J.Maguire_at_ria.ie Website: www.ria.ie The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities From: "J. Trant" Subject: ICHIM07 - digital culture and heritage: toronto, oct 24-26 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:29:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 402 (402) --------------------------------------------------------------- ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings Digital Culture and Heritage Toronto, October 24-26, 2007 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ dedicated to the memory of Xavier Perrot --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Papers On-line http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html Papers to be presented at ICHIM07 in Toronto are now on-line. But conferences aren't about people reading papers. They are about seeing first hand the diversity of work being done, meeting the people doing it, having conversations and asking questions. So plan to join us in Toronto for some stimulating discussions and debates. Come away with new ideas. Opening Keynote: Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001615.html Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada, will open ICHIM07 with his thoughts on convergence and content creation in a Web 2.0 world. A pioneer in shaping the united "memory institution" Ian will challenge us to consider what it now means "To hold infinity in the palm of your hand". -------------------------------------------------------------- Closing Plenary: Ranjiit Makkuni on the Eternal Gandhi http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001589.html Ranjit Makkuni, of the Sacred World Foundation, India, will speak about the making of the Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum. He will present a language of physical interface actions derived from classical symbols of the spinning wheel, turning of the prayer wheels, touching symbolic pillars, the act of hands touching sacred objects, collaboratively constructed quilts, sacred chanting in the collective group, the satsanga and the touching and rotating of prayer beads. These tradition-based interactions inspire a rich panorama of tactile interfaces that allow people to access the multimedia imagery and multidimensional mind of Gandhiji. Eternal Ghandi was a winner of ID Magazine Design Award in 2006. -------------------------------------------------------------- Register in Advance https://www2.archimuse.com/ichim07/ichim07.registrationForm.html Please register in advance if you'll be able to join us. Full details on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/register/index.html -------------------------------------------------------------- Join Us in Toronto! We hope to see you at ICHIM07 for a celebration of the best in digital culture and heritage. David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, ICHIM07 Co-Chairs --------------------------------------------------------------- International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings - ICHIM07 October 24-26, 2007 produced by Toronto, Ontario, Canada Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/ 158 Lee Ave, Toronto ichim07_at_archimuse.com Ontario, M43 2P3 Canada ICHIM07 is produced by Archives & Museum Informatics in association with the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, and in conjunction with the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO), and the MaRS Collaboration Centre. --------------------------------------------------------------- From: geoff_at_cs.miami.edu Subject: IJCAR Call for Papers, and Workshop and Tutorial Proposals Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:22:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 403 (403) IJCAR 2008 - The 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Sydney, Australia, 10th - 15th August, 2008 http://2008.IJCAR.org Call for Papers, and Workshop and Tutorial Proposals ---------------------------------------------------- IJCAR 2008 is the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, and is a merger of leading events: CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems), FTP (Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. The IJCAR technical program will consist of presentations of high-quality original research papers, system descriptions and invited talks. There will be two days of workshops and tutorials, 10th and 11th August, and the conference 12th to 15th August. Conference chair: Peter Baumgartner (NICTA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers --------------- IJCAR 2008 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Original research papers and descriptions of working automated deduction systems are solicited. See the IJCAR website for a detailed list of logics, methods, and applications of interest. The proceedings of IJCAR 2008 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. Submission details: Submission is electronic, through http://www.easychair.org/IJCAR2008/. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer "llncs" format, which can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The page limit is 15 pages for full papers, and 5 pages for system descriptions. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: linguistic development as an evolutionary scheme Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:18:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 404 (404) Those here interested in the application of statistical techniques to study language will be interested in work done by Erez Lieberman and colleagues at Harvard and MIT, an account of which has recently been published in Nature 449 for 11 October, "Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language", pp. 713-16, and summarized in Science Codex at http://www.sciencecodex.com/harvard_scientists_predict_the_future_of_the_past_tense. Lieberman and colleagues have studied the evolution of verb forms from Old English to the present using mathematical evolutionary models. Comment on this work from someone who understands the techniques involved would be welcome. Thanks to Jean-Claude Guédon for drawing my attention to this work. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Journals Publicity Subject: Open access to the introductory Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:21:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 405 (405) article in the Critical Inquiry Open access to the introductory article in the Critical Inquiry Summer issue The Summer issue of Critical Inquiry is here and for a limited time we're providing non-subscribers with open access to Lauren Berlant's remarkable introductory article (http://journalsuchicago.qm4.net/a/1/6530335/318859/default.aspx). The essay lays the groundwork for the rest of the issue, which is the first in a special two-issue interdisciplinary investigation into the concept and history of "The Case." Together, the Summer issue and the forthcoming Autumn issue (due out in November) look at what the case is; ask how it works--the case study, the case history, the exemplar; and examine how cases establish order and disorder, curiosity and research, discipline or transformative opportunity. Making the Case The Summer issue, titled Making the Case, looks at the way cases work in law, medicine, psychoanalysis, physics, popular culture, public policy, literary criticism and theory, history, art history, philosophy, and cinema studies. The Autumn issue, titled Missing Persons, will look at the ways kinds of people are used as examples of things. What if the working class were exemplified by servants rather than industrial workers? Why do ethical philosophers assume that literary characters act just like humans act? Why do we assume the close-up is an intensification of the human rather than a weird twisting of it? About Critical Inquiry: Critical Inquiry has published the best critical thought in the arts and humanities since 1974. Combining a commitment to rigorous scholarship with a vital concern for dialogue and debate, the journal presents articles by eminent critics, scholars, and artists on a wide variety of issues central to contemporary criticism and culture. Contact: Suzanne Wu / (773)834-0386 / j-publicity_at_press.uchicago.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: education, education, education Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:43:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 406 (406) Last evening, cross-eyed tired, I resorted to the universal anodyne, television, and found a British series called "Whistleblowers", about people who righteously rat on those who deserve whatever they get -- which I assume is never enough pain in return for the pain they've caused. In any case, this evening's pain-giver was a fat-cat businessman, who invested in "rescuing" schools he had already set on the skids by dirty-tricks publicity. Once thus rescued, these schools were turned into efficient operations that taught subjects revised in accordance with fundamentalist religious principles -- a gratuitous bit the programme could have done without -- and systematically eliminated students who would bring their ratings down on what in this country are called the "league tables" (google for it). Infamously this included students who needed medical and psychiatric help. One of them committed suicide, thus provoking the whistleblowing. In a particularly heated moment, the head teacher of a rescued school declared that she had no choice because of these league tables. "Education is a business!" was her concluding statement. This being the UK, and Blairite doctrine in quiet decline, one hopes, the attack on the league tables is perfectly understandable. But what particularly interested me was the over-the-top depiction of the evil consequences of regarding education as a business that must balance its books or even show a profit. Having the previous evening sat in the presence of an old fashioned scholar of immense accomplishment, simply among the best of his kind, making a comparison was inescapable. Admittedly I do tend to be idealistic beyond reason even now, but I cannot help think that someone took the opportunity to put subversive thoughts into the heads of the Great British Public. May he or she live long, prosper and do it many times more. A British Michael Moore in the making? No, this is not a rant against Business nor against the people who dedicate their lives to making money. Rather, a logician might say, it is a quietly impassioned proto-argument that we have made a fundamental category error in applying the business model to education. In the instances I have seen close up, this error has proved to be not merely illogical but also a practical blunder. Of course by the time anyone will listen, tremendous damage has already been done. What has this to do with computing? Only that computing in the humanities has real potential either of making money or of costing what in the humanities passes for the earth. So we're vulnerable and right where the action is. But what does one do? What have those in the natural sciences who love learning, in a similar position, but much more so and for much longer, done? Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Richard Cunningham Subject: Job Openings at the NEH Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:20:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 407 (407) National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Initiative DHI Update October 11, 2007 ** PROGRAM OFFICER JOB OPENINGS AT THE NEH ** The NEH has just announced that it is seeking to hire TWO (or more) new program officers (known as "Humanities Administrators" in government parlance). NEH program officers help to create and administer grant programs. You will be working with scholars across the country (and sometimes from around the world). You will select peer reviewers, chair panels, read and review grant proposals, and recommend applications for funding. Plus, you get to live in beautiful Washington, DC where all the museums are free and money grows on trees! (OK, I made that last part up). NEH program officers generally hold advanced degrees in the humanities and are encouraged to remain active in their field of study. Germane to this list, I should note that more and more of the grants we make involve technology and computing, so having experience in the digital humanities is a big plus. One of the openings is in our Division of Research and the other is in our Division of Education (who are hiring at least one, perhaps more people). Salaries are in the range of $66,767 - $103,220. You can read further details about each position by checking out this web page: http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/jobs.html Thank you -- I hope you will consider applying or sending this to someone who might want to. Keep Innovating! Brett From: Phillip Barron Subject: Autonomy Singularity Creativity (ASC) conference Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:27:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 408 (408) Registration for the National Humanities Center's November Autonomy Singularity Creativity (ASC) conference is now available online. The ASC conference, which takes place from November 8-10, includes some of the most respected and thought-provoking voices from across the academic spectrum. After its successful inaugural conference in 2006, the Center has expanded the conference to three days of stimulating events that will allow participants to exchange ideas and discuss issues surrounding how developments in science are challenging traditional notions of "the human." Speakers include scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including neuroscience, linguistics, primatology, anthropology, computer science, philosophy, and literary studies. Particular areas of focus for this year's conference will include panels on animal empathy and creativity in computers and non-human species, as well as talks about the considerations and implications for law, policy, the academy, and society. The conference is open to the public. A registration fee of $30 provides admission to all sessions along with meals during Friday and Saturday's events. See <http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us>http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/ for a schedule of conference activities, including tentative session topics and speakers, as well as registration materials. About ASC -- Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity is a project of the National Humanities Center. In September of 2006, the Center launched a three year study of ways that advances in science are changing the limits of human life and therefore disturbing traditional understandings of what it means to be human. The initiative gathers scientists and humanists together in dialogue on these issues. By convening a small group of scholars to focus on the concepts autonomy, singularity, and creativity -- concepts historically deployed to earmark the boundaries of the human experience -- we are furthering the development of new knowledge and generating new understandings of human life. phillip -- Phillip Barron pbarron_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us National Humanities Center 7 Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 <http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org>http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: amsler_at_cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 21.290 education, education, education Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:34:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 409 (409) There are many fields in which the inescapable conclusion is that it is both a business AND a professional/artistic endeavor. Film Making is often cited as such; as is Making Dictionaries and the classic discipline would be Medicine. I don't think one can run down the business model since it brings capital in to allow the professional/artistic endeavor to reach beyond its innate limits when all decisions are made on the basis of what's best for the craft without regard to income. I guess my concept is that it is in charting a course along the boundary between profitable and enlightening that the skill of the administrators comes into play. If they are corrupt, then of course the result is damaged from the beginning, but shunning all funding sources isn't the answer either. Balancing how much good will come out of the funding source is the challenge. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), digital historian Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:43:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 410 (410) Dear colleagues, I regret to be sending you the very sad news of Roy Rosenzweig's death, at age 57, from lung cancer. A note, forwarded to me by Susan Schreibman, follows from the Scholarly Editing Forum. A newspaper announcement may be found in the Washington Post, for today, online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101202489.html. Yours, WM [deleted quotation]Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: daniele radicioni Subject: FOMI 2008 - First Announcement and Call for Papers Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:35:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 411 (411) FOMI 2008 - 3rd Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry June 5-6, 2008, Torino, Italy FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Conference web site: http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it This event is jointly organized by: - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento - University of Torino - University of Verona CONFERENCE AIMS FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and industrial practitioners meet to analyze and discuss issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. There is today wide agreement that knowledge modeling and the semantic dimension of information plays an increasingly central role in networked economy: semantic-based applications are relevant in distributed systems such as networked organizations, organizational networks, and in distributed knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim to provide a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same organization. New tools and applications have been and are being developed in diverse application fields, ranging from business to medicine, from engineering to finance, from law to electronics. All these systems have exploited the theoretical results and the practical experience of previous work. In all cases, it has been shown that formal ontologies play a central role in describing in a common and understandable way the logical and practical features of the application domain. The success of the methodologies associated with knowledge modeling and ontologies led to increased need of a comparison between different approaches and results, with the aim of evaluating the interdependencies between theories and methods of formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs of enterprise organizations. The FOMI 08 Workshop aims to advance in this direction by bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in ontology application, paying particular attention to the topics listed below. CONFERENCE TOPICS *problems in ontology application:* - practical issues in using ontologies in the enterprise - real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business - from legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems *ontology and business:* - ontology and ontological methodologies in business; - adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations; - ontology effectiveness and evaluation in business *ontology and enterprise:* - ontology-driven enterprise modeling; - ontology development and change within organizations; - ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes; *ontology and enterprise knowledge:* - ontologies for the know-how; - ontologies for corporate knowledge; *ontology in practice:* - ontologies for electronic catalogs, e-commerce, e-government; - ontologies for marketing; - ontologies for finance; - ontologies for engineering; - ontologies for medical sciences; *ontology and linguistics:* - ontology-driven linguistic representation in organization knowledge; - linguistic problems in standards and in codification processes; - ontologies and multilingualism in business and organizations [...] From: "hinton_at_springnet1.com" Subject: Re: 21.293 new publications Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:36:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 412 (412) [deleted quotation]This has been getting a lot of negative criticism in the list HEL-L, the History of English discussion list. It would take a lot of space and time to repeat all the problems we have indicated with what we can make of the study from the little blurb, but a great deal of dissatisfaction has been expressed about the authors' lack of knowledge of the history of English (for instance, they could easily have found out Chaucer's dates),. about the fact that the relative rates of change in the past participles of common strong verbs versus uncommon ones has been known to historical linguists for at least a century, the dearth of valuable diachronic databases of English from which a careful study could be made, and even some of the authors' statistical remarks. In other words, the thing is getting a bad press among many historical linguists. (And many of us feel that Nature would do well not to accept papers in fields the editors and readers do not understand.) From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: DDQ 6(3) is available 14 Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:44:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 413 (413) The latest number of the Digital Document Quarterly is available at <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_2.htm> It addresses: Digital Preservation NDIIPP Funding Withdrawn Another Task Force, and Also New NSF Funding Vintage Gadgets at the Computer History Museum Epistemology Notes on Natural Language Knowledge and Information Information Science What is Information Science? Rename Information Science as Knowledge Science? Symptomatic Synopsis Reading Recommendations Umberto Eco, Kant and the Platypus Eric Kandel, In Search of Memory Alan Hirschfeld: The Electric Life of Michael Faraday Andrew Spielman & Michael D'Antonio, Mosquito Practical Matters: Migrating from Microsoft Products to Open Source Persistent Storage on Your LAN Your Future PC The core of DDQ 6(3) is the beginning of a critique of Information Science. This critique, planned to continue in future DDQ numbers, explores the proposition that Information Science will not resolve current uncertainties about its place as an academic discipline on a par with Computer Science, but instead will fade within two decades, with its concerns becoming topics in more enduring university faculties. Information Science professionals who believe this prediction mistaken might wish to present counter-arguments to what appears in DDQ. To them, I suggest that Information Science will fade unless they can produce justifications and scoping statements much more robust than any I have read. Should they want DDQ to publish or cite of their refutations, I will be happy to include them provided that they accommodate the compact DDQ style. Readers are reminded that embedded links provide quick access to other authors' discussions of topics that DDQ mentions, in case they want more depth than DDQ can provide. Cheerio, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney From: Willard McCarty Subject: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 11.7 Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:49:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 414 (414) Volume 11 Number 7 of Personal and Ubiquitous=20 Computing is now available on the SpringerLink=20 web site at http://springerlink.com By clicking on the URLs below you can access the abstracts for each article. In this issue: Editorial Editorial: ubiquitous computing in the real world George Roussos, Shin’ichi Konomi 505 - 506 Ubiquitous computing in the real world: lessons learnt from large scale RFID deployments Shin’ichi Konomi, George Roussos 507 - 521 Supporting the unremarkable:experiences with the obje Display Mirror Mark W. Newman, Nicolas Ducheneaut, W. Keith Edwards, Jana Z. Sedivy, Trevor F. Smith 523 - 536 When design just isn’t enough: the unanticipated challenges of the real world for large collaborative displays Elaine M. Huang, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Jay P. Trimble 537 - 547 Exploring context-awareness for ubiquitous computing in the healthcare domain Jesper Kjeldskov, Mikael B. Skov 549 - 562 Ubicomp challenges in collaborative scheduling: Pin&Play at the Göteborg film festival Sara Ljungblad, Maria Håkansson, Lars Erik Holmquist 563 - 575 Mobile Fair Diary: hybrid interface for taking, browsing and sharing context-aware notes Jani Korhonen, Timo Ojala, Annu Ristola, Manne Kesti, Vesa Kilpelänaho, Mikko Koskinen, Eveliina Viippola 577 - 589 Self-organizable panel for assembling DIY ubiquitous computing Naohiko Kohtake, Ryo Ohsawa, Takuro Yonezawa, Masayuki Iwai, Kazunori Takashio, Hideyuki Tokuda 591 - 606 Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: Typo in DDQ 6(3) announcement Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:36:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 415 (415) Corrected web address in, "The latest number of the Digital Document Quarterly is available at <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_3.htm> Cheerio, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney> From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.41 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:37:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 416 (416) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 41 October 16, 2007 =96 October 22, 2007 RKPianGraphSort: A Graph Based Sorting Algorith Sorting means arranging a set of records (or a list of keys) in some (increasing or decreasing) order. Professor Rajat K. Pal of the University of Calcutta's Department of Computer Science and Engineering proposes a graph based comparison sorting algorithm, designated as RKPianGraphSort, that takes time THETA(n 2) in the worst-case, where n is the number of records in the given list to be sorted. An interesting article. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i41_pal.html> From: "Shana M Kimball" Subject: JEP Volume 10.3 now online Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:38:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 417 (417) Dear JEP readers: We are pleased to announce the publication of the newest issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing <http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/> . Below the signature I've included our Editor's Note, which highlights some of what you'll find in our latest issue. I also want to draw your attention to some new features on the JEP site. -We've added an RSS feed for new issues. You may click on the feed button on the home page to subscribe, or copy and paste this URL into your reader: http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/longfeed.xml -The back issues of JEP are now on the new JEP site! This means that the full run (all 10 volumes!) of JEP can now be searched by full text, author, and title. Browse by title and author is also available. A comprehensive list of issues can be found at http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/browse.html As always, thank you for your interest and support, and please spread the word! Best regards, Shana Kimball +++++++++++ Shana Kimball Managing Editor, JEP Scholarly Publishing Office University of Michigan Library Editor's Note --Judith Turner We've been discussing the future of e-books among ourselves at JEP, and are coming to the reluctant (at least to us, bibliophiles all) conclusion that with the advent of electronic publishing, a whole class of print books should be on its way out. One of my colleagues says that book excerpts, chapters, and even many monographs would work fine as long articles. Another thinks that with the slicing and dicing most of us do in research, we tend to make our own books out of the material that interests us. I find that many monographs are just a convenience, a series of ideas linked together, sometimes somewhat tenuously, sometimes raggedly, by the convention of "book" =97 the printing and sale of a collection of ideas. Many of those books bring to mind one of those famous lines, repeated in various fashions by people like Thoreau, Pascal, and Nietzsche, about how if you have more time you can write shorter. How many ideas need book-length treatment? How many could be long theses, tractates, or essays, but are pushed to 200-400 pages because publishers have a problem selling "slim" volumes? Perhaps e-books are the harbinger of fewer books. If a publisher can sell two "themes" in a collection of "e-books" rather than one "book," might not that collection seem more important, and therefore more valuable? When an issue of JEP provokes such thinking, I think it's a winner. I expect you will, too. Here's a rundown of what you will find in Volume 10, issue 3 of The Journal of Electronic Publishing <http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/>. Kathleen Fitzpatrick's New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts makes the point that electronic publishing is fundamentally a social process, which takes it miles from the paper publishing that she says creates the =93bookness of the book.=94 It's an intriguing thesis, and one that is explored from different directions. Kathleen is accepting comments on the paper at http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/commentpress. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.305 One of those explorers is John Dawson, a professor at the University of Guelph. In Electronic Publishing as Course Content, he explains how he devotes part of his Protein and Nucleic Acid Structure course to giving undergraduates an idea of what it is like to publish in the electronic environment. For Dawson's students, the scientific process has a strong communication element=97and it's been an eye-opener for them. Not surprisingly, it is the process of publishing electronically, and not the writing itself, that seems to most intrigue students. There may be a message here. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.304 Students in journalism schools also need to understand e-publishing, and Rick Musser and Staci Martin-Wolfe have found that a blog-publishing package allows them to teach the fine points of writing, reporting, and communicating on line, again with a strong interactive element. They describe their approach in Blogs as a Student Content Management System. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.308 In their literature review, Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Heather L. Wicht attempt to answer the question What Happened to the E-Book Revolution? Their exposition of how e-books have fared in library collections show that the acceptance has been more gradual than many predicted. I wonder if that is because =93books=94 are something else when they are electronic. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.302 Mark Sandler, Kim Armstrong, and Bob Nardini probe that same question from the point of view of the market factors that influence the adoption of e-books in Market Formation for E-Books: Diffusion, Confusion or Delusion?, and conclude, in part, that the merchandise and the medium are not yet well matched. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.310 Perhaps, writes Matthew Mayernik, it's because we haven't adequately exploited the possibilities of e-publishing. He looks at what journals have done to exploit the electronic environment=97and concludes in Electronic Features in e-Journals that it's not much. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.307 Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff's University Publishing in a Digital Age, a report from Ithaka about the relationships of university presses, libraries, and their home institutions, is re-published in this issue of JEP. The report is also available at http://www.ithaka.org/ as a pdf file, and in a "commentable" version at http://www.scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/ . In Redefining Scholarly Publishing as a Service Industry, Paul Peters says perhaps we're going about it backwards. He suggests that publishers should be selling to authors the editing, publication, promotion, and distribution of their articles, and giving the product away free electronically. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.309 Finally, our own John Cords reviews two books on Google, The Google Story, by David Vise and Mark Malseed, and Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge, by Jean-No=EBl Jeanneney, and concludes that the truth about this 9-year-old phenomenon is probably somewhere in between. See his Review for a trenchant analysis and insight into how the founders of Google have gotten to the point where they are affecting the future of the book. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.302 Enjoy! From: "Prof. Roland Sussex" Subject: Re: 21.295 education, education, education Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:36:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 418 (418) Dean Inge (of St Paul's, London) once commented: Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. I often wonder whether he had dickens in mind. Roly Sussex The University of Queensland On 13/10/07 4:51 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation]____________ Roland Sussex Professor of Applied Language Studies, and Editor, "Australian Review of Applied Linguistics" School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland 4072 AUSTRALIA University's CRICOS provider number: 00025B Office: Greenwood 434 (Building 32) Phone: +61 7 3365 6896 Fax: +61 7 3365 6799 Email: sussex_at_uq.edu.au Web: http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/index.html?page=18094&pid=19591 School's website: http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/ Applied linguistics website: http://www.uq.edu.au/slccs/AppliedLing/ Language Talkback ABC radio: Web: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/languagetalkback/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: stalled engine coughing back to life Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:08:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 419 (419) Dear colleagues, My apologies for the rather lurching rhythm of Humanist these days. A hard-disc crash put one of its mechanisms out of service for a time, with a bit of a mess resulting, and of course delays in getting messages out to you. Now things seem back to normal. One day, I hope soon, we'll be getting a shiny new engine, which I trust will mean no visible changes for you other than a more reliable delivery of the messages. And then I can enjoy the luxury of being nostalgic about the years when the whole thing was a hodge-podge of home-made parts. (Indeed, a major part of the machinery of Humanist was made right here, in this room, by a kind visitor in exchange for a place to stay.) There is an television advert here made by some high-tech company that deliberately harkens back to the days when radio and television technology barely worked, with much hum and static, and those who appeared or only spoke were barely trained. You'll see a placard held unsteadily in front of the camera by someone's hand while the audio hums away because it's not been properly earthed/grounded, and there will be much "snow", as I recall it was called. The net-effect is supposed to be charming, I guess, down-home, unthreatening etc. I find it intensely annoying, silly, stupid etc. But it does serve as a reminder of how far electronic engineering has brought us. Sharp, clear images are so much a matter of course that we forget how much work and ingenuity was required to make it so. But it's not just that we've lost awareness of what's happening behind the scenes. I'm told that I am not the only one who feels mentally deranged when one of my computers does not work. It's almost as if my mind has extended itself to assimilate the computer, making the machine part of itself, and so a breakdown in the latter seem a breakdown in the former. I suppose this is a contemporary version of the well-known blindman-and-his-stick metaphor used by the phenomenologists. Fortunately for my mental state, there must be a sort of inverse-square law for computing, so that the failure of physically very distant systems does not affect me as much as failures here. When parts of Humanist break, I just feel isolated and, I admit, enjoy the bit of silence while it lasts. Shocking! But thanks to Shayne Brandon, the old engine at Virginia has sputtered into life again, so once again I make my morning rounds. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: 21.299 quantifying evolutionary dynamics of language Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:35:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 420 (420) Having just read the article, I'd second Norman's concerns. Two simple examples must suffice: 1. The authors use the dates 800, 1200, and 2000 as the dates at which they check for the regular vs irregular status of a verb. The earliest written records of Old English are usually dated to about 700, but clearly OE existed before that. The larger problem is with the dates for Middle English and Modern English. It makes sense to use 1200 as the beginning date for Middle English, but Modern English is normally considered to begin around 1500. So their calculations are based on a late beginning for Old, an early beginning for Middle, and a 500 year late date for Modern English. Equations for rates of change based on these figures are, to say the least, debatable, and one would need further explanation of the choices. 2. The only date at which actually sampling for frequency is done is for Modern English (from COBUILD, roughly 1980-present). The authors merely looked for an entry in a reference book that indicated whether a verb was regular or irregular in Old, Middle, and Modern English (800, 1200, 2000). Thus the equations apparently assume that each verb's frequency remained constant over the 1200 years they study. It is obviously reasonable to suggest that infrequent verbs are less resistant to regularization (they occur so seldom that it is easier for children to use regular forms analogically without finding out that the verbs are historically irregular). But one might have liked a check of the relative frequencies of some verbs in Old English or Middle English to see whether there is any close relationship between the frequencies in OE and Modern English, for example. The controversy may prove instructive, at any rate. DLH Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] -- David L. Hoover, Professor of English & Webmaster NYU English Department, 212-998-8832 http://english.fas.nyu.edu/page/home Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. George Eliot, Middlemarch From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: CFP: Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu Finland Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 421 (421) Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2008 Hosted by the University of Oulu, Finland 25-29 June, 2008 http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/ Abstract Deadline: November 18, 2007 (Midnight Universal Time) 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 18, 2007 (midnight Universal Time). All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February by 13, 2008. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 15th, 2007. 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.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/. 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 any 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 18, 2007. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form, which will be available from October 15th, 2007 at: https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ Those who registered as authors, reviewers or participants at the DH2007 conference are kindly asked to log on to their existing account (the one used for the DH2007 conference) rather than making up a new account. 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 (ALLC - University of Glasgow) John Nerbonne(ALLC - University of Groningen) Espen S. Ore (ALLC - National Library of Norway, Chair) Stephen Ramsay (ACH - University of Nebraska) Thomas Rommel (ALLC - Jacobs University Bremen) Susan Schreibman (ACH - University of Maryland) Paul Spence (ALLC - Kings College London) Melissa Terras (ACH - University College London) Claire Warwick (ACH - University College London, Vice Chair) Espen S. Ore Lisa Lena Opas-H=E4nninen Programme Chair Local Organizer espen.ore_at_nb.no lisa.lena.opas-hanninen_at_oulu.fi=20 From: "marija dalbello" Subject: CFP: Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2008 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:30:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 422 (422) ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Annual International Course and Conference LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2008 Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia 2-7 June 2008 Inter-University Centre (http://www.iuc.hr/ ) Don Ivana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia, and Hotel Odisej, island Mljet, Pomena, Croatia (http://www.hotelodisej.hr) Web site: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/ Email: lida_at_ffos.hr The annual international conference and course Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. Since its inception in 2000, LIDA has emphasized the examination of contemporary problems, intriguing advances, innovative approaches and solutions. Each year a different and =91hot=92 theme is addressed, divided in two parts; the first part covers research and development and the second part addresses advances in applications and practice. LIDA brings together researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made easier by being held in memorable locations. Themes LIDA 2008 Part I: Education and training in digital libraries In a relatively short period of time, spanning less than two decades or so, digital libraries became a global phenomenon, characterized by an accelerated, explosive growth. Digital libraries are a subject of great many activities worldwide. These include diverse practical applications, research and development (R&D) on many fronts, continuing innovation, policy formulations, management changes, and more. A number of fields are involved, among the most prominent being information science, librarianship, and computer science. Considerable and rapidly growing amounts of funds are spent on practical applications in building and operating a variety of digital library collections, components and service and on R&D in digital libraries. Many commercial enterprises are providing digital resources and software for digital libraries. This all creates demands for well educated and trained professionals in these areas. However, the education and training for digital libraries is most often based on apprentiship and practical courses and conferences without receiving the same attention (and resources) of digital libraries applications and other areas mentioned. A number of institutions are teaching digital libraries modules and courses, or beginning to, and struggling with this relatively new and volatile educational area. Many practitioners are finding it hard to learn more and to keep up. The goal of the first part of LIDA 2008 is to explore efforts, concepts and ideas related to education and training of professionals, dealing with the academic quality standards and practical training requirements for digital libraries and in variety of fields and contexts related to knowledge, values and skills needed for digital librarians. The general aim is to help further development of current efforts, as well as development of frameworks within which diverse efforts could be compared, evaluated, and improved. Contributions are invited covering the following topics (types described below): =95knowledge, values and skills of the digital librarian to be reflected in educational offerings =95conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches to digital library education =95instructional design, development, and evaluation of programs of study and specialization for digital librarians in a variety of schools and on different levels =AD existing and proposed =95convergence and place of digital library education in broader curricula of library and information science, computer science, and other fields; impact of digital library education on other parts of the curriculum =95examples of good practices of specific courses (or sequence of courses)and programs related to various aspects of digital libraries and digital library technology; examples of various modes of delivery =95continuing education and training in digital libraries oriented toward practicing professionals =95student evaluation of digital library education, as well as expectations and perceptions of professionals in continuing education courses and efforts =95international aspects and cooperative opportunities in digital library education =95benchmarking and evaluation of educational and training programs in digital libraries =95cultural and social elements in digital library education. Part II: Reference in digital environments As access to electronic information through library Web pages has proliferated in recent years, an increasing number of libraries have added digital reference assistance to their list of user services. E-mail reference has become an expected venue for asking reference questions, having been included among the suite of information services for over 20 years. Live chat reference services are relatively new-comers, but have already been successfully operating for over 10 years. Information seekers are increasingly turning to virtual reference (also known as digital reference) for the anonymity and convenience of remote access and for the extended hours of operation, since many services operate 24/7/365. An increasing number of libraries and information centers are now experimenting with Instant Messaging, Text Messaging (SMS), and other emerging modes for offering reference services to increasingly tech savvy library users. Web 2.0 applications are opening new vistas for digital library services including reference blogs and wikis. Digital reference desks are appearing in virtual worlds such as Second Life. Although the proliferation of these alternative methods for service delivery highlights the need for research focused on understanding users and staff behavior and impact on issues of satisfaction and success, their assessment poses new challenges for researchers. The goal of the second part of LIDA 2008 is to explore the totality of the virtual reference environment (including live chat, e-mail, IM, and Web 2.0 reference initiatives) and its relationship to digital libraries. Special attention will be on the evaluation of virtual reference services from a variety of research perspectives and approaches. The general aim is to concentrate on scholarship that increases our understanding of the needs, interests, and experiences of users as well as librarians/information providers in the context of virtual reference. Invited are contributions (types described below) covering the following topics: =95evaluation of various modes of digital library services =95application of theories and models in study of users and use of virtual reference =95application of theories and user information needs assessments for design and development of digital reference systems =95assessment of the decision making process for users who choose virtual reference over other modes (e.g., face-to-face, phone) =95advantages and disadvantages of different virtual reference modes =95the role of knowledge databases in digital reference =95sustainability and cost-effectiveness of virtual reference services =95evaluation of virtual reference consortia and comparison of service models =95benchmarking service quality and development of evaluation standards in virtual reference =95evaluation of advantages and disadvantages of different virtual reference modes =95assessment of the quality of interpersonal communication in virtual reference =95studies of accuracy and efficiency in virtual reference =95explorations of question negotiation in virtual environments =95issues in archiving digital reference questions. Types of contributions Invited are the following types of contributions: 1. Papers: research studies and reports on practices and advances that will be presented at the conference and included on the conference Web site. Papers of up to 4000 words in length should be submitted, following the American Psychological Association (APA) style, followed, among others, by the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) and Information Processing & Management (IP&M). The papers will be refereed. All accepted contributions will be published in on-line proceedings, as well as provided in the conference kit. 2. Posters: short graphic presentations on research, studies, advances, examples, practices, or preliminary work that will be presented in a special poster session. Awards will be given for Best Poster and Best Student Poster. Proposals for posters should be submitted as a short, one or two- page paper. 3. Demonstrations: live examples of working projects, services, interfaces, commercial products, or developments-in-progress that will be presented during the conference in specialized facilities or presented in special demonstration sessions. These should involve some aspect of users and use. Proposals for demonstration should provide short description and a URL address, if available. 4. Workshops: two to four-hour sessions that will be tutorial and educational in nature. Workshops will be presented before and after the main part of the conference and will require separate fees, to be shared with workshop organizers. Proposals for workshops should include a short description, with indication of level and potential audience. 5. PhD Forum: short presentations by PhD students, particularly as related to their dissertation, in a session organized by the European Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (EC/ASIST); help and responses by a panel of educators. Submissions should be sent in electronic format (as an email attachment) to Prof. Tatjana Aparac at taparac_at_ffos.hr. Inquires can also be addressed to the Co-Chair of the conference Prof. Tefko Saracevic and Program Chairs (for Part I Prof. Jeffrey Pomerantz and Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro . and for Part II Prof. Marie L. Radford). Full contact information is provided below. All submissions will be refereed. Deadlines: For papers and workshops: 15 January 2008. Acceptance by 15 February 2008. For demonstrations and posters: 1 February 2008. Acceptance by 1 March 2008. Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2008. Invitation to institutions We are inviting libraries, information agencies, professional organizations, publishers, and service providers to consider participation at LIDA by providing a demonstration, workshop, or exhibit about their products, services or advances, or by presenting a paper or poster about their activities, as related to themes. Sponsorship of an event is also invited. Institutions can benefit as well: we will provide course materials to participants so that they can communicate and transfer topics of interest to their institution. Thus, we are organizing LIDA to reach a wider audience. Conference contact information Course co-directors: TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Ph.D. Department of Information Sciences Faculty of Philosophy; J.J. Strossmayer University 31000 Osijek, Croatia taparac_at_ffos.hr (contact for general correspondence) TEFKO SARACEVIC, Ph.D. School of Communication, Information and Library Studies; Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 USA tefko_at_scils.rutgers.edu Program chairs: For Part I: JEFFREY POMERANTZ, Ph.D. School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360, USA pomerantz_at_unc.edu ANNA MARIA TAMMARO Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dello Spettacolo Sezione di Beni Librari University of Parma 43100 Parma, Italy annamaria.tammaro_at_unipr.it For Part II: MARIE L. RADFORD, Ph.D. School of Communication, Information and Library Studies; Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA mradford_at_scils.rutgers.edu Organizing committee: MAJA KRTALIC Department of Information Sciences Faculty of Philosophy; J.J. Strossmayer University 31000 Osijek, Croatia mcujic_at_ffos.hr Local organizing committee: MARICA SAPRO FICOVIC Dubrovnik Libraries 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia msapro_at_dkd.hr Venues The first part of LIDA 2008 will be held in Dubrovnik and for the second part the conference will move to island Mljet, less than a two-hour ride from Dubrovnik on a fast catamaran. Pre-conference workshops are planned for 26 May 2008 in Dubrovnik and post-conference workshops for 31 May 2008 on Mljet. Dubrovnik, Croatia is recognized as one of the World Cultural Heritage sites by UNESCO. It is a walled city, preserved as it existed in medieval times. A beautiful natural location on the Adriatic Sea, a lavish architecture of squares, palaces, and churches, small, intriguing hill-hugging streets, pedestrian-only traffic within the walls, outings to the enchanting near-by islands - all these and more combine to make Dubrovnik one of the most popular destinations in Europe. For Croatia see http://www.croatia.hr/ and for Dubrovnik at http://www.dubrovnik-online.com/ Mljet is one of the most enchanting islands in the Adriatic, a sea that abounds with beautiful islands to start with. Hotel Odisej (http://www.hotelodisej.hr) is in a small harbor. Near the hotel is the entrance to Mljet National Park (http://www.np-mljet.hr/) with lush vegetation surrounding three inland lakes, a small island with a monastery in the middle lake, paths for walking, and spots for swimming in the blue and green sea. --=20 Marija Dalbello, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Library and Information Science School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1071 Voice: 732.932.7500 / 8215 FAX: 732.932.6916 Internet: dalbello_at_scils.rutgers.edu http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello From: Leslie Chan Subject: ELPUB2008 First Call for Papers: Open Scholarship, Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:32:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 423 (423) Toronto Canada June 25-27, 2008 First Call for Papers ELPUB2008 Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada http://www.elpub.net Scholarly communications, in particular scholarly publications, are undergoing tremendous changes. Researchers, universities, funding bodies, research libraries and publishers are responding in different ways, from active experimentation, adaptation, to strong resistance. The ELPUB2008 conference will focus on key issues on the future of scholarly communications resulting from the intersection of semantic web technologies, the development of cyberinfrastructure for humanities and the sciences, and new dissemination channels and business models. We welcome a wide variety of papers from members of these communities whose research and experiments are transforming the nature of scholarly communications. Topics include but are not restricted to: -- New Publishing models, tools, services and roles -- New scholarly constructs and discourse methods -- Innovative business models for scholarly publishing -- Multilingual and multimodal interfaces -- Services and technology for specific user communities, media, and content -- Content search, analysis and retrieval -- Interoperability, scalability and middleware infrastructure to facilitate awareness and discovery -- Personalisation technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS, microformats) -- Metadata creation, usage and interoperability -- Semantic web issues -- Data mining, text harvesting, and dynamic formatting -- User generated content and its relation to publisher's content -- Usage and citation impact -- Security, privacy and copyright issues -- Digital preservation, content authentication -- Recommendations, guidelines, interoperability 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> Key Dates: January 20th 2008: Deadline for submission of abstracts (in all categories): February 28, 2008: Authors will be notified of the acceptance of submitted papers and workshop proposals. April 11th, 2008: 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 soon be posted on the website. All submissions are subjected to peer review (double-blind) and accepted by the international ELPUB Programme Committee. Accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Printed proceedings are distributed during the conference. Electronic versions of the contributions will be archived at: http://elpub.scix.net ABOUT ELPUB The ELPUB 2008 conference will keep the tradition of the 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), Bulgaria (2006) and Austria (2007), which is to bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians, developers, business executives, entrepreneurs, managers, users and all those interested in issues regarding electronic publishing in a wide variety of contexts. These include the human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, commercial, and other relevant aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses. Three distinguishing features of this conference are: broad scope of topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active exchange and learning about various aspects of scholarly communications and 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. ELPUB 2008 offers a variety of activities, such as workshops, tutorials, panel debates, poster presentation and demonstrations. A variety of social events and sight-seeing tours will be available to participants (at additional costs). Please see the conference web site for details. Conference Location: Toronto, Canada. Toronto is one of the most vibrant cities in North-America. It has a large multicultural population, is the largest city in Canada and the 5th-largest city in North America. There are many world class galleries and museums across the city and you will find authentic cuisines from around the world at reasonable prices. Conference Host: Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), University of Toronto. KMDI is a graduate research and teaching institute at the University of Toronto, and an intellectual incubator fostering cross-disciplinary initiatives across the university. The work of the institute spans both the scientific study of the ways in which media shapes and is shaped by human activity, and the practical work of founding an interdisciplinary nexus for design and evaluation of both media and media technologies. KMDI has acknowledged leadership, substantial research programs and broad participation in three major areas: collaboration and collaboration technologies, the phenomenon of openness and new forms of knowledge production and dissemination, and public policy and citizen engagement. General Chair: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough chan_at_utsc.utoronto.ca Programme Chair: Susanna Mornati, CILEA - Inter-Academic Consortium for ICT, Italy mornati_at_cilea.it From: Stuart Dunn Subject: King's College London, Centre for e-Research Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:15:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 424 (424) King's College London, Centre for e-Research Enhancing and Supporting e-Research King's College London is pleased to announce the establishment of the KCL Centre for e-Research. Based in Information Systems and Services, the Centre will lead on building an e-research environment and data management infrastructure at King's, seeking to harness the potential of IT to enhance research and teaching practice across the College. The Centre also has a remit to make a significant contribution to national, European and international agendas for e-research, and in particular to carry forward in a new context the work of the AHDS across the arts and humanities. To that end, the Centre will incorporate the Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive and its related projects, thus providing a secure institutional framework for the projects, and a platform for developing future services and projects when funding for the AHDS ceases at the end of March 2008. The Centre will seek to carry forward the legacy of the AHDS and to use its expertise and skills to explore a new framework and funding model for the support of ICT based around communities of practice, a network of expert centres, and the emerging set of institutional repositories. The Centre will be directed by Sheila Anderson, currently Director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. Lorna Hughes (currently Manager of the Methods Network) and Mark Hedges (currently Technical Manager at the AHDS) will join the Centre as Deputy Directors. Planning for the new Centre began on 1st October 2007 and a major launch event is planned for Spring 2008. Further information and news about the Centre and its activities will be released over the coming months. Sheila Anderson Dr Stuart Dunn Research Associate Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre www.ahessc.ac.uk www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahessc (mailing list) Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 2980 stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX From: Telos Press Subject: Telos 140 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:00:19 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 425 (425) October 15, 2007 Dear Friends of Telos, Our Fall issue (#140) has just appeared, a special issue on Peter Szondi and Critical Hermeneutics. This is a first in the English-speaking world. Szondi was a defining figure in German literary criticism, especially during the 1960s, and his work is currently undergoing an exciting rediscovery on both sides of the Atlantic. I have posted the Introduction on our website, <http://www.telospress.com/>http://www.telospress.com . Our book line continues to grow. Jean-Claude Paye's Global War on Liberty is the most comprehensive account of the expanding network of security and surveillance that threatens civil liberties everywhere. Our new translation of Carl Schmitt's Theory of the Partisan has added an important dimension to current political debate. And on November 1, we will proudly present Matthias K=FCntzel's Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11, with an introduction by Jeffrey Herf. This book=ADa translation from the German with considerable expansion=ADpoints to the central role of antisemitism in the jihadist ideology behind contemporary terrorism. Next year, not only will we be going online through cooperation with HighWire Press, but we will also celebrate our fortieth anniversary! We've been at it since May of 1968. To recognize this milestone, we will publish an anthology of the writings of Paul Piccone, founder and long-time editor of Telos. We will also offer a free print subscription to the journal along with purchase of the anthology. Watch our website for more details. And our next issues are already in the works. Upcoming themes: environmentalism, terrorism, a special issue on Carl Schmitt, the legacy of 1968, Latin America, and more. Stay tuned. Best wishes, Russell A. Berman Editor -- <http://www.telospress.com/> Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: Language as an Open System, ed. Fehr and Kouba Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:30:20 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 426 (426) Litteraria Pragensia is proud to announce the publication of its newest title: DYNAMIC STRUCTURE (LANGUAGE AS AN OPEN SYSTEM) eds. Johannes Fehr & Petr Kouba ISBN 80-7308-139-3(paperback). 200pp. Publication date: September 2007 Price: 12.00 (not including postage) <http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/language_systems.html>http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/language_systems.html This volume is dedicated to the theoretical legacy of Ferdinand de Saussure, which is still challenging not only for linguistics, but for many other disciplines. For Saussure, to conceive language as a system made it possible to found linguistics as an autonomous scientific discipline. However, if language could be seen and treated as a system, it had consequences not only for linguistics, but also for esthetics, anthropology, or cultural theory. With respect to Czech functional structualism, as developed by Jan Mukarovsky and others, it seems important that it was in Prague that Saussurean thinking on language came in touch with phenomenological philosophy. Since Husserl's work was already authoritative at the beginning of the 30th, the confrontation of Saussure's theory of language with phenomenological reflections on language was inevitable. The interaction between structuralism and phenomenology then continued, above all, in the philosophical work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty . But if the interaction between s tructuralist theory and phenomenology is in focus of this volume, it is not so much for historical reasons; it is rather due to a mapping of the possible views of language that issue from the confrontation of structuralist and phenomenological tradition of thinking. With regard to language, a high attention is paid to the post-phenomenological and the post-structuarlist theories, too. Contents: I. System and Function 1) Johannes Fehr - "Language as a System. Revisiting Saussure" 2) Jan Sokol - "Language and Experience" 3) Ondrej Sladek - "Ferdinand de Saussure Interpreted by Jan Mukarovsky: Reception and Revison" II. Language and Thought 4) Michal Ajvaz - "Maurice Merleau-Ponty: A Love Affair between Phenomenology and Structuralism" 5) Petr Urban - "Relationship of Thought and Language in Husserl's Phenomenology" 6) Petr Kouba - "Beyond Phenomenology of Language" 7) Yong Ho Choi - "Saussure and Ricoeur at Odds with the Question of Meaning" III. Conditions and Limits of Subjectivity 8) Alice Klikova - "Lived Worlds as the Systems of Signs - Uexkull's Bio-Semiotics" 9) Emil Volek - "Habitats of Language/Language Inhabited: from the Umwelt to the Possible Worlds of Communication and Culture" 10) Josef Fulka - "The Lacanian Destiny of the Signifier" 11) Louis Armand - "Language and Interactivity" Johannes Fehr lectures on the theory of language as Titular Professor at the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zurich, and since the first of October 2001 he has been Deputy Head of Chair of the Collegium Helveticum, Zurich. His publications include Saussure between Linguistics and Semiology (2000) and Literature in the Digital Age (2003, co-editor). Petr Kouba works in the Centre for Theoretical Studies, Prague, and at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University. His research is focused on the philosophy of psychopathology. He is the author of The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder (2006). ***For more information about Litteraria Pragensia books, please visit our website at www.litterariapragensia.com Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: what's different now? Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:03:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 427 (427) In "Mind and Matter", Bertrand Russell writes as follows: [deleted quotation]My question is this: if you were writing this passage today and wanted to make the sort of distinction Russell is making, what would you write? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2008)" Subject: CFP: CICLing-2008: NLP & Computational Linguistics, Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:04:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 428 (428) Springer LNCS: reminder Dear colleague, This is a gentle reminder of the submission deadline for CICLing-2008, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, February 17-23, 2008, Haifa, Israel, www.CICLing.org/2008, in case you are interested. Topics: all of NLP and computational linguistics; publication: Springer LNCS; keynote speakers: Ido Dagan, Eva Hajicova, Alon Lavie, and Kemal Oflazer; tours: Jerusalem, Nazareth, and more. Thank you! Alexander Gelbukh www.Gelbukh.com From: Marc Subject: German section of the International Society of Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:03:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 429 (429) Knowledge Organization (ISKO): Call for Papers Dear Colleagues, Please find attached the Call for Papers of the German chapter of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO). While this is not an eHumanities conference in the strict sense, many of its topics are very pertinent to our field. Best regards, Marc K=FCster -------------------- English Version (abridged): February 20th through 22nd, 2008, the ISKO conference will take place at Constance (Germany). The conference is organized by the German chapter of ISKO, the Library Service Centre Baden-W=FCrttemberg, and the Department of Information Science at the University of Konstanz. The general topic is: Repositories of knowledge in digital spaces Accessibility, sustainability, semantic interoperability The following sessions (and special topics) are planned: a. Ontologies, controlled vocabulary, topic maps, semantic web Ontologies, classifications, topic maps, and the semantic web seem to enhance the usefulness and the usability of online knowledge. The different communities of developers often don't know anything about each other although there might be chances of fruitful cooperation. Ontologies and classifications (UDC, DDC) are a instruments of knowlegde organization and universal views on knowledge structures. Topic maps offer new and user friendly strategies of retrieval. The semantic web seems to be split between promise and reality. Successful applications are therefore of interest. B. Social tagging Folksonomies and wikies can be perceived as a way of democratization of knowledge. Nevertheless the producers of this knowledge control the structure of knowledge which is a debatable point. Another one is, whether the sustainability of knowledge can be guaranteed under the circumstances of an anarchic process of knowledge creation. Political questions like these are of interest. C. Platforms of knowledge There are several platforms and environments, where online knowledge is used enriching and organizing it for new purposes. Therefore contributions for some of those platforms such as e-learning, e-scholarship, e-publishing are welcome. D. Applications and projects Developers of new applications and services are invited to share their knowledge with the participants of the conference. European projects like MINERVA, the European Digital Library etc. try to offer digitized knowledge and are good examples of the development into the direction of global stores of knowledge. All those interested in the above mentioned topics or those running relevant projects are invited to participate in and contribute to the conference. English contributions as well as talks or session proposals in other fields of knowledge organization and related matters are also welcome. Please send a proposal with title, author, address details and an abstract of up to one page length till November 30th, 2007 Organizer: Dr. J=F6rn Sieglerschmidt, . Members of the program committee are: Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna), Marc Wilhelm K=FCster (Polytechnic Worms), Rainer Kuhlen (University of Konstanz), H. Peter Ohly (GESIS/ IZ Social Sciences), Max Stempfhuber (GESIS/ IZ Social Sciences), and J=F6rn Sieglerschmidt (Library Service Centre Baden-W=FCrttemberg). From: "Barjak,Franz" Subject: Invitation to AVROSS Final Workshop, Brussels, Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:14:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 430 (430) November 27, 2007 Dear colleague, We would like to invite you to a workshop on policies for increasing the use of e-infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities taking place with EC representatives in Brussels on November 27th. The workshop is part of the Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organisation in Social Science (AVROSS) study, conducted for the European Commission under EU Service Contract No. 30-CE-0066163/00-39. We would appreciate your presence and contributions as an expert in the fields of e-Social Science and e-Infrastructures. The workshop programme and a registration form are available on the AVROSS web site: http://www.fhnw.ch/plattformen/avross. Please confirm attendance by registering through the site (limited number of places). If you should not be available for the workshop but want to receive information on the project results, please send a brief message to franz.barjak_at_fhnw.ch. Yours sincerely Franz Barjak AVROSS coordinator ********************************************* Franz Barjak School of Business University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten Switzerland E-mail: franz.barjak_at_fhnw.ch p. +41 62 287 7825, fax: +41 62 287 7845 ********************************************* From: DH2008 Subject: DH2008: CFP: Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu Finland Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:15:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 431 (431) Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2008 Hosted by the University of Oulu, Finland 25-29 June, 2008 http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/ Abstract Deadline: November 18, 2007 (Midnight Universal Time) 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 18, 2007 (midnight Universal Time). All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February by 13, 2008. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 15th, 2007. 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.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/. 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 any 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 18, 2007. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form, which will be available from October 15th, 2007 at: https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ Those who registered as authors, reviewers or participants at the DH2007 conference are kindly asked to log on to their existing account (the one used for the DH2007 conference) rather than making up a new account. 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 (ALLC - University of Glasgow) John Nerbonne(ALLC - University of Groningen) Espen S. Ore (ALLC - National Library of Norway, Chair) Stephen Ramsay (ACH - University of Nebraska) Thomas Rommel (ALLC - Jacobs University Bremen) Susan Schreibman (ACH - University of Maryland) Paul Spence (ALLC - Kings College London) Melissa Terras (ACH - University College London) Claire Warwick (ACH - University College London, Vice Chair) Espen S. Ore Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen Programme Chair Local Organizer espen.ore_at_nb.no lisa.lena.opas-hanninen_at_oulu.fi -- Digital Humanities 2008 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ From: Vectors Journal [noreply_at_ws182.annenberg.edu] Subject: Fifth Issue of Vectors is now online Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:00:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 432 (432) Sent: 10/16/2007 11:21 AM MST To: Cathy Davidson Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular is pleased to announce the launch of its new issue devoted to the theme of Difference: http://www.vectorsjournal.org Our fifth issue of Vectors stages multiple examinations of the notion of difference as it plays out in a variety of spheres, discourses and practices, while also privileging race and ethnicity as a central through-line of digital culture, a recurring ghost in our networked machines.. Featured scholars include David Theo Goldberg/Stefka Hristova, Wendy Chun, Mark Kann, Jon Ippolito, Minoo Moallem, Jennifer Terry and Christian Sandvig. Vectors is produced by editors Tara McPherson and Steve Anderson, co-creative directors Erik Loyer and Raegan Kelly, and programmer Craig Dietrich with additional design by Alex Ceglia. Vectors is an international peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to expanding the potentials of academic publication via emergent and transitional media. Vectors brings together visionary scholars with cutting-edge designers and technologists to propose a thorough rethinking of the dynamic relationship of form to content in academic research, focusing on the ways technology shapes, transforms and reconfigures social and cultural relations. We only publish works that exceed the boundaries of print. Please also explore previous issues in the Vectors Archive and contribute to an ongoing dialogue with the project creators via the Vectors Forums. Feel free to share this announcement widely. From: Methnet Subject: New on Digital Arts & Humanities Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:03:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 433 (433) Digital Arts & Humanities is a place to share and discuss ideas, promote your research and discover the digital arts and humanities. It is a virtual (meta)community for arts and humanities researchers using ICT methods, developed by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and hosted by King's College London. We host various discussion groups and offer community and dissemination tools for practitioners working in the field. Part of Digital Arts & Humanities is a match-making service for registered users that allows you to search members' profiles for common interests or needed skills - we currently have over 300 profiles in the database. http://www.arts-humanities.net/ You can contribute to all the ongoing discussions, engage with others - and maybe even start your own group. Please contact Torsten Reimer (torsten.reimer_at_kcl.ac.uk) for further questions. FEATURED CONTENT ICT Events Calendar The ICT Events Calendar lists conferences, workshops and other events related to information and communication technology in research. You can subscribe to its RSS feed or directly import all events into your calendar via its ical function. The subscription module of Digital Arts & Humanities allows you to receive automatic announcements of new events - and as a registered user you can announce your own activities and tag them to make them visible for others: http://www.arts-humanities.net/event NEW USER GROUPS Archaeology and 3D technology http://www.arts-humanities.net/archaeology_3d_technology A special interest group for archaeologists and heritage professionals working with 3-dimensional data and spatial analysis technologies Intimacy: Across Digital and Visceral Performance http://www.arts-humanities.net/ intimacy_across_digital_visceral_performance Explorations of intimate encounters in performance practice, bridging across digital performance and live art The Digital Body http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_body Discussions on virtual, mixed and augmented realities and their relation to the body Wmatrix http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix A user group for the Wmatrix corpus analysis and comparison tool NEW DISCUSSIONS After the AHDS: The End of National Support? http://www.arts-humanities.net/forum/after_ahds_end_national_support Interview: Paul Rayson Wmatrix, text mining http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix/forum/ interview_paul_rayson_wmatrix_text_mining Web Portals and the Historic Environment http://www.arts-humanities.net/forum/web_portals_historic_environment DIGITAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES WIKI The wiki now contains some 70 articles on tools and methods in the digital arts and humanities, from "Access Grid for Art Historians" to "XML and Related Methods in Archaeology". You can amend the information contained here and also create new articles: http://www.arts-humanities.net/wiki AUDIO AND VIDEO CONTENT NOW ONLINE Audio recordings of presentations and podcasts, dealing with issues such as text mining or spatial technologies in archaeology. Listen to a case study on virtual restoration and manuscript archaeology: http://www.arts-humanities.net/audio Video: This new section gives you access to video recordings of presentations given at Methods Network events. Watch the panel "Talking CGI" given at the Art of British CGI conference earlier this year: http://www.arts-humanities.net/video From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: EMLS Special issues Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:01:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 434 (434) EMLS is pleased to announce a double launch of two guest-edited Special Issues: Court culture 1642-1660, EMLS Special Issue 15 (September, 2007) edited by Jerome de Groot and Peter Sillitoe. The Long 1590s, EMLS 13.2/Special Issue 16 (September, 2007) edited by Lisa Hopkins and Annaliese Connolly. As usual, both collections are available for download free-to-air and without subscription from http://purl.org/emls. The contents are as follows: Court Culture * Introduction: Court culture in the 1640s and 1650s. [1] Jerome de Groot (University of Manchester) and Peter Sillitoe (University of Sheffield). * 'Hot and eager in courtship': representations of court life in the parliamentarian press, 1642-9. [2] Jason Peacey (University College London). * The Hague Courts of Elizabeth of Bohemia and Mary Stuart: Theatrical and Ceremonial Cultures. [3] Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham) and Ann Hughes (Keele University). * 'Tyer'd in her Banish'd dress': Henrietta Maria in exile. [4] Karen Britland (Keele University). * 'Long, dangerous and expensive journeys': the grooms of the bedchamber at Charles II's court in exile. [5] Geoffrey Smith (University of Melbourne). * Actors and the Court after 1642. [6] John Astington (University of Toronto). * 'Soveraigne Receipts' and the Politics of Beauty in The Queens Closet Opened. [7] Edith Snook (University of New Brunswick). The Long 1590s * Foreword. [1] Annaliese Connolly and Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University). * 'These latter days of the world': the Correspondence of Elizabeth I and James VI, 1590-1603. [2] Rayne Allinson, (Magdalen College, Oxford). * 'To Love and Be Wise': the Earl of Essex, Humanist Court Culture, and England's Learned Queen. [3] Linda Shenk (Iowa State University). * 'The representing of so strange a power in love': Philip Sidney's Legacy of Anti-factionalism. [4] Richard Wood (Sheffield Hallam University). * 'Et in Arcadia Ego': The Politics of Pirates in the Old Arcadia, New Arcadia and Urania. [5] Claire Jowitt (Nottingham Trent University). * 'You serued God he set you free': Self, Nation, and Celebration in the Wager-Voyaging Adventure of Richard Ferris. [6] Michael Manous (University of California, Riverside). * 'Resolve me of all ambiguities': Doctor Faustus and the Failure to Unify. [7] Andy Duxfield (Sheffield Hallam University). * '[I]ygging vaines' and 'riming mother wits': Marlowe, Clowns and the Early Frameworks of Dramatic Authorship. [8] Kirk Melnikoff (University of University of North Carolina at Charlotte). * Peele's David and Bethsabe: Reconsidering Biblical Drama of the Long 1590s. [9] Annaliese Connolly (Sheffield Hallam University). * The ' Turk Phenomenon' and the Repertory of the Late Elizabethan Playhouse. [10] Mark Hutchings (University of Reading). * To Sodomize a Nation: Edward II, Ireland, and the Threat of Penetration. [11] Marcie Bianco (Rutgers University). * Shakespeare and the Invention of the Heterosexual. [12] Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia). From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 4.3 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:56:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 435 (435) New Publication The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (IJBS) has now posted Volume 4-3 A Special Issue "Remembering Baudrillard" to the web at: www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies The special issue contains 84 articles and other remembrances from academics around the world including: John Armitage, Jon Baldwin, Simon Blackburn, Lesley Curtis, Gerry Coulter, Rex Butler, Alan Cholodenko, Joseph Tanke, Rene Capovin, Marcello Faletra, Mike Gane, Gary Genosko, Chris Horrocks, Steven Jones, Douglas Kellner, Arthur Kroker, C J Lee, Sylvere Lotringer, Geert Lovink and McKenzie Wark, Robert Maggiori, Daniel Miller, Will Nerricio, Trevor Norris, Benjamin Noys, William Pawlett, Richard Pope, Carlin Romano, Scott Stephens, Paul Taylor and Emily Theriault. There are also numerous remembrances (and a graffiti mural) from outside of the academy. From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: Louis Armand, Event States Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:26:12 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 436 (436) Announcing the publication of EVENT STATES: DISCOURSE, TIME, MEDIALITY by Louis Armand http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/event_states.html ISBN 80-7308-168-3 (paperback). 320pp. Published: September 2007. Topics: Critical Theory / Philosophy of Technology / Media / Poetics Paperback price: Euro 15.00 (not including postage) Part 2 of Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity. http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/lit_tech.html Following from an earlier study of "literate technologies," the present volume seeks to examine a number of questions that inevitably come to surround any discussion of signification and dynamic systems; questions which concern the relationship between what is variously meant by the terms event and state, and which tend to coalesce around a number of "problems" to do with relativity and the discursive character of time or temporalisation, mediality, representation and the "techno-logisation" of presence. Such questions ultimately travel far afield, between ontology and classical epistemology, cybernetics and quantum physics, poetics and political science. Essays in this volume treat the work of Alain Badiou, Bernard Stiegler, Thomas Pynchon, Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sigmund Freud, Jose Delgado, Friedrich Kittler, Jean-Luc Godard. Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other. He is the editor of Contemporary Poetics (Northwestern University Press, 2007). For more information about Litteraria Pragensia books, please visit our website www.litterariapragensia.com Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 21.306 what's different now? Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:56:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 437 (437) Dear Willard, I would connect this to Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment and the place of it in the discussion of AI. If I was addressing digital humanists I would point out how an early experiment of the late 1940s in the digital humanities by Andrew Booth and company actually tested an algorithm for machine translation with "a human untutored in the languages concerned, who applied only those rules which could eventually be performed by a machine." (_Mechanical Resolution of Linguistic Problems_ 1958) Booth (who it could be argued is before Busa in applying computing to humanities problems) set up the experiment so that the human would not learn, but would behave as the machine in order to test a hypothesis about the machine where he didn't have access to the machine. He was, to borrow from your work, modeling the machine through the human. Searle's thought experiment to illustrate the difference between AI and HI sounds inspired by what was an actual practice in the days when you couldn't afford computing time. Did Booth's humans learn the languages they were pretending to translate as a machine? Did they learn something other than the language? And ... how do we know that Russell's machine isn't learning just because it does things the same way? Perhaps the wear and tear of the machine is its learning. Yours, Geoffrey R. On 23-Oct-07, at 1:31 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Marilyn Deegan Subject: job as Online Development Manager at OUP Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:55:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 438 (438) We are currently in the process of recruiting an Online Development Manager (ODM) for the academic and trade department at Oxford University Press. The position is a new one, designed to help the department maximise its online potential over the coming years, and ensure that we are well placed to respond swiftly and effectively to changes in the market. Online publishing is already an extremely important part of our business, with success in the area achieved through Oxford Scholarship Online (alongside an extensive suite of online products from the Press more widely) and there are a number of extensive development plans currently on the table. The ODM will be responsible for the development and implementation of the Press's Academic and Trade electronic product strategy in the UK. They will work with the editorial project sponsors and liaise with key groups in our technology department - the Electronic Product Development (EPD) team and Data Management Group (DTG) - to take forward online plans for a broad range of content from Very Short Introductions to scholarly editions. The ODM will be supported by two members of staff. Key objectives for the role will include: -- planning and initiating research and concept testing, -- analysis of market intelligence, -- formation of commercial product requirements, and -- liaison with EPD and DMG at the business requirement level and during the product life cycle (including product design, project management, data sourcing, data reusability and access). [The advert] for this role ... appears in the Guardian this week, and closes on Friday 2 November. I would stress that the salary indicator on the advert was decided upon very much with the Guardian audience in mind, i.e. we would usually expect a range of applicants from the Guardian with very different levels of experience. For the right candidate, we would be prepared to pay a significantly higher salary. ----- Sophie Goldsworthy Editorial Director, Academic & Trade Academic Division Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street Oxford OX2 6DP phone (0)1865 353458 fax (0)1865 353741 http://www.oup.co.uk =EF=BF=BC Hi W Could we possible put this job ad on=20 Humanitist? OUP are part of Oxford University,=20 so they are not a commercial company in the usual=20 way, and it's a great job for the right person! Cheers! M We are currently in the process of recruiting an=20 Online Development Manager (ODM) for the academic=20 and trade department at Oxford University Press.=20 The position is a new one, designed to help the=20 department maximise its online potential over the=20 coming years, and ensure that we are well placed=20 to respond swiftly and effectively to changes in=20 the market. 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For the right candidate, we=20 would be prepared to pay a significantly higher salary. _________________ Sophie Goldsworthy Editorial Director, Academic & Trade Academic Division Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street Oxford OX2 6DP phone (0)1865 353458 fax (0)1865 353741 <http://www.oup.co.uk/>http://www.oup.co.uk Content-Type: application/octet-stream; x-unix-mode=3D0666; name=3DOnline Development Manager--Oxford University Press.pdf Content-Disposition: inline; filename=3D"Online Development Manager--Oxford University= Press.pdf" From: Marcus Bingenheimer Subject: what's different now Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:41:31 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 439 (439) Today, the machine will ask you for your credit card number, tell you what you have purchased before or which trains you took. It will make all kind of more or less ridiculous suggestions where to spend your next coin and the next. It will communicate with other machines in your house to collect more information about you, relay this to still other machines and store it indefinitely. The man at the ticket office, on the contrary, has learned from experience to give you the ticket and leave you alone. marcus -- ============================ Dr. Marcus Bingenheimer Director, Library and Information Center Dharma Drum Buddhist College (DDBC) No. 2-6 Xishihu, Jinshan 20842, Taipei County, Taiwan, R.O.C. 20842 2-6 Tel: +886-2-2498-7171 # 2381 <http://buddhistinformatics.chibs.edu.tw/~mb/>http://buddhistinformatics.chibs.edu.tw/~mb/ Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: AHRC ICT Methods Network Subject: New on Digital Arts & Humanities Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:54:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 440 (440) Digital Arts & Humanities is a place to share and discuss ideas, promote your research and discover the digital arts and humanities. It is a virtual (meta)community for arts and humanities researchers using ICT methods, developed by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and hosted by King's College London. We host various discussion groups and offer community and dissemination tools for practitioners working in the field. Part of Digital Arts & Humanities is a match-making service for registered users that allows you to search members' profiles for common interests or needed skills - we currently have over 300 profiles in the database. http://www.arts-humanities.net/ You can contribute to all the ongoing discussions, engage with others - and maybe even start your own group. Please contact Torsten Reimer (torsten.reimer_at_kcl.ac.uk) for further questions. FEATURED CONTENT ICT Events Calendar The ICT Events Calendar lists conferences, workshops and other events related to information and communication technology in research. You can subscribe to its RSS feed or directly import all events into your calendar via its ical function. The subscription module of Digital Arts & Humanities allows you to receive automatic announcements of new events - and as a registered user you can announce your own activities and tag them to make them visible for others: http://www.arts-humanities.net/event NEW USER GROUPS Archaeology and 3D technology http://www.arts-humanities.net/archaeology_3d_technology A special interest group for archaeologists and heritage professionals working with 3-dimensional data and spatial analysis technologies Intimacy: Across Digital and Visceral Performance http://www.arts-humanities.net/intimacy_across_digital_visceral_performance Explorations of intimate encounters in performance practice, bridging across digital performance and live art The Digital Body http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_body Discussions on virtual, mixed and augmented realities and their relation to the body Wmatrix http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix A user group for the Wmatrix corpus analysis and comparison tool NEW DISCUSSIONS After the AHDS: The End of National Support? http://www.arts-humanities.net/forum/after_ahds_end_national_support Interview: Paul Rayson Wmatrix, text mining http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix/forum/interview_paul_rayson_wmatrix_text_mining Web Portals and the Historic Environment http://www.arts-humanities.net/forum/web_portals_historic_environment DIGITAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES WIKI The wiki now contains some 70 articles on tools and methods in the digital arts and humanities, from "Access Grid for Art Historians" to "XML and Related Methods in Archaeology". You can amend the information contained here and also create new articles: http://www.arts-humanities.net/wiki AUDIO AND VIDEO CONTENT NOW ONLINE Audio recordings of presentations and podcasts, dealing with issues such as text mining or spatial technologies in archaeology. Listen to a case study on virtual restoration and manuscript archaeology: http://www.arts-humanities.net/audio Video: This new section gives you access to video recordings of presentations given at Methods Network events. Watch the panel "Talking CGI" given at the Art of British CGI conference earlier this year: http://www.arts-humanities.net/video From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 8.42 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:55:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 441 (441) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 42 October 23, 2007 -- October 29, 2007 Image Interpolation Algorithms Professors Tunku Acharya (Avisere Inc and Aritzona State University) and Ping-Sing Tsai (University of Texas, Pan American) explain that interpolation algorithms can be grouped into two categories, adaptive or non-adaptive "The computational logic of an adaptive image interpolation technique is mostly dependent upon the intrinsic image features and contents of the input image whereas computational logic of a non-adaptive image interpolation technique is fixed irrespective of the input image features". They discuss the progress of both non-adaptive and adaptive image interpolation techniques, propose a new algorithm for image interpolation in a discrete wavelet transform domain, describe the underlying computational foundations of all these algorithms and their implementation techniques, and show the impact of these algorithms in terms of image quality metrics and computational requirements for implementation. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i42_archaya.html> From: Antonella D'Ascoli Subject: JIIA Latest Additions Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:30:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 442 (442) 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' http://www.jiia.it JIIA Eprints Repository (OAI-PMH) http://eprints.jiia.it/ Hippos-Sussita Excavation Project, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa: http://eprints.jiia.it:8080/105/ http://eprints.jiia.it:8080/106/ Author:Emilie Blaise, archéozoologue spécialiste de la faune mammalienne et des pratiques d'élevage du Néolithique: http://eprints.jiia.it:8080/102/ http://eprints.jiia.it:8080/103/ http://eprints.jiia.it:8080/101/ http://eprints.jiia.it:8080/97/ http://eprints.jiia.it:8080/104/ http://eprints.jiia.it:8080/98/ Produzione scientifica di Emilie Blaise (et alii), già disseminata in altri OAI Repositories. Si pubblica per gentile concessione dell'Autrice Emilie Blaise: archéozoologue spécialiste de la faune mammalienne et des pratiques d'élevage du Néolithique (rattachement scientifique: Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille 1; Laboratoire ESEP - UMR 6636 'Economies, Sociétés et Environnements Préhistoriques' Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme - Aix-en-Provence - France) * Lemercier, Olivier and Blaise, E. and Cauliez, J. and Furestier, R. and Gilabert, C. and Lazard, N. and Pinet, L. and Provenzano, N. (2004) La fin des temps néolithiques. In: Vaucluse Préhistorique. Editions A. Barthélémy, Avignon, FR, pp. 195-246 * Lemercier, Olivier and Blaise, E. and Cauliez, J. and Furestier, R. and Gallin, A. and Gilabert, C. and Guendon, J.L. and Lazard, N. and Pellissier, M. and Piatscheck, C. and Provenzano, N. (2006) Le site néolithique final de la Bastide Blanche (Peyrolles en Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône): Premiers résultats 2003-2004. In: Paysages et peuplements. Aspects culturels et chronologiques en France méridionale. Actes des 6e Rencontres Méridionales de Préhistoire Récente, 2004, Périgueux, France * Blaise, E. (2006) Du référentiel actuel de brebis à la gestion des troupeaux à la fin du néolithique en Provence: approche méthodologique. In: Espaces, techniques et sociétés de la Préhistoire au Moyen-Age : travaux en cours. Actes de la première table ronde des jeunes chercheurs en archéologie de la MMSH, 18 May 2006, Aix-en-Provence, France * Blaise, E. (2004) Etude de la faune terrestre. In: La Bastide Blanche à Peyrolles (Bouches-du-Rhône). Site du Néolithique final Rhône-Ouvèze et Campaniforme, rapport de fouilles archéologiques programmées. UMR 6636 - ESEP, Aix-en-Provence, FR, pp. 106-110 * Blaise, E. (2003) Les restes osseux animaux. In: La Bastide Blanche à Peyrolles (Bouches-du-Rhône), site du Néolithique final Rhône-Ouvèze et Campaniforme et nécropole paléochrétienne, rapport de sondages archéologiques programmés 2003. ESEP UMR 6636/SRA PACA, Aix-en-Provence, FR, pp. 149-156 * Cauliez, J. and Blaise, E. and Desse-Berset, N. and Desse, J. and Cade, C. and Durrenmath, G. and Gilabert, C. and Martin, S. and Vella, C. (2007) Paysage et implantations du Néolithique final à l'âge du Bronze ancien au Collet-Redon (Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône). In: Paysages et peuplements : aspects culturels et chronologie en France méridionale, actualité de la recherche. Actes des VIèmes Rencontres Méridionales de Préhistoire Récente, 14-16 Oct 2004, Périgueux, France Per gentile concessione di Michael Eisenberg (Hippos-Sussita Excavation Project, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa) si pubblicano i seguenti excavation report: * Segal, Arthur and Mlynarczyk, Jolanta and Burdajewicz, Mariusz and Schuler, Mark and Eisenberg, Michael (2004) Hippos-Soussita. Fifth Season of Excavations (September-October 2004) and Summary of All Five Seasons. Project Report. University of Haifa, Haifa, IL. * Segal, Arthur and Mlynarczyk, Jolanta and Burdajewicz, Mariusz and Schuler, Mark and Eisenberg, Michael (2005) Hippos-Soussita. Sixth Season of Excavations (July 2005). Project Report. University of Haifa, Haifa, IL. Best regards Antonella D'Ascoli ___________________________ Dott.ssa 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 From: "GARDINER Wendy" Subject: Corpora/Table of Contents Announcements Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:33:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 443 (443) NOW AVAILABLE FROM EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS Corpora Volume 1, Number 1, 2006 Table of Contents Spoken and written register variation in Spanish: A multi-dimensional analysis - Douglas Biber, Mark Davies, James K. 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Helt Review: Barlow (2004) 'Collocate 1.0' (software package) Erkan Karabacak www.eup.ed.ac.uk Wendy Gardiner Marketing Manager Edinburgh University Press Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 4220 Fax:+44 (0) 131 662 0053 www.eup.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh University Press Journals will be online from 2008! Email journals_at_eup.ed.ac.uk to receive the latest updates Registered Office - 22 George Square,Edinburgh EH8 9LF. Registered at Companies House Edinburgh on 9th day of July 1992. Company Registration No. SC139240 Charities No. SC35813 From: Willard McCarty Subject: source of a half-remembered quotation? Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:06:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 444 (444) I would be enormously grateful to anyone here for exact citation to the author and work in which, I recall, a particularly bizarre sorting of objects and phenomena is set out. I think the author is the Taoist Chinese philosopher, Chuang-tzu (Zhuangzi), whom I would have been reading in the Burton Watson translation. This translation is now available in its entirely at http://www.terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html, but unfortunately I cannot remember exact words, and so the usual sort of searching has proven ineffective. The passage is a long list of things that are grouped together but which we would ordinarily not associate. I take it to be a Taoist lesson in the arbitrariness of all taxonomies. Very Pythonesque, actually. Many thanks for any leads. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: oxfordjournals-mailer_at_alerts.stanford.edu Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 22.4 Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:48:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 445 (445) Literary and Linguistic Computing November 2007; Vol. 22, No. 4 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol22/issue4/index.dtl?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Language Change Quantification Using Time-separated Parallel Translations Kemal Altintas, Fazli Can, and Jon M. Patton pp. 375-393. The Navajo Language Literature Project: A Case Study in Client-side Design Patterns Using Asynchronous Requests Kip Canfield pp. 395-403. Bigrams of Syntactic Labels for Authorship Discrimination of Short Texts Graeme Hirst and Ol'ga Feiguina pp. 405-417. Syntactic Positions of Prepositional Phrases in the History of Chinese: Using the Developing Sheffield Corpus of Chinese for Diachronic Linguistic Studies Xiaoling Hu, Jamie McLaughlin, and Nigel Williamson pp. 419-434. Goldsmith and the Busy Body Peter Dixon and David Mannion pp. 435-446. Goldsmith's Contributions to the Weekly Magazine Peter Dixon and David Mannion pp. 447-468. Tools for Searching, Annotation and Analysis of Speech, Music, Film and Video A Survey Alan Marsden, Adrian Mackenzie, Adam Lindsay, Harriet Nock, John Coleman, and Greg Kochanski pp. 469-488. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ----------------------------------------------------------------- Corpus Stylistics: Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing. Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics. * Elena Semino and Mick Short. Donald E. Hardy pp. 489-490. REED in Review: Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years * Audrey Douglas and Sally-Beth MacLean (eds). Matthew Steggle pp. 490-492. From: Katherine Harris Subject: Digital Projects Poster Session Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:45:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 446 (446) Digital Projects Poster Session (11/25/07; SHARP 6/24/08-6/28/08) CALL FOR POSTERS Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing International Conference Hosted by the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies (http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/conference/sharp2008/) Oxford, England June 24 - June 26, 2008 This year's conference theme, Teaching and the Text, is an appropriate opportunity to highlight SHARP's commitment to digital humanities projects, tools or techniques or work in progress. The session also encourages proposals from 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. A brief bio and short abstracts (250-300 words) should be submitted to Katherine D. Harris (kharris_at_email.sjsu.edu) before November 25, 2007. Please include any technical requirements (e.g., Internet access). This panel will undergo the normal review procedure by the SHARP conference committee. One participant for each proposal must be a member of SHARP prior to the conference. Founded in 1991, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing is a global network of literary scholars, historians, librarians, booksellers, and publishing professionals. With more than 1,000 members in over 20 countries, SHARP works in concert with a number of affiliated scholarly organizations around the world to encourage the study of book history. The conference theme, Teaching and Text, reflects the historical and contemporary position of Oxford as a seat of learning and a centre of academic and professional publishing. It will be developed through an opening plenary lecture by Professor Juliet Gardiner (author of Wartime Britain 1939-1945), by a panel on the History of Oxford University Press led by Professor Simon Eliot (Chair in the History of the Book at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London), and a final plenary panel chaired by Professor John Barnard (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Leeds), and featuring as panellists Dr. David McKitterick (Librarian and Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge); Dr. Peter McDonald (Rank Fellow and University Lecturer in English Language and Literature, St Hugh's College, Oxford); Dr. Sydney Shep (Senior Lecturer in Print & Book Culture and The Printer, Wai-te-ata Press, Victoria University of Wellington); and Professor Kathryn Sutherland (Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, St Anne's College, Oxford). Further plenary sessions will be announced later. The AGM will be hosted by Oxford University Press, and followed by a reception. Additional social events will include a banquet at Magdalen College and receptions at Blackwells Bookshop and the Bodleian Library. ************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris Assistant Professor Dept. of English & Comp. Lit. San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192 Phone: 408.924.4475 Email: kharris_at_email.sjsu.edu <http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/>http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/ Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: Borges not Chuang-tzu Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:27:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 447 (447) My thanks to the 11 members of this group who answered my dazed query for the source of a quotation I could not remember, about a subversively bizarre way of sorting the world. My thanks specifically, in no particular order, to Hope Greenberg, Timothy Mason, Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Jean-François Vallée, Peter Boot, Philip Hanson, Clai Rice, John Unsworth, Christian Wittern, Marcus Bingenheimer and Wayne Hanewicz. The source is, of course, Jorge Luis Borges' story, "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" ("El idioma analítico de John Wilkins"), to which Michel Foucault attributes the shattering laughter that broke up "all the familiar landmarks of my thought -- our thought... with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things" and so began the rethinking that resulted in his book Les Mots et les choses (1966, trans. The Order of Things, 1970). A couple of people pointed me to the Wikipedia entry dedicated to Borges' imagined Chinese encyclopedia, the Celestial Emportium of Benevolent Knowledge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Recognition), where it is written that, [deleted quotation]But I was saved from the inevitable temptation to medicalize my faulty remembering by another couple of people who likewise had thought Chuang-tzu was the source. Ah, if only we who favoured Chuang-tzu had not spent all that time reading Chinese philosophy! Indeed, Marcus Bingenheimer (Director, Library and Information Center, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan), went on to comment that, [deleted quotation]Nor are the passages describing metamorphosis in the Chuang-tzu, e.g. [deleted quotation]This is serious play! John Unsworth pointed out to me that Michael Sperberg-McQueen quoted the very passage from Borges in his learned chapter in the Blackwell's Companion to Digital Humanities, "Classification and its Structures" (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/), where he says, [deleted quotation]It all depends, I suppose, on what you're after. For me it comes down to the choice of the residue over the well-crafted scheme that isolates it. Recently I found myself sitting in yet another kitchen in a visiting researchers' residence in Leiden, where a theoretical linguist, having heard me go on about my beloved residue and my disrespect of rules, asked pointedly, "If the residue is so interesting, why isn't the rule that produced it?" A good question, I think. Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: a room too small Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:55:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 448 (448) Let me pose an approach to a typical sort of literary problem and ask for your comments. This approach I believe to be flawed, but I'd like help in describing exactly how it is flawed. The starting point is Ovid's Metamorphoses 1.2-3, specifically "coeptis...meis" -- in this context: [deleted quotation]Now one could argue, taking a Bakhtinian approach, that this literal conspiracy between the gods and the poet is in effect a statement of co-creative reading, a kind of license granted such a critic by the poet. Be that as it may, the important matter here is not a particular theory of how reading happens. Two things are important: (1) not the enactment of any particular theory but the engagement itself between the reader's idea of reading, whether consciously held or implicit, and the poets text; (2) the way(s) in which the text (en)trains the reader. What is demanded, then, is at the outset only attentiveness to the words (ability to read them, i.e. mastery of the language, is assumed). That is the single required act. Everything else is optional, however desirable, e.g. knowledge of other Latin literature, such as the Aeneid. The ideal reader is as the one for whom Joyce writes Finnegans Wake, who knows all literature, is totally awake, never needs sleep. The presumption here is that the uneducated reading and the educated reading differ in nurture rather than by nature, that somehow with the right amount of nurture (e.g. a classical education) things will happen in the reading that may be utterly surprising but are derivable from the text -- not the particular things that happen, perhaps, but the capacity for them to happen. Or by analogy: when the well nurtured plant flowers, all the lesser gardners are amazed, but the flowering plant is the same genetically as the one that has never flowered. Indeed, I suppose all this gets us straight into the arms of the nature/nurture argument, for which see Ian Hacking's recent review of G.E.R. Lloyd's Cognitive Variations (Oxford), "How shall we repaint the kitchen?", London Review of Books, 1 November, pp. 17-19. Why ask this question here? The temptation to think in terms of a genetic code is *very* hard to resist for those of us computing humanists who want to get beyond text information retrieval. The dream that seems very easy to have is the ability to describe for a text the process that all readers follow to a greater or lesser degree, at all times and places. But this dream induces in me severe cognitive claustrophia. Is there a doctor in the house? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: stalled engine coughing back to life Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:08:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 449 (449) Dear colleagues, My apologies for the rather lurching rhythm of Humanist these days. A hard-disc crash put one of its mechanisms out of service for a time, with a bit of a mess resulting, and of course delays in getting messages out to you. Now things seem back to normal. One day, I hope soon, we'll be getting a shiny new engine, which I trust will mean no visible changes for you other than a more reliable delivery of the messages. And then I can enjoy the luxury of being nostalgic about the years when the whole thing was a hodge-podge of home-made parts. (Indeed, a major part of the machinery of Humanist was made right here, in this room, by a kind visitor in exchange for a place to stay.) There is an television advert here made by some high-tech company that deliberately harkens back to the days when radio and television technology barely worked, with much hum and static, and those who appeared or only spoke were barely trained. You'll see a placard held unsteadily in front of the camera by someone's hand while the audio hums away because it's not been properly earthed/grounded, and there will be much "snow", as I recall it was called. The net-effect is supposed to be charming, I guess, down-home, unthreatening etc. I find it intensely annoying, silly, stupid etc. But it does serve as a reminder of how far electronic engineering has brought us. Sharp, clear images are so much a matter of course that we forget how much work and ingenuity was required to make it so. But it's not just that we've lost awareness of what's happening behind the scenes. I'm told that I am not the only one who feels mentally deranged when one of my computers does not work. It's almost as if my mind has extended itself to assimilate the computer, making the machine part of itself, and so a breakdown in the latter seem a breakdown in the former. I suppose this is a contemporary version of the well-known blindman-and-his-stick metaphor used by the phenomenologists. Fortunately for my mental state, there must be a sort of inverse-square law for computing, so that the failure of physically very distant systems does not affect me as much as failures here. When parts of Humanist break, I just feel isolated and, I admit, enjoy the bit of silence while it lasts. Shocking! But thanks to Shayne Brandon, the old engine at Virginia has sputtered into life again, so once again I make my morning rounds. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Simon Tanner Subject: Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery 7th Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:36:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 450 (450) - 11th April 2008, London, UK. ** Apologies for cross postings ** Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery 7th - 11th April 2008, London, UK. King's College London is pleased to announce the=20 Digital Futures 5-day training event for 2008. http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/ Led by experts of international renown, Digital=20 Futures focuses on the development, delivery and=20 preservation of digital resources from cultural=20 and memory institutions. Lasting five days,=20 Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other=20 practitioners from the library, museum, heritage=20 and cultural sectors looking to understand the=20 strategic and management issues of developing=20 digital resources from digitisation to delivery. Digital Futures will cover the following core areas: - Planning and management - Fund raising and sustainability - Copyright and IPR - Visual and image based resource development and delivery - Metadata - introduction and implementation - Implementing digital resources - Digital preservation There will be visits to 2 institutions, which had=20 previously included the National Gallery, the=20 National Archives and the Imperial War Museum. The agenda is here: http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/digiprog.htm Digital Futures aims for no more than 25-30=20 delegates and every delegate will have the=20 opportunity to also spend one-to-one time with a=20 Digital Futures leader to discuss issues specific to them. Digital Futures will issue a certificate of achievement to each delegate. The Digital Futures leaders are: Simon Tanner - Director of King's Digital=20 Consultancy Services, King's College London Tom Clareson - Program Director for New Initiatives, PALINET. Other experts will be invited to speak in their areas of expertise. What past delegates say about Digital Futures: - "Excellent - I would recommend DF to anyone=20 anticipating a digitization program" - "I was very pleased. The team was exceptionally=20 knowledgeable, friendly and personable." - "Excellent, informative and enjoyable. Thank you." - "Thanks, it has been an invaluable experience." - "A really useful course and great fun too!" Cost: =A3770 (VAT not charged, excludes accommodation) Venue: King's College London, London Dates: 7th - 11th April 2008 To register, go here: http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/digireg.htm The Digital Futures is run by King's Digital=20 Consultancy Services and the Centre for Computing=20 in the Humanities, King's College London working=20 in co-operation with PALINET, USA. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1678 or +44 (0)7887 691716 email: simon.tanner_at_kcl.ac.uk=09 www.digitalconsultancy.net From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Pigeonhole Problem Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:10:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 451 (451) Yesterday I spent a delightful and enlightening time talking to an IT instructor and an historian in a local public school about establishing a relationship between this school and my department. The IT instructor confirmed my sense that students in the UK system (which streams its students rather narrowly) tend simply to go from their major subject in school straight into the corresponding department in university. They choose what they know, and they know what to choose by the familiar label which each subject carries. So, he pointed out, the digital humanities needs a pigeonhole, and the pigeonhole requires its tag. The historian asked me to tell him what "digital humanities" signifies in at most two sentences. I came up with one: "It trains students to think with and against the computer". What would be your sentence? The problem with our kind, or with my kind of our kind, is our love for complexity, for difficulty, for problems challenging enough to give us the cognitive exercise we crave. As David Hilbert said in his famous lecture of 1900, we need problems "difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts". But he also quoted some "old French mathematician": "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street." The latter is the real challenge. Indeed, I'd say that you can't rest until you can explain the subject you teach, and/or in which you do your research, to schoolboys and girls. Name that pigeonhole! The lamentable fact is not that students need it but that our colleagues do also, and many of them lost their curiosity many years ago. The blinkering effect of disciplinary training is a hard lesson to learn. But perhaps if we get our pigeonhole appealingly labelled, the path which students beat to our door will lead blinkered colleagues from what they can see to what they cannot. Name that pigeonhole! Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Peter Shillingsburg Subject: Professorship at De Montfort Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:25:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 452 (452) The position of Professor of English at DMU, home of the Centre for Textual Scholarship, has been advertised with an application deadline (closing date) of 21 November. http://www.jobs-dmu.co.uk/academicmoreinfo.asp?JID=1641 Best wishes, Peter Shillingsburg pshillingsburg_at_dmu.ac.uk From: Carlos Areces Subject: First CFP: Advances in Modal Logic, 9-12 September Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:31:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 453 (453) 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr DEADLINE: 31 March 2008 Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including the following: - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal - complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics - modal and temporal logic programming - model checking - theorem proving for modal logics - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - specific instances of modal logic - description logicsAdvances in Modal Logic - dynamic logics and other process logics - epistemic and deontic logics - modal logics for agent-based systems - modal logic and game theory - modal logic and grammar formalisms - provability and interpretability logics - spatial and temporal logics - theoretical aspects of modal logic - algebraic and categorical perspectives on modal logic - coalgebraic modal logic - completeness and canonicity - correspondence and duality theory - many-dimensional modal logics - modal fixed point logics - model theory of modal logic - proof theory of modal logic - variations of modal logic - hybrid logic - intuitionistic logic - monotonic modal logic - substructural logic [...] FURTHER INFORMATION Information about AiML-2008 will be available at the conference website http://aiml08.loria.fr E-mail enquiries should be directed to the local organizer or the program co-chairs. Information about AiML itself can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 21.320 a room too small Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:29:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 454 (454) Willard, allow me to counter your gardening analogy with a real-life story. The (Eastern European, non-EU member) university where I am employed decided to switch to digital, centralized accounting of all things student-related. But my part of this university -- the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences -- has this system where you can study two main programmes (e. g. Latin and Comparative Literature) in parallel -- *any* two of more than thirty the Faculty is currently offering. At the same time, the study programmes have undergone a thorough revision (to be transformed in accordance with the Bologna process). Theoretically speaking, digital administration of an institution is a banal, almost trivial task. You define a set of rules and apply these rules to data in the databases. Practically -- it has proven quite a challenge. In fact, we are in the middle of a chaos now, where more than 50% of my first-year students have some error in their administrative records, with very little means of getting these errors fixed (apart from the old, not-by-defined-rule, manual way). I want to say that yes, basically, or theoretically, the wonderful plant is a product of the same (sort of) seed from which less-than-wonderful plants are nurtured -- but the actual number of variables, of unknown factors, and their interactions, and *skills* required for nurturing, all of this very soon exceeds the actual power of... computing, or imagination. We may *imagine* that an uninformed reading is basically the same as a perfect reading, but, to imagine it, we have to leave out very, very much. Yours, Neven Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia From: Andrew Jewell Subject: Digital Americanists at the American Literature Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:57:37 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 455 (455) Call For Papers Digital Americanists at the American Literature Association 2008 The Digital Americanists=20 (<http://www.digitalamericanists.org/>www.digitalamericanists.org)=20 invite proposals for 20-minute papers to be=20 presented at the American Literature=20 Association's annual meeting in San Francisco, CA, May 22-25, 2008. Panel I: The Politics of Digital Scholarship This panel seeks to ask questions about the=20 political implications of building digital=20 scholarly resources. What are the institutional,=20 cultural, representational, and other political=20 issues surrounding digital scholarship? For=20 example: How do the infrastructure demands of=20 digital publication determine participation in=20 digital scholarship? How do the agendas of major=20 funding agencies influence what content is=20 created? How do departments and colleges respond=20 to new models of scholarship? How does the=20 potential broadening of audience via the Internet influence the design of=20 scholarship? How does digitization reformulate=20 our approaches to political topics in literary=20 study? What are the implications for cultural=20 and gender studies in the age of digital scholarship? Panel II: Discoveries Through Digitization The work of creating unique digital=20 resources=ADwhich commonly involves detailed work=20 on a narrowly-defined topic or new computational=20 approaches to very big questions=ADoften leads to=20 discovery of new knowledge about the=20 content. This panel invites scholars working on=20 different topics with digital media to share the=20 new insights into their subjects that their work=20 has produced. Of particular interest are=20 insights that scholars feel only emerged as a=20 direct result of the digital nature of their work. Proposals should take the form of a 250-500 word=20 abstract submitted electronically (as an email=20 attachment in Word or RTF format) to Andrew=20 Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,=20 ajewell2_at_unl.edu and=20 Edward Whitley, Lehigh University,= edw204_at_lehigh.edu Deadline for proposals is December 21, 2007;=20 acceptances will be finalized by the end of January 2008. Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London |=20 http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p.= 26).=20 From: "richard frank" Subject: RE: 21.323 the Pigeonhole Problem Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:26:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 456 (456) While working well outside the profession, (though in the commercial peripheries of such tasks i.e. marketing research) -- I've always thought of digital humanities as being something like: "The synthesis of natural and artificial intelligence for the purposes of mining and modeling the archives of human thought". This of course is broad enough to mean whatever you want it to mean, but certaintly sounds more attractive then "using computers to crunch subjective data". Rick Frank CEO, Dufferin Research [deleted quotation] From: "Anna Bentkowska" Subject: RE: 21.323 the Pigeonhole Problem Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:26:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 457 (457) Dear Willard, I think a cage rather than a pigeonhole is needed to address this problem. The label, Digital Humanities, is a dinosaur. It was introduced by those who remember how research was conducted in the pre-digital era. The dinosaur needs to return where it belongs. I'm not surprised the label is meaningless to most students. Equally meaningless are titles such as 'New Media Readers' by MIT etc. that include pre-Turing authors. Once we realise the dinosaur is extinct, we may happily return to the healthy old-fashioned subject taxonomies, and start afresh with the HUMANITIES (rather than Digital Humanities), ART HISTORY (rather than Digital Art History), etc. Anna Bentkowska-Kafel An analogue/digital art historian From: "Tannenbaum, Robert S." Subject: Re: 21.323 the Pigeonhole Problem Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:27:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 458 (458) Willard, Although I am no longer deeply involved in humanities computing, I am almost daily involved in using my computer to assist me in my studies and teaching of Civil Liberties. Here is my "pigeonhole" sentence: Humanities computing trains students to use the power of computing to enable inquiries in the humanities that by hand and brain alone would be too difficult or time-consuming to be feasible, thus opening major new vistas on our disciplines and ourselves. Peace, Bob Robert S. Tannenbaum, Ed.D. Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies http://www.uky.edu/eureka Undergraduate Studies Editor. Kaleidoscope http://www.uky.edu/kaleidoscope 114 Bowman Hall Principal Investigator, AMSTEMM http://www.uky.edu/AMSTEMM University of Kentucky (859) 257 - 5644 (voice) Lexington, KY 40506-0059 (859) 257 - 8734 (fax) http://www.uky.edu/~rst (home page) rst_at_uky.edu (e-mail) I have no illusions that my pacifist views are going to prevail, none at all. But every great change in expanding the dimensions of human freedom has come from very small original beginnings: somebody said "no." -- Steve Cary (1916 - 2002) From: Matt Jensen Subject: Re: 21.323 the Pigeonhole Problem Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:28:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 459 (459) [deleted quotation]Two sentences? 1. When you want to browse for a book, isn't Amazon much better than a paper-based card catalog? 2. Now imagine having other tools, as powerful as Amazon, that help us with actually *using* the book; reading, interpreting, and understanding it. That's a rough draft. I think such exercises in crafting an elevator pitch are very important. By the way, this challenge reminds me of a question that's popular in job interviews at Google. "Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew." If you put that phrase into Google, you will find suggested answers from many people. For example: "A database is a way of organizing information. It's like a genie who knows where every toy in your room is. Instead of hunting for certain toys yourself and searching the whole room, you can ask the genie to find all your toy soldiers, or only X-Men action figures, or only race cars -- anything you want." Matt Jensen NewsBlip Seattle From: "Joris van Zundert" Subject: Re: 21.325 pigeonholes (or cages) Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:47:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 460 (460) Dear Willard, I intersected Bentkowska's and Tannenbaum's suggestions: "Humanities should a.o. train students to use the power of computing to enable inquiries that by hand and brain alone would be too difficult or time-consuming to be feasible, thus opening major new vistas on our disciplines and ourselves." That makes perfect sense to me. Cheers, Joris -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert (MA) Huygens Institute Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 21.325 pigeonholes (or cages) Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:48:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 461 (461) My take on Willard's definition, combined with the Google approach: DH is: trying to explain art (and literature, and philosophy, and music...) to a computer. Neven Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Call for Participation: Second Workshop on Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:28:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 462 (462) Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities (SOCH) Call for Participation: Second Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities (SOCH) Service-Oriented Computing in the Humanities (SOCH) A joint workshop of the EPSRC Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNet) and the AHRC ICT Methods Network King's College London, UK, 17-18 December 2007 A key message to emerge from the first SOCH workshop, held at King's one year ago, is that communities of practice in the humanities are increasingly turning to service-oriented approaches as their data becomes ever more complex and dispersed. This second event will seek to provide those researchers a forum for intensive discussion, framed by a highly focused group of international speakers from the cutting edge of service-oriented research as applied to the humanities (with examples from music, archaeology and medieval history); as well as from academics working with tools and resources that have the potential to develop new research methodologies based around the service-oriented approach. The programme of invited speakers will include: - David de Roure, University of Southampton - mc schraefel, University of Southampton - Michael Meredith, University of Sheffield - Stuart Jeffrey, Archaeology Data Service - Xavier Llora, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign We now invite participation in this workshop. It is likely to be of interest to any humanist researcher working with, or interested in, advanced network technologies, as well as to computer scientists who are interested in learning more about this new and rapidly developing area of application. Participation is free and open to all, but registration is essential as numbers may be limited. To register, please complete the registration form on the sosornet website: <http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk>http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk and email it to Connie Bao (haoying.bao_at_kcl.ac.uk) before 1st December 2007. About SOSoRNet -------------- SOSorNet (<http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk>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>http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk Dr Stuart Dunn Research Associate Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre www.ahessc.ac.uk www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahessc (mailing list) Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 2980 stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX From: Carsten Lutz Subject: DL08 Call for Papers Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:29:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 463 (463) 21st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'08) CALL FOR PAPERS Dresden, Germany May 13-16, 2008 http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 15 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 23 March 2008 Camera ready papers due: 13 April 2008 DL'07 Workshop: 13-16 May 2008 (3 or 4 days, to be decided) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Bernhard Ganter, Dresden, Germany * Georg Gottlob, Oxford, UK * Maarten Marx, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Kent Spackman, Oregon, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics. Possible subjects include: * Foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems, and reasoning techniques for solving these problems. * Extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages. * Integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems. * Use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic web, and grid computing. * Building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. * Tools that exploit description Logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. [...] From: Springer Subject: Personal And Ubiquitous Computing - New Issue Alert Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:27:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 464 (464) Volume 11 Number 8 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Editorial Introduction to the special issue on movement-based interaction Astrid Twenebowa Larssen, Toni Robertson, Lian Loke, Jenny Edwards 607 - 608 Towards a Multimodal Interaction Space: categorisation and applications Bert Bongers, Gerrit C. Veer 609 - 619 Movement-based interaction in camera spaces: a conceptual framework Eva Eriksson, Thomas Riisgaard Hansen, Andreas Lykke-Olesen 621 - 632 Sports over a Distance Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Gunnar Stevens, Alex Thorogood, Shannon O'Brien, Volker Wulf 633 - 645 'Come on momma, let's see the drummer': movement-based interaction and the performance of personal style Fiona Jane Candy 647 - 655 Easy doesn't do it: skill and expression in tangible aesthetics Tom Djajadiningrat, Ben Matthews, Marcelle Stienstra 657 - 676 Move to get moved: a search for methods, tools and knowledge to design for expressive and rich movement-based interaction Caroline Hummels, Kees C. J. Overbeeke, Sietske Klooster 677 - 690 Understanding movement for interaction design: frameworks and approaches Lian Loke, Astrid T. Larssen, Toni Robertson, Jenny Edwards 691 - 701 From: Springer Subject: Cognition, Technology & Work 9.4 Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:32:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 465 (465) Volume 9 Number 4 of Cognition, Technology & Work is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com The use of expert knowledge in the development of simulations for train driver training Jennifer G. Tichon 177 - 187 Gesture recognition for control of rehabilitation robots L. Gerlich, B. N. Parsons, A. S. White, S. Prior, P. Warner 189 - 207 Designing universal access: web-applications for the elderly and disabled Robert Johnson, Simon Kent 209 - 218 Care transitions in the outpatient surgery preoperative process: facilitators and obstacles to information flow and their consequences Kara Schultz, Pascale Carayon, Ann Schoofs Hundt, Scott R. Springman 219 - 231 Theoretical and methodological issues related to long term creative cognition: the case of musical composition Nicolas Donin, Jacques Theureau 233 - 251 From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- October 2007 Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:24:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 466 (466) TL INFOBITS October 2007 No. 16 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitoct07.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... 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From: Arianna Ciula Subject: XIV Convegno di Informatica Umanistica Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:24:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 467 (467) Montevarchi (Arezzo) - Italy 22-23 November 2007 The programme of the "XIV Convegno di Informatica Umanistica della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini ONLUS" (14th Conference on Humanities Conmputing), organised by the Societa Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (International society for the Study of the Middle Ages) Fondazione Ezio Franceschini is available online at http://www.sismelfirenze.it/attivita/ita/Elaborare.pdf Details on the request of refunds for expenses for young researchers are also available at http://www.sismelfirenze.it/attivita/ita/ElaborareBorse.pdf -- Dr Arianna Ciula Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS (UK) Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945 http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~aciula/ From: "Paulius V. Subacius" Subject: ESTS 2007 - definite program Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:25:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 468 (468) Dear friends and colleagues, the ESTS 2007 conference "Textual Scholarship and the Canon" in Vilnius will start in two weeks (Thursday, 22 November). You can catch it! You can find all the conference details on the conference site: http://www.ests.flf.vu.lt/ Among others you will find there: the definite program (we include it with e-mail), abstracts, information how to find the conference venue, a registration form. We are looking forward to meeting you in Vilnius soon. With best wishes, Paulius Subacius and Michael Stolz Prof. Dr. Michael Stolz Universit=E4t Bern Institut f=FCr Germanistik L=E4nggass-Str. 49 CH-3000 Bern 9 Tel.: +41 31 631 83 04 Fax: +41 31 631 37 88 E-mail: michael.stolz_at_germ.unibe.ch Doc. dr. Paulius Subacius Faculty of Philology Universiteto str. 5, Vilnius, LT-01513, Lithuania Tel.: +370 610 37215 E-mail: pvsu_at_takas.lt From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: recently re-released Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:41:31 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 469 (469) recently re-released .... TECHNE: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology by Louis Armand 2nd corrected edition, with index ISBN 978-80-246-1382-6 (paperback). 234pp. October 2007 Publisher: Karolinum/Charles University Press http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/techne.html Price: euros 12.00 (not including postage) While this study is concerned with the question of technology in its relation to the work of James Joyce and theories of hypertext, it is also, and more specifically, addressed to a concept of technology arising from the language of Finnegans Wake. Drawing upon developments in communication theory and information technology, this study attempts to map a parallel development in Joyce's uses of language in the Wake, arguing that Joyce's writing provides a model for re-thinking the relationship between technology and "all forms of cultural production." The purpose of this is not, however, to suggest that Joyce was necessarily in some way cognisant of a future possibility of hypertext, nor is it simply concerned with a retrospective glance at Joyce from the position of current computing technologies. Rather, it is to examine how Joyce's work is aware of its own position against and within contemporary developments in the sciences and electronic media, and that Joyce incorporated material from these developments into his texts. "Techne is an elaborate and passionate mapping of the ways in which hypertext is, in fact, like Joyce. In this respect it will be an essential benchmark in Joyce scholarship, as seminal as the work of Hugh Kenner in the 1950s and 1960s, which also set the style and tone for a generation of Joyce criticism." --Darren Tofts, author of Memory Trades "The main purposes of Armand's important study are primarily to 'trace the historical development of communications technologies in the context of Joyce's writing,' while secondarily examining their effects on Joyce scholarship ... throughout the book he presents an important new understanding of the relationship of Joyce's work to the evolution of hypertext from mechanization and the new electric media ... I strongly recommend this book for its rigorous and illuminationg understanding of the importance of technology to Joyce and for the understanding of Joyce's affinities with major movements of the first half of the twentieth century." --Donald Theall, James Joyce Quarterly Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other. ---------------------------------------------------- HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz Programme in InterCultural Studies Philosophy Faculty, Charles University, Prague From: Willard McCarty Subject: Knowledge and Information Systems 13.2 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:34:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 470 (470) Volume 13 Number 2 of Knowledge and Information Systems is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Editorial Visualisation and interaction for scientific exploration and knowledge discovery Elena Zudilova-Seinstra, Tony Adriaansen pp. 115 - 117 Visual transformation for interactive spatiotemporal data mining Yang Cai, Richard Stumpf, Timothy Wynne, Michelle Tomlinson, Daniel Sai Ho Chung, Xavier Boutonnier, Matthias Ihmig, Rafael Franco, Nathaniel Bauernfeind pp. 119 - 142 Toward understanding the importance of gesture in distributed scientific collaboration Brian Corrie, Margaret-Anne Storey pp. 143 - 171 A typology of course of motion in simulated environments based on Bézier curve analysis Corina Sas, Nikita Schmidt pp. 173 - 196 A multimodal virtual reality interface for 3D interaction with VTK Arjan J. F. Kok, Robert Liere pp. 197 - 219 Exploration of directional-predictive sounds for nonvisual interaction with graphs Tatiana G. Evreinova, Leena K. Vesterinen, Grigori Evreinov, Roope Raisamo pp. 221 - 241 On the role of individual human abilities in the design of adaptive user interfaces for scientific problem solving environments Elena Zudilova-Seinstra pp. 243 - 270 From: David Prosser Subject: SPARC Europe Award for Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:26:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 471 (471) Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications - 2008 Press Release SPARC Europe Announces Call-for-Nominations for the Third Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications Award to Honour Leaders in Field of Scholarly Communications November 5, 2008 For more information, contact: David Prosser, david.prosser_at_bodley.ox.ac.uk Oxford, UK ­ SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), a leading organization of European research libraries, today announced the opening of nominations for the Third SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. Launched in 2006, this annual Award recognises an individual or group within Europe that has made significant advances in our understanding of the issues surrounding scholarly communications and/or in developing practical means to address the problems with the current systems. The First Award, in 2006, was presented to the Wellcome Trust, with the second in 2007 going to the SHERPA group. Nominations are open to all who have made major contributions in the field of scholarly communications, and the judging panel, formed from members of the SPARC Europe Board of Directors, particularly wishes to receive nominations for individuals or groups working in any of the following areas: Research that helps illuminate the scholarly communications landscape Advocacy for new models of scholarly communications Development of new tools to aid scholarly communication (e.g. repository software) Interesting new projects or products Implementation of policies that promote new scholarly communication models. Nominations may come from any part of the world, but nominees should work mainly within Europe. (Self-nominations will not be accepted.) Preference will be given to activity within the past two years. Nominations, together with a short (approximately 500 words) outline of the nominee’s work, should be sent to David Prosser, Director of SPARC Europe no later than 21st December 2007. The Award will be present at the Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communications, (http://www.lub.lu.se/en/ncsc.html) to be held at Lund University, Sweden, 21-23 April 2008. SPARC Europe is an alliance of 110 research-led university libraries from 14 European countries. It is affiliated with SPARC based in Washington, D.C., which represents over 200 institutions, mainly in North America. SPARC Europe and SPARC work to develop and promote new models of scholarly communication that increase the access to and utility of the research literature. From: Kara Malenfant Subject: ACRL invites comment on Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:27:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 472 (472) scholarly communication research agenda Contact: Kara Malenfant 312-280-2510 kmalenfant_at_ala.org Contact: Kara Malenfant 312-280-2510 kmalenfant_at_ala.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2007 ACRL invites comment on scholarly communication research agenda CHICAGO ­ A new report by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) explores the gaps in our understanding of the ways that scholars create and share new knowledge. The report lays out a preliminary research agenda for creating greater understanding of the rapidly evolving system of scholarly communication ­ the way research results and new knowledge are registered, evaluated for quality, disseminated and preserved. Meaningful research about the system of scholarly communication will inform strategic planning for scholarly communication programs. The white paper, "Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: A Call for Community Engagement," encourages academics, librarians and their key partners to gather more data on practices that both enable and inhibit the production of scholarship and its communication. The report identifies eight themes, with research possibilities in each area. The paper resulted from a one-day invitational meeting in July 2007, to collectively brainstorm the evidence needed to manage and influence the changing environment. Attendees included representatives from ACRL, the Association of Research Libraries, the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Coalition for Networked Information, Ithaka, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). ACRL scholarly communication committee co-chairs John Ober of the University of California and Joyce Ogburn of the University of Utah convened the meeting and discuss the report at http://blogs.ala.org/acrlpodcast.php. The document is available online for public comment at http://www.acrl.ala.org/scresearchagenda. Please submit comments that: --Refine or expand the need for research, important issues and possible projects. -- Identify additional articles and reports that collectively form a knowledge base from which the research agenda emerges more clearly. -- Suggest ways to conduct the research. -- Volunteer to participate or collaborate in a specific research initiative. -- Propose additional avenues of distribution for the report. Confidential comments may be emailed to John Ober at John.Ober_at_ucop.edu or Joyce Ogburn at Joyce.Ogburn_at_utah.edu. ##### ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 13,500 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments. From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 8.44 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:27:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 473 (473) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 44 November 6, 2007 -- November 12, 2007 Dependable Computing G.K. Saha's new paper aims to visually describe the important concepts of a dependable computing system and the relationships between the concepts. The concept map here for dependable computing system concepts would help us for easier and meaningful understanding of this emerging important research topic of computer science and engineering. Readers here won't feel tired of reading long text horizontally lines after lines for conceptualizing this much research and interesting topic. Saha is an Associate Editor of ACM Ubiquity. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i44_saha.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i44_saha.html From: Christian Wittern Subject: P5 Version 1.0 of the TEI Guidelines has been released] Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 10:05:27 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 474 (474) Reply-To: wittern_at_kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp Organization: Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University To: TEI-L_at_listserv.brown.edu Dear TEI users, After more than 6 years of, at times quite intensive, development, it is with great pleasure that I announce the release of version 1.0 of P5, the latest and greatest version of the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative, which officially happened Nov. 2 at the TEI Members Meeting in Maryland. You will find the new version online at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html; a PDF and even printed books are expected to appear in due time. The main development work has been carried out by the TEI Technical Council and the Editors Lou Burnard and Syd Bauman. I would like to take this opportunity to warmly thank all previous members of the Council but also especially the current members, who shared quite a big of the work, which magically increased as the release date was approaching: David Birnbaum, Tone Merete Bruvik, Arianna Ciula, James Cummings, Matthew Driscoll, Daniel O'Donnel, Dot Porter, Sebastian Rahtz Laurent Romary, Conal Tuohy, John Walsh. Christian Wittern Chair, TEI Technical Council -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN -- Dr Arianna Ciula Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS (UK) Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945 http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~aciula/ From: Dr Julie Tolmie Subject: for historians of computing: The History of Atari: 1971-1977 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:30:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 475 (475) Thought this might be of interest to some: The History of Atari: 1971-1977 By Steve Fulton Gamasutra November 6 2007 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2000/the_history_of_atari_19711977.php kind regards Julie From: Ken Friedman Subject: 2008 DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:19:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 476 (476) THE 2008 DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE will be held in Sheffield, UK on 16-19 July 2008. In the tradition of our biennial conference series this will be a broad-ranging event open to all topics and disciplines relevant to designing. However we will have a conference theme which will inform the choice of keynote speakers and, we hope, stimulate debate: ******************************************************** UNDISCIPLINED! Rigour in emerging design disciplines and professions. ******************************************************** You can find out more at the conference website at http://drs2008.designinquiry.wikispaces.net/ Deadline for extended abstracts is 1 December 2007 If you are considering proposing a paper please join the conference announcement mail list at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DRS-CONFERENCE-CONTRIBUTORS.html From: "Helena Francke" Subject: DOCAM '08 annual meeting Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:20:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 477 (477) The Document Academy Invites: PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS DOCAM '08 March 28-29, 2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Helen C. White Hall Madison, Wisconsin USA DOCAM '08 is the fifth Annual meeting of the Document Academy, an international network of scholars, artists and professionals in various fields interested in the exploration of the document as a useful approach, concept and tool in Sciences, Arts, Business, and Society. The aim of The Document Academy is to create an interdisciplinary space for experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense, drawing on traditions and experiences around the world. It originated as a co-sponsored effort by The Program of Documentation Studies, University of Tromso, Norway and the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. For 2008, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies will be hosting the meeting. The conference will run from 9 AM Friday, March 28, to 5 PM Saturday, March 29. In order to keep the open-ended discussion atmosphere of previous DOCAMs alive along with a growing number of participants, we have decided to have only plenary sessions and a relatively limited, but well-selected number of presentations. Call for proposals: Scholars, developers, artists and practitioners working with document research and development are invited to submit proposals for full and short papers for plenary sessions and exhibits by December 1, 2007. Full papers for plenary sessions will address these themes: - DOCUMENT THEORY (general issues) - DOCUMENT ANALYSIS (case-studies and methodological issues) Length: 6000-7500 words Short papers for plenary sessions will focus on - DOCUMENT RESEARCH (theory, methods, case-studies) Length: 2400=973600 words Each author or group of authors of FULL papers will have 45 minutes for their presentation, including discussion; authors or groups presenting SHORT papers will be allotted 30 minutes. The order of presentations will be arranged according to themes as much as possible. Conference language is English. Conference organizers can provide an LCD projector; other equipment is the responsibility of the presenter. File format: RTF or PDF All proposals must include: *Description: - a short (500 words) verbal description of the work to be presented - Explanation of how the work will be presented (verbal presentation, powerpoint, video, performance, demonstration, and equipment needs) *Names of all contributors, *Addresses, including email contacts and *Up to 5 keywords Proposals should be submitted electronically to Catherine Arnott Smith at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison (casmith24_at_wisc.edu) . Please include "DOCAM 2008" in the subject line of all correspondence, including proposal submission. Submission deadline for proposals: 11:59 PM, December 1st, 2007 Receipt will be confirmed within one week. Decisions will be announced no later than January 15, 2008. Final deadline for accepted full papers: 11:59 PM, March 1, 2008 For more information contact the co-chairs of Docam 2008: Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 (608) 890-1334 fax: (608) 263-4849 casmith24_at_wisc.edu Prof. Niels Windfeld Lund Documentation Studies University of Tromso NO-9037 Tromso, Norge Tel: +47- 776 46284 niels.windfeld.lund_at_hum.uit.no ************** Helena Francke, doctoral student Swedish School of Library and Information Science University College of Bor*s / Göteborg University SE-501 90 Bor*s, Sweden phone +46 33 435 43 20 (Bor*s) +46 31 773 58 49 (Göteborg) fax +46 33 435 40 05 e-mail helena.francke_at_hb.se From: Peter Shillingsburg Subject: Roundtable reminder Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:21:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 478 (478) Tuesday at 4 Print Editions in the "Digital Age" a Roundtable Discussion with: Nigel Wood and Gabriel Egan, Loughborough University Sukanta Chaudhuri and Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales Tony Edwards and Peter Shillingsburg, De Montfort University Topic: What is the role of print scholarly editions in the so-called "digital age"? With possible attention also to: How can the insights of textual criticism be better presented to students and critics at large? Date and Time: Tuesday, Nov. 13, 4pm Place: Centre for Textual Scholarship De Montfort University Clephan 1.01 Directions: http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/index.php?q=map.html From: Tracy Wasko Subject: jobs at The Henry Ford Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:47:24 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 479 (479) The Henry Ford Associate Curator of Technology The Henry Ford seeks a knowledgeable, thoughtful, and dynamic individual with a proven track record to join a committed team of intellectually curious colleagues as the Associate Curator of Technology. The Associate Curator of Technology helps manage, develop, research, and interpret The Henry Ford=92s world-class collections relating to the American history of technology dating from the 17th century to the digital age and relating those to program and exhibit development, as well as other relevant initiatives at The Henry Ford. The Henry Ford is the history destination that brings the American Experience to life and is comprised of Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, The Henry Ford IMAX Theater, Benson Ford Research Center, Ford Rouge Factory Tour, and Henry Ford Academy. The Associate Curator of Technology must possess a deep and broad understanding of significant American objects, stories, and lives that are relevant to the programming and collecting initiatives of The Henry Ford. - Develops detailed knowledge and understanding of major collection areas and keeps abreast of the latest scholarship on historical and material culture issues relating to the collection. - Identifies key artifacts for acquisition by the institution through the active cultivation of donors and other potential sources. - Responsible for cataloguing collections in a timely manner. - Guides conservation, collections management, and registrars to prioritize and recommend treatments based on exhibit needs and program use. - Recommends objects for exhibit and program use, ensuring accuracy, authenticity, and accessibility. - Responsible for development of creative work which includes, but is not limited to, publications in any medium, product and program development and design, and all related collateral materials. - Instrumental in developing content for program and exhibition planning according to initiative parameters; serves as the institution=92s content expert on that topic; develops the topic report for which the content of exhibits and associated products are based. - Collaborates on the development of public programs, Village installations and products in all venues; creates written manuals and trains interpretive staff for new and/or revised programs. - Serves as an institutional spokesperson for a variety of subjects and collection areas; offers lectures, tours, and/or classes as required. - Positions the institution as a nationally significant leader in the historical and museum fields by publishing on collections, exhibits, and/or areas of expertise; developing symposia and participating in panels and conferences; consulting with other institutions. Requires a Bachelor's degree (minimum) in American History, the History of Technology, or related field; knowledge of American social and cultural history from the 17th century to the present; knowledge of the history of American technology, with an emphasis on communications and information technology; and knowledge of American material culture. Requires a minimum three years' professional experience (curatorial or related experience preferred); excellent writing, editing, and verbal communications skills required. Full position description available at www.thehenryford.org/employment Please apply to: Workforce Development The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 employment_at_thehenryford.org The Henry Ford is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, marital status, height, weight, age, unrelated disability or other legally protected status. The Henry Ford Associate Curator of Transportation The Henry Ford seeks a knowledgeable, thoughtful, dynamic individual with a proven track record to join our committed team of intellectually curious colleagues as the Associate Curator of Transportation. This position assists in managing, developing, researching, and interpreting The Henry Ford=92s world-class collections relating to the American history of transportation (horse-drawn, automotive, racing, and flight-related) from the 17th century to present, and relates those to program and exhibit development, as well as other relevant initiatives at The Henry Ford. The Henry Ford is the history destination that brings the American Experience to life, and is comprised of Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, The Henry Ford IMAX Theater, Benson Ford Research Center, Ford Rouge Factory Tour, and Henry Ford Academy. The Associate Curator of Transportation maintains a deep and broad understanding of significant American objects, stories, and lives that are relevant to the programming and collecting initiatives of The Henry Ford. --Develops detailed knowledge and understanding of major collection areas and keeps abreast of the latest scholarship on historical and material culture issues relating to the collection. --Identifies key artifacts for acquisition by the institution through the active cultivation of donors and other potential sources. --Responsible for cataloguing collections in a timely manner. --Helps guide conservation, collections management, and registrars to prioritize and recommend treatments based on exhibit needs and program use. -- Recommends objects for exhibit and program use, ensuring accuracy, authenticity, and accessibility. -- Responsible for development of creative work which includes, but is not limited to, publications in any medium, product and program development and design, and all related collateral materials. -- Instrumental in developing content for program and exhibition planning according to initiative parameters; serves as the institution=92s content expert on that topic; develops the topic report for which the content of exhibits and associated products are based. -- Collaborates on the development of public programs, Village installations and products in all venues; creates written manuals and trains interpretive staff for new and/or revised programs. -- Serves as an institutional spokesperson for a variety of subjects and collection areas; offers lectures, tours, and/or classes as required. -- Positions the institution as a nationally significant leader in the historical and museum fields by publishing on collections, exhibits, and/or areas of expertise; developing symposia and participating in panels and conferences; consulting with other institutions. Requires a Bachelor's degree (minimum) in American History, the History of Transportation, the History of Technology, or related field; knowledge of American social and cultural history from the 17th century to present, with emphasis on the 20th century; knowledge of the history of American transportation with an emphasis on the automotive field; knowledge of American material culture. Minimum three years' professional experience (curatorial or related experience preferred). Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communications skills required. Complete job description can be viewed at www.thehenryford.org/employment Please apply to: Workforce Development The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 employment_at_thehenryford.org The Henry Ford is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, marital status, height, weight, age, unrelated disability or other legally protected status. The Henry Ford Curator of Design and Decorative Arts The Henry Ford seeks a knowledgeable, thoughtful, and dynamic individual with a proven track record to join a committed team of intellectually curious colleagues as Curator of Design and Decorative Arts. The incumbent will be responsible for managing, developing, researching, and interpreting The Henry Ford's world-class collections relating to American design and decorative arts from the 17th century to the present. These collections number more than 40,000 items ranging from architecture, interiors, ceramics, glassware, metalwork, fashion, and furniture. The Henry Ford is currently focused on growing its post-World War II collections. The Henry Ford is the history destination that brings the American Experience to life and is comprised of Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, The Henry Ford IMAX Theater, Benson Ford Research Center, Ford Rouge Factory Tour, and Henry Ford Academy. The Curator has three primary spheres of responsibility: Collections/Content Expertise; Educational and Program Development; and Institutional Support. This position demands a deep and broad understanding of significant American objects, stories, and lives to lead the intellectual direction of major collection areas by developing collections plans that align strategically with the mission and the vision of The Henry Ford. Using institutional History and Educational Principles as a guide, this position shapes the content development for program and exhibition planning according to initiative parameters; serves as the institution=92s content expert on that topic. Initiates, writes grants, and/or creates budgets for the documentation of collections, the development of educational programs, or exhibition planning, as required; maintains an understanding of potential grant-funding sources relating to collections and programs. Requires a minimum of a Master's degree in Design History, Decorative Arts, Art History, American History or related field; Knowledge of the history of American design and American decorative arts from the 17th century to the present, with an emphasis on the 20th century; Solid general knowledge of American social and cultural history. A minimum of five years' professional experience with decorative arts and/or design (curatorial or related experience preferred); excellent writing, editing, and verbal communications skills required. Proven ability to research and interpret American social and cultural history through material culture, decorative arts, and design; Experience in developing, managing, and interpreting museum collections Full position description available at www.thehenryford.org Please apply to: Workforce Development The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard Dearborn, MI 48124 employment_at_thehenryford.org The Henry Ford is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, marital status, height, weight, age, unrelated disability or other legally protected status. Please advise if you are able to post the positions, and regarding any costs if applicable- Thank you, Tracy Wasko Tracy Wasko, PHR Recruitment Leader (313)982-6011 From: "Suely Fragoso " Subject: call for papers - Hybrid Reality Games: Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:25:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 480 (480) Reconfiguring social and urban networks via locative media CALL FOR PAPERS for Edited Book Hybrid Reality Games: Reconfiguring social and urban networks via locative media Edited by: Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D.=20 (Communication, North Carolina State University) souzaesilva_at_ncsu.edu Daniel Sutko (Communication, North Carolina State University) dmsutko_at_ncsu.edu Description: Games are pervasive activities in human culture. The strong success of video and computer games during the last 20 years can make us forget that the physical environment has always been the primary playful space. But if computers helped take games to digital spaces, the popularity of mobile technologies takes them back to the physical. The pervasiveness of mobile phones, which allow us to walk around urban spaces connected to the Internet and each other, encourages the creation of a new type of game arena that takes place simultaneously in physical and digital spaces. In these games, communication, collaboration, and interaction occur in a combination of the physical and the digital=97in hybrid spaces. In such games the players=92 mobility and position in space indeed matter. Hybrid Reality and Location-based games transform the players' perception of urban spaces, as well as the intrinsic definition of game space. This edited book invites essays that critically investigate the inter-relations among mobile technologies, location-based activities, and playful / social spaces, with the ultimate goal of finding interconnections between games and social networks. Submitted essays should focus on three main areas: (1) The history of games as social environments, with particular emphasis on MUDs and RPGs, as predecessors of hybrid reality/location-based gaming. Essays in this part of the book are encouraged to explore how game communities are formed, how players in these types of games contribute to the creation of the game space, game content, and the social relationships inside and outside the game. (2) Theoretical papers about location aware games, differentiating these types of activities from previous game theories on video games. Besides theoretical papers, we also welcome case studies on current location-based, hybrid reality games, urban games, and pervasive games. In summary, we look for defining an overarching concept for the different types of multiuser games that employ mobile technologies as interfaces. (3) Essays that investigate games beyond the pure entertainment approach, including articles that explore uses of hybrid reality, location aware and pervasive activities in educational contexts, media arts, training, corporate environments, and other similar activities. Essays might draw connections among gaming, education, art, and other location-based= activities. These are suggested research themes, but similar topics will also be considered. The book will be directed at academic readers, but should be attractive to the gaming community and industry insiders, as well. Abstracts of 500/700 words describing the proposed papers are due by December 15th, 2007 with those accepted due in final form by June 15th, 2008. Submissions may be in the form of empirical research studies or theory-building papers and should be 5000/7000 words (in English). Abstracts must include a brief biography of the author(s). Proposals and inquiries should be sent electronically to souzaesilva_at_ncsu.edu . Deadlines: Paper abstracts: December 15th 2007(500/700 words) Notification of accepted abstracts: January 15th 2008 Full papers: June 15th 2008 (5000/7000 words) About the editors: Adriana de Souza e Silva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU), and the director of the Mobile Gaming Research Lab (http://mglab.chass.ncsu.edu). She is also a faculty member of the Science, Technology and Society Program at NCSU. In 2004/2005, Dr. de Souza e Silva was a Senior Researcher at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS) at CRESST (Center for the Study of Evaluation). She holds a Ph.D. on Communication and Culture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 2001 to 2004 Dr. de Souza e Silva was a visiting scholar at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts. Her research focuses on how new media (mobile) interfaces reconfigure our relationship to space and create new social environments via media art and hybrid reality games games. She holds a Masters degree in Communication and Image Technology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://www.souzaesilva.com http://mglab.chass.ncsu.edu Daniel Sutko is a second-year Master's student in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University. He teaches public speaking and is the research assistant for the Mobile Gaming Research Lab at NCSU. His research centers on the relationship between media and social/spatial practices, with a particular focus on new media literacy. From: Torsten Reimer Subject: making digital resources more visible Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:27:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 481 (481) Dear Humanists, We have seen an increasing amount of digital resources and service being made available over the last couple of years. Many of these resources can make certain tasks a lot easier or enable researchers to ask new questions or get better answers to existing ones. However, researchers in the Arts and Humanities are perhaps not as aware of these resources as they could be. To help people get started, JISC have recently published a briefing paper highlighting its services and projects particularly of interest to the A&H community: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/artshumanitiesresearchv1.aspx This has prompted us, together with JISC, to start a discussion about what could be done to make Arts and Humanities researchers aware of the breadth of helpful resources out there. This is a chance for the community to discuss what kind of support they need and to engage in a discussion that might also inform the policy of funding bodies such as JISC. Do you have relevant ideas, experiences or suggestions -- even questions -- then make your voice heard at http://www.arts-humanities.net/forum/how_can_we_raise_awareness_digital_resources (short link http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/509) Feel free to forward this to anyone interested. We would very much value your input! Kind regards, Torsten -- Torsten Reimer Senior Research Project Coordinator AHRC ICT Methods Network Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX +44 (0)20 7848 2019 Torsten.Reimer_at_kcl.ac.uk http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 8.45 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:13:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 482 (482) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 45 November 13, 2007 =96 November 19, 2007 Philosophy, Activisim, and Computing Associate Editor Arun Tripathi has brought to us=20 this interesting and provocative essay by Dr.=20 Paul T. Durbin entitled "Philosophy, Activism,=20 and Computer and Information Specialists." Arun=20 hopes that the ACM community will find the=20 article useful. Dr. Durbin is emeritus professor=20 of philosophy and environmental policy, retired=20 from the University of Delaware and currently living in Spain. See:=20 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i45_durbin.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiq= uity/views/v8i45_durbin.html=20 From: Managing Editor Subject: (putpub) Semiotic Bulletin 10 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:12:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 483 (483) Dear Colleague, We are pleased to send you the tenth issue of SemiotiX, first edition. SemiotiX is an online global information bulletin that provides reports on institutions, individuals, ideas, events and publications concerning semiotics and related disciplines. In this issue you will find reports on the 9th IASS/AIS World Congress of Semiotics held in Helsinki, the International conference Signs of Identity at the Leibniz University of Hanover, and the Levels of Reality workshop in Bolzano (Italy), as well as articles on Performance Studies and Rethinking Information and our traditional book reviews. The link for the Semiotix Bulletin 10 can be found at: http://www.semioticon.com/semiotix/semiotix10/index.html All correspondence should be addressed to the Managing Editor . Reports and News should be submitted to the Editor . __________________________________________________________________________ Click on this link if you wish to subscribe to the Bulletin: http://chass.utoronto.ca/~twysocki/subscribeFromLink.php?id=7533873 Subscription is free and will ensure that you receive further issues. __________________________________________________________________________ Click on this link if you wish to be removed from further mailings: http://chass.utoronto.ca/~twysocki/unsubscribeFromLink.php?id=7533873 __________________________________________________________________________ With best wishes and kind regards, Paul Bouissac Editor From: "Tannenbaum, Robert S." Subject: Request for proposals Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:11:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 484 (484) Request for Proposals: Digital Humanities Workshops Agency National Endowment for the Humanities Description The National Endowment for the Humanities invites proposals for workshops that offer academically rigorous professional development programs for K-12 educators seeking to use digital resources to strengthen the teaching of the humanities. Workshops must have a cohesive course of study, address well-defined topics, and foster deeper and more informed engagement with the content-rich resources of the Internet, particularly the materials and lesson plans available through NEH's EDSITEment, a nationally recognized gateway to the best humanities materials on the World Wide Web. Announcement Number: 20080117-EZ Due Date: January 17, 2008 Link to Full Announcement http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digital.html Contact Information Barbara Ashbrook or Julia Nguyen Division of Education Programs 202-606-8380 education_at_neh.gov Robert S. Tannenbaum, Ed.D. Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies http://www.uky.edu/eureka Undergraduate Studies Editor. Kaleidoscope http://www.uky.edu/kaleidoscope 114 Bowman Hall Principal Investigator, AMSTEMM http://www.uky.edu/AMSTEMM University of Kentucky (859) 257 - 5644 (voice) Lexington, KY 40506-0059 (859) 257 - 8734 (fax) http://www.uky.edu/~rst (home page) rst_at_uky.edu (e-mail) I have no illusions that my pacifist views are going to prevail, none at all. But every great change in expanding the dimensions of human freedom has come from very small original beginnings: somebody said "no." -- Steve Cary (1916 - 2002) From: Willard McCarty Subject: Blended Learning in Higher Education Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:10:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 485 (485) [deleted quotation]Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Digital Humanities 2008 reminder Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:12:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 486 (486) Dear Colleagues, This is just to remind you that the deadline for submissions for the Digital Humanities 2008 conference in Oulu, Finland in June 2008, is November 8 2007. Full text Call for papers: http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/downloadables/CFP.pdf The joint international conference is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. Submissions are invited on all topics concerning digital humanities, e.g. * text analysis, corpora, language processing, language learning * knowledge management for digital humanities resources * computer-based research in cultural and historical studies * computing applications for the arts, architecture, and music * research issues such as o information design, modelling, and management o the cultural impact of new media * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula Submissions may be of three types: 1. Papers. The submission should be of 1500 words maximum. The duration of the paper is 20-25 minutes. Submissions are peer reviewed. 2. Poster presentations and software demonstrations. This is especially suitable for work in progress to be discussed with delegates. Poster presentations will be reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. 3. Sessions. These can be either 3-paper sessions or panel discussions on a chosen topic. Sessions will be peer reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. The deadline for submissions is *November 18, 2007.* Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 13, 2008. /**/ <https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/>Submit here: https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ --------------------------------------- Espen S. Ore Programme Committee Chair From: Willard McCarty Subject: what product? Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:27:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 487 (487) In "Psychological Models for Guidance", Harvard Educational Review 32 (1962), Gordon W Allport begins by saying, [deleted quotation]At the time the technology for correcting eyesight was rather limited, so Allport can be excused for using a metaphor which makes it seem as if a re-examination of our fundamental epistemic assumptions is as simple as getting fitted for a new pair of glasses. The grinding of lenses gives a hint of some difficulty, it is true, but this happens well away from the person concerned. Now, of course, we could speak of surgery to cut out the corneas of a person's eyes and replace them with new, plastic ones. But until that becomes commonplace, if it does, the metaphor has at least the advantage of being frightening or at least off-putting. And that hints at how difficult it is for people of the sort we deal with to readjust their thinking to understand what we're hopping up and down about. In a local discussions during the last couple of days, the question of what we think students get from studying our subject was raised -- the hopping-up-and-down question in another form. One context was the questioning of external examiners, who in this instance came from various disciplines to consider our postgraduate students' performance and our assessment of it. The difficulty for them (none of whom was from the digital humanities) was in part understanding what sort of expectations we could possibly have of the students. A more serious because more immediate and prior questioning then took place amongst us. Apart from teaching certain practical skills, with what sort of cognitive equipment can we say we are equipping them? Increasingly, at least in the UK, one not only has to state the "learning outcomes", one has to have some way of demonstrating that these are at least occasionally realised. If one reflects on the fact that MA-level training takes place, in a full-time programme, over a single year, what can one hope to accomplish? Given no prior exposure to the digital humanities (often the case for postgraduates), what would you suppose to be reasonable educational goals? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Correction: Digital Humanities 2008 reminder Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:49:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 488 (488) Dear Colleagues, This is just to remind you that the deadline for submissions for the Digital Humanities 2008 conference in Oulu, Finland in June 2008, is November 18 2007. Full text Call for papers: http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/downloadables/CFP.pdf The joint international conference is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. Submissions are invited on all topics concerning digital humanities, e.g. * text analysis, corpora, language processing, language learning * knowledge management for digital humanities resources * computer-based research in cultural and historical studies * computing applications for the arts, architecture, and music * research issues such as o information design, modelling, and management o the cultural impact of new media * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula Submissions may be of three types: 1. Papers. The submission should be of 1500 words maximum. The duration of the paper is 20-25 minutes. Submissions are peer reviewed. 2. Poster presentations and software demonstrations. This is especially suitable for work in progress to be discussed with delegates. Poster presentations will be reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. 3. Sessions. These can be either 3-paper sessions or panel discussions on a chosen topic. Sessions will be peer reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. The deadline for submissions is *November 18, 2007.* Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 13, 2008. /**/ <https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/>Submit here: https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ --------------------------------------- Espen S. Ore Programme Committee Chair From: hra_at_pixel.cviog.uga.edu (Hamid R. Arabnia) Subject: Call For Papers: WORLDCOMP'08; 25 Int'l Joint Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:51:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 489 (489) Conferences in Computer Science, July 2008, USA Call For Papers and Call For Session Proposals The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP'08 (composed of 25 Joint Conferences) July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA You are invited to submit a paper and/or a proposal to organize a session/workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The Academic Co-sponsors of WORLDCOMP'08 will soon be finalized which will include research laboratories affiliated with major institutions (Academic Co-sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 included: major research laboratories at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, The University of Texas at Austin, Purdue University, Indiana University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Russian Academy of Sciences, and others. Corporate sponsors included: Google, Inc.; Intel Corporation; and Salford Systems). The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08) is composed of the following 25 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 14-17, 2008, USA): o The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory and Statistical Learning (ITSL'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'08) o The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'08) o The 2008 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'8) (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org - the web site is currently under construction; servers are being replaced - the link shown above would take you to the 2007 offering of WORLDCOMP; later, the same link would take you to the the 2008 WORLDCOMP.) General Chair and Coordinator: H. R. Arabnia, PhD Professor, Computer Science Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 E-mail: hra_at_cs.uga.edu [...] From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Digital Humanities 08: Deadline extended Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:17:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 490 (490) Dear Colleagues, The deadline for submissions for the Digital Humanities 2008 conference in Oulu, Finland in June 2008, is now extended to November 25 2007. Conference webpages: http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/ Call for papers: http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/papers.html Where to submit your proposal(s): https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/ Espen S. Ore National Library of Norway Programme Committee Chair From: David Ten Eyck Subject: CFP: The Lives of the Book (France) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:17:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 491 (491) Call for Papers: The Lives of the Book Nancy-Université, France 20-21 June 2008 Deadline for proposals: 21 January 2008 The goal of this conference is to provide a forum within which questions relating to the production, distribution and reception of the book can be explored from a variety of perspectives. Confirmed keynote speakers include Tony Lacey (Publishing Director of Penguin Books), Barbara Bordalejo (Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham) and Marie-Françoise Cachin (Founder of the Society of the Book and Publishing (LEMA), Université Paris7). Papers relating to the following areas of study are particularly encouraged: 1) The historical evolution of the book: In what ways does a consideration of the material changes that the book underwent over the centuries provide more general insights into the evolution of Western culture? 2) The status of the book in contemporary culture: How has the book's status changed with the rise of electronic media? How do choices relating to the book’s material production affect the ways in which texts are interpreted? 3) The book and the text: How do we theorise the division between book and text today? In practical terms, what are the consequences of separating the text from the book, for example in the preparation of an electronic edition or an electronic archive? Other possible subjects include: the politics of book preservation in public and private archives and collections, and the manner in which such archives are exploited; the illustration and ornamentation of books; re- printings and new editions; comparative studies of different book markets (England/U.S.; English-speaking/foreign, etc.) or audiences (‘scholarly’ books, children’s books, audio books, books in Braille, etc). Proposals (title and an abstract of about 300 words) should be sent by e- mail to David Ten Eyck (david.ten-eyck_at_univ-nancy2.fr) and Nathalie Collé- Bak (nathalie.colle_at_univ-nancy2.fr). From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: 21.348 what product? Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:15:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 492 (492) Hi Willard, I think we can't reasonably hope for more than is possible in any other one-year (or in our case at University of Alberta two-year) MA programme. I want the students to be able to show that: - they have had exposure to at least some of the literature in the digital humanities generally, and to more in their own research area - they have developed some awareness of the ongoing discussions and where we as a community are at with them - that they know something about the range of research methods or research approaches in use by digital humanists - that they have tried out some of these methods for themselves in the context of a real research project and not just as a classroom exercise. One way, and I think a good way, to accomplish this is to have real projects as the exercises. - that they have had practice communicating their ideas, preferably at various lengths, in different genres, and in different media yrs, Stan Ruecker Assistant Professor MA in Humanities Computing Programme University of Alberta Edmonton, AB CANADA Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Educational Review 32 [deleted quotation] From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Dictionary of Words in the Wild Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:17:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 493 (493) Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you all to check out the updated version of the Dictionary of Words in the Wild: http://tapor1-dev.mcmaster.ca/~dictwordwild/ For those who haven't come across it, the Dictionary is a social image site where users can upload images of public (wild) textuality which can then be accessed through a dictionary interface, search, or API. Thanks to participants like Willard McCarty we now have over 3000 unique words in over 2000 images. We now have some new features: 1. Registered users can comment on the images of words uploaded. 2. For those who are interested we have a statistics page where you can generate statistics. I encourage all of you with digital cameras and an interest in the words around you to participate. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Joseph Raben Subject: "Computers and literature" in the West Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:16:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 494 (494) Members of Humanist who read Chinese may widen their knowledge of what is being presented to students of Western literature in China by obtaining a copy of Literature, a compendium of articles organized by The Editorial Board of Series on Western Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Jian-Zhong Lin and Shouhua Qi, and published in Beijing by the China Ren Min University Press. It contains 12 chapters including one on "Computers and literature." From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: European Reference Index for the Humanities Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:14:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 495 (495) Dear all, Some time ago, the European Science Foundation (ESF) published its European Reference Index for the Humanities [1]: The use of this list is defined as follows; 'The ERIH lists will help to identify excellence in Humanities scholarship and should prove useful for the aggregate benchmarking of national research systems, for example, in determining the international standing of the research activity carried out in a given field in a particular country. However, as they stand, the lists are not a bibliometric tool. The ERIH Steering Committee and the Expert Panels therefore advise against using the lists as the only basis for assessment of individual candidates for positions or promotions or of applicants for research grants.' However, we all know, and it is admitted informally by members of the reviewing panel, that the list will be considered a major reference tool for bibliometric purposes in research assessment, especially because the three humanities computing journals (LLC, Chum, Text Technology) don't appear in the ISI web of knowledge [2] which is the standard bibliometric tool in research assesment in Belgium, for instance. The journals: - Literary and Linguistic Computing - Computers and the Humanities - Text Technology Appear in the list of the Linguistics journals [3] (there is no list for literature journals) and they are all identified with a 'B' label. This means, according to the Guidelines [4] : "standard international publications with a good reputation among researchers of the field in different countries." A-label journals, however, are considered to be: "high-ranking international publications with a very strong reputation among researchers of the field in different countries, regularly cited all over the world." Although "Humanities Computing" is recognized as a research area in the Humanities by the ESF [5], these journals are assessed from the perspective of the discipline of linguistics only, which defines 'the field'. From this perspective, the assesment is probably right. If, however, Humanities Computing would have been considered a discipline in its own right, the journals would no doubt have received an 'A' status for the simple reason that they are the high-ranking international publications with a good reputation among researchers of Humanities Computing in different countries. This shows once more the political and societal (and economical) need for a disciplinary debate and definition as prodded by, a.o., Willard McCarty and myself over the last couple of years. Procedures for feedback to the ERIH initial list 'to enable researchers and publishers to provide input for consideration at the first update (in 2008)' have been released.[6] If we consider our journals to be worthy of an A-label, and if we want to include other peer-reviewed publications in our field such as DHQ and HumanIT, to name just these two, I think there is an opportunity to take action in the feedback procedure. Matter for discussion? Edward [1] <http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/activities/research-infrastructures/faq-sheet/scope-initial-lists.html> [2] <http://scientific.thomson.com/index.html> [3] <http://www.esf.org/fileadmin/be_user/research_areas/HUM/Documents/ERIH/IL-Scope_notes_Merged/Linguistics%20M.pdf> [4] <http://www.esf.org/fileadmin/be_user/research_areas/HUM/Documents/ERIH/ERIH%20summary_guidelines_Sept_07.pdf> [5] <http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities.html> [6] http://www2.esf.org/asp/form/sch/erih/index.asp -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Coordinator Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL) Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Associate Editor LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 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: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The November/December 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:15:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 496 (496) is now available Greetings: The November/December 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains seven articles, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features "Access Excellence at the National Health Museum" contributed by Katherine Liu and VivianLee Ward. The articles include: Manakin: A New Face for DSpace Scott Phillips, Cody Green, Alexey Maslov, Adam Mikeal, and John Leggett Texas A&M University Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization: A Report Prepared by Intelligent Television for RLG Programs, OCLC Programs and Research Peter B. Kaufman and Jeff Ubois, Intelligent Television SERU (Shared Electronic Resource Understanding): Opening Up New Possibilities for Electronic Resource Transactions Karla L. Hahn, Association of Research Libraries Census of Institutional Repositories in the U.S.: A Comparison Across Institutions at Different Stages of IR Development Soo Young Rieh, Karen Markey, Beth St. Jean, Elizabeth Yakel, and Jihyun Kim, University of Michigan The Design and Implementation of an Ingest Function to a Digital Archive Andrew Waugh, Public Record Office Victoria Utah Digital Repository Initiative: Building a Support System for Institutional Repositories Karen Estlund, University of Oregon; and Anna Neatrour, University of Utah doi:10.1045/november2007-neatrour Creating Online Historical Scrapbooks with a User-Friendly Interface: A Case Study Allison B. Zhang, Washington Research Library Consortium From: Ken Friedman Subject: Last Call! UNDISCIPLINED! Rigour in emerging design Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:17:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 497 (497) disciplines and professions ---> Last Call! <--- THE 2008 DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Sheffield, UK on 16-19 July 2008. -- This is the last call for papers for the 2008 DRS conference: UNDISCIPLINED! Rigour in emerging design disciplines and professions In the tradition of the DRS biennial conference series. Undisciplined! will be a broad-ranging event open to all topics and disciplines relevant to designing. Our conference theme will inform the choice of keynote speakers and we hope it will stimulate debate. Learn more at the conference web site at URL: http://drs2008.designinquiry.wikispaces.net/ The deadline for extended abstracts is 1 December 2007 For information updates, please join the conference announcement mail list at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DRS-CONFERENCE-CONTRIBUTORS.html From: "Peter Shillingsburg" Subject: podcast: Future role of print scholarly editions Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:05:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 498 (498) Please forgive double postings. You can listen to a discussion on "The Role of Print Scholarly Editions in the 'Digital Age'": a Roundtable Discussion held in the Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, on 13 Nov. 2007, by visiting: http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/index.php?id=180 Or visit the CTS home page and click on Podcast in the right-hand box. Participants: Nigel Wood and Gabriel Egan, Loughborough University Sukanta Chaudhuri and Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales Andy Mousley, Takako Kato, Federico Meschini and Peter Shillingsburg, De Montfort University Topic: What is the role of print scholarly editions in the so-called "digital age"? With possible attention also to: How can the insights of textual criticism be better presented to students and critics at large? Peter Shillingsburg Director, Centre for Textual Scholarship Humanities De Montfort University Leicester From: Susan Brown Subject: XML document management systems Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:06:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 499 (499) Dear colleagues, For those of your working collaboratively with XML documents, what systems do you use to manage your work? The Orlando project built its own system years ago to support the collaborative writing and editing of its documents. It archives, provides version control, tracks workflow according to the responsibility tags within the documents, allows communications between team members about particular documents, enables various reports to be generated, provides access to project documentation, etc., but most of these things are discrete tasks. We need before long to rebuild the system and are interested in developing a new environment that would integrate some of the key activities more effectively to simply our workflow processes. Has anyone developed anything along these lines, or do you know of off-the-shelf/open source systems that do any of these various things? Many thanks, Susan -- Susan Brown Associate Professor Visiting Associate Professor School of English and Theatre Studies English and Film Studies University of Guelph University of Alberta Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 519-824-4120x53266 (office) 780-862-0155 519-766-0844 (fax) sbrown_at_uoguelph.ca Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is out at http://orlando.cambridge.org The Orlando Project: http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO From: Susan Brown Subject: Open Conference Systems/Open Journal Systems Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:06:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 500 (500) Dear Colleagues, Another question: has anyone used the Public Knowledge Project's Open Conference Systems to publish conference proceedings online? If so, how well did the system support collaborative editing and communication among authors and editors? Does the system support XML? A quick scan of their introductory documentation suggests that it does not, apart from allowing abstracts to be exported in NLM Meeting Abstracts XML format. I'd also be interested in knowing what kind of experience people have had, if any, using the PKP's Open Journal System for publications other than journals, and whether the system supports XML publication beyond the possibility to export metadata in particular XML formats. Had anyone used the Erudit plug-in for OJS, and if so, how well does it support XML and the collaborative production/editing of texts? Many thanks, Susan -- Susan Brown Associate Professor Visiting Associate Professor School of English and Theatre Studies English and Film Studies University of Guelph University of Alberta Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 519-824-4120x53266 (office) 780-862-0155 519-766-0844 (fax) sbrown_at_uoguelph.ca Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is out at http://orlando.cambridge.org The Orlando Project: http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO From: "John G. Keating" Subject: positions and PhD fellowships in Ireland Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:16:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 501 (501) [The following describes a number of positions and PhD fellowships in "An Foras Feasa", the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions. --WM] Colleagues, Please find attached details of recent positions and PhD fellowships currently open in An Foras Feasa. These posts and fellowships are available following An Foras Feasa's recent success in PRTLI4 (the Institute received ca. Euro 6m funding). If you have any informal queries, please feel free to contact myself (john.keating_at_nuim.ie) or Professor Margaret Kelleher (margaret.kelleher_at_nuim.ie). Please note that the PhD fellowships are only available for students not currently registered for a PhD degree (they are valued at around Euro 16,000 per annum; AFF will also pay fees). The closing date for this round of applications for the fellowships (only) is 7 December 2007. We hope to recruit Software Engineering and Computer Science graduates. Please feel free to forward these advertisements to interested parties, lists, etc. Sincerely, John Keating. ---------------------------------------------- An Foras Feasa ---------------------------------------------- An Foras Feasa: the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions is a consortium of four partner institutions: NUI Maynooth, St Patrick's College Drumcondra, Dundalk Institute of Technology and Dublin City University. An Foras Feasa (AFF) supports individual and collaborative research projects in the areas of Humanities and Technology, and represents a unique contribution of traditional knowledge and dynamic innovation. Under its 'Humanities, Technology, Innovation' project, the following four project streams constitute AFF's research priorities for the period 2007-2010: --ICT Innovation and Digital Humanities: From Data to Metadata; --Multiculturalism and Multilingualism: Textual Analysis and Linguistic Change; --Ireland and Europe: Creating an International Data Archive; --Cultural Heritage, Social Capital and the Role of Interactive Digital Media. Following its success in the HEA's Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions, as part of the national research platform Humanities Serving Irish Society, An Foras Feasa invites applications for a Technical Officer based at NUI Maynooth. Following two centuries of internationally renowned scholarly activity on the Maynooth campus the National University of Ireland, Maynooth was established under the 1997 Universities Act as an autonomous member of the federal structure known as the National University of Ireland. With approximately 5,500 fulltime students and another 3,000 registered as part-time NUI Maynooth has 26 academic Departments which are organized into three Faculties: Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy; Science and Engineering, and Social Sciences. Building on a tradition of scholarship and excellence in all aspects of its teaching and learning, and research activities, within the liberal arts and sciences tradition NUI Maynooth is committed to being a first class research-led centre of learning and academic discovery. It is located on a pleasant university campus in Ireland's only university town 20km west of Dublin, and has recently undergone a major phase of expansion in research, teaching and service facilities. The spacious campus is laid out in its own extensive grounds in rural surroundings, and is divided between an older complex of fine nineteenth century buildings and a modern complex of teaching, research, accommodation, and support facilities. ------------------------- Current Vacancies ------------------------- Project Officer (Education and Development) -- NUI Maynooth (AFF) Salary range: Euro 38,551 to Euro 45, 397 per annum Technology Officer -- NUI Maynooth (AFF) (detailed description below) Salary Range: Euro 38,463 to Euro 46, 536 per annum Applications are invited for the above three-year contract posts. Prior to application, further details of these posts and application procedures should be obtained from the Personnel webpage at NUIM: personnel.nuim.ie/vacancies/shtml. Closing date is 30th November 2007. Post-Doctoral Researcher =AD Dundalk Institute of Technology (AFF) Applications are invited for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in music which will examine the interaction of artistic impulse and cultural precedent with technology and popular culture in the globalisation of Irish traditional music, song and dance. Salary: Euro 45,969 per annum. Letter of Application and CV to Human Resources Office, Dundalk Institute of Technology by 4pm, 30th November 2007. Full details at http://music.dkit.ie or http://www.forasfeasa.ie ---------------------------------------------- Job Description: Technical Officer ---------------------------------------------- You will be expected to work as a member of the An Foras Feasa Technical Team, reporting to the Associate Director of An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth and supporting research projects across the member institutions. This team of technical and research personnel provides and investigates novel technical solutions, based on the requirements of the Institute's members. You will be required to develop robust, highly scalable and maintainable digital humanities solutions using leading edge technologies. You will be expected to be involved in every aspect of the engineering process including solution finding, implementation, maintenance and dissemination. Specific tasks would include: --Architecture and design using OO principles based on industry best practice and your own experience; --Taking a lead role in the design and implementation of new components and new functionality; --Production of quality documentation including use cases, functional and design specifications to support the development process; --Design/development of automated test cases derived from those use cases and the determination of quality metrics=20 using code coverage and profiling tools. REQUIRED SKILLS: --Expert knowledge of Java with at least 2+ years industry experience; --Strong Web Development experience using at least one web development framework; --Proven record of delivery of significant pieces of functionality on previous projects; --Proven architecture and design skills in a J2EE environment using OO principals including UML and Design Patterns; --Strong verbal and written communication skills with the capability to work well (i) as a team player in a=20 cross-functional research team and (ii) with individual researcher son problem solving; --Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment; --Solid experience with developing web applications in an open source software environment. ESSENTIAL: --MSc/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent; --Knowledge and experience of at least several of the following web and related technologies: JSF, Structs, JSP,=20 Servlets, XML, Axis, AJAX, Spring, XSLT, SOAP/WSDL, SQL, Javascript/HTML/CSS; --Strong analytical and problem solving skills; --Capability to plan and schedule own work accurately; --Ability to work in a multi-skilled team environment and to communicate effectively with peers; --Ability to co-ordinate with other engineers and clients; --Ability to cope with changing priorities and multiple assignments; --Ability to present complex ideas in a clear and comprehensible manner; --Ability to work on your own initiative. DESIRABLE: --Knowledge of some of the following: PHP, Perl, Python, Unix/OS X/ Linux; --2+ years experience in software development. Salary range: Euro 38,463 to Euro 46, 536 (5 Points) depending on relevant qualifications and experience. Intended commencement Date: 1 February 2008. For an informal discussion about the position you are welcome to contact: Dr John Keating, Associate Director, An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth. E-mail: foras.feasa_at_nuim.ie. Tel: 353 (0)1 708 3854/ 708 6173 Applications in writing, including a full C.V., together with the names, addresses, fax and telephone numbers of two referees, should be forwarded to the Personnel Officer, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare so as to arrive not later than 5.00 pm on 30 November 2007. Confidential Fax Number: 01 7083940; E-mail: personnel_at_nuim.ie -------------------------------------------------------- An Foras Feasa Doctoral Fellowships National University of Ireland, Maynooth -------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Following its success in the HEA's Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions, as part of the national research platform "Humanities Serving Irish Society", An Foras Feasa invites applications for doctoral fellowships in NUI Maynooth.1 Applications are welcome from students in the humanities or computer science whose proposed research topic relates to one of the following research streams: --ICT Innovation and Digital Humanities --Multiculturalism and Multilingualism: Textual Analysis and Linguistic Change --Ireland and Europe: History, Literature and the Cultural Politics of Migration --Cultural Heritage, Social Capital in a Global Context. Eligibility: Applicants must not be previously registered for a doctoral programme. Applicants must provide evidence of strong academic achievement, with a first or upper second- class honours primary or masters degree (or equivalent) from Ireland, the EU or from any overseas university. An Foras Feasa (NUIM) Doctoral Programme: Applications are welcome from candidates seeking to pursue a doctorate in NUIM in one of the following disciplines: classics, Celtic studies, computer science, history, literature, media studies, modern languages (French, German. Irish, Portuguese, Spanish), music or philosophy. The AFF doctoral programme will provide students with additional expertise in digital humanities. Applicants should therefore have a demonstrated interest in Humanities/ICT research. Note: Doctoral fellowships are also available at St Patrick's College Drumcondra and Dublin City University. For information, see www.forasfeasa.ie. Applicants for An Foras Feasa fellowships may apply to more than one institution. Each institution has a separate procedure for application. The first year of the doctoral programme will include three hours of mandatory seminars weekly for AFF research students; later years of study will include regular seminars, supporting the candidate's field of study. Sample doctoral research areas, linked to current NUIM research projects, include: --Music and Performance in Irish Historic Houses --Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Irish Literary and Cultural Criticism --Early-modern Irish Migration to Europe; Irish communities on the Continent 1550-1820 --Associational Culture in Ireland, 1750-1940 --Early Irish Manuscripts: Hyperspectral Analysis --Information Modelling in Digital Humanities --Computer Music and Music Technologies Value of the Scholarship Euro 16,000 per annum, plus fees. Please note that this is a full-time course of study. Application Process To receive more details of the application procedure, please send name, email and full postal address to foras.feasa_at_nuim.ie, indicating also the primary subject area of your research. For informal queries, please contact Professor Margaret Kelleher, Director, An Foras Feasa, NUIM. E-mail: foras.feasa_at_nuim.ie. Tel: 353 (0)1 708 3451/ 708 6173. Closing date for Round 1 of applications: 7th December 2007. ----- Dr. John G. Keating Associate Director An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND Email: john.keating_at_nuim.ie Tel: +353 1 708 3854 FAX: +353 1 708 4797 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 21.357 XML-related queries Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:00:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 502 (502) Greetings. Susan Brown said: [deleted quotation]I don't know of any systems which work specifically with XML documents, but the requirements you have are probably almost completely compatible with those of a general software development support system -- the phrase to google is 'issue tracking' software. There are a number of those available. Sourceforge is one of the best known, but there are a number listed at <http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Comparison_of_Free_Software_Hosting_Facilities>. Those are hosting services rather than examples of hosting software, but if for some reason you have a need to have the software running on your own machines, several of them make their software available for that purpose (the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourceforge> article refers in particular to Savane and GForge as free projects). There are plenty more systems than are listed here. Based on my own experience, I can say that Sourceforge (the service, and thus implicitly the software) is perfectly functional but feels a little clunky, and Google Code has been functional to the limited extent I've used it so far, and as smooth as Google things usually are. The other system I know of is Bugzilla (functional, but still clunky). Jira <http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/> is used by Apache, so it manifestly scales well. Good luck, Norman -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk eurovotech.org : University of Leicester, UK From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: ELO and Library of Congress to archive 300 works of E-Lit Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:00:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 503 (503) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- The United States Library of Congress is archiving 300 electronic literature web sites in collaboration with the ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) and archive-it.org. To participate in this project, please see <http://eliterature.org/wiki> (and note there is a FAQ linked on that page, <http://eliterature.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ>) If you have further questions, please use the contact page at the main ELO URL, For more information on the archive itself, please contact ELO Director Joseph Tabbi (jtabbi_at_gmail.com) or Patria Tomaszek (tomaszek_at_fk615.uni-siegen.de). ***************** Categories: ************* Electronic Literature: Collections of Works: Sites that aggregate works of electronic literature by multiple authors, such as online journals and anthologies. Electronic Literature: Individual Works: Individual works of electronic literature and collections of works by a single author, as opposed to collections of works by multiple authors. Electronic Literature: Context: Sites related to the critical, theoretical, and institutional contexts of electronic literature. ******************************* Criteria for submission ************************** This style guide is meant to provide general guidelines for drafting archive-it description entries. Contributions should be submitted directly on: http://eliterature.org/wiki/ All contributions should include the title of the work and the URL where it resides. All contributions should name the entity that is primarily responsible for making the work (name of Editor, Author or other Creators). Please name the language that is used and the publisher (the entity that makes the work available; i.e. name of a person, organization or a service). Additionally, you should provide a brief and substantial (1-3 sentence) description of the work, following these guidelines: * You might want to identify the site's purpose, its content, its creators and its aesthetic. * You should focus on the work itself and its mode of presentation (not the awards won or the influence exerted by the author or institution). * Evaluative statements and self-evaluations ought to be avoided. * Avoid stating quotes (i.e. comments on a work) or reproductions of reviews and blurbs written for promotional purpose. * Information on technique, software and programming should not precede or obscure descriptions of what a work is about. * Important dates like the foundation of the site or journal should be added in the description. Provide information on how often a journal is published and what it is focusing on. * Please include ISSN numbers in your description. Mark Marino Electronic Literature Organization http://eliterature.org -- Writing Program University of Southern California http://WriterResponseTheory.org -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate 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: Gerda Elata-Alster Subject: Benjamin's mosaic? Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:17:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 504 (504) I need a reference to where Walter Benjamin asserts that in a mosaic each part is simultaneously part and a representation of the whole. Gerda Elata-Alster From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 8.46 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:01:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 505 (505) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 46 November 20, 2007 -- November 26, 2007 Microchip Antennas For Mobile Communications A. Latif, R. Hillal, and A. Ait. Ouahman examine the miniature patch antenna fed by a coaxial line and do a design comparison of two methods: Transmission Line Model (TLM) and the G-L-C Parallel Circuit Model. See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i46_latif.html> From: DrWender_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 21.359 ELO and Library of Congress to archive Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:17:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 506 (506) 300 works of E-Lit In einer eMail vom 21.11.2007 10:36:44 Westeuropaeische Normalzeit schreibt willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU: [deleted quotation]Patria? GOOGLE: Ergebnisse 1 - 7 von 7 Patria Tomaszek Siegen. (0,17 Sekunden) Meinten Sie: Patricia Tomaszek Siegen <http://newmediafix.net/daily/>newmediafix.net [...] Patricia Tomaszek, geb. 1982. Studierte von 2002 bis 2005 den Bachelor of Arts Literary, Culturaal and Medien Studies an der Universitaet Siegen. ... likumed.fb3.uni-siegen.de/mitarbeiter/tomaszek/?lang=3Dde - 5k - From: "RAM-Verlag" Subject: Glottometrics 15, 2007 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:19:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 507 (507) If you are interested in Glottometrics 15, 2007, please click here: Glottometrics 15, 2007 is available as: Printed edition: EUR 25.00 plus PP CD edition:EUR 10.00 plus PP Internet (download PDF-file): 5.00 EUR. If you have any questions,do not hesitate to contact me. Jutta Richter For: RAM-Verlag RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag St=FCttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 L=FCdenscheid Germany Tel.: +49 2351 973070 Fax: +49 2351 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag_at_t-online.de Web: Steuer-Nr.: 332/5002/0548 Mwst/VAT/TVA/ ID no.: DE 125 809 989 From: Ken Friedman Subject: cfp: the Art of Management Conference Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:07:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 508 (508) ---> Design: Management: Organization <--- ---> Call for Papers to the 4th Art of Management Conference <--- The fourth Art of Management Conference meets from September 9 to 12 at the Banff Center in Banff, Alberta, Canada. http://www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/emc/fourth_art_of_management_and_org.shtm This call invites papers and presentations for the stream on Design: Management: Organization The potential of design in management and organizations is now the focus of a growing body of knowledge in practice and theory. Theoretical results appear in books and journal articles, education programs, and research projects, while businesses of all kinds put the findings into practice, along with design firms, consulting firms, and universities. Design is a practice of making. We realize design in many ways: as artefact, system, and experience. The complexity and seemingly endless potential of design is visible in fascinating and continuously evolving= ways. In this stream, we ask what design thinking can mean, examining how we can interpret and enact design thinking in thought, artifact, experience, and action. We invite contributions to this stream from practitioners and scholars who explore the intersection of design, management, and organization. We are particularly interested in discovering how people engage design in management and organizational contexts. We welcome case study accounts from designers, design managers, general managers, and scholars in design theory and organization theory. We also welcome theoretical and conceptual presentations. Many questions will interest participants in this stream: Why is design important to the future of management and organizational contexts? Can design help us to save organizations? How do design organizations enact design within their own management and organizational contexts? What is design management? Is there a space for poetic design in managerial and organizational contexts? We hope to explore design as creative practice, design as critical thinking, design as systems management, and design as =8A The conveners of the stream hope to develop the presentations from this stream into a special journal issue. For papers, please submit abstracts of 500 words. For other presentations, we will accept any appropriate media submission. Please send submissions to Dr. Laurene Vaughan at with a copy to Ms. Jane Malabar at The deadline for submissions is January 5, 2008. For more information on the conference, visit URL http://www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/emc/fourth_art_of_management_and_org.shtm Stream Convenors: Prof. Ken Friedman Norwegian School of Management, Oslo Denmark's Design School, Copenhagen Dr. Laurene Vaughan RMIT University Melbourne, Australia Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "Humanities" Subject: Job announcement - Junior Science Officer Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:15:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 509 (509) Position of Junior Science Officer for the Humanities and Social Sciences Deadline for Applications: 7 December 2007 Dear colleagues, please find attached a position announcement at the Humanities Unit of the European Science Foundation. Junior Science Officer -- Joint research programmes in the Humanities: The European Science Foundation (ESF) is looking for a new staff member to contribute to the preparation and implementation of joint research programmes. The tasks are related to two sets of activities: the ERA-Net "Humanities in the European Research Area" (HERA), and the EUROCORES Programmes. Working language: English; Full time position initially for 18 months (beginning January 2008), starting as soon as possible, with a possibility for an extension of the contract. Applications only in pdf format per e-mail by 7 December 2007 to: jobs_at_esf.org; Interviews will be held on 14 December 2007 in Strasbourg (France). For details visit <http://www.esf.org/jobs/current-vacancies.html> Please circulate this message as appropriate Best regards Irma Vogel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Irma Vogel Senior Administrator & Unit Coordinator Standing Committee for the Humanities Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F - 67080 Strasbourg Tel +33 (0)388 76 71 26 Fax +33 (0)388 76 71 81 Email: ivogel_at_esf.org Web: http://www.esf.org/human From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: Re: 21.362 Benjamin's mosaic? Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:11:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 510 (510) Look at the "Epistemo-Critical Prologue" to the Trauerspiel book (_Origin of German Tragic Drama_). Sandy Baldwin West Virginia University Associate Professor of English Director of the Center for Literary Computing www.clc.wvu.edu url=www.as.wvu.edu/~sbaldwin skype=sandy.baldwin88 [deleted quotation] From: Julie Tolmie Subject: Intersections in Visualization Practices and Techniques Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:11:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 511 (511) FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT vizNET 2008 The 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference and Workshop on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques 7-9 May, Leicestershire, UK Joint Event - Hosted by vizNET and 3DVisA Following the successful vizNET 2007 event, vizNET 2008 event aims to establish an international medium for the exchange of new ideas and practical experience between researchers working in the field of visualization from scientific and engineering applications to the arts and humanities. The scope of the vizNET event covers a wide range of visualization topics that are applicable for novice, novice-advanced, and and expert visualization users. This will be an important opportunity to present and hear about the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas, as well as their applications. The full event will include 2 day introductory workshop in visualization (for novice and novice-advanced visualization users) followed by a third day of expert visualization users. For further information visit www.viznet.ac.uk/viznet2008/ and www.viznet.ac.uk/cross_domain/intersections.html =============================================================== kind regards Julie Tolmie Dr Julie Tolmie JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS, UK Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1420 From: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: new publications Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:55:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 512 (512) ******************************************************************* LORENZO MAGNANI and PING LI (eds), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine Proceedings of the International Conference MBR06_CHINA (Guangzhou, P.R. China, July 2006) Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 64 525 p. 77 illus., 10 in color. Also available online., HardcoverISBN: 978-3-540-71985-4 Springer, Berlin/New York, 2007 http://www.springer.com/west/home/engineering?SGWID=4-175-22-173736544-0 ******************************************************************** LORENZO MAGNANI, Morality in a Technological World. Knowledge as Duty, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007 Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521877695) http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521877695 Author's Website: http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/site.php ********************************************************************* -- Lorenzo Magnani Director, Computational Philosophy Laboratory <http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/> Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Piazza Botta 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy Author's Webpage: <http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/site.php/> Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, 510275 Guangzhou (Canton), P.R.China From: Yorick Wilks Subject: Research Associate positions Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:57:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 513 (513) Research Associate in Dialogue Systems and Emotional Quality in Speech Recognition University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science Ref No - R05798 Closing Date: 4th December, 2007 Salary: GBP 25,134 - 32,796 per annum Summary You will be responsible for developing and testing programs for computer dialogue systems that underlie a speech and graphics interface for an artificial companion. Applicants must have a good first degree plus a PhD (or be working towards PhD), or have equivalent relevant experience. Experience in programming (preferably in Java) as well as some experience of Machine Learning (preferably in dialogue modelling), sentiment analysis or cognitive modelling is also essential. This post is available immediately and is initially for one year, extensible for up to three years. Project website www.companions-project.org. Enquiries to yorick_at_dcs.shef.ac.uk Website applications at http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/research.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Research Assistant in Dialogue Systems and Machine Learning Department of Computer Science Ref No - R05797 Closing Date: 4th December, 2007 Salary: GBP 21,682 - 24,403 per annum. Summary You will assist in developing and testing programs for a computer dialogue system that underlies a speech and graphics interface for an artificial companion. Applicants will work as part of a team and be able to carry out the implementation of algorithms and software designed by senior researchers and academics. Applicants must have a good first degree or have equivalent relevant experience. Experience in programming (preferably in Java) as well as some experience of Machine Learning (preferably in dialogue modelling), sentiment analysis or cognitive modelling is also desirable. The post could be held part-time in conjunction with study for a Sheffield PhD. This post is available immediately and is initially for one year, extensible for up to three years. Project website www.companions- project.org. Enquiries to yorick_at_dcs.shef.ac.uk Website applications at http:// www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/research.html From: "Humanities" Subject: Job announcement - Junior Science Officer 'ERIH' Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:59:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 514 (514) Position of Junior Science Officer for the Humanities and Social Sciences Deadline for Applications: 7 December 2007 Dear colleagues, please find attached a position announcement at the Humanities Unit of the European Science Foundation. Junior Science Officer "European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH)": The European Science Foundation (ESF) Humanities Unit coordinates the project "European Reference Index for the Humanities" (ERIH) on behalf of its Member Organisations. ERIH is growing into an important tool to assess and access Humanities research in the complex multilingual research publishing world in Europe. The JSO supports the Steering Committee and the 18 expert panels, organising their meetings throughout Europe, preparing and following up meeting documents. Working language: English; full time position initially for one year, starting as soon as possible, with a possibility for an extension of the contract. Applications only in pdf format per e-mail by 7 December 2007 to: jobs_at_esf.org ; interviews will be held on 14 December 2007 in Strasbourg (France). For details visit <http://www.esf.org/jobs/current-vacancies.html>http://www.esf.org/jobs/current-vacancies.html. Please circulate this message as appropriate Best regards Irma Vogel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Irma Vogel Senior Administrator & Unit Coordinator Standing Committee for the Humanities European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F - 67080 Strasbourg Tel +33 (0)388 76 71 26 Fax +33 (0)388 76 71 81 Email: ivogel_at_esf.org Web: <http://www.esf.org/human>http://www.esf.org/human From: Willard McCarty Subject: merely engineering Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:12:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 515 (515) I'd be most grateful for attribution of a remark by a theoretical physicist, who when asked about the implementation of his work said disparagingly something like, "all the rest is merely engineering". Was it Werner Heisenberg? I'd also be interested in collecting other such remarks directed against practical work, to the effect that it is merely the application of knowledge gained through "pure" reasoning. Many thanks. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Gerda Elata-Alster Subject: Re: 21.366 Benjamin's mosaic Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:00:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 516 (516) Of course. Thank you sooooo much of reminding me. Yours gratefully, Gerda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" To: Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 12:14 PM [deleted quotation] From: Subject: LATA 2008: last extension of paper submission deadline Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:01:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 517 (517) PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 30, 2007 !!!!! ******************************************************************************* 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2008) Tarragona, Spain, March 13-19, 2008 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2008/index.html ******************************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a 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, LATA 2008 will reserve significant room for young computer scientists at the beginning of their career. It 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 - extended automata - combinatorics on words - language varieties and semigroups - algebraic language theory - computability - computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized complexity - decidability questions on words and languages - patterns and codes - symbolic dynamics - 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 - symbolic neural networks - quantum, chemical and optical computing - biomolecular nanotechnology - automata and logic - algorithms on automata and words - automata for system analysis and programme verification - automata, concurrency and Petri nets - parsing - weighted machines - transducers - foundations of finite state technology - grammatical inference and algorithmic learning - text retrieval, pattern matching and pattern recognition - text algorithms - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics - mathematical evolutionary genomics - language-based cryptography - data and image compression - circuits and networks - language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life - digital libraries - document engineering [...] From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 8.47 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:04:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 518 (518) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 47 November 27, 2007 -- December 3, 2007 Ten Secrets For Software Buyers Sanjay Kumar Pal writes: "Designing and building complex products to exact customer specifications frequently involves long lead times and heavy engineering content. To win business, you must provide accurate estimates and quotations to a demanding customer base. Unlike the majority of manufacturers, capital equipment manufacturers typically purchase material to a specific project or job. You need to do progress billing and collect actual costs to projects. Often, you will not receive payment for a project until it is installed and operating at a customer=B9s site. So, cash management is of vital importance. And after the sale, you need to track warranty information and provide aftermarket services, including the sale of spare parts that may constitute a significant share of your company=B9s business." See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i47_pal.html> From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:50:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 519 (519) 32.4 (December) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 32.4 (December) URL: <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/2007/00000032/00000004/> 1. ISR Editorial Cattermole, Howard pp. 313-313(1) 2. Classifying science and technology: two problems with the UNESCO system Martinez-Frias, Jesus; Hochberg, David pp. 315-319(5) 3. What use is philosophy of engineering? McCarthy, Natasha pp. 320-325(6) 4. Searching for resonance: scientific patterns in Complicite's Mnemonic and A Disappearing Number Campos, Liliane pp. 326-334(9) 5. Developing an 'energy sustainability index' to evaluate energy policy Brown, Marilyn A.; Sovacool, Benjamin K. pp. 335-349(15) 6. Nitrates, water and salt: maintaining the fertility of agriculture Pollock, D.S.G. pp. 350-360(11) 7. Culture in global knowledge societies: knowledge cultures and epistemic cultures Cetina, Karin Knorr pp. 361-375(15) 8. Book Reviews pp. 376-380(5) Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 21.374 merely engineering? Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:52:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 520 (520) Willard, hello. On 2007 Nov 27, at 06:14, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]You may be thinking of Rutherford, who famously said that 'all science is either physics or stamp-collecting'. I've heard it in a couple of variants, including one which has him refer specifically to nuclear physics, but a couple of online mentions of the quotation refer to J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962). [deleted quotation]There's Eddington's famous one, 'it is wise not to place too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory', though I don't think this quite comes out _against_ practical work, as much as regarding its products with a proper suspicion. Eddington had a fine turn of phrase, and there are few other remarks collected at <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/ Sir_Arthur_Eddington/> Norman -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk eurovotech.org : University of Leicester, UK From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 21.374 merely engineering? Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:03:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 521 (521) Willard, 1. the Net attributes the phrase to Feynman: "maybe Feynman would have agreed with me on that, since he even said that what was going on on the Manhattan project was merely engineering." Source is a blog: http://asymptotia.com/2006/10/03/physics-nobel-prize-2006/ 2. There is an application of the saying to biology: Perhaps it might be said that molecular biology has no use for theory, and biology is now merely engineering in the sense that it takes things apart to see how they work? The possibility that biology is in the predicament of having lost its status as a speculative science is proposed by Shostak in Death of Life, and presumably he would like to correct this state of affairs. Source, an article by Michelle Speidel: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/boundary/v028/28.1speidel.html 3. a nice one on digital archiving: Only one fundamental problem impeded digital archiving until recently -- how to preserve information through technology changes. This was recently solved, but the correctness and practicality of the solution are still to be demonstrated. The other challenges are merely engineering and solution deployment issues. Source: Digital Document Quarterly http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_1_1.htm 4. another on building a wiki: Are you saying methods of building a successful wiki are so well known that it's not science, it's merely engineering and technology to set up a wiki properly and, if you follow the rules, it is guaranteed to work? Source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki_Science 5. one on classification research: Obviously we have not solved all the classification problem in the world -- new applications bring new challenges, many of which are still beyond reach. But do these require fundamental breakthroughs in classification research? Or are these "merely engineering problems" that will eventually be solved with more machine power, or more likely, more human power to find better feature extractors and fine tune the classifier parameters? Source: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0402020 6. a different take on the figure ("not just, though..."): Macroscopic classical electrodynamics is practically useful. Not just merely engineering (though used to torment many an EE student in their most difficult of courses), since it's essential to many fields of applied physics. OK, it's an engineering approach, but so what? You teach A and B, either in a separate QED course, or as decorative fluff in an EM course, before you get to the gritty details of actually solving the Maxwell equations (EDHB), and the Laplace, Poisson, vector Helmholtz, and scalar paraxial wave equations. Source: http://www.adras.com/How-did-that-field-get-quantized-exactly.t21198-90-6.html --- Of course, anybody interested can google for themselves, just as I did. But I like what vox populi out there says -- in the usage there seems to be another opposition present: not only engineering versus science, but also engineering versus culture / society (not that it is useful to you, I know). Also, people seem to be using the phrase more in a negative, or interrogative way -- "is it really...", or "it is not..." Yours, Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia From: Willard McCarty Subject: merely engineering Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:29:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 522 (522) Neven's transcription of the vox populi on the phrase "merely engineering" is more useful to me than he supposed, though my query was confined to the dismissive attitude of scientific theorists. Like common uses of similar phrases, such as "merely mechanical", the put-down of engineering suggests the old aristocratic prejudice against those who work with their hands, or more radically, those who *do* anything at all in a serious way, have a job, work etc. I enlisted the aid of people here because I was ruminating once again for purposes of an ongoing essay on the distinction between "pure" and "applied" research, specifically unpicking the prejudices packed into the supposed purity of research that is motivated by curiosity rather than by the requirement for deliverables. There seems to be a cry for freedom in that opposition which I would not want to get lost by getting confused with repugnance for the physical and with ignorance of epistemic practices aimed at "thing knowledge". In a recent conference paper, Martha Nussbaum adopted the primatologist Frans van der Waal's term "anthropodenial" (by which he means our denial that we are animals of a certain kind) to explain much human cruelty and misery. She went more than a little bit over the top with her thesis (which involved an astonishing idealization of non-human animal life), but there does seem to be something in the need to separate or at least adjust the balance between body-life and mind-life. In his recent review of Geoffrey Lloyd's book Cognitive Variations (2007), which steers a course through various topics, considering the opposition between nature and nurture (or culture, as Lloyd prefers), Ian Hacking concludes at the very end, "If, despire all the differences of detail, we go on asking the same questions in each domain, is there not something suspect about the way we have carved them up?" So let me ask: how better might we talk about the research we do (and that we avoid doing) than always to be rattling on about pure vs applied, or curiosity-motivated vs mission- orientated or whatever? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Ken Friedman Subject: CFP -- Artifact! Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:04:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 523 (523) Call for Papers ---> Artifact <--- The journal Artifact is an international peer-reviewed academic journal dealing with design. Artifact addresses topical themes and issues relevant to design researchers, practising designers, organizations, and manufacturers. It reflects the broad field of design today by giving researchers from different disciplines the opportunity to debate and exchange ideas. 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Many of the objects are digital versions from Maryland's Special Collections (such as A Treasury of World's Fairs Art and Architecture) or are new virtual collections (The Jim Henson Works). Other collections (such as Films_at_UM) support the teaching mission of the Libraries. This release also marks the integration of electronically available finding aids, ArchivesUM, into the repository architecture, creating a framework for digital objects to be dynamically discovered from finding aids. The repository is based on the Fedora platform, uses Lucene for indexing, and Helix for streaming video. The repository features almost 2500 digital objects, with new objects added monthly. Object types currently delivered include full text (both TEI and EAD), video, and images. Objects can be discovered within a collection context or via a search across multiple collections. Cross-collection discovery is achieved through a common metadata scheme and controlled vocabulary. This metadata scheme also provides for individual collections to have more granular domain-specific metadata. We welcome feedback and comments at http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital/contact.jsp With all best wishes, Susan Schreibman -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib_at_umd.edu http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org From: "Renata T. S. Lemos" Subject: Re: 21.379 merely engineering Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:12:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 526 (526) [The note that follows refers to an attached article. Since Humanist does not send attachments, I cannot pass it along, but I include the abstract sent to me subsequently and a link to the article, i.e. to a login page. Further enquiries should go to Renata Lemos. --WM] Hi, I believe the article attached addresses these issues in a very clear way. George Bugliarelo also has written a couple of articles that are very enlightening. Regards, Renata T. S. Lemos Post-Graduate Program in Knowledge Management and Engineering (EGC) Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC A New Trivium and Quadrivium George Bugliarello Polytechnic University Today's conflicts between the views that the humanities hold of science and engineering and the views science and engineering hold of the humanities weaken the very core of our culture. Their cause is lack of integration in today's education among subjects that hark back to the medieval trivium and quadrivium. A new trivium is needed to provide every educated person with a basic understanding of the endeavors and instruments that help us address our world and shape a new morality -- the humanities, in the noblest sense of the word, to civilize, science to understand nature, and engineering, broadly defined, to encompass the kindred activities that modify nature. Integration of these endeavors is urgent. It involves, in turn, an intimate interaction (the "biosoma") of biological organisms, society, and machines -- a new quadrivium. No domain can any longer be considered and learned in isolation. Keywords: humanities, science, engineering, Bulletin of Science Technology Society 2003; 23; 106 http://bst.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/106 From: j trant Subject: MW2008: Online Registration Open Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:05:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 527 (527) Museums and the Web 2008 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 9 - 12, 2008 Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ Join hundreds of your colleagues at the only annual conference exploring the on-line presentation of cultural, scientific and heritage content across institutions and around the world: Museums and the Web. ==> Early Registration Now Open <== Registration for Museums and the Web 2008 is now open. Register on-line before December 15, 2007 for the best rates. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2008/mw2008.registrationForm.html Remember, pre-conference tours and workshops have limited enrollment, and are first-come first-served. Register early to ensure your choice. ==> Demonstration Proposals <== It's not too late to participate in MW2008. The deadline for Demonstration proposals is December 31, 2007. For full details, and a link to the on-line proposal form, see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/demos/index.html ==> Best of the Web <== Help us re-shape the Best of the Web competition. Join the on-line discussion. See http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/best_of_the_web_competition_feedback_wanted Nominations will open after the discussion. ==> Need To Know More <== Full details about the meeting are on the conference Web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ Email mw2008_at_archimuse.com with any questions. We hope to see you in Montreal. jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2007 produced by April 11 - 14, 2007, San Francisco, CA Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2007_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 ------------- Museums and the Web 2008 is presented in conjunction with the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO). From: Carsten Lutz Subject: KR08 Doctoral Consortium, Call for Applications Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:05:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 528 (528) KR2008 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Call for Application September 16 - 19, 2008 Sydney, Australia The 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2008) invites PhD students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium program. The aims of the consortium are: - to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers; - to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas; - to support students with information and advice on academic, research and industrial careers; The Doctoral Consortium is a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers with similar interests. Students accepted into the Doctoral Consortium are waived registration fee for KR2008 and present their work during a poster session. They can apply for a scholarship that partly covers their travel expenses. We encourage submissions from PhD students at any level, and from any topic area within Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Applications must be submitted via our online submission site (see below). Each application must contain the following materials: - Thesis summary. A description of the problem being addressed, the motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum in the usual KR double-column style. - Letter of recommendation. A letter from your thesis advisor that states that (s)he supports your participation in the DC. IMPORTANT DATES May 1, 2008 Deadline for application May 25, 2008 Acceptance notification September 16-19, 2008 Doctoral consortium Application Submission The most preferred way of submission is to combine the thesis summary and letter of recommendation into a single PDF or postscript document. If you cannot do that, archive the two documents into a single zip file. In either case, the resulting single file has to be submitted via the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr08dc For further information, please contact the Doctoral Consortium chair: Carsten Lutz TU Dresden, Germany lutz_at_tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de From: Kata Balogh Subject: 1st CfP -- ESSLLI 2008 Student Session Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:10:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 529 (529) 1st Call for Papers ESSLLI 2008 STUDENT SESSION 4-18 August 2008, Hamburg, Germany Submission deadline: 15 February 2008 Website: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13 *********************************************************** We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information to be held in Hamburg, Germany on August 4-15, 2008. The aim of the Student Session is to give an opportunity to students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master- and PhD-students) to present and discuss their work in progress with a possibility to get feedback from senior researchers. Each year, 18 papers are selected for oral presentation and a number of others for poster presentation. CALL FOR PAPERS The programme committee invites submissions of papers for oral and poster presentation and for appearance in the proceedings. We welcome submissions with topics within the areas of Logic, Language and Computation. *** Submission deadline: 15 February 2008 *** The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates as well as postgraduates. Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. SUBMISSION Student authors are invited to submit a full paper up to 7 pages inclusive of references. Note that the length of the final version of the accepted papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. The preferred formats of submissions are PostScript or PDF, although other formats will also be accepted. More submission details and all relevant information at: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13 CONTACT Kata Balogh ESSLLI 2008 Student Session chair email: k.balogh_at_uva.nl tel.: +31 20 5254544 fax: +31 20 5254503 postal address: Department of Philosophy Universiteit van Amsterdam Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands From: amsler_at_cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 21.374 merely engineering? Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:03:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 530 (530) I have a different take on this quote. It isn't as disparaging as you seem to imply. The contrast is between "undiscovered scientific principles" and "execution of known techniques". If, for example, we are faced with closing a hole in the Ozone layer, or having a spacecraft survive a landing on Venus to radio back information from the surface, or finding a means to neutralize radioactivity, (or from the past, seeing aircraft in the night sky far away from land (i.e., radar), then the first task it to understand enough of how the universe works to have a plausible theory of what can be done to perform such a task. Once a "theory" exists, then it is "merely a matter of engineering" to build and test a device to perform the task. Now, admittedly, we have had remarkable inventions (e.g., electric light) that resulted JUST from engineering methods. Edison had next to no "theory" of what he needed in a filament for electric light bulbs. He tested everything he could think of. This was a breakthrough by "merely engineering". So, I guess one could say theorists disparage such an approach unreasonably because there is no way toprove a theoretical insight couldn't reach a satisfactory solution. I guess it comes down to a belief in the existence of theoretical knowledge as adequate to find an answer. Perhaps this is what plagues "String Theory" in Physics. There is so much theoretical knowledge that practitioners cannot believe that they can't reach a theoretical solution--and persist even when there is almost no testable experimentation that can be used to validate one theory vs. another. The physicists believe in a sense of beauty to the universe that will become apparent when the right theory is proposed. I.e., the math will not be ugly if the theory represents truth. Engineers, however, tend not to believe so strongly in truth forcing beautiful solutions. From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: 21.382 merely engineering Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:08:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 531 (531) At 07.15 30/11/2007, Humanist Discussion Group \ wrote: [deleted quotation]the given link to the Bulletin of Science Technology Society (http://bst.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/106) want you to login; if you don't login you can't read the article, obviously. but if you go to http://www.poly.edu/news/archives/news2/?id=727 you find a speech with same title given some years ago by g. bugliarello. it's quite old but this way you can have an idea of the matter, at no cost maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro" a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 [I attach below the abstract to this article --WM] Today's conflicts between the views that the humanities hold of science and engineering and the views science and engineering hold of the humanities weaken the very core of our culture. Their cause is lack of integration in today=92s education among subjects that hark back to the medieval trivium and quadrivium. A new trivium is needed to provide every educated person with a basic understanding of the endeavors and instruments that help us address our world and shape a new morality -- the humanities, in the noblest sense of the word, to civilize, science to understand nature, and engineering, broadly defined, to encompass the kindred activities that modify nature. Integration of these endeavors is urgent. It involves, in turn, an intimate interaction (the "biosoma") of biological organisms, society, and machines -- a new quadrivium. No domain can any longer be considered and learned in isolation. From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- November 2007 Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:03:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 532 (532) TL INFOBITS November 2007 No. 17 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitnov07.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... Observations on Scholars' Use of Digitized Resources Technology Standards for Students Preventing Online Exam Cheating Call for Papers on Academics in Virtual Environments Recommended Reading ...................................................................... OBSERVATIONS ON SCHOLARS' USE OF DIGITIZED RESOURCES "[D]o many 'producers' of technological tools and systems pay much attention to the unconvinced, indifferent, tired, frustrated, or thwarted academic 'consumers'? Or do they simply dismiss many nonadopters as aberrations, luddites, or dinosaurs, with little reflection about the complex reasons why many scholars have not yet embraced the promise of the 'new, new' technological thing?" 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In "Future Reading: Digitization and its Discontents" (THE NEW YORKER, November 5, 2007) Anthony Grafton writes that "Google's projects [Google Book Search, Google Publishing Partners], together with rival initiatives by Microsoft and Amazon, have elicited millenarian prophecies about the possibilities of digitized knowledge and the end of the book as we know it. . . . Others have evoked even more utopian prospects, such as a universal archive that will contain not only all books and articles but all documents anywhere--the basis for a total history of the human race." Grafton debunks the hyperbole as he traces the history of information overload and the methods devised to control it through the millennia. He predicts that "for the foreseeable future" readers and scholars will rely on both digitized resources and the collections still physically in libraries. "[S]treams of data, rich as they are, will illuminate, rather than eliminate, books and prints and manuscripts that only the library can put in front of you." The article is available online at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton. The New Yorker [ISSN 0028-792X] is published 47 times a year by CondeNet. For more information, contact The New Yorker, Inc., 4 Times Square, New York, NY 10036 USA; Web: http://www.newyorker.com/. ...................................................................... TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS FOR STUDENTS In 1998, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) published the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S), a "U.S. consensus defining what students needed to know about and be able to do with technology. The standards, used in every U.S. state and many countries, are credited by most with significantly influencing expectations for students and creating a target of excellence relating to technology." In June 2007, ISTE released a new version of NETS-S that reflects the changes in technology since 1998 and the changing expectations of students' technical skills. The standard is available http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=3DNETS. The new standards are part of ISTE's NETS Refresh Project which will introduce NETS for Teachers (NETS-T) in 2008 and NETS for Administrators (NETS-A) in 2009. ISTE is a nonprofit membership organization which "provides leadership and service to improve teaching, learning, and school leadership by advancing the effective use of technology in PK=AD12 and teacher education." 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A MUVE combines graphics and audio with the ability to communicate with multiple users in real time within the context of a 3-D virtual environment. MUVEs are not necessarily considered games, as programs like Second Life and There have no end goal or objective. For more information go to http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=3Dspecial_issues and click on the Academics in Virtual Environments paragraph. To submit a manuscript go to http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=3Dsubmit. ...................................................................... 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. 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May be reproduced in any medium for non-commercial purposes. From: Willard McCarty Subject: machines don't care Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:36:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 533 (533) Recently, in my role as lexicographical scout and collector for the Dictionary of Words in the Wild (http://dictionary.mcmaster.ca/), I spotted a new advert from a telephone-only banking service in the UK, First Direct. The slogan on this advert is, "machines don't care". Until I figured out the job that this slogan was supposed to be doing, I thought it a negative statement, and so began musing about getting one's fingers caught in meshing gears, being suddenly trapped in some bureaucratic process and so forth. Then I realised that the intent was quite the opposite -- the appeal of an automated banking service being, I assume, that the machine doesn't care whether you're spending too much and so forth. That brought me to the moral claim made first by Freud, I think, that the great scientific discoveries (Copernicus', Darwin's, Freud's own etc) were all blows to human vanity, with the clear implication that the strength of science lies in its liberation of the human spirit from vanity, its striving toward an incorruptible programme of research. If memory serves Galileo himself made such a statement. He would have observed much corruption up close. All that brought me further to the realisation that "machines don't care", like "merely engineering", is an epistemologically useful statement about the difference between what we build and who we are. And that in turn to wondering whether Mr Turing's test should not at some point be revised to determine if the unknown operant is a feeling human being or a machine simulating emotion. Or perhaps the problem is the separation in that test and elsewhere of thinking and feeling, as I think is in effect what Antonio Damasio argues? Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: RE: 21.387 machines don't care Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:04:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 534 (534) Dear Willard, We often seek to interact with entities that "don't care" regardless of whether or not those entities are machines. Physicians supposedly "don't care" about our bodies the way our lovers might so we are allowed to believe that our exposing our bodies to physicians risks no personal judgment (about beauty, say, or desirability) on the part of the physician. Policemen supposedly don't care if we're stupid or foolish when we ask for help. Soldiers in combat don't care that the enemy are human beings against whom they have no personal animus. Not caring is crucial for facilitating some functions important to humans and so we create social categories that theoretically obviate caring. In that sense, machines may be perfect exemplars of roles we developed collectively long before even the idea of those machines existed. A robot surgeon will never be misguided by its feelings; a robot policeman will never unwittingly insult someone standing across the street from the location sought. A robot bombardier will not suffer remorse in releasing its payload and become subsequently less effective. In the U.S., judges and juries are asked to consider demonstrable facts with no weight given to any possible emotional responses the facts or witnesses may occasion. Banking functions are among those we usually want to be uninfluenced by personal concerns such as impatience or favoritism, just as we want bankers to perform mathematical calculations without any possibility of the influence of fatigue. While your revised reading of "machines don't care" may suggest a useful revision of the Turing Test, I think more broadly your rereading highlights the fact that, despite the undeniable centrality of caring as a function of most people's ideas of human beings, humans themselves often "steel themselves" (become machine-like) in order to perform better the very functions human beings need, and this denial of a "natural" caring is often considered virtuous, as would any other discipline adopted at personal cost to lead to socially desired ends. The problem arises, of course, if the discipline so influences us that we don't care when we should, if the surgeon always sees people only as mechanical problems or the policemen always sees people only as a job or the soldier always sees The Other only as a target. We want those who adopt roles that "don't care" to maintain a dual cognition with the role as the conscious overlay, an overlay we want to believe can be put aside. Why? Because we want to believe that at bottom it is only a role, at bottom the surgeon wants to heal us, the policeman to guide us, the soldier to protect us. We want caring to be the fundamental condition of these people, while not caring is the role. The disturbance one feels in having to revise your first reading of the advertisement, I think, comes from having to acknowledge that sometimes not caring is so important that we may be willing to give up the notion that that is only a role and accept it as the fundamental identity. We would not want to do that with people because that would dehumanize them and, by extension, suggest that we too could become dehumanized and lose our identities. But we don't mind inhuman machines failing to be human. It just takes a moment sometimes to accept the notion that the inhuman may serve human desires better than humans can. All best, Eric ------------------------------------------------- Eric S. Rabkin 734-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 734-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 734-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin_at_umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/ [deleted quotation]l [deleted quotation] From: Deirdre Wildy Subject: Irish Studies Online Queen's JSTOR Project Update Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:07:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 535 (535) Apologies for cross-posting. Update Winter 2007 In the months since the last update the project has progressed at a steady pace. Staff have been appointed, licences prepared and circulated, digitisation is on-going and presentations have been delivered at a range of key conferences. Staffing Three Research Assistants have been appointed to prepare publication histories and indexing guidelines for every journal selected for inclusion in the JSTOR Irish Studies Collection. A Production Librarian from JSTOR came to Belfast in September to train the Research Assistants so that all titles in this new collection have the same rigorous metadata standards applied as other JSTOR collections. This was an intense period for all concerned as it is necessary for the Research Assistants to reach JSTOR's standard of excellence every time they submit their work to JSTOR, there is no gradual development of excellence over time, the gold standard must always be achieved. The Irish journal titles are complex to analyse, dual language, varying scripts and organisation are just some of the elements which present challenges to JSTOR's experienced staff responsible for answering queries presented by the Research Assistants based at Queen's in Belfast. Licences Licence agreements between JSTOR and participating publishers were prepared and circulated in early autumn by JSTOR to those publishers who expressed an interest in having their journal archived in the Irish Studies Collection. This project was made possible by funding from the JISC, the finance is limited and the project must be completed and the Irish Studies Collection ready for release in March 2009. There is a very narrow window of opportunity to have licences circulated, discussed and signed to meet very tight production deadlines. If a journal is to participate in the Irish Studies Collection it is important that a signed licence is returned to JSTOR as soon as possible otherwise an alternative title needs to be selected. Phase I release Summer 2008 Work can't begin on a journal title until a licence has been signed and delivered to JSTOR. Digitisation, post-processing, OCRing and preparation of indexing guidelines must be completed in Belfast before JSTOR can complete the process with the application of metadata. To date almost 40 titles have been digitised and post-processed by the Centre for Data Digitisation & Analysis at Queen's. It is important that schedules are completed efficiently in order to facilitate all elements of the production process and release of the complete project on time. We hope to release the first phase of journal titles in Summer 2008 with access to a mix of legacy and in copyright titles. Digitisation of monographs and manuscripts for inclusion in the Irish Studies Collection will begin in Spring 2008 when digitisation of the journals is complete. Feedback Presentations have been delivered in Ireland, UK and USA, feedback indicates that there is tremendous interest in this project. Academics, researchers and students are looking forward to access to the Irish Studies Collection and publishers to increased international exposure for their journals. If you would like more information on any of the issues commented upon in this update please don't hesitate to contact me. Regards, Deirdre Deirdre Wildy Senior Subject Librarian (Arts & Humanities) Main Library Queen's University of Belfast University Square BELFAST BT7 1LS Email: d.wildy_at_qub.ac.uk Tel: 0044 (0) 28 9097 3721 / 3607 Fax: 0044 (0) 28 9032 3340 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Tool Developer's Survey Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:08:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 536 (536) Colleagues, Over the past few years, the idea of tool development as a scholarly activity in the digital humanities has been gaining ground. It has been the subject of numerous articles and conference presentations. There has not been, however, a concerted effort to gather information about the perceived value of tool development, not only as a scholarly activity, but in relation to the tenure and promotion process, as well as for the advancement of the field itself. Ann Hanlon and myself have compiled such a survey and would be grateful if those of you who are or have been engaged in tool development for the digital humanities would take the time to complete an online survey available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=zSMZSh1d3gltcmf6fkfd2g_3d_3d You will need to fill up a consent form before you begin, and there is an opportunity to provide us with feedback on more than one tool (you simply take the survey again). The survey should not take more than 10-15 minutes. It is our intention to present the results of our survey at Digital Humanities 2008. With all best wishes, Susan Schreibman -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib_at_umd.edu http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: Second Life workshop with Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:03:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 537 (537) The workshop below is being held on Saturday, December 8, 2pm London time as part of _Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital Performance_, at Goldsmith's College, University of London. If you are interested in more information or in participating, email Sandy Baldwin at charles.baldwin_at_mail.wvu.edu. SECOND LIFE WORKSHOP: AVATAR PASTE AND CODE SOUP IN FIRST AND SECOND LIFE Leaders: SANDY BALDWIN, West Virginia University & ALAN SONDHEIM This workshop will take place in the virtual world Second Life, and will be conducted by Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin, with participation by other artists and performers in Second Life. Participants from the Intimacy conference will be supplied with location and others details within Second Life. The workshop emerges from Sondheim and Baldwin's ongoing exploration of analog and digital bodies, using a range of technologies to remap the solid and obdurate real of bodies into the dispersions and virtualities of the digital, and then back again into real physical spaces. The "avatar paste" of the title means at least three things. Firstly, the pasting of viewpoints together, the suturing of the subject into the avatar. Secondly, paste as glue, as half-liquid and half solid, as a materiality of renewable and infinite pliability. This is the chora of the avatar, the body matrix that is less a framework than a smearing of paste. And thirdly, paste as pasty and dis/comfortable substance, paste as slimy and dripping. While this abjection is already implicit in paste as glue, the pastiness of paste involves the projection and dreaming through of the avatar, the inhabitation of avatar bodies and the emptying of real bodies into the avatar. "Avatar paste" comes out in avatar motions and behaviors. Firstly, these are formed by symbolic orders, presenting surfaces to read in terms of sexuality, power, emotion, and other projections. At the same time, the pasty avatar body tends towards collapse and abjection. Work on the avatar becomes a choreography of exposure and rupture, modeling and presenting inconceivable and untenable data, within which tensions and relationships are immediate and intimate. One might imagine, then, this inconceivable data as a form of organism itself: as part of a natural world or a world already given; out of this we might think through new ideas of landscape, wilderness, hard ecology, the earth itself. The workshop will theorize and demonstrate these topics. The first part discusses theoretical frameworks.Alan Sondheim will discuss topics of dismemberment, telepresence, and abjection in relation to the motion and behavior of Second Life avatars. Sandy Baldwin will discuss the topography of limits in Second Life, both body limits and spatial limits, an connect this to issues of the hunt and animal display. He will also discuss the dynamics of performance and audience in Second Life. The second part of the workshop will show off Sondheim and Baldwin's approach to re-mapping live bodies into Second Life performances, including: video and other examples of motion capture and scanning; intermediate processing of files (e.g. editing .bvh data or working with Blender); and then the resulting works, including documents of Second Life performances and re-mappings back into "first life" spaces with dancers and other live performers. The final part of the workshop will include avatar performance by Sondheim, Baldwin, and other participants in Second Life. From: sudweeks_at_murdoch.edu.au Subject: CFP: Cultural Attitudes towards Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:07:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 538 (538) Technology and Communication (CATaC'08) CALL FOR PAPERS ICTs Bridging Cultures? Theories, Obstacles, Best Practices 6th International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC08) 24-27 June 2008 Universite de Nîmes, France Conference languages: English and French www.catacconference.org The biennial CATaC conference series - 10 years old in 2008! - provides a premier international forum for current research on how diverse cultural elements shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives in their presentations and discussions of the conference theme and topics (listed below). Nîmes, inhabited by Celts since the 4th ct. B.C.E., became a Gallo-Roman city in 18 BCE, and is home to some of the best-preserved examples of Roman engineering and architecture. The Pont de Gard, an aquaduct bridge across the Gard river, serves as our primary metaphor for CATaC 2008: ICTs as technologies bridging cultures. Our venue in multi-cultural Nîmes further provides us with a number of cultural experiences and pleasures unique to the South of France. Finally, CATaC 2008 emphasizes francophone participation in a number of ways, including, translation provided for abstracts in French and English, and for questions and answers following presentations. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. TOPICS include but are not limited to: - Language as a core issue in cultural diversity with IT: are languages shaping a new IT world? - CMC as fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity - Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing "culture" and its impact on the use and implementation of ICTs - ICTs in the francophone world, including: influences of francophone usages globally and cross-cultural comparisons - Beyond glocalization and homogenization: new mixtures of identities and cultures as facilitated by ICTs - Empowerment and CMC, including issues of gender, languages and power (economic, political, social) - Values, ethics, justice, and ICTS - Cultural and linguistic diversity and e-learning SUBMISSIONS All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. Submission of a paper implies that it has not been submitted or published elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. Schedule: - Full papers (maximum 15 formatted pages) - 14 January 2008 - Short and panel papers (3-5 formatted pages) - 21 January 2008 - Notification of acceptance - mid February 2008 - Final formatted papers - 28 February 2008 The review process will be handled electronically through a review system, linked to the conference website. Papers may be submitted in either French or English. We strongly encourage submissions to include abstracts both in French and English, since accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings with abstracts in both languages. We will translate abstracts if necessary. Accepted papers must be formatted according to the conference proceedings template (download from www.catacconference.org). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS The keynote speakers are Marie-Françoise Narcy-Combes, University of Nantes, and Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes, University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle. Their topic is "Local Eyes for Global Vision: Can human intelligence and technology help?" PANELS The program includes a number of panels: - Culture and psychology (Chair: Professor Alexander Voiskounsky, Moscow State University, Russia) - Beyond Hall, Hofstede, and 'Culture' (Chairs: Connie Kampf, University of Aarhus, Denmark and Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, Thames Valley University, UK) (Additional panel proposals will be considered.) ACCOMMODATION Accommodation details are on the conference website. Be aware that Nîmes is a very popular vacation destination in June and July so accommodation will need to be booked as early as possible. SPONSORS Universite de Nîmes Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de Montpellier Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Bèziers CONFERENCE CHAIRS Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, catac_at_it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac_at_it.murdoch.edu.au CONFERENCE VICE CHAIR Marie-Christine Deyrich, IUFM de Montpellier, France, marie-christine.deyrich_at_montpellier.iufm.fr PROGRAM CHAIR Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria From: Willard McCarty Subject: designing an intelligent system (natural) Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:29:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 539 (539) In the Liber Amicorum, a festschrift for Prof.dr. H. Jaap van den Herik published this year on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Don Beal concludes his brief contribution, "Intelligent Systems, Artificial and Natural", by drawing our attention to the notion of collective intelligence. He notes that, "Human institutions vary in the degree of collective intelligence they exhibit. Worthwhile though they are, some human institutions perform mainly routine functions, not requiring much collective intelligence, even though they may rely heavily on intelligent staff within them in order to function" (pp. 3-4). He then turns to the contributions of the man honoured, Jaap van den Herik, the most important of which, he says, "is Jaap's role in that collective human intelligence that is the world's universities. He has built intelligent systems, originally at Delft and then at Maastricht, that delivered as their outputs dozens of PhDs. These intelligent systems react to the humans who enter the postgraduate program, provide their research needs, inform and guide their research, and eventually accrete the graduate into humanity's collective brain" (p. 4). The intelligence of these social systems, Beal writes, "lies partly in the individual intelligences of the peoples embedded in them, but also in the emergent collective intelligence of the whole enterprise." In considering our programmes of instruction, we would be well advised, I think, to look on them, to design them as intelligent systems, not relying merely on the fact that they are stocked with very smart people (one assumes). Beal's observation that such a system may itself be quite stupid is a sobering one. Perhaps one needs a certain kind of society in order to focus sufficient effort into forging such intellectual collectivity and to bring it about in a way that would not stifle creative work but nurture it. (Social consensus is, I understand, commonly identified as a Dutch virtue.) I suspect it's much more difficult in some national societies than it is in others. But even so, it's difficult not to conclude that PhD programmes capable of intellectual collectivization would be training students to give back to their societies something as valuable as the work they are paid to do. There has to be more to it than simply working together with others during the PhD and afterwards. If there were not, then such praise as Beal gives to van den Herik's administrative work would be commonplace in the sciences. But this seems not to be the case. Or are our scientific colleagues better off in this respect? Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Charles Ess Subject: 2nd CFP: CATaC'08 Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:44:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 540 (540) Dear Humanists - please distribute to pertinent colleagues, students, lists - with apologies for cross-postings - CALL FOR PAPERS ICTs Bridging Cultures? Theories, Obstacles, Best Practices 6th International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC08) 24-27 June 2008 Universite de Nîmes, France Conference languages: English and French www.catacconference.org The biennial CATaC conference series - 10 years old in 2008! - provides a premier international forum for current research on how diverse cultural elements shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives in their presentations and discussions of the conference theme and topics (listed below). Nîmes, inhabited by Celts since the 4th ct. B.C.E., became a Gallo-Roman city in 18 BCE, and is home to some of the best-preserved examples of Roman engineering and architecture. The Pont de Gard, an aquaduct bridge across the Gard river, serves as our primary metaphor for CATaC 2008: ICTs as technologies bridging cultures. Our venue in multi-cultural Nîmes further provides us with a number of cultural experiences and pleasures unique to the South of France. Finally, CATaC 2008 emphasizes francophone participation in a number of ways, including, translation provided for abstracts in French and English, and for questions and answers following presentations. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. TOPICS include but are not limited to: - Language as a core issue in cultural diversity with IT: are languages shaping a new IT world? - CMC as fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity - Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing "culture" and its impact on the use and implementation of ICTs - ICTs in the francophone world, including: influences of francophone usages globally and cross-cultural comparisons - Beyond glocalization and homogenization: new mixtures of identities and cultures as facilitated by ICTs - Empowerment and CMC, including issues of gender, languages and power (economic, political, social) - Values, ethics, justice, and ICTS - Cultural and linguistic diversity and e-learning SUBMISSIONS All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. Submission of a paper implies that it has not been submitted or published elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. Schedule: - Full papers (maximum 15 formatted pages) - 14 January 2008 - Short and panel papers (3-5 formatted pages) - 21 January 2008 - Notification of acceptance - mid February 2008 - Final formatted papers - 28 February 2008 The review process will be handled electronically through a review system, linked to the conference website. Papers may be submitted in either French or English. We strongly encourage submissions to include abstracts both in French and English, since accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings with abstracts in both languages. We will translate abstracts if necessary. Accepted papers must be formatted according to the conference proceedings template (download from www.catacconference.org). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS The keynote speakers are Marie-Françoise Narcy-Combes, University of Nantes, and Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes, University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle. Their topic is "Local Eyes for Global Vision: Can human intelligence and technology help?" PANELS The program includes a number of panels: - Culture and psychology (Chair: Professor Alexander Voiskounsky, Moscow State University, Russia) - Beyond Hall, Hofstede, and 'Culture' (Chairs: Connie Kampf, University of Aarhus, Denmark and Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, Thames Valley University, UK) (Additional panel proposals will be considered.) ACCOMMODATION Accommodation details are on the conference website. Be aware that Nîmes is a very popular vacation destination in June and July so accommodation will need to be booked as early as possible. SPONSORS Universite de Nîmes Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de Montpellier Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Bèziers CONFERENCE CHAIRS Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, catac_at_it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac_at_it.murdoch.edu.au CONFERENCE VICE CHAIR Marie-Christine Deyrich, IUFM de Montpellier, France, marie-christine.deyrich_at_montpellier.iufm.fr PROGRAM CHAIR Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: 21.390 machines don't care Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:54:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 541 (541) In the best spirit of Humanist, Eric's refining of my musings on "machines don't care" takes the discussion forward by pointing out the obvious, that we can as a matter of perceived necessity or otherwise steel ourselves against feeling. We can become in effect less complex beings, even verge on a robotic state of purely bio-mechanical action, as soldiers do in parade. When, say, we act as a surgeon, or a policeman, or a bank teller, or indeed as a university teacher (who officially should not care about a student's personal difficulties, at least up to a point), what distinguishes us from the machine that can now or will, perhaps, replace us someday? Isn't it the point at which we step out of the role Eric speaks of, the point at which the policeman steps outside of his or her official set of constraints and helps the person in trouble directly? When Western Europeans (I assume sometime in the 17C) first encountered the great apes, a fair amount of anxiety was generated because of the obvious similarities, raising the obvious question of what the differences were. (See Swift's Gulliver's Travels.) Now primatologists study how much we are like the apes, and some people argue that we'd be much better off if we were more like them. Still it's the difference that is of interest. When humans do something bestial, what makes it so? What makes the bestial action so much worse than the same action performed by beasts? I come back to my revised Turing Test: can the unknown actor step outside the robotic role and display empathy? This has to be a rather subtle test, as we know from Joseph Weizenbaum's Eliza. How would we know? Yours, WM From: abrook Subject: Re: 21.390 machines don't care Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:43:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 542 (542) Dear Eric and Willard, There are levels and levels of not caring. The problem with machines is that the machine itself contains no restricts of any kind on how it is used. Exactly the same technology is used to administer life-saving transfusions and (in the US) lethal injections. For the machine, it is all the same. This, if I remember correctly, was a main reason why Heidegger was so hostile to the increasing enslavement of industrial countries by their technologies -- computer technologies and the internet, for example. It is the substitution of purposelessness for purpose, emotionlessness for emotion, utter lack of sociality for social connectedness, and so on. 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: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 21.387 machines don't care Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:43:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 543 (543) Dear Willard, Has someone pointed you to Richard Powers excellent novel about AI "Galatea 2.2". The narrator, Powers his unreliable self, and others accept a challenge to develop an AI that can pass an English MA comprehensive. Along the way Powers looks at the Turing Test and its ethical dimension - would we deny humanity to someone whose disabilities made them unable to pass a Turning test? I won't spoil the end, but the caring and love of an AI is the twist that animates the ending. If you could create such an AI so it cared, what would it think about itself and its inability to physically express its love? What makes the novel particularly interesting is its realism - Powers studied at the University of Illinois, was a programmer, and returned to U of Illinois as a writer-in-residence - an experience that he plays with for Galatea 2.2 to the point you can almost believe it happened. That this account reads so authentically about academic life and research make it all the more compelling as a essay on the ethics of AI. It is about what some of us may be doing already. I should also mention a short story by Powers, called "Literary Devices" Zoetrope: All-Story (Winter 2002, Vol. 6, No. 4). The blurb on the Zoetrope site (where you can order it) reads: "Richard Powers speculates about the narrative complications of the digital age. By invitation of an anonymous e-mail, his narrator tests a computer program, DIALOGOS, which weaves its stories from bits of data around the web, without any central authorship. He sends out e- mails into the DIALOGOS void-- to Emma Thompson, to an estranged friend, to Goethe, to Emily Dickinson. Each missive is returned with implausible accuracy. In time, the narrator gets lost in DIALOGOS, and wonders if he has lost touch with reality or if the reality of narrative has in fact been changed." I haven't been able to find DIALOGOS, but not for lack of trying. Perhaps I have lost touch with reality. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Willard McCarty Subject: cognitive science like alchemy? Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:55:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 544 (544) Dear colleagues, I have rattling around in my head fragments of a quotation, which I think is from Richard Rorty but cannot find in his works, to the effect that one day neurobiology will do to cognitive science what chemistry did to alchemy. The parallel is rather commonly made, for example by John Searle, and comparing an intellectual practice you don't like to alchemy is hardly rare. But the words I remember reading were a particularly economical and effective way of asserting a person's belief that cognitive science is a folk-science. This note is *not* intended to provoke ferocious debate about the solidity of cognitive science or lack of same, though that might be quite enjoyable. I merely want to get the quotation right and correctly attributed. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ From: Leo Robert Klein Subject: Announcing DRUPAL4LIB, a ListServ for Librarians Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:39:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 545 (545) Interested in Drupal Hi All, I'm pleased to announce a new ListServ for librarians called 'DRUPAL4LIB'. As the name implies, 'DRUPAL4LIB' is for those interested in Drupal, a popular open-source CMS, as it relates to libraries and librarians. The idea is to have a forum to exchange ideas and advice, share experiences, and maybe even collaborate on a couple of projects that highlight the use of Drupal in a library context. The ever helpful Cary Gordon has kindly agreed to serve as "moderator" along with your's truly. SUBSCRIBE Send the command 'SUBSCRIBE DRUPAL4LIB First_name Last_name' in the body of an email to LISTSERV_at_LISTSERV.UIC.EDU. Alternatively you can subscribe by selecting 'Join or Leave the DRUPAL4LIB List' from the DRUPAL4LIB Archives Page: http://listserv.uic.edu/archives/drupal4lib.html Everyone is welcome, whether beginner or pro! LEO -- ------------------- www.leoklein.com (site) www.ChicagoLibrarian.com (blog) aim/msn/yhoo/goog: 'leorobertklein' -- ------------------------------- -- From: abrook Subject: cognitive science like alchemy? Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:09:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 546 (546) Williard, this sounds like the Churchlands to me, probably Patti, she is better with the pithy phrase. From where? A problem. It could be any one of twenty places. Andrew Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] -- 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: "Ayhan Aytes" Subject: Re: 21.396 cognitive science like alchemy? Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:11:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 547 (547) Dear Willard McCarty, Would that be Hubert Dreyfus? He indeed have an article with the title "Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence" published in 1964. Ayhan Aytes PhD Program inCommunication UCSD -- A y h a n A y t e s Doctoral Student University of California San Diego Department of Communication <http://AyhanAytes.net/>http://AyhanAytes.net/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: capacious memories & sufficient organizing ability Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:12:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 548 (548) In his A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive (1843), obtainable in its entirely from The Online Library of Liberty (http://oll.libertyfund.org/), John Stuart Mill, arguing against Aristotle, writes that the successive general propositions of a syllogism are not steps in reasoning nor intermediate links in a chain of inference but mechanisms we require because of the natural constraints of the minds we have. He goes on: [deleted quotation]Now that we have "sufficiently capacious memories, and a sufficient power of maintaining order among a huge mass of details", though artificial, where are we in respect of this argument? What has happened to these inferential formulae, and how has it happened? Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: amsler_at_cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 21.397 capacious memories & sufficient organizing ability Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:41:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 549 (549) We now have computers proving mathematical theorems in which the proof is so voluminious when written out that it cannot be followed by human beings. Whereas before a proof had to be "elegant" by elimination of enumeration as a step, we now can have computers use enumeration of thousands of special cases and their individual proofs well beyond what human beings would consider a successful methodology. In a larger sense, the problem is that the proofs will become inaccessible to humans as a means of studying the growth of knowledge. They will have to be accepted. There was a similar dilemma facing early artificial intelligence investigators at MIT. I believe it was Samuel's Checker playing software which could beat human beings--but whose logic for making moves was inaccessible becasue it wasn't based on a theory that could be explained. This approach was rejected by Marvin Minsky because he noted that it did not reveal to us anything about the game of Checkers. This is the larger dilemma facing us. If we build computer software that can use pure statistical modeling to predict results we may know the answers without being able to understand why those are the answers. Quoting "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" : [deleted quotation] From: Methnet Subject: Second Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing in Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:19:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 550 (550) There are still some space available for this workshop. To register, please complete the registration form on the SOSoRNet website: <http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk>http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk and email it to Connie Bao (haoying.bao_at_kcl.ac.uk) A joint workshop of the EPSRC Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNet) and the AHRC ICT Methods Network on 17 - 18 December 2007 at King's College London. A key message to emerge from the first SOCH workshop (<http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/act17.html>http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/act17.html), held at King's one year ago, is that communities of practice in the humanities are increasingly turning to service-oriented approaches as their data becomes ever more complex and dispersed. This second event will seek to provide those researchers a forum for intensive discussion, framed by a highly focused group of international speakers from the cutting edge of service-oriented research as applied to the humanities (with examples from music, archaeology and medieval history); as well as from academics working with tools and resources that have the potential to develop new research methodologies based around the service-oriented approach. The programme of invited speakers will include: - David de Roure, University of Southampton - mc schraefel, University of Southampton - Michael Meredith, University of Sheffield - Stuart Jeffrey, Archaeology Data Service - Xavier Llora, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This workshop is likely to be of interest to any humanist researcher working with, or interested in, advanced network technologies, as well as to computer scientists who are interested in learning more about this new and rapidly developing area of application. Participation is free and open to all, but registration is essential. To register, please complete the registration form on the sosornet website: <http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk>http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk and email it to Connie Bao (haoying.bao_at_kcl.ac.uk). About SOSoRNet -------------- SOSorNet (<http://sosornet.dcs.kcl.ac.uk>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 Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: daniele radicioni Subject: FOMI 2008 - Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:43:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 551 (551) Second Call for Papers FOMI 2008 - 3rd Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry 5-6 June, 2008, Torino, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS Conference web site: http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it Proceedings published by IOS Press, http://www.iospress.nl/ This event is jointly organized by: - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento - University of Torino - University of Verona CONFERENCE AIMS FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and industrial practitioners meet to analyze and discuss issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. There is today wide agreement that knowledge modeling and the semantic dimension of information plays an increasingly central role in networked economy: semantic-based applications are relevant in distributed systems such as networked organizations, organizational networks, and in distributed knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim to provide a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same organization. New tools and applications have been and are being developed in diverse application fields, ranging from business to medicine, from engineering to finance, from law to electronics. All these systems have exploited the theoretical results and the practical experience of previous work. In all cases, it has been shown that formal ontologies play a central role in describing in a common and understandable way the logical and practical features of the application domain. The success of the methodologies associated with knowledge modeling and ontologies led to increased need of a comparison between different approaches and results, with the aim of evaluating the interdependencies between theories and methods of formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs of enterprise organizations. The FOMI 08 Workshop aims to advance in this direction by bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in ontology application, paying particular attention to the topics listed below. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: regularities in law-less practices Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:03:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 552 (552) In an important new book, Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives, ed. Angela Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck and Norton Wise (Duke, 2007), the several authors collected together here consider how a range of disciplines achieve their coherence and explanatory power not on the basis of abstract laws but by developing exemplary objects. These disciplines range from the biological sciences (in which model organisms fulfill that role), through economics (with its game theorizing based e.g. on The Prisoner's Dilemma), to anthropology (specific ritual practices) and, as Carlo Ginzburg calls it, microhistory. It's a brilliant collection of essays, each of which would make for a good discussion, but to keep this brief and at least close to the humanities, I'll mention only Clifford Geertz's piece on anthropological ritual and Ginzburg's on the life-history of a late 17C merchant, Jean-Pierre Purry. The question I want to work toward here is this: what exemplary models might we be developing in humanities computing? Geertz, in "'To exist is to have confidence in one's way of being': Rituals as model systems", surveys the rituals that have emerged from the beginnings of anthropology, concentrating on Malinowski's Trobriand kula and Turner's Ndembu mukanda. His title relates not primarily to what we have learned about particular rituals in culturally if not geographically distant societies but to what ritual did and does, for those societies and for us -- providing, as he says at the end, "a model system of a particular way of engaging with the real, of worlding the world" (222). From a disciplinary perspective, the crucial point in the development of anthropology came when ritual changed from a question to a means of seeking answers: "From being an object *to* study, a sort of sociological natural kind, it became an object to study *with*, a means and a modality: the microscope, not the bug under it" (213). Particular rituals became "model systems" -- cases which gained a stability and transferrability that made them common disciplinary tools to think with. Ginzburg, in "Latitude, Slaves, and the Bible", traces his inspiration for microhistorical writing to Eric Auerbach's strategy of developing "Ansatzpunkte", concrete details from which global processes can be reconstructed. Ginzburg asks, "can an individual case, if explored in depth, be theoretically relevant?" (679f). The microhistory of Purry's adventurous life constitutes, one might say, something like John Milton's use of his own autobiography "in specie aeternitatis", as a means to reflect on the eternal or transpersonal correlate of a particular mortal career -- a particular man as a means of glimpsing human kind, or man as Man, to use older terminology. Like Milton Ginzburg does this by connecting Purry's recorded thoughts and actions with the biblical narrative according to which he consciously lived his life. Ginzburg uses that life as an exemplification of a broad historical reality, connecting the one to the other through common participation not so much in beliefs as in a way of thinking. Had Northrop Frye been alive when this collection of essays was assembled, my guess is that he would have contributed an essay, connected to the rest, as may be obvious, through Ginzburg's brilliant argument. Unfortunately literary criticism is not represented here, though it could have been by adding what Frye called literary archetypes to the list of methodological entities in the subtitle of Science without Laws. What cases do we have to think with? I've repeatedly argued that one should not think in terms of models but modelling, i.e. the restless process of computing rather than any software product, and on occasion I've approvingly cited Alan Perlis' epigrammatic question: "Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?" (74, http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html). Yet clearly we are not adrift on a sea of constant change. Particular software models may be soap-bubbly, but exemplary studies, which inform all work that follows them, we do have. In the area of statistical analysis of literature, one thinks immediately of Mosteller and Wallace. What others would you name? In the technical area of text-encoding, the TEI would seem to be a model system -- one might say, a certain kind of ritual by which text is made intelligible within the computational world. Relational database design would seem to be another, a "data model", as we say. The KWIC concordance yet another. In each case we name not a product but a kind of stable intellectual object. Is John Burrows' Delta another one of these? Let me end by quoting the final paragraph from Science without Laws, from Mary S. Morgan's Afterword: [deleted quotation]scientists of [deleted quotation]to provide [deleted quotation]Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: RE: 21.400 capacious memories & sufficient organizing ability Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:24:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 553 (553) Intriguing, all of this ; developments we'd indeed do well to keep an eye on, it seems to me. [deleted quotation]I really wish I had a good answer off the top of my head. I'm certainly not myself anything like expert in such matters, and in fact too incompetent even to think of trying to offer any meaningful response. But I note that fortunately there are places where one might be able to look for a bit of informed guidance. As far as *deduction* is concerned, one might well turn, for example, to the writings of someone like Wolfgang Bibel, maybe starting with his (invited talk) "Early history and perspectives of automated deduction", which has just appeared on p.2-18 of _KI 2007 : Advances in artificial intelligence : 30th Annual German conference on AI, Osnabr=FCck, Germany, September 10-13, 2007, Proceedings_ / Joachim Hertzberg [et al.] (eds.) (_Lecture notes in computer science_ ; 4667) (Berlin / Heidelberg : Springer, 2007) (ISBN 978-3-540-74564-8). In the same series you've also got the much bigger pill from a conference two months earlier : _Automated deduction - CADE-21 : 21st International conference on automated deduction, Bremen, Germany, July 17-20, 2007, Proceedings_ / Frank Pfenning (ed.) (_Lecture notes in computer science_ ; 4603) (Springer, 2007) (ISBN 978-3-540-73594-6). An older look-to-the-future may also be worth checking on : D.W. Loveland, "Automated deduction looking ahead", _AI Magazine_ 20.1 (1999), p.77-98. I'd also recommend D. Hutter's article "Deduction as an engineering science", in _Electronic notes in theoretical computer science_ 86.1 (2003), p.3-10 ; and B. Gramlich's "Strategic issues, problems and challenges in inductive theorem proving", in the same periodical 125.2 (2005), p.5-43. Interesting and relevant in a more general way is Arkoudas and Bringsjord's very recent "Computers, justification, and mathematical knowledge", in _Minds and machines_ 17.2 (2007), p.185-202. Certainly also Tyler Burge's "Computer proof, a priori knowledge, and other minds: the Sixth _Philosophical perspectives_ lecture", in _Philosophical perspectives_ 12 (1998), p.1-37. Also worth looking at is the (mathematics-oriented) "Platonism, constructivism, and computer proofs vs. proofs by hand", by Yuri Gurevich, which appeared (in augmented form) in _Current trends in theoretical computer science : entering the 21st century_ / ed. by G.Paun [et al.] (Singapore : World Scientific, 2001), p.281-302. More possibilities, without going into really technical stuff or too far back in time : Donald MacKenzie, _Mechanizing proof : computing, risk, and trust_ (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001) (ISBN 0-262-13393-8), and the critical review of that book by Otavio Bueno & Jody Azzouni in _Philosophia mathematica_ 13.3 (2005), p.319-325 ; and Samuel R. Buss [et al.], "The prospects for mathematical logic in the twenty- first century", in _Bulletin of symbolic logic_ 7.2 (2001), p. 169-196. There are other good things available, but that ought to be enough for those curious about such questions to get started. (Alas I don't myself have the time these days to follow them and similar things up, but -- like Willard -- I'd sure like to hear more from anyone who has a handle on these matters.) - Laval Hunsucker U. v. Amsterdam From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: SDH/SEMI 2008 Call for papers / Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:25:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 554 (554) Appel de communications [14 December submission deadline] Reminder: Proposals will be accepted until 14 December 2007. The URL for submissions to SDH/SEMI 2008 is http://www.sdh-semi.org/registration/. Thinking Beyond Borders: The Promise of Computing for the Humanities Penser au-delà des frontières : les promesses de l’informatique en sciences humaines 2008 Rencontre annuelle de la Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs/ Society for Digital Humanities 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs La Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SEMI/SDH) invite les universitaires (professeurs et étudiants d’études supérieures) à soumettre des propositions de séance ou de communication pour sa rencontre annuelle, les 2 et 3 juin 2008 dans le cadre du Congrès des sciences humaines à l’Université de British Columbia. Les propositions de communication ou de séance seront acceptées jusqu’au 14 décembre 2007. L’adresse à laquelle envoyer les propositions est http://www.sdh-semi.org/registration/. The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) invites proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held June 2 - 3 at the 2008 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia. Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until December 14, 2007. The URL for submissions to SDH/SEMI 2008 is http://www.sdh-semi.org/registration/. --- Call for Papers Thinking Beyond Borders: The Promise of Computing for the Humanities 2008 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 June 2 - 3 at the 2008 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia. The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress "Thinking Beyond Borders" or our society’s sub-theme "the promise of computing for the Humanities." Computing in the humanities has long been synonymous with interdisciplinary work, whether research, scholarship, teaching, or some combination of those elements. With such a strong history of thinking beyond traditional disciplinary borders, the digital humanities offers immense promise for the future. And while digital technology has enabled us to think beyond the borders of our respective academic disciplines, it has also enabled us to think beyond the borders of the local and even the global campus. That is, networking and collaboration have become viable between multiple scholars working at multiple institutions, but they have also enabled the participation of non-scholars working outside the purview of academia. Nor are the borders between creators and collaborators the only borders we can now routinely think beyond; the products of our intellectual labour now more readily cross the traditional border between town and gown. While this year’s Congress theme seems particularly well suited to the interests of SDH/SEMI, we encourage submissions on all topics relating to both theory and praxis in the evolving fields of digital humanities. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Humanities computing as an means of bridging disciplinary communities Reports on / plans to establish networks within and beyond academia Facility and large project management Crossing the border from the physical to the virtual The computer as a generative or analytical tool in humanities research Humanities computing and pedagogy Crossing the border from material to digital culture (or vice versa) Computer enabled / supported collaboration Computer modeling in humanities research The history and future of humanities computing / digital humanities Computing in the fine, performing, and new media arts SDH/SEMI is working with other national societies, including the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), the Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC), and the Association for the Study of Book Culture/Association canadienne pour l’étude de l’histoire du livre (ASBC/ACEH), to once again present joint sessions. Proposals for inclusion in a joint session should indicate such a preference. All submissions to SDH/SEMI will be considered to be eligible for inclusion in a joint session or in independent SDH/SEMI sessions. Those wishing to submit their proposal through one of the associations with which SDH/SEMI will collaborate must follow the submission requirements of the specific association. There is some funding available to support graduate student participation, and in keeping with the forward-looking nature of SDH/SEMI graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit. Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until December 14, 2007. Presentation at the conference is available to all members of SDH/SEMI and other groups in the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organisations. Presentation in joint sessions is open to those who hold a membership in at least one of the participating associations. Membership in SDH/SEMI is available on-line at SDH/SEMI (2007) & Oxford Journals (2008). Abstracts/proposals should include the following information: 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 clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and conclusion. The URL for submissions to SDH/SEMI 2008 is http://www.sdh-semi.org/registration/. Please address questions to one of the addresses below: Ray Siemens, Conference Committee Co-Chair siemens[at]uvic.ca or Richard Cunningham, Conference Committee Co-Chair richard.cunningham[at]acadiau.ca Appel de communications Penser au-delà des frontières : les promesses de l’informatique en sciences humaines 2008 Rencontre annuelle 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 universitaires (professeurs et étudiants d’études supérieures) à soumettre des propositions de séance ou de communication pour sa rencontre annuelle, les 2 et 3 juin 2008 dans le cadre du Congrès des sciences humaines à l’Université de British Columbia. La société voudrait encourager tout spécialement les propositions qui se rapprochent du thème du congrès «Penser au-delà des frontières» ou de son sous-thème : «Les promesses de l’informatique en sciences humaines». L’informatique en sciences humaines a longtemps été synonyme de travail interdisciplinaire, tant au plan de la recherche qu’à ceux des programmes d’études ou d’enseignement. Solidement ancrée dans son habitude de penser en dehors des frontières disciplinaires, l’informatique en sciences humaines offre plein de promesses. En plus de nous permettre de penser au-delà des frontières de nos disciplines respectives, la technologie numérique nous permet aussi de penser au-delà des frontières du campus local et même global. Le réseautage et la collaboration sont devenus viables entre de nombreux universitaires travaillant dans une variété d’institutions et favorisent aussi la participation de chercheurs qui travaillent en dehors de la sphère universitaire. Enfin, les frontières entre créateurs et collaborateurs ne sont pas les seules que nous puissions envisager de dépasser : nos productions intellectuelles traversent maintenant plus facilement la frontière qui séparait traditionnellement le bureau de la maison. Même si le thème du Congrès 2008 semble particulièrement bien adapté aux intérêts de la SEMI/SDH, nous encourageons toute proposition dans des domaines reliés aussi bien à la théorie qu’à la pratique dans l’informatique en sciences humaines. Cela inclut les thèmes suivants, sans que cette liste soit fermée : Informatique en sciences humaines comme moyen de créer des ponts entre les disciplines Projets de réseaux ou comptes rendus d’expériences à l’intérieur des milieux universitaires et au-delà Gestion d’installations et de grands projets Passer la frontière du physique au virtuel L’ordinateur comme outil d’analyse dans la recherche en sciences humaines Informatique en sciences humaines et pédagogie Passer la frontière de la culture matérielle au monde numérique (ou vice versa) Collaboration appuyée sur l’ordinateur Modélisation informatique dans la recherche en sciences humaines Histoire et avenir de l’informatique en sciences humaines Informatique dans les beaux-arts, les arts de performance et les nouveaux médias La SDH/SEMI travaille en collaboration avec d’autres sociétés nationales, notamment la Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), la Société Bibliographique du Canada (BSC), et l’Association canadienne pour l’étude de l’histoire du livre (ASBC/ACEH) afin de présenter des séances conjointes. Toute proposition soumise pour une séance conjointe devrait le préciser. Toutes les propositions à la SDH/SEMI seront considérées comme susceptibles d’être incluses dans une séance conjointe ou dans une séance indépendante. Les personnes désireuses de soumettre leur proposition via une des associations avec lesquelles nous collaborons doivent suivre les règlements de celles-ci. Les étudiants de maîtrise et de doctorat sont vivement encouragés à faire une proposition. Un budget est prévu pour fournir un soutien financier à leur participation, conformément au caractère dynamique des visées de notre association. Les propositions de communication ou de séance seront acceptées jusqu’au 14 décembre 2007. Nous acceptons des propositions de tous les membres de la SDH/SEMI et des autres groupes membres de l’Alliance for Digital Humanities Organisations. La présentation dans des séances conjointes est réservée à ceux et celles qui sont membres d’au moins une des associations participantes. On peut devenir membre de la SDH/SEMI en allant sur le site SDH/SEMI (2007) & Oxford Journals. Les résumés ou propositions de séance devraient inclure les renseignements suivants : titre de la communication; nom de l’auteur; adresse postale et courriel complète; affiliation institutionnelle et rang professoral de l’auteur, le cas échéant; besoins en équipement audio-visuel. Les résumés de communication devraient indiquer clairement la thèse, la méthodologie et la conclusion. L’adresse à laquelle envoyer les propositions est http://www.sdh-semi.org/registration/. Prière d’adresser toute question à l’une des adresses ci-dessous : Ray Siemens, Co-Chaise du comité du congrès siemens[at]uvic.ca ou Richard Cunningham, Co-Chaise du comité du congrès richard.cunningham[at]acadiau.ca From: Willard McCarty Subject: an editorial plea Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:49:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 555 (555) Dear colleagues, This is a plea from your editor, who for noble reasons hereby puts on the robe of the long-suffering, self-sacrificing public servant. (I do not in fact suffer. Rather I get annoyed. And I'd hardly say that editing Humanist is an act of self-sacrifice, though some of my time goes to the care of Humanist that might be spent drinking coffee and checking out my neighbours, or whatever. But please assume for now that I am wearing said robe, play along with me and see what emotions and consequent actions result.) Some contributors to Humanist, whose identities will not be revealed, compose their postings in a wordprocessor, using all the glories of its formatting options (bullet-points, proper quotation marks &c &c), and then paste the result directly into their e-mail client and send it off. What said individuals apparently do not realise is that in doing so they paste in all sorts of proprietary formatting codes that my software doesn't like, i.e. these codes become visible nonsense to me. I then have to take the content of each of these messages, massage it with a text-editor, then paste the corrected content back into my e-mail client for the actual posting. Sometimes several search-and-replace operations are involved. Frankly it's a hassle. Now while I admit that suffering this hassle may improve my soul, teach me patience and love for my fellow human beings great enough to surmount considerable annoyance with them, I'd rather not be improved in such ways early each morning. As I'm sure everyone knows, ordinary life comes up with quite enough improving tests of that sort. Rumour has it that improved software for Humanist will come along someday soon. Perhaps then I will be shielded from the slings and arrows of outrageous formatting. I will let you know when I feel thus protected, and then you can try your worst. But meanwhile, please, take care with your special effects. Such care will be felt, and this, I think, will work marvellous improvements to my ability to maintain emotional equilibrium. Who knows, joy might even follow. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Randy Radney Subject: Re: 21.398 cognitive science like alchemy Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:55:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 556 (556) MIght I suggest: Dembski? NOTE: "Cognitive science is legitimate science when it takes an unprejudiced view of the relation between computation and intelligence. Nevertheless, since cognitive scientists as a group are notorious for deciding the issue in advance, I shall henceforth refer to cognitive science qua science as the science of cognition. Thus I shall use the phrase cognitive science pejoratively, implying that science and philosophy have been conflated because intelligence was prejudged as a form of computation. My view is that cognitive science stands to the science of cognition much as alchemy stood to chemistry. Certainly the alchemist's appeal to magic renders him more ridiculous to modern eyes than the cognitive scientist's appeal to a well-established materialist philosophy. But to my mind the cognitive scientist's conflation of philosophy and science is no less damaging to the science of cognition than the alchemist's conflation of magic and science was to chemistry. The fault of the cognitive scientist does not lie in his being simultaneously a philosopher and a scientist, but in not telling us when he is serving in which capacity. My purpose in this article is to untease that tangled web of philosophy and science which constitutes cognitive science." This quoted paragraph may be found at <http://www.origins.org/ articles/dembski_alchemy.html> Cheers, radney (J. Randolph Radney, Ph. D. radney_at_twu.ca) From: Willard McCarty Subject: computing's effects on popular language Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:51:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 557 (557) Two examples (not from cognitive science) of how intimately computing has affected the language we use: (1) an advert on a bus for some insecticide that would "debug" your house; (2) an unsolicited e-mail promising to change my "male device size". The latter of these is grist for Ian Hacking's latest mill, for which see "Our Neo-Cartesian Bodies in Parts", Critical Inquiry 24 (Autumn 2007): 78-105. Other examples? Until now I thought that scanning the spam I get was without its rewards. I now know differently. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 21.400 capacious memories & sufficient organizing ability Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:55:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 558 (558) After reading Ian Beardley's _Decoding the Universe_ I am of the mind that this property of knowing answers without understanding them is one not unique to computers, although quantum physics and the computer are very closely connected via information theory. We do not understand why atomic particles behave as they do (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition), but we are able to do pretty amazing computations because they behave in predictable patterns, however strange or unintuitive. There is a strong epistemological question here, however. Computers seem to offer a choice to humans about the way they will understand time and space; quantum information doesn't give us a choice -- it behaves how it behaves and that's it. But we are in an era where people are looking for the existence of quantum computers. Have we assumed wrongly that the computer mirrors human thought when in fact it may mirror something more fundamental (ie. quantum motion/behavior)? Perhaps we do not have a choice at all? Ryan. . . From: Willard McCarty Subject: more on the editorial plea Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:54:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 559 (559) Dear colleagues, Joe Raben reasonably asks in the following what would help in the processing of Humanist messages. I think the answer is (at the risk of saying something that is imprecise) PLAIN TEXT, by which I mean unformatted text in any language using the Roman alphabet. Since almost all text in Humanist is in English anyhow, the only common enhancement comes via names, about which I am of course not complaining. My only complaint is with formatting, the source of which, I'd guess, is in 99.99...% of the cases due to Microsoft Word. If I am in any doubt about text I am using in composing a message, I run it through a plain-text-only editor first. My favourite editor is the Programmer's File Editor, a simple, fast and elegant piece of work, but it is no longer supported, so I can hardly recommend it. Perhaps others here will have recommendations for editors that show more or less exactly what one is getting? Yours, WM [deleted quotation]that sort. [deleted quotation]Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 8.49 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:06:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 560 (560) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 49 December 11, 2007 -- December 17, 2007 Techniques of Persuasive Communication: Old Wisdom in a New Package Information science and technology professionals should be familiar with all the important laws of communication, and our old friend Phil Yaffe has devised an important new one which he modestly calls Yaffe's Law: "If you give people what they want first, then they are likely to accept anything else you want them to have. If you give them what you want first, chances are they won't accept anything at all." See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i49_yaffe.html> From: Jørgen Villadsen Subject: 5th International Workshop on Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:56:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 561 (561) Constraints and Language Processing CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008) http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008.html August 11-15, 2008 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4-15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany Workshop Organizers: Philippe Blache (Provence University, France) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), co-chair henning_at_ruc.dk Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Jørgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), co-chair jv_at_imm.dtu.dk Workshop Purpose: The CSLP 2008 workshop addresses the question of constraints and language processing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: natural language processing, knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. The purpose is to pursue a paradigm, unifying the different approaches into a common framework capable of explaining how constraints play a role in representing, processing and acquiring linguistic information, and this from a formal, technical, and cognitive perspective. Workshop Topics: The topics include, but are not limited to, constraint-based linguistic theories, constraints in human language comprehension and production, context modelling and discourse interpretation, acquisition of constraints, probabilistic constraint-based reasoning, constraint satisfaction technologies and constraint logic programming. Submission details: Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 12 pages in PDF format. The font size must be at least 10 pt when printed on A4 paper. It is recommended that the LaTeX "article" style is used. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. A volume at an international publisher will be considered for selected and revised papers, if number and quality of submissions permits. Please use the CSLP 2008 submission page handled by the EasyChair conference system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CSLP2008 Workshop format: The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the second week of ESSLLI. [...] From: Susanna Mornati Subject: ELPUB 2008 - Second Call For Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:06:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 562 (562) Papers (deadline: January 20th 2008) *** Apologies for cross posting *** 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada Second Call for Papers ELPUB2008 Submission deadline: January 20, 2008 <http://www.elpub.net/>http://www.elpub.net Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0 Scholarly communications, in particular scholarly publications, are undergoing tremendous changes. Researchers, universities, funding bodies, research libraries and publishers are responding in different ways, from active experimentation, adaptation, to strong resistance. 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There are many world class galleries and museums across the city and you will find authentic cuisines from around the world at reasonable prices. Conference Host: Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), University of Toronto. KMDI is a graduate research and teaching institute at the University of Toronto, and an intellectual incubator fostering cross-disciplinary initiatives across the university. The work of the institute spans both the scientific study of the ways in which media shapes and is shaped by human activity, and the practical work of founding an interdisciplinary nexus for design and evaluation of both media and media technologies. KMDI has acknowledged leadership, substantial research programs and broad participation in three major areas: collaboration and collaboration technologies, the phenomenon of openness and new forms of knowledge production and dissemination, and public policy and citizen engagement. General Chair: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough, chan_at_utsc.utoronto.ca Programme Chair: Susanna Mornati, CILEA - Inter-Academic Consortium for ICT, Italy, mornati_at_cilea.it Inquiries: elpub2008_at_elpub.net Web site: <http://www.elpub.net/>http://www.elpub.net Susanna Mornati, CILEA Project Leader AEPIC, www.aepic.it +39 02 2699 5322, +39 348 7090 226, mailto:mornati_at_cilea.it, skype: susanna.mornati From: Cesare Pastorino Subject: Fwd: 21.405 cognitive science like alchemy Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:04:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 563 (563) Dear Prof. McCarty, this article (available on Jstor) seems to be a (the?) source for the analogy between psychology and alchemy: P. M. Churchland, "Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes", Journal of Philosophy 1981 pp. 67-90. Especially pp. 80-82. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-362X%28198102%2978%3A2%3C67% 3AEMATPA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8 Best regards, Cesare Pastorino http://mypage.iu.edu/~cpastori/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: the analogy of alchemy Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:04:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 564 (564) The quotation I am still looking for is cleverer than the candidates so far offered -- until Churchland's, kindly located by Cesare Pastorino (see the other note in this number of Humanist). But I am still looking, because Churchland's is not exactly the wording I recall, to the effect that one day 'neurobiology will do to cognitive science what chemistry did to alchemy'. One essential element of the statement I am looking for is there, which is to say, the use of alchemy in an analogy involving neuroscience, but cognitive science isn't mentioned. However, Churchland's treatment is worth a bit of commentary here, I think. Churchland is arguing that our commonsense beliefs, a.k.a. "folk psychology" (FP), may be considered a theory of mind, and when one thinks of them in this way, as a theory, then we can see that they get us nowhere. On the contrary, he writes (p. 75), [deleted quotation]In contrast, [deleted quotation]There are several things to question here. I wonder in particular about the soundness of translating our native, non-theorized ways of navigating the world into a propositional theory, then comparing this theory to the consensus Churchland sees gathering in the materialistic sciences. To put the matter in other words, I wonder specifically about the meaning(s) of "theory" in these two rather different contexts. I also wonder about the historicity of "how alchemy *must have looked* as elemental chemistry was taking form". I'd very much appreciate comments on what historians know of that moment other than from the perspective of modern elemental chemistry. How did things look *then*, to those for whom the future was all unknown, all its possibilities unrealised? As we strengthen our own argument for humanities computing as an intellectual practice of its own (distinct from but related to the argument for each of the digital humanities), understanding how real history is done seems to me part of the job. And that means doing much, much better than laughing at a defeated, superceded past. To get to the core of our matter, it seems to me that we need to know and be able to talk about computing not as a fruit of triumphalist techno-science and so a great gift to the Johnny-come-lately, slow-witted, catch-up humanities but as a humanistic and humane subject from its several beginnings. As true as that may be, however, my nomination for our most important contribution to the humanities is the development of computing as a means of dissolving away the barrier of misunderstanding between the sciences and the humanities, which among other things means understanding the sciences historically. The standard argument as I understand it is that we have a real subject to talk about when we are able to see its chronological record not as a string of fundamental facts, as in the onward-and-upward story of progress -- but as questions to answered. I keep wondering (and here am eager for comment) how it is that as humanists we can feel so comfortable ignoring so much of what human beings have thought and done under the rubric of science? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 21.408 capacious memories & sufficient organizing ability Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:55:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 565 (565) <Ryan.Deschamps_at_Dal.Ca> organizing ability After reading Ian Beardley's _Decoding the Universe_ I am of the mind that this property of knowing answers without understanding them is one not unique to computers, although quantum physics and the computer are very closely connected via information theory. We do not understand why atomic particles behave as they do (see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition ), but we are able to do pretty amazing computations because they behave in predictable patterns, however strange or unintuitive. There is a strong epistemological question here, however. Computers seem to offer a choice to humans about the way they will understand time and space; quantum information doesn't give us a choice -- it behaves how it behaves and that's it. But we are in an era where people are looking for the existence of quantum computers. Have we assumed wrongly that the computer mirrors human thought when in fact it may mirror something more fundamental (ie. quantum motion/behavior)? Perhaps we do not have a choice at all? Ryan. . . -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert (MA) Huygens Institute Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information can be found at <http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=222&Itemid=125&lang=en>http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=222&Itemid=125&lang=en A disclaimer is applicable to this e-mail, for more information please refer to <http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223&Itemid=126&lang=en>http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223&Itemid=126&lang=en From: "dennis c.l." Subject: Re: 21.406 more on the editorial plea Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:26:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 566 (566) Dear Willard, For those who use Windows (I imagine this includes the great majority of humanist members) why not use plain old Notepad. Its free, everyone has it, and it outputs plain ASCII. Yours dennis cintra leite On Dec 11, 2007 5:00 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]1617, p. 26). [deleted quotation] From: "Rick Frank" Subject: RE: 21.406 more on the editorial plea Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:27:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 567 (567) Hi Willard, For Windows text editors I highly recommend Ultraedit (http://www.ultraedit.com/) I have been using the program since about 1996 & seen it grow impressively with features without bloating into a software monster. It's not free but it is inexpensive. It is designed for programmers (syntax checkers etc) and works brilliantly to process text files of almost any size & has many UNIX features built into the Windows program. Rick Frank From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 21.409 cognitive science like alchemy Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:25:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 568 (568) Willard, What connection do you see between computing humanists respecting our history and the history of precursor activities and the comparison between cognitive science and alchemy? It is not disrespecting history, I think, to say that the theory underlying alchemy turned out to be false and was supplanted by chemistry, which, after some false starts (remember phlogiston? ether?) turned out to be, so far as we know 'til now, mostly true. Btw, I think the big issue for the Churchlands is not whether folk psychology is a theory -- much of it is at least a simple-minded proto-theory, as causal statements such as 'If you insult someone, he or she will usually get angry' show. The big issue is, what would follow from such statements turning out to be false, or too inprecise and unquantifiable to be the basis of a science? Would it follow that there is no consciousness, belief, desire, emotion, aspirations, ......? The Churchlands think that it would because they think that the meanings of theoretical terms are so closely tied to the theory/ies in which they are found that if the theory/ies turn/s out to be false, the terms are not talking about anything that exists. But this linkage is, to say the least, open to question -- a question that is much stronger in the case of terms such as our vocabulary for the mind that play a massively central role in practical life and so are anchored there than in the case of terms such a phlogiston, where C&C might be at least partly right. Well, there is more to be said but I will stop. The first question is the one that interests me at the moment. What connection to you see between respecting our history and the claim that cognitive science may go the way of alchemy? 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: Willard McCarty Subject: new members & one to find Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:23:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 569 (569) Dear colleagues, This morning (GMT) Humanist reached its 1600th subscription for the first time since it began. (Membership does go up and down a bit, so it may reach this mark again.) It did so because I found several requests for subscription that had somehow been lost in the welter of e-mail. (Apologies to those involved.) Among the overlooked is one from Megan Hurst, at one time associated with Harvard University Libraries and the founder of a company called Mho Media Inc. Unfortunately Ms Hurst put the wrong sort of information where her e-mail address should have gone, so I am unable to do anything about this request. Nor can I find an e-mail address for her online. If anyone knows Ms Hurst and her e-mail address, please let me know. Then, perhaps, she can be number 1601. Many thanks. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: ian.lancashire_at_utoronto.ca Subject: Re: 21.413 cognitive science, alchemy, and healthy aging Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:39:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 570 (570) Chemists followed alchemists, but cognitive scientists today work cordially, side-by-side, with neuroscientists. Both study mental behaviour but use different tools to do so. In my opinion, the alchemy metaphor falls apart, whoever said it, but digital humanists should make up their own minds. I recommend two get-acquainted books: Friedemann Pulvermüller's"The Neuroscience of Language: On Brain Circuits of Words and Serial Order" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). A monograph. Gregory and Bridget Robinson-Riegler's "Cognitive Psychology: Applying the Science of the Mind" (Boston: Pearson, 2004). A textbook. After these, start reading journals where the newest findings and theories compete, and where neuroscience and cognitive sciences advance together symbiotically. For example, three theories now vie to explain the cognitive deterioration in language amply shown in the healthy aging population (not those suffering from a dementia). These theories are the inhibitory-deficit model (an inability to filter out irrelevant information), the processing-speed model (mental functions slow down), and the context-processing-deficit model. The third model, proposed in 2001, now appears to be the strongest candidate. As I understand it, the context-processing-deficit model proposes that the elderly (those past 65) have trouble (compared to young people) in representing, maintaining, and updating -- within working memory -- information ("cues") about the context of a concept ("probes"). This accounts for much mischief, including difficulty in using new knowledge, and associative failure. See Beth K. Rush, Deanna M. Barch, and Todd S. Braver, "Accounting for Cognitive Aging: Context Processing, Inhibition or Processing Speed," in the journal "Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition," 13 (2006): 588-610. This new theory builds on results that independent teams of researchers have obtained from the simple AX-CPT experiment with human subjects. It also supports a theory in neuroscience that locates cognitive aging in the executive function of the prefrontal cortex. Elegant, lucid, and helpful. Beautifully symbiotic. Ian Lancashire English / Toronto From: Willard McCarty Subject: alchemy and history Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:49:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 571 (571) Andrew Brooks has asked what connection I am seeing "between computing humanists respecting our history and the history of precursor activities and the comparison between cognitive science and alchemy?" He points out that, [deleted quotation]True, from the perspective of modern chemistry. But what I was trying to argue, apparently not very well, was this: that to the historian rather than to the chemist the event in question looks different, and if we're to have a proper history of our subject, we have to understand the nature of that difference. Let us say that we could find an historical moment, series of moments and/or one or more particular individuals involved in the alchemical-chemical scene. Doing the best we can to reconstruct how things looked then to the people alive then, who didn't know how the matter was going to be resolved -- for the most sophisticated of whom, one might say, "how the matter was going to be resolved" would not even be a coherent statement -- what would we see? My guess is that we'd come up with something very much like the historical scenes Siegfried Zielinski reconstructs in Deep Time of the Media (MIT Press, 2006; review by me in the next LLC). As it happens I have no particular interest in alchemy (though perhaps I should), but I am very interested in how a proper history would work out a view of it. In one of his papers on the historiography of science, Michael Mahoney (www.princeton.edu/~mike/) points out that once a scientific problem is solved, it becomes exceedingly difficult for the knowledgeable person to imagine what the world looked like before the solution was arrived at. What we tend to see is a more or less straight line of development from the beginnings of something or other, through the solutions of various problems and inventions of new devices, to what we know now and have now. If we're sure of our facts, that's fine, because indeed X did lead to Y, and Y to Z etc. But, as I understand it, that's not an historian's view. About our thing. What would we see if we had a proper history of it? My guess is we'd arrive at something very much like Mahoney's attempt at a history of computer science's beginnings, in "Software as Science - Science as Software" (www.princeton.edu/~mike/softsci.htm). We'd see a complex strand of developments, agendas coming together, separating, recombining. We'd see a number of possible historical paths to where we are now, one seeming preferable to another depending on what we think we're doing now. The fact is all we have now for humanities computing are essentially chronologies. Northrop Frye pointed out at the beginning of Anatomy of Criticism, for criticism, that one does not have a real subject until one is able to turn the chronological facts into problems to be explained, then starts to explain them. A history supplies that explanation, but because it is not a matter of facts alone as of their careful selection and interpretation, it is something that has to be rewritten from time to time. As a real historian said to me once, we get the histories we need. I suspect that once we have a history for humanities computing, there will no longer be any doubt on anyone's part that "humanities computing" is not a contradiction in terms, that instead it's more like male-female or day-night -- or yang-yin. Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Library Related Conferences Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:51:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 572 (572) The updated edition of Library Related Conferences is available at: <http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM> Other sources available at the same site: - Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information: <http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM> - Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography: <http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/BIBLIO.HTM>http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/BIBLIO.HTM - Censorship on the Internet: A Bibliography <http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/CENS.HTM> - Outsourcing of Technical Services in Academic Libraries: A Bibliography <http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/OUTSOURCING.HTM>http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/OUTSOURCING.HTM - Review of Technical Services in Academic Libraries: A Selective Bibliography: <http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/TS.HTM> From: Neuroth, Heike Subject: TextGrid Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:40:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 573 (573) Dear Colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the German grid project TextGrid. TextGrid is one of the first projects in the Humanities in Germany and Europe creating a community grid for the collaborative editing, annotation, analysis, and publication of specialist text resources. Providing a computational infrastructure, a collective network, and a comprehensive and extensible toolset for text scholars, it is based on e-Science methods and forms a cornerstone in the emerging e-Humanities. TextGrid maintains a regularly updated website with detailed information on the project. Additionally we disseminate a quarterly newletter. Today, we are pleased to present you the fourth TextGrid Newsletter. <http://www.textgrid.de/index.php?id=newsletter>http://www.textgrid.de/index.php?id=newsletter In this edition you will find information on: * TextGrid Tools: Trier Dictionary Service Online * TextGridLab: TextGrid's client application * First Advisory Board Meeting * News from Related Projects: Interedition The newsletter is a joint effort of all TextGrid partners. You can subscribe to it on the TextGrid website (<https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/www.textgrid.de>www.textgrid.de). This page also contains an archive of past newsletters. Sincerely, Heike Neuroth ______________ Dr. Heike Neuroth Research & Development Goettingen State and University Library (SUB) Papendiek 14 37073 Göttingen neuroth_at_sub.uni-goettingen.de +49 (0)551 393866 From: Neuroth, Heike Subject: TextGrid Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:40:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 574 (574) Dear Colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the=20 German grid project TextGrid. TextGrid is one of=20 the first projects in the Humanities in Germany=20 and Europe creating a community grid for the=20 collaborative editing, annotation, analysis, and=20 publication of specialist text resources.=20 Providing a computational infrastructure, a=20 collective network, and a comprehensive and=20 extensible toolset for text scholars, it is based=20 on e-Science methods and forms a cornerstone in the emerging e-Humanities. TextGrid maintains a regularly updated website=20 with detailed information on the project.=20 Additionally we disseminate a quarterly newletter. Today, we are pleased to present you the fourth TextGrid Newsletter. <http://www.textgrid.de/index.php?id=3Dnewsletter>http://www.textgrid.de/ind= ex.php?id=3Dnewsletter In this edition you will find information on: * TextGrid Tools: Trier Dictionary Service Online * TextGridLab: TextGrid's client application * First Advisory Board Meeting * News from Related Projects: Interedition The newsletter is a joint effort of all TextGrid=20 partners. You can subscribe to it on the TextGrid=20 website=20 (<https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/www.textgrid.de>www.textgrid.de).=20 This page also contains an archive of past newsletters. Sincerely, Heike Neuroth ______________ Dr. Heike Neuroth Research & Development Goettingen State and University Library (SUB) Papendiek 14 37073 G=F6ttingen neuroth_at_sub.uni-goettingen.de +49 (0)551 393866 Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London |=20 http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p.= 26).=20 From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: RE: 21.416 cognitive science like alchemy Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:01:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 575 (575) [deleted quotation]When Willard first posed his query, I too had the feeling that I'd read that before, and indeed probably somewhere in Rorty. But I couldn't, and after thinking about it for a few days still can't, place it. (Maybe I've just read too *much* Rorty since his 1979 breakthrough). I do still have the feeling, though, that we're dealing with a Rortian formulation -- rather than with one from the subsequently mentioned Dreyfus or the Churchlands. But there *is* at least, I see now, another publication, later than the passage we apparently were remembering, in which Rorty considered the same subject and took the same sort of stance -- and which anyone who's interested therefore may want to have a look at in this connection. It's his article called "The brain as hardware, culture as software", which appeared in _Inquiry_ 47.3 (June, 2004 -- Symposium Vincent Descombes, The mind's provisions), on p.219-235. And, interestingly enough, the indictment on "alchemy" was cleverly turned back on Rorty ("a very bright alchemist . . ., while what is needed is a superb chemist"), by Tibor Machan, in his "Indefatigable alchemist: Richard Rorty's radical pragmatism", _American Scholar_ 65.3 (Summer, 1996), p.417-424. Ian Lancashire's most interesting remarks on cognitive theories remind me that there was a time (1980s and into the 1990s) when the "cognitive paradigm" was dominant in the field of information retrieval research and of information needs, seeking and use ("INSU") studies in general. For more than ten years now the fashion has been, at least in INSU, to make light of (at least the tendancy to accept the overriding or even unique validity of) that paradigm, with the implied question "how could we ever have been so unsophisticated as to take such a simplistic view of the processes and factors involved". Willard also wrote : [deleted quotation]Maybe because it's so much easier that way (and the actual academic risks, peculiarly, remain low). Which doesn't make it -- indeed -- any the less regrettable, from both disciplinary perspectives. And he furthermore wrote : [deleted quotation]Nor, fortunately, as I understand it, a sociologist's :-). - Laval Hunsucker U Amsterdam From: Marcus Bingenheimer Subject: more on the editorial plea Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:55:10 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 576 (576) ==========willard wrote======= Perhaps others here will have recommendations for editors that show more or less exactly what one is getting? ================================== At our center Notepad++ has recently become the tool of choice for most developers and we recommend it to students. It is vastly superior to the plain Notepad that comes with windows. Moreover it is fast, free and open source. <http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm>http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm If you want to spend money, next to the excellent Ultraeditor, you might want to look into EmEditor a heavy duty tool, not too expensive (about 30U$/license). EmEditor is one of the few editors that can deal reasonably well with Unicode characters outside the basic multi-lingual plane. marcus ============================ Dr. Marcus Bingenheimer Director, Library and Information Center Dharma Drum Buddhist College (DDBC) No. 2-6 Xishihu, Jinshan 20842, Taipei County, Taiwan, R.O.C. 20842 2-6 Tel: +886-2-2498-7171 # 2381 <http://buddhistinformatics.chibs.edu.tw/~mb/>http://buddhistinformatics.chibs.edu.tw/~mb/ Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: David Green Subject: "Cyberinfrastructure & the Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:22:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 577 (577) Liberal Arts" - Academic Commons special issue released today Monday Dec 17, 2005 Academic Commons today released its December 2007 special issue devoted to CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE & THE LIBERAL ARTS (www.academiccommons.org/). Edited by David L. Green (Principal at Knowledge Culture), the issue is dedicated to the memory of Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), an extraordinary historian who inspired a generation of fellow historians and others working at the intersection of the humanities and new technologies (http://thanksroy.org/). Cyberinfrastructure offers the liberal arts new resources and new ways of working - with revolutionary computing capabilities, massive data resources and distributed human expertise. How will students, scholars, teachers, librarians, museum professionals and others connect, use and contribute to these new capabilities? Will humanists work collaboratively and produce new forms of scholarship "more interesting than the book"? How will institutions change the way they do business in putting cyberinfrastructure to work? This collection of essays, interviews and reviews captures the perspectives of scholars, scientists, information technologists and administrators on the challenges and opportunities cyberinfrastructure presents for the liberal arts and liberal arts colleges. What difference will cyberinfrastructure make and how should we prepare? Table of Contents: http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/announcement/table-of-contents *Introduction* - David L. Green, "A Cyberinfrastructure for Us All." *Humanities Cyberinfrastructure* - Gary Wells, "The (Uncommon) Challenge of the Cultural Commonwealth" (Review) - Kevin Guthrie, "Beyond the ACLS Report: An Interview with John Unsworth." (Interview) *Beyond the Two Cultures* - Michael Lesk, "From Data to Wisdom: Humanities Research and Online Content." (Essay) - Sayeed Choudhury and Timothy Stinson, "The Virtual Observatory and the Roman de la Rose: Unexpected Relationships and the Collaborative Imperative." (Essay) *Cyberscholarship* - Gregory Crane, "'Building the Infrastructure for Cyberscholarship'." (Review) - Janet Murray, "Cyberinfrastructure as Cognitive Scaffolding: The Role of Genre Creation in Knowledge Making." (Essay) - Amelia Carr, Guy Hedreen, and Dana Leibsohn, "Cyberinfrastructure and the Future of Art History." (Roundtable Discussion) *Institutional Change: Colleges and Museums* - David Green, "Leveraging Institutional Change: An Interview with James J. O'Donnell." (Interview) - David Green, "Museums, Cataloging & Content Infrastructure: An Interview with Kenneth Hamma." (Interview) - John Weber, "College Museums in a Networked Era--Two Propositions." (Essay) *Institutional Change: Colleges and Museums* - Francis Starr, "Deploying Cyberinfrastructure for the Sciences at Liberal Arts Colleges." (Essay) - Todd Kelley, "Managed Cyber Services as a Cyberinfrastructure Strategy for Smaller Institutions of Higher Education." (Essay) - Matthew Coté, "The Sciences, Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts: The Case of the Bates College Imaging Center." (Essay) *Profiles* Descriptions of some key organizations and networks whose missions include leveraging cyberinfrastructure. - Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (AHDO) - American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) - ARTstor - Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) - Cyberinfrastructure Partnership (CIP) & Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch - Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) - CenterNet - Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - Ithaka - The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) - NITLE - Open Content Alliance - Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR) David Green Knowledge Culture http://www.knowledgeculture.com davidgreen_at_knowledgeculture.com 203-345-3228 From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: DDQ 6(4) is available Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:28:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 578 (578) Digital Document Quarterly 6.4 (http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq.htm) DDQ 6(4) recommends four books, and provides brief reviews: David Lindley's Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science Ernst Cassirer's The Logical Structure of the Humanities, and also his An Essay on Man Amos Elon's The Pity of It All At the 2007 ECDL conference, Seamus Ross summarized the state of the art of digital preservation with, "[No] concise and well-developed strategy that represents the views of a broad community has yet emerged. Since 1989 at least twelve have been published." He continues with, "as a community we need to re-think how we are approaching research -- [and] need to engage -- researchers in this process, and especially those with a strong computing science and engineering= background." Readers of DDQ might also be interested in an article that responds to this invitation, Economics and Engineering for Preserving Digital Content. An online preprint version is available at <http://eprints.erpanet.org/139/>. Its abstract reads: Progress towards practical long-term preservation seems stalled. We preservationists cannot afford unique technology, but must exploit marketplace offerings. Macro economic facts suggest shifting most preservation work from repository institutions to their users. Prior publications describe conceptual solutions for all known challenges of preserving a single object, but do not deal with software development or collection scaling. Much of the software needed is available. It has, however, not yet been selected, adapted, integrated, or deployed for digital preservation. Tools for daily work can embed packaging for preservation without much burdening their users. We describe a practical strategy for detailed design and implementation. Document handling is complicated by human sensitivity to communication nuances. Our engineering section therefore suggests how project managers can master the many pertinent details. Cheerio, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney> From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 21.348 what product? Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:30:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 579 (579) Dear Willard, About a month ago, you wrote: [deleted quotation]Imagine, for a moment, that the human race had somehow made the planet unlivable. (I know: this is a stretch.) A combination of climate instability and poisoning of the biosphere is making land and ocean uninhabitable. Fortunately for us, however, scientific advances and technical breakthroughs have combined to make it possible for humanity to begin colonizing space. On the moon and in orbit, and in increasingly far-flung missions to other planetary systems, we are learning to harvest energy and matter from available scrap, dust and ambient radiation, and create for ourselves livable ecosystems for hundreds and thousands of people, plants, and creatures of every description. The engineering of these systems is demanding and precarious, complex beyond the understanding even of their originators, and requiring as much art as science. But it is succeeding to the point where entire generations are now being born and brought up in other worlds off-earth. Electrical mechanics, nuclear physics, metallurgy, biology and biochemistry, and sometimes plumbing (except relying on acceleration as much as on gravity), are all required for the development and maintenance of these systems. In such a world, does someone ask whether learning electricity or metallurgy or biochemistry or astrophysics is really worthwhile, and not just for their practicality but for themselves -- not just what they are today, but also what they can be tomorrow? And when you hire an econautical engineer for your Mars mission, do you want one for whom your ship is the first microbiosphere, or one who has helped to build, cultivate and pilot a few in school? Having imagined this, can you offer an argument for why we should not suppose we are already in this predicament ... except that the toxins besetting us include ignorance, hatred and war, and we don't have the option of retreating into space? Is there any work more vital and urgent than understanding, developing and building a sustainable information ecosystem in which the most inclusive possible science, economy, culture and diplomacy of the future can flourish? With all best wishes for the holidays, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: ESSLLI2008 Subject: ESSLLI 2008 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:22:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 580 (580) Dear participants of past ESSLLIs, As many of you may know, ESSLLI 2008 is being organized at the Universit=E4t Hamburg, August 4 - 15, 2008. If you have not already done so, we would like to encourage you to subscribe to the newsletter for ESSLLI 2008 to be kept informed about the summer school. You can subscribe via this link: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/newslettersubscription.html Please also visit the ESSLLI 2008 homepage at http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ Sincerely, The ESSLLI 2008 organizers From: Gabriel BODARD Subject: CIDOC 2008 in Athens, The Digital Curation of Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:15:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 581 (581) De: Christian-Emil Ore First Announcement of the 2008 CIDOC Annual Conference Dear all, In 2008 the CIDOC annual meeting will be held in Athens, Greece from September 15 to 18 and will be organized by the Hellenic Committee of ICOM and the Benaki Museum. Please find additional information in French and English below. Kind regards, Christian-Emil Ore Chair CIDOC Theme: "The Digital Curation of Cultural Heritage" Digital curation emerged as an important new concept in the theory and management of cultural information. It covers all of the actions needed to maintain digitised and born-digital cultural objects and data, going beyond digital preservation to encompass their utilisation in the context of their entire life cycle, from acquisition and appraisal to exhibition, learning and commercial exploitation. The focus of CIDOC 2008 on the digital curation of cultural heritage will allow curators, collection managers, documentalists, archivists and museum information specialists to explore a broad range of theoretical, methodological, professional practice and technological issuers related to the appraisal, digitisation, management, representation, access and use of digital cultural assets, such as those increasingly becoming part of museum information systems and digital archives. A core emphasis of the meeting will be to understand and re-contextualise the know-how and history of established curatorial practice in museums, and memory institutions, in general, in the new field of digital cultural heritage; to review and discuss the applicability of standards- and good practice-related work in the context of managing digital cultural information; and to identify and explore the issues, methods and challenges involved with the development of new genres and contexts of virtual exhibition, e-learning and technology-enhanced services for scholarship and research. see also www.cidoc2008.gr Call for papers We invite you to submit an abstract of your paper. The abstract should be written in English and be in electronic form. It should be sent to the following email address: papers_at_cidoc2008.gr, with "CIDOC 2008 abstract" in the subject field. Written abstract instructions: -- An abstract must include a title -- An abstract should not be longer than 500 words -- Structure: introduction, objectives, conclusion The following information has to be included: -- Name and surname of the author(s) -- Address of the institution (street, post code, city, telephone & fax no.) -- Email address of the author to which further information will be sent The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 22, 2008. Authors will be notified of acceptance by March 22, 2008. Contributions may take one of the following formats: full length paper (20 min including question time) or short paper (10 minutes) on a subject related to the theme of the conference. The complete text of the paper should be sent by May 31, 2008, in English or French and in electronic form only, to the email papers_at_cidoc2008.gr. [For whatever reason, the French version of this announcement came to me so badly scrambled that I have deleted it. Software rumoured to be tolerant of languages other than English and Latin is rumoured to be ready for the New Humanist in the near future. Meanwhile the patience of rocks is recommended.] From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Digital Humanities Observatory: appointment of Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:03:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 582 (582) a Director; job advert for an IT Manager; postdoctoral positions 1. Appointment of a Director for the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO, http://www.dho.ie) The following is quoted from the homepage of the DHO: [deleted quotation]2. The DHO The DHO is initially a 3-year project funded by a grant of 3.5M Euro, described as "a sophisticated web-based humanities resource, designed and managed by the Academy, which will store, preserve and provide access to the increasingly complex range of e-resources now being created in the humanities." It is part of a larger government programme, Humanities Serving Irish Society: [deleted quotation]3. Job advert for an IT Manager (closing date 25 January) [deleted quotation]Further particulars are to be found at http://www.dho.ie/vacancies.html. 4. Postdoctoral researchers [deleted quotation]Further particulars at http://www.dho.ie/documents/DHO_Vacancies_Dec_2007.pdf. Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Shuly Wintner Subject: Call for Participation: CICLing-2008 in Haifa Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:29:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 583 (583) Shalom, CICLing-2008, the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, will take place at the University of Haifa on February 17-23, 2008. More details are available here: http://www.cicling.org/2008/ The deadline for early registration is December 25th. Register here: https://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/cicling2008/ A small number of grants are available to cover the registration fees of local students. Some help with the local organization of the conference may be required from grant recipients. If you are interested, please contact Shuly Wintner (cicling08_at_cri.haifa.ac.il) with the following information: name, affiliation (university and department), status (graduate/undergrad, year), name of advisor, and a brief statement of interest (what do you expect to gain from participating). Please apply asap, and no later than December 25th. Looking forward to seeing you in Haifa, Shuly Wintner CICLing-2008 Local Organization Chair From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 70, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:28:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 584 (584) Version 70 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,195 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-digital-publications-changes/ Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works 3.5 Library Issues 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images* Legal* Preservation* Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards* Further Information about SEPB The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is also available from Digital Scholarship. Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (monthly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans Open Access Bibliography Open Access Webliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog From: "Helena Francke" Subject: Human IT 9:2 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:30:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 585 (585) Dear all, [sorry for any x-posting] A new issue of Human IT is now available at http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-9/ This issue contains articles on a wide range of topics. Of particular interest to Humanists is probably Alois Pichler*s and Gjermund Lanestedt*s article on the Wittgenstein Archives, the DISCOVERY project and the future of scholarly editing. There are also two articles concerned with information seeking and information credibility in different types of educational environments: the youngest schoolchildren and university students. Finally, from a quite different point of view, the fourth article gives an insight into crucial aspects on the design of mobile phones. Enjoy and happy holidays! Table of contents: * Maria Mattus Finding Credible Information: A Challenge to Students Writing Academic Essays (Open section) <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-9/mm.htm> * Alois Pichler & Gjermund Lanestedt Humanistisk forskning og publisering i en digital kontekst: Europeiske filosofimiljøer trekker veksler på semantisk metadata-tagging [Humanities Research and Publishing in a Digital Context: European Philosophy Environments Draw on Semantic Metadata Tagging] (Open section) <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-9/apgl.htm> * Vimala Balakrishnan & Paul H.P. Yeow SMS Usage Satisfaction: Influences of Hand Anthropometry and Gender (Open section) <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-9/vbpy.htm> * Birgitta Davidsson, Louise Limberg, Anna Lundh & Lena Tyrén Informationssökning som diskursiv och social praktik i de yngsta skolbarnens rum för lärande [Information Seeking as a Discursive and Social Practice in the Youngest Schoolchildren's Rooms for Learning] (Refereed section) <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-9/bdllallt.htm> Human IT is a multi-disciplinary and scholarly journal with the goal of bringing forth new research and discussion about digital media as communicative, aesthetic, and ludic instruments. It is published by the University College of Borås. For more information, please contact human.it_at_hb.se Best wishes, Helena Francke, co-editor ************** Helena Francke co-editor Human IT Swedish School of Library and Information Science University College of Borås / Göteborg University SE-501 90 Borås, Sweden phone +46 33 435 43 20 (Borås) +46 31 773 58 49 (Göteborg) fax +46 33 435 40 05 e-mail helena.francke_at_hb.se From: ubiquity Subject: new on WWW: UBIQUITY 8.50 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:33:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 586 (586) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 8, Issue 50 December 18, 2007 -- December 24, 2007 Book Reviews Dr. Ross Gagliano, a Ubiquity Associated Editor, brings us two reviews: I. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v8i50_gagliano.html>Unleashing Web 2.0 from Concept to Creativity II. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v8i50_gagliano.html#lego>The LEGO Mindstorms NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build From: Claire Warwick Subject: AHRC Call for Technical Reviewers Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:29:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 587 (587) Dear Humanists I'm forwarding this on behalf of the AHRC. I'd very much encourage UK members to respond to this. As you will all be aware we are in urgent need of well qualified people to comment on the technical aspects of applications for AHRC funding after the demise of the AHDS. So it's really important to recruit an excellent group of reviewers to ensure that applications are well treated. Best wishes, Claire -------------- Dear Colleague, The AHRC is inviting applications for Technical Reviewers to be appointed to its Peer Review College from Spring 2008. Technical Reviewers will provide advice, as part of the AHRC's assessment process, on technical aspects of proposals submitted for funding. Reviewers therefore need to have the relevant expertise to comment authoritatively on the technical aspects of research projects, as described in the Technical Appendix form submitted with funding applications. In particular, we are seeking people with expertise in one or more of the following areas: project management of technical aspects; data development methods; data/file formats; infrastructural support (hardware and software); data preservation and sustainability. Technical Reviewers will be expected to review Technical Appendix forms across all areas of the arts and humanities subject domain. If a reviewer's expertise is limited to particular subject areas, this should be stated on the application form. Please note that we are not looking to appoint technical reviewers specializing in archaeology, as the AHRC will be obtaining such expertise through its support of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS). Applications are welcomed from all those who meet the criteria attached at *Appendix C* to the application form, including researchers already serving on the College as academic peer reviewers, as well as those who are not currently College members. In the case of the latter, technical reviewers will be appointed to provide technical reviews only. College members are normally appointed for a term of three years and appointments will commence in May 2008. There is no remuneration but College members are reimbursed for travel and subsistence expenses incurred on AHRC business. Anyone who wishes to apply to be a technical reviewer should complete the application form which can be downloaded **from http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/about/peerreview/call_technical_reviewers.asp**.** Completed forms must be accompanied by a summary CV and publications list and sent either by email to nominations_at_ahrc.ac.uk or by post to Julia Davidson, Peer Review Development Officer, AHRC, Whitefriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol BS1 2AE. The closing date for applications is *Thursday 31 January 2008*. Any queries about the application process should be directed to Julia Davidson at j.davidson_at_ahrc.ac.uk . Any queries about the technical review process should be directed to Ian Broadbridge, Programme Manager at i.broadbridge_at_ahrc.ac.uk . *Background* In May 2007 Professor Philip Esler, Chief Executive of the AHRC, wrote to all Heads of Higher Education Institutions about the Council's decision to discontinue AHRC support for the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) from March 2008. Further information is available **here** <http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/news/news_pr/2007/information_for_applicants_to_AHRC_june_deadline.asp>. The AHRC has, however, elected to continue its support of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) for a further five years, because of its centrality to the AHRC's Science and Heritage strategy. With Best Wishes Julia Davidson Peer Review Development Officer Arts and Humanities Research Council Whitefriars Lewins Mead Bristol BS1 2AE Email: j.davidson_at_ahrc.ac.uk Telephone: 0117 9876689 Fax: 0117 9876660 www.ahrc.ac.uk <http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/> From: Håkan Carlsson Subject: Invitation to Fourth Nordic Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:31:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 588 (588) Conference on Scholarly Communication NCSC 2008 **Apologies for any Cross-Posting** Dear Friends, Dear Friends, Following up the success of the previous Nordic Conferences on Scholarly Communication, Lund University Libraries are proud to announce the Fourth Nordic Conference. The registration is now open at the conference website, <http://www.lub.lu.se/en/ncsc.html>http://www.lub.lu.se/en/ncsc.html. In order to discuss, present and analyse the problems and challenges that arise within scholarly communication Lund University Libraries invite scholars, publishers, vendors, editors, librarians and other interested parties to the Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication 21 - 23 April 2008 in Lund, Sweden. The conference takes place every second year and aims to be an important contribution to the discussion and to the development within the Nordic countries. Welcome to Lund in April! Best regards, Håkan Carlsson --------- Håkan Carlsson Biblioteksdirektionen / Head Office Lunds universitet / Lund University Libraries Box 134 221 00 LUND Tel. +46 46-222 15 30 Fax + 46 46-222 36 82 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Fwd: 3D Colour Laser Scanning Conference at UCL in March 2008 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:33:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 589 (589) [deleted quotation]of 3D scanning technologies in [deleted quotation]author (corresponding author) must [deleted quotation]contact me with further enquries or [deleted quotation]author is (i.e. the person who will [deleted quotation]+++PLEASE NOTE NEW POSTAL ADDRESS+++ Dr Stuart Dunn Research Associate Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre www.ahessc.ac.uk/stuart-dunn Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 2980 stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk AHeSSC Centre for e-Research 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 21.416 cognitive science like alchemy Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:32:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 590 (590) On the exchanges between Willard, myself and few others on computing humanists respecting our history and the history of precursor activities and the comparison between cognitive science and alchemy: I won't quote the previous messages, which have tended to be lengthy. Willard, I entirely agree with you that how the history of an activity looked to the participants is often, maybe always, very different from how it looks to later folk who know how things turned out. What I was unclear about it what you wanted to build on that fact. Certainly if what we want is accurate, informative history, reconstructing how things had to have looked to participants is important, even essential. But what if our interest is in knowing what our current activities are like, activity where we don't know the outcome. There are definitely two (or more) schools of thought on this and I have never known how to resolve the disagreement. Then there is my original question: How does the issue of doing history well connect to the chemistry replacing alchemy issue? Part of my reason for asking is that in the humanities computing game, there has never been a similar 'paradigm shift', to use Kuhn's maligned word, just incremental developments -- lots and lot of incremental developments but no epochs in which one kind of theory gets trashed in favour of another. My two cents' worth. 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: <http://www.carleton.ca/~abrook>www.carleton.ca/~abrook From: "OKELL E.R." Subject: Gaming Conference - CFP Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:32:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 591 (591) Following the increase in the use of gaming within Classics (including the recent CA panel, presentations at the digital classicists seminar and elsewhere and Shawn Graham's Case Study on Civilisation as a teaching tool, please see http://www.hca.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/case_Studies/Re-Playing_History -The_Year_of_the_Four_Emperors_and_Civilization_IV.php) I thought it worth circulating this call for papers... Call for Papers (deadline 15th February) Research has shown that games applications that are designed to do more than entertain (aka 'serious games') can effectively engage learning. Hence this conference seeks to bring together leading researchers and developers with interested professionals in education and training in order to stimulate debate on the design and deployment of serious games, including mobile learning games. Submissions are invited on all aspects of serious games that are relevant to learning and teaching. For more information (including conference themes and example topic areas), please follow the link to http://www.inspire.anglia.ac.uk/serious/papers.html Eleanor Classics Project Officer, History, Classics and Archaeology Subject Centre Lecturer, Dept. Classics and Ancient History, 38, North Bailey, DURHAM DH1 3EU Tel: (0191) 334 1687 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Diane Middlebrook (1941-2007) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:31:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 592 (592) Dear colleagues, Diane Middlebrook, literary biographer and former professor of English at Stanford, died a few days ago, on 15 December, at age 68. A report about her life from the Stanford News Service may be found at http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/middlebrook-010908.html. What you will not find reported possibly anywhere other than here is her interest in humanities computing. Diane and I met because of a shared devotion to Ovid. I do not recall whether at the time she was already interested in computing, but if not she became so soon after we met. Her indefagitable curiousity could not have let computing alone -- and didn't. She began some efforts to interest her colleagues in English at Stanford, which included a departmental roundtable discussion she got me to lead in 1998 and a lively discussion with a group of her students. Sometime later she resigned her position at Stanford to pay full attention to writing. Perhaps had she remained in her post at Stanford a while longer humanities computing would have taken hold earlier and in a stronger form than it has. Who could have resisted her? In any case, she is one of my primary examples of the kind of scholar we need more of -- someone whose mind is both powerful and open, and therefore, as Peter Matthiessen said, "at play in the fields of the Lord". Of those two qualities, of power and openness, the latter seems to me to be much the rarer among our kind. Many of you will know Isaiah Berlin's essay, "The Hedgehog and the Fox", whose categorical distinction is based on Archilochus' fragmentary statement, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Others here may know Diane's former colleague Richard Rorty's Gadamerian sermon, "Being that can be understood is language" (London Review of Books, 16 March 2000: 23-5). In that sermon (his word), reprinted in Gadamer's Repurcussions: Reconsidering Philosophical Hermeneutics, University of California Press, 2004, Rorty envisions a philosophical utopia in which philosophers "have at last abandoned the scientistic, problem-solving, model of philosophical activity with which Kant burdened our discipline. They will have substituted a conversational model, one in which philosophical success is measured by horizons fused rather than problems solved, or even by problems dissolved. In this philosophical utopia, the historian of philosophy will not choose her descriptive vocabulary with an eye to distinguishing the real and permanent problems of philosophy from the transient pseudo-problems. Rather, she will choose the vocabulary that enables her to describe as many past figures as possible as taking part in a single, coherent conversation" (25). She, and we all, will be fox-hedgehogs, who know many big things that sum to one very big thing. That, at least, seems to me the kind we are and need to become. Diane was one of those who led the way. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: cognitive science like alchemy Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:13:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 593 (593) In Humanist 21.429, Andrew Brook wrote, [deleted quotation]Let me take a run at a reply. I'd think that having an accurate, informative history would only be of interest if it helped us, as he says, to know what our current activities are like. An historian might answer differently to other historians, but I'd think that if he or she were talking to non-historians, then doing history would be justified in terms similar to Andrew's. So the question is, why should we go to so much trouble? One answer would be to understand as much of what is at work in the present as possible. If in any given historical moment there are many latent possibilities, outcomes of what has happened and interactions among those outcomes, then a history that shows the origins and nature of these possibilities would help us to read them. Another answer would be to show continuities obscured by misconceptions, e.g. the ongoing philosophical problem that runs through the work of Hilbert, Goedel and Turing to the present day, which overlooked contributes to the false belief that computing is a purely technical phenomenon of significance to us only instrumentally. I suppose one could understand the situation by imagining a traveller who quite suddenly suffers a case of total amnesia, and so has no idea why he is carrying what he is carrying, what the items in his luggage are for, where he was going, why &c. Borges has shown us that the traveller with perfect recall and total knowledge may be in an even worse fix, but since partial amnesia seems a condition of existence, and forgetting more the real danger, we don't have to worry much about overdoing it. This is such a fascinating problem I'd think one could find many schools of thought about it. But can we say, irrespective of school, that in order to know the present (so that one can make well informed decisions &c) one must know the past? Andrew continues: [deleted quotation]What *exactly* happened when chemistry replaced alchemy? Is "replaced" the right word? I'd think that an historical response would construe this lengthy and complex event as a type of what we now call scientific progress, i.e. it would help us to understand the idea of scientific progress. With that improved idea, we'd then proceed to examine other instances, opening them up to see what was gained (from our current perspective), what was lost. Kuhn's primary source was the history of physics. What happens to his argument if we look instead at the history of chemistry, or the history of biology -- or the history of computing? Am I right in thinking that we have been so profoundly influenced by the history of physics -- by the notion that all sciences are reducible to physics, including (when we can get around to it) the human sciences -- that basing our idea of the fundamental science elsewhere constitutes a major meta-paradigm shift? An even more radical meta-paradigm shift would perhaps result if we ditched the notion of a fundamental science altogether for a thorough-going relativism and, as I think Rorty has suggested, start working seriously on our abilities to talk across disciplinary discourses, collegially, as humanities computing is trying to do. Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: TSD 2008 Subject: TSD 2008 Preliminary announcement Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:33:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 594 (594) ********************************************************* TSD 2008 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT ********************************************************* Eleventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2008) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2008 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging transcription problems in spoken corpora sense disambiguation links between text and speech oriented systems parsing issues parsing problems in spoken texts multi-lingual issues 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: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: cfp: Internet Research 9.0 (AoIR 2008) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:20:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 595 (595) CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNET RESEARCH 9.0: RETHINKING COMMUNITY, RETHINKING PLACE International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Copenhagen, Denmark Workshops / Doctoral Colloquium: October 15th, 2008 AoIR. conference: October 16­18th, 2007 Deadline for paper submissions: February 8th, 2007 RETHINKING COMMUNITY, RETHINKING PLACE In the past few years, new forms of net-based communities have emerged, distributed on various websites and services, and making use of several media platforms and genres to stay connected. Now, as mobile and location-based technologies are reintroducing "place" as an important aspect in the formation of communal and social activities, it is time to consider and rethink the concept of online or virtual communities. Not forgetting the lessons we have learned from studying the early virtual communities, how do we describe, analyse, theorise and design the communities and social formations of the early 21st century? How do we address the blurring of boundaries between places and communities on- and offline? We call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations from any discipline, methodology, and community, and from conjunctions of multiple disciplines, methodologies and academic communities that address the conference themes. Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, economic, and/or aesthetic aspects of the Internet beyond the conference themes. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members. SUBMISSIONS We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. We welcome proposals for traditional academic conference papers, but we also encourage proposals for creative or aesthetic presentations that are distinct from a traditional written ‘paper.’ We also welcome proposals for ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates, as well as organized PANEL PROPOSALS that present a coherent group of papers on a single theme. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS All papers and presentations in this session will be reviewed in the normal manner. Detailed information about review and submission will be available through the conference submission website: http://conferences.aoir.org in early January 2008. Format - PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 600-800 words - CREATIVE OR AESTHETIC PRESENTATIONS - submit abstract of 500-750 words - PANEL PROPOSALS - submit a 600-800 word description of the panel theme, plus 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation - ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature of the roundtable discussion and interaction Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and overseen by the Program Chair. Each individual is invited to submit a proposal for 1 paper or 1 presentation. A person may also propose a panel session, which may include a second paper that they are presenting. An individual may also submit a roundtable proposal. You may be listed as co-author on additional papers as long as you are not presenting them. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS Several publishing opportunities are expected to be available through journals, including a special issue of "Information, Communication & Society", based on peer-review of full papers. The website will contain more details. GRADUATE STUDENTS Graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Any student paper is eligible for consideration for the AoIR graduate student award. Students wishing to be a candidate for the Student Award must send a final paper by June 30, 2007. Ph.D. students will also want to consider participating in the Doctoral Colloquium: Following the very successful examples of previous Doctoral Colloquia, we will again aim to offer an all-day Doctoral Colloquium on October 15th 2008 (Wednesday) for Ph.D. students who wish to present their current work for critical evaluation by their peers and senior scholars. Submission and registration details will be available on the conference website http://conferences.aoir.org as soon as possible. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Prior to the conference, there will be a limited number of pre- conference workshops which will provide participants with in-depth, hands-on and/or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these pre-conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their labs or studios or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1000 words, and should clearly outline the purpose, methodology, structure, costs, equipment and minimal attendance required, as well as explaining its relevance to the conference as a whole. Proposals will be accepted if they demonstrate that the workshop will add significantly to the overall program in terms of thematic depth, hands on experience, or local opportunities for scholarly or artistic connections. These proposals and all inquiries regarding pre-conference proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to both the Conference Chair and Program Chair and no later than March 31, 2007. DEADLINES Submission site available: January 10, 2008 Proposal submission deadline: February 8, 2008 Presenter notification: March 31, 2008 Final workshop submission deadline: March 31, 2008 Submission for student award competition: June 30, 2008 Submission for conference archive: July 31, 2008 CONTACT INFORMATION Program Chair: Dr. Brian Loader, University of York, UK Conference Chair: Dr. Lisbeth Klastrup, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark President of AoIR: Dr. Charles Ess, Drury University Association Website: http://www.aoir.org Conference Website: http://conferences.aoir.org From: John Lavagnino Subject: Digital humanities at the 2007 MLA Convention Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:54:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 596 (596) Some Humanist readers may be attending this year's Modern Language Association convention in Chicago, starting on Thursday the 27th. There are a number of talks on digital humanities and related subjects at the MLA, and to help those interested in finding them, the Association for Computers and the Humanities has compiled a guide to these talks, based on the convention program. It is available at: http://www.ach.org/mla/mla07/guide.html The level of d.h. activity at the MLA has risen for the second year running, and as always the range of subjects these sessions touch on covers many languages and kinds of study. There's the first mention of GPS that I've seen in the title of an MLA paper--- you can tell that it's something new to this venue when an acronym gets explained within the title itself. John -- Dr John Lavagnino Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 20 7848 2453 www.lavagnino.org.uk General Editor, The Oxford Middleton http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198185697 http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198185703 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Solsticial salutations by alternative means Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:20:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 597 (597) Dear colleagues, Today, the shortest of the year, Christmas came early for me. This year the normal shutting down of my main machine in celebration of the joyous time I celebrate came automatically, without bidding. Sometime during the night or this morning, when I attempted to revive the machine for a day of work, it packed up and went into total hibernation. The power-supply appears to have fizzled. Repair is promised for Monday, but Monday is Christmas Eve. So I turn to my laptop in order not to miss the opportunity to send out my usual message for the season. Otherwise all important files remain stranded on the now totally inert box at my feet, so effectively I am being forced to abandon scheduled work for the many other non-digital things hereabouts, like books. One of these is Michael Sappol's Dream Anatomy, catalogue of an exhibition put on by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, with a fine website, www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy/. Sappol writes "about a set of longstanding issues in the history of anatomical representation" and how our ideas about ourselves are affected, even shaped by such representation. Phrenological diagrams are to be expected and are relevant to our interests, but what lies closer are the ones which fit the reigning technologies of the time to functions of the brain, e.g. Fritz Kahn's Das Leben des Menschen (1926). (Several of Kahn's engaging diagrams are also to be found in the British Library's Gallery of Bodies as Machines, www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/bodies/kahn/kahnmachines.html.) There is more here than seems at first. For decades we have been using the computing machine as our source of figurative language when imagining ourselves, sometimes forgetting that the language is figurative. Despite the trouble such forgetting causes as well as the power computational metaphors have in helping us to understand our 21st-century selves, the situation isn't nearly as interesting seen like that as when it is turned around. Ian Hacking has been working for some time on doing so in one way, by working out the implications of our becoming corporeally more and more artificial, as more and more of our parts are replaced, repaired or supplemented for medical or other reasons. John von Neumann did it another way when he turned to neurological structures as a source of language to describe his architecture for computing, in his famous "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" (http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/vonneumann-firstdraftedvac.pdf). This suggests that the important thing isn't so much the computational metaphor for mind but the usefulness of the medium for exploratory modelling of the neurobiology we do know. There's also a long walk in the nearby forest, misty, darkish mid-afternoon, with very black crows, Canadian geese and ducks who are light enough to walk on the thin sheet of ice coating the ponds here and there. Quietly beautiful in the southern English mode of wintry beauty as we enjoy it these days. Headlamps and taillights of the automobiles glimmer through the brush and bare branches of the trees. A few walkers with us, several with their dogs, who are anything but melancholy. Finally, too dark to navigate the deeper parts of the forest, we return home to warmth, a chiming clock, food and, thanks to my deep-sleeping computer, a guiltless evening of non-academic pleasures. Humanist now numbers 1600 subscribers, down one from earlier this afternoon. Somebody must have left while I was out in the forest. Farewell! To everyone who remains, my hope that Hanukkah was good, that Eid is proceeding with much celebration, that Christmas will be joyous and all the other festivals likewise. Yours in early darkness, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Vickery, Kelly Subject: Digitization Programmer position Date: Dec 24, 2007 3:48 PM X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 598 (598) To: UKDIGLIB_at_lsv.uky.edu Position Available: Digitization Programmer Description: The Digitization Programmer position is a full-time UK Server Administrator/Programmer I position working in the Library Information Technology Division and with the Digital Programs Department. Responsibilities: The Digitization Programmer will work primarily with Digital Programs to create programs to improve work flows in the creation of digital images. The programmer will examine digital conversion work flows and create automated processes. Implement standards and specifications for metadata creation according to XML, METS/ALTO, MARC and other formats. Validate data for digital repository ingest. Application development. Produce scripts for work with commercially produced software. Database creation and management. Maintain troubleshoot, update and customize server applications. Required Qualifications: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or similar field plus two years related experience. Master's degree preferred. Salary and Benefits: Salary and rank within the University library system commensurate with experience and qualifications; $35,554 minimum. Full-time appointment within the UK Libraries system. Standard fringe benefits; 15 days annual leave; TIAA/CREF, Fidelity and Twentieth Century Annuity plans. Visit http://www.uky.edu/HR/benefits/ for additional benefits information. Library: The University of Kentucky Libraries system includes the main William T. Young Library, Medical Center Library, Law Library, Special Collections & Digital Programs, Agricultural Information Center, Fine Arts Library, Design Library, Education Library, Engineering Library and five science libraries. Combined holdings total more than 3 million volumes. The system has a staff of 80 librarians and 109 support staff and serves a student body of 28,000. The UK Libraries use the Voyager integrated library system. Library membership includes the Association of Research Libraries, SOLINET, ASERL, and the Center for Research Libraries, and is a regional depository for government publications. For more details or to apply please check this site: http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/jobdetail.php?lnote_id=293 ************************************** Kelly M. Vickery Associate Dean for Library Information Technology William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington KY 40506-0456 phone: (859)257-0500, ext.: 2107 fax: (859) 257-0505 email: kmvick0_at_email.uky.edu ************************************** -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter_at_uky.edu 859-257-1257 x.82115 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter_at_vis.uky.edu *************************************** From: dobreva_at_math.bas.bg Subject: LaTeCH 2008 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:59:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 599 (599) CALL FOR PAPERS LREC 2008 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2008) Special Theme: "Resources and Tools for Studying Language Variety and Change" 1 June, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco http://ilk.uvt.nl/latech08/ Submission deadline: 20 February 2008 ********************************************************* The Second Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2008) will be held in conjunction with LREC 2008, and will take place on June 1 in Marrakech, Morocco. * SCOPE AND TOPICS Museums, archives, and libraries around the world maintain large collections of cultural and scientific heritage objects, such as archaeological artefacts, audio and video recordings, or manuscripts, archival documents and other written sources. Such collections are a potentially very valuable resource for specialists and laypersons alike, provided they can be easily accessed and automatically processed. Furthermore, textual cultural heritage resources, such as old manuscripts and early printed books, are not only interesting for their information content, but are also an invaluable source for linguistic research on diachronic and synchronic language variety and change. While several large scale digitisation projects are currently underway to make cultural heritage resources more accessible, it is equally important to develop powerful tools to search, link, enrich, and mine the digitised data. Language technology has a crucial role to play in this, even for collections which are primarily non-textual, since text is the pervasive medium used for meta-data. At the same time, the cultural heritage domain poses special challenges for the NLP community, including the use of historic or non-standard language, the presence of OCR or transcription errors in the data, and the necessity to deal with data from various media. For LaTeCH 2008, we invite papers on language technology for cultural heritage data in general and on the special theme of "Studying Language Variety and Change". Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - enriching cultural heritage data by inducing meta-data - dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or non-contemporary use of language - automatic error detection and cleaning - adapting existing NLP tools for the cultural heritage domain - linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and languages - representing cultural heritage data to different audiences (personalisation, text simplification, text summarisation, text generation from databases, hypertext generation) - knowledge discovery in cultural heritage data - complex annotation tools - determination of word and sentence boundaries within manuscripts - resources for and treatment of dialects (general solutions) - annotations of language variety on the orthographic, morphological, and syntactic level - global language resource management systems - repositories of cultural and scientific heritage data [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 21.433 cognitive science like alchemy Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:13:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 600 (600) In Humanist 21.429, Andrew Brook wrote, [deleted quotation]Let me take a run at a reply. I'd think that having an accurate, informative history would only be of interest if it helped us, as he says, to know what our current activities are like. An historian might answer differently to other historians, but I'd think that if he or she were talking to non-historians, then doing history would be justified in terms similar to Andrew's. So the question is, why should we go to so much trouble? One answer would be to understand as much of what is at work in the present as possible. If in any given historical moment there are many latent possibilities, outcomes of what has happened and interactions among those outcomes, then a history that shows the origins and nature of these possibilities would help us to read them. Another answer would be to show continuities obscured by misconceptions, e.g. the ongoing philosophical problem that runs through the work of Hilbert, Goedel and Turing to the present day, which overlooked contributes to the false belief that computing is a purely technical phenomenon of significance to us only instrumentally. I suppose one could understand the situation by imagining a traveller who quite suddenly suffers a case of total amnesia, and so has no idea why he is carrying what he is carrying, what the items in his luggage are for, where he was going, why &c. Borges has shown us that the traveller with perfect recall and total knowledge may be in an even worse fix, but since partial amnesia seems a condition of existence, and forgetting more the real danger, we don't have to worry much about overdoing it. This is such a fascinating problem I'd think one could find many schools of thought about it. But can we say, irrespective of school, that in order to know the present (so that one can make well informed decisions &c) one must know the past? Andrew continues: [deleted quotation]What *exactly* happened when chemistry replaced alchemy? Is "replaced" the right word? I'd think that an historical response would construe this lengthy and complex event as a type of what we now call scientific progress, i.e. it would help us to understand the idea of scientific progress. With that improved idea, we'd then proceed to examine other instances, opening them up to see what was gained (from our current perspective), what was lost. Kuhn's primary source was the history of physics. What happens to his argument if we look instead at the history of chemistry, or the history of biology -- or the history of computing? Am I right in thinking that we have been so profoundly influenced by the history of physics -- by the notion that all sciences are reducible to physics, including (when we can get around to it) the human sciences -- that basing our idea of the fundamental science elsewhere constitutes a major meta-paradigm shift? An even more radical meta-paradigm shift would perhaps result if we ditched the notion of a fundamental science altogether for a thorough-going relativism and, as I think Rorty has suggested, start working seriously on our abilities to talk across disciplinary discourses, collegially, as humanities computing is trying to do. Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | <http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/>http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/= .=20 Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Wendell Piez Subject: cognitive science like alchemy Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:41:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 601 (601) Dear Willard, I'm not sure where the intriguing thread on the alchemy vs. chemistry is going, but it's certainly provocative. It's one of those Ouroboric epistemological questions. As for history, it seems every generation of historians struggles with itself and its predecessors over what history is and is for. But like so much human activity, it seems to persist because it gives us at least the promise of some sort of satisfaction, however fleeting. In particular, I would welcome the satisfaction of a history of alchemy that went beyond the perennially fashionable trope, "it was hopelessly benighted and muddled, and then the Enlightenment happened and Science began", etc. In particular, I would welcome such a true history (if that is not a contradiction in terms) since it seems clear to me that alchemy has hardly disappeared. On the contrary, it is alive and thriving -- just check out the promises of personal and financial transformation that clog your Inbox to see what I mean. What's really fun about the Law of Attraction -- the notion that since Like comes to Like, if you can only "think rich", you will become so -- is that it's actually true, though not always in the sense that the marketers are happy for you to take it. Buy the book or just send them your credit card number, and someone gets rich even if there is no shift in attitude: it's that magical. The Philosopher's Stone takes the form of a DVD-ROM (or a correspondence course or a login/pw), pregnant with fantastic power: but it's up to you to figure out how to use it. Yet on an even deeper level, it could be that the alchemists are literally correct as well, and that yes, in fact, you can become rich just by shifting your outlook and expectations. Of course, "rich" in this literal sense might not mean "rich" in the monetary sense, etc. So beneath the scam lurks an even more occult spiritual truth, albeit one less satisfying to the materialist. I mention all this since I want to draw attention to how the transition from alchemy to chemistry was far more than one of light out of darkness. While chemistry, founded on notions of disinterested observation and scientific method, has succeeded beyond alchemy's most outlandish hopes in mastering the physical universe, it has done so by "denaturing" its parent, emptying alchemy of its ethical and spiritual component. This is indeed both a gain, in that as the veils of personal and emotional involvement are parted, we can at last begin to see the world "as it is", and a loss, in that such a science is perforce ethically neutral or even ethically void. There is nothing unscientific about torturing animals or people, if it is done in the pursuit of truth. But there may be something inhuman about it. And consequently we now live in a world in which not only are animals and human beings tortured in the name of "Science" or "Intelligence", but also rationalism and the principle of reasoning from evidence (rather than from hopes and fears and emotional commitments to fixed ideas) have effectively banished themselves from ethical concerns both large and small, as being somehow alien from and above them. And then we are shocked and dismayed to see ethics and morality given over to the most indulgent and undisciplined kind of magical thinking. Isn't it interesting that while we are pondering the question of whether, given advances in neurology, cognitive science will soon have nothing to offer, the American Psychological Association is riven by debate over the wisdom of a policy renouncing the participation of professional psychologists in so-called "robust" interrogation regimens, as currently practiced by agents of the US Government and its proxies? Though only an amateur student of cognitive science (and fascinated by its findings), like many I have long been skeptical of its stronger claims that the mind can be understood as a computer. (And I have been relieved to find that its more thoughtful proponents have not supposed any such simple thing.) This unease on my part has been motivated by two concerns. First, of course, I found the analogy to be facile and unrevealing, given how much it leaves out, even (or even especially) when the human brain can be found to be performing something like computational processing. But more important is the ethical concern: once we have taken the step of considering the brain/body as a machine, it seems too easy to consider human beings to be instruments to be manipulated rather than as Others to be Regarded. (Indeed, I am troubled even by regarding machines as "machines", given that they too are part of the fabric of human experience, our creations and evidently bound up in our fate, whatever it may be. How can I understand the computer on which I type, or the car I drive, on without seeing how embedded they are, and how they embed me in my use of them, in the particular kind of human society they entail?) In view of human purposes and aspirations, the shift from alchemy to chemistry, or the shift from psychology to neurology (with cognitive science as a way station), must be an incomplete one, if it leaves us questioning not just what this is all for (this question being proper enough), but whether there is any point in caring. Surely, if there is anything that proves to have its end in itself, it is caring, or Caritas. But such a recognition is only possible if we regard the human subject (or any sentient subject, whatever form it takes) as a reality rather than as a mere ghostly "epiphenomenon" to be discounted (as if a phenomenon that is "emergent" must be less real thereby). Thus, while I admire and promote chemistry, neurology and indeed all the physical sciences, I do so not in the belief that they represent the ultimate in knowledge, but rather in the hope and intention that they be important steps along the way to a more sympathetic, humane and complete outlook, which comprehends and respects Nature and our place in it with more than a cold regard. With best wishes for 2008, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 602 (602) From: Willard McCarty Dear colleagues, The Virginia server that Humanist uses (courtesy of IATH) is currently down and has been for a few days. Regular postings are not likely to resume until next year (i.e. 2008). Apologies on behalf of misbehaving hardware and/or software. Meanwhile all the best for the New Year from a chilly, bright winter's morning in London. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: gardent_at_loria.fr (Claire Gardent) Subject: Postdoc Opening in Nancy (France) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:44:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 603 (603) Postdoctoral Position at INRIA Nancy (France) Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Topic: Surface realisation and large scale over-generation detection Deadline: February 15, 2008. Employer: INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science) Nancy Grand Est (France) Job Description: The Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications (Nancy, France) has a position for a Postdoctoral fellow to work on the development of a surface realiser for French. Applicants must have a ** recent doctoral degree ** (Doctoral thesis less than one year old before the recruitment's date) or defend their PhD before the end of 2008. They must have expertise in an area relevant to the project (linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science), strong hands-on experience in Natural Language Processing and a particular interest in NL generation. A good knowledge of Haskell is a necessity. Further particulars and details of how to apply are available at: http://www.loria.fr/~gardent The official closing date is February 15, 2007, but applications will be processed until the position is filled. Contact: Claire Gardent From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Texto Digital 5 Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:57:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 604 (604) Prezados, Está no ar o quinto número da revista Texto Digital (ISSN1807-9288), o endereço é http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Feliz Ano Novo!!! Dear Friends, The fifth number of Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288) has been released http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Happy New Years !!! Chers amis, Vient de paraîpre le cinquième numéro de la revue Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288), à l’adresse http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Vient de Paraîpre Bonne Année !!! Estimados, Esta en linea el quinto número de la revista Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288), en la dirección http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br. Feliz Año Nuevo!!! 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: Willard McCarty Subject: job: NINES directorship at Virginia Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:58:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 605 (605) We have just received approval to proceed this year with the important search outlined below. As time is short, the pool of qualified applicants restricted by virtue of the expertise needed, and yet the position one in which list members will see they hold some collective stake, we hope for your help in distributing the following announcement widely, and soon: The English Department of the University of Virginia invites applications for an Associate or Full Professorship with tenure in the area of nineteenth-century studies (British, American, or transnational). The position includes the duties of the Director of the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship (NINES) and will carry a commensurate salary, as well as substantial funds for the NINES initiative and its required technical personnel. The academic appointment will begin on August 25, 2008. Area of interest in nineteenth-century studies (British, American, or transnational). Candidates must possess a record of excellence in scholarship and teaching, as well as strong promise in project management and resource development. The position will require expertise in digital humanities. Interested candidates must apply online at Jobs_at_UVA, posting number _jobs.virginia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=53616_. Candidates are required to complete a candidate profile and attach a cover letter, CV, and a separate list/word file containing the names and contact information of three references. For immediate consideration, please apply before February 1, 2008. We expect to conduct interviews in March of 2008. The position will remain open, however, until filled. Inquiries may be directed to Herbert Tucker, Search Committee Chair, _ninessearch_at_Virginia.edu_. -- Herbert F. Tucker Dept of English Bryan Hall 219 University of Virginia Charlottesville VA 22904-4121 434 / 924-6677 Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: what results? Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:56:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 606 (606) In "Brain as hardware, culture as software" (Inquiry 47.3, June 2004, pp 219-35) -- read it tonight -- Richard Rorty writes, [deleted quotation]that cognitive [deleted quotation]beautiful theories [deleted quotation]Quite apart from the question of cognitive science and alchemy, pursued here before Christmas, Rorty's summary of the Wittgensteinian view of cognitive science raises for us a useful question. There can now be no question that in humanities computing "very bright people engage in spirited debates with one another" and that after many years of hard work other externals are in place (academic departments, professorships, journals, awards etc). But are we disentangling ourselves from history, computer science, English, musicology et al. "in the way that chemistry did [from philosophy] -- by exhibiting [our] ability to spin off new technologies" -- and other forms of knowledge? Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: Changing the Change: Design Visions, Proposals & Tools Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:55:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 607 (607) 10-12 July 2008 CHANGING THE CHANGE: DESIGN VISIONS, PROPOSALS AND TOOLS An international conference on the role and potential of design research in the transition towards sustainability Torino, Italy http://www.changingthechange.org -- Organised by Co-ordination of Italian Design Research Doctorates in cooperation with the Conference of Italian Design Faculty Deans and Programme Heads In the framework of WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL TORINO 2008 An ICSID initiative of the IDA -- Endorsed by the Design Research Society -- The conference "Changing the Change" seeks to make a significant contribution to a necessary transformation that involves changing the direction of current changes toward a sustainable future. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of visions, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that will have to take place. At the heart of the conference, design researchers will present concrete and documentable research results. This will be complemented by invited keynote speaker presentations that will help paint a clearer picture of the common ground from which the conference will take off. -- AIMS The conference seeks to make a significant contribution to the twofold transformation underway. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of vision, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that we refer to as "changing the change." The conference has a double aim: - to consolidate a design research culture and practice oriented towards a constructive critical attitude able to reach all design disciplines. The conference intends to focus on the way in which the question of "changing the change" is present and widespread throughout the research community and in relation to all design fields: from product design to communication design; from interior design to interaction, service and strategic design; from social design to fashion design. - to outline the state-of-the-art of contributions that design research is today able to bring to social conversation about the future. The conference seeks to bring visibility to significant results. This with particular attention to visions of the future, to feasible solutions and to tools to help bring them into being. It will also enable us to make of the conference and its published output a tool for communication with the outside world; a tool able to demonstrate what design research can offer today to help re-orientate the transformation underway. In view of these aims, the conference will centre on the presentation of research results that could make a positive contribution to 'changing the change'. It will welcome contributions that take as their starting point transformations that have already taken place and those underway, and the necessity to re-orient them towards more sustainable outcomes. It hopes to present the widest range of possible world visions, feasible proposals and the design tools that could bring them into being. -- THEMES The field of interest of the conference is vast and will be divided into various specific themes within which more precise, focused discussion will be possible. This organisation into specific themes will be undertaken after contributions have been selected, so as to take into account what will actually be proposed. For the moment we only indicate an initial, general division into the three themes already introduced: visions, proposals and tools. Visions: this section will present research results that lead us to imagine possible worlds, or parts of possible worlds. It includes the results of activities in the field of scenario design and more general visions produced by research into specific products, communications and services. It also includes a comparative analysis of visions emerging from design history and from a comparison of different cultures. Proposals: this section presents results of design research that give rise to concrete solutions containing elements of systemic innovation. They are also legible as concrete steps towards a new generation of sustainable products, services and systems. So, products, services and product and service systems are proposed along with the communicative artefacts that link several actors and artefacts together. It also proposes places for a new everyday life, the activities that take place within them and the new production and consumption networks that emerge from them. Tools: this section presents the results of research that aims to redefine and develop conceptual and operational tools which enable designers to operate within change and influence its direction. Such tools enable them to participate constructively in new design networks, and deal with emerging problems. Tools may be proposed for conceptualisation and representation, for calculation and appraisal of results or for stimulation and prototype making. -- AUDIENCE The conference will mainly be a meeting point for academics, researchers and research students in the field of design theory and practice. However, in uniting a high academic level with the effort to present concrete results of activities carried out, it will also be of considerable interest to the wider design community and to those economic and social operators who recognise the potential of design practice and design research. -- CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts should be between 500 and 700 words long, excluding the bibliography. The deadline for the reception of abstracts is January 21, 2008. Reception of abstracts will be acknowledged and notices of acceptance or rejection will be sent by March 3, 2008. The abstracts will be evaluated and selected by a blind peer review process. Full papers are limited to 6000 words. The deadline for full papers is on May 26, 2008. Selection criteria The abstracts will be evaluated and selected by a blind peer review process. Coherently with the conference aims, the Peer Review Committee will base its decisions on three major criteria: (1) relevance to the topics of "Changing the change"? as outlined below and in the website, (2) focalisation, in terms of clarity of the vision, of the proposal or the design tool and theory they present, and (3) reliability, in terms of the quality of the design research on which the paper is based. More precisely: - abstracts must be clearly defined as visions, proposals or design tools and theories (please select the proper option at the head of the abstract template and delete the others) : visions refer to scenarios of possible worlds, or parts of possible worlds; proposals present specific solutions to specific problems; tools and theories introduce conceptual and operational devices enabling designers to operate in contemporary contexts. - abstracts must clearly refer to the contemporary context and to its on-going transformations (considering the different ways they are taking place in different regions of the world). In this framework, they should present design research results that, moving from a deep understanding of these transformations, propose a design contribution involving a re-orientation towards more sustainable directions. - abstracts must present design research results and clearly indicate the specific research programme they are based on (with its aims, methodology and main actors). Given these three pre-requisites, abstracts (and the papers that will follow) can deal with any topics in any design fields: from product to communication; from interior to interaction; from service to strategy; from social design to fashion. -- CALL FOR VISUALISATIONS Special consideration will be dedicated to abstracts/papers presenting design research projects with highly communicative visual results. Therefore, together with the abstract/paper, a visualisation can be submitted as material for an exhibition that will be organized parallel to the Conference. The visualisations do not substitute the papers. To be accepted for evaluation they have to refer to a paper that has to be selected by the Peer review Committee. The conference will host an exhibition based on the visualisations proposed by selected papers. These visualisations are not the traditional scientific posters. They are visual presentations of design research results. They have to show visions of possible worlds and proposals for sustainable solutions. Whoever intends to deliver a visualisation must submit a first draft together with the abstract of the paper presenting the research on which the visualization is based. (Deadline: January 21, 2008) -- PUBLICATIONS All selected and presented papers will be published on line, and placed in the conference website in printable form. A special peer review jury will adjudicate the best papers submitted. The best papers and the presentations of the keynote speakers will be published in book form. http://www.changingthechange.org -- Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: postdoc in Early Modern Studies and Humanities Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:18:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 608 (608) Computing at McGill McGill University seeks a postdoctoral fellow to join a large, international, interdisciplinary research project, "Making Publics: Media, Markets, and Association in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700." The "MaPs" project is developing a transformative account of the cultural and social life of Europe from 1500 to 1700. Members of the team, from Canada, the USA, and Europe, include scholars in Art, Literature, Music, Theatre History, History of Science, History of Religion, Sociology, Human Geography, Media Studies, Social and Intellectual History, and Education. At the heart of the work is the study of the creation of small-scale forms of association that represented a new way of connecting with others, a kind of connection not founded in family, rank or vocation, but rather a form of voluntary community built on the shared interests, tastes, and desires of individuals. The central research questions of the project -- how did public-making change early modern society? how did it contribute to the emergence of modernity? how does public-making change the way we understand the social and political dimensions of artistic and intellectual works? -- are crystallizing into a substantially new way of understanding early modernity and modernity itself. Please visit the project website for further information on the project and members of the research team: http://makingpublics.mcgill.ca. The start date for the year-long position is July 1, 2008. There is the possibility of renewal. Candidates will have a PhD in one of the fields relevant to the project and a research program that connects substantially with MaPs. It is expected that part of the Fellow's research program will have to do with the educational and social dimensions of web-based resources in the Humanities. The Fellow will work closely with colleagues in an interdisciplinary context. With help and guidance from team members Wes Folkerth and Kevin Kee, the Fellow will be principally responsible for the continued maintenance and development of the project website. The fellowship will be approximately $30,000 CAD per annum. Applications, consisting of a description of research program, writing sample, CV, plus three letters of recommendation, must be sent by regular post by December 15, 2007 to Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Department of English, Arts Building, McGill University, 853 Sherbrooke Street West., Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2T5. [Source of the above: http://www.kmdi.toronto.edu/documentshomepage/Postdoc_Computing_Ad.pdf] Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: reports of silence somewhat exaggerated Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:26:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 609 (609) Dear colleagues, The deluge of Humanist last evening (GMT) has no doubt alerted you to the error in my prediction that Humanist would remain silent until 2008. I made every effort to comb through the listing of messages sent to Virginia for processing and managed to rescue a number of them -- but perhaps not all. Because the problem occurred at that stage of processing, the issue numbers don't reveal whether anything remains undiscovered. So, if you haven't seen your posting as yet, assume it has gone forever and resend, please. Humanist won't go voluntarily silent for New Year's, since it is my custom not to celebrate the turnover of the year, though I cannot promise to behave in a completely exemplary manner when the time comes. To keep me on the relatively straight and reasonably narrow, please do not interrupt your flow of postings. All the best to everyone in the new year. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 21.445 what results? Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:02:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 610 (610) On Dec 29, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]I'm moved to respond in part because I was student of Rorty's and was, even before that encounter, a hard-core Wittgensteinian (and therefore, perhaps, a dogmatic behaviorist when it comes to language as well). To the quoted passage, I say amen. I regard the disentangling of digital humanities from English, history, computer science, etc. as a great danger. Digital humanists naturally bristle at the suggestion that we are the handmaidens of these august disciplines, but I think that is perhaps more to do with the pejorative connotations of that mildly offensive designation than with the nature of the relationship expressed. On paper, I undoubtedly seem to some of my colleagues to be a specialist in something other than what they do (literary study), but I myself have never wanted to do anything but traditional literary criticism and theoretical work in English studies. Ideally, the computer gives us knowledge that is difficult to come by without the tools we have developed amidst our spirited debates, but to engage in this activity is, I think, to request more knowledge not "other forms of knowledge." I think Chomskian linguistics is facile nonsense, which obviously colors my view of their attempt to bring the procedures of natural science to bear on questions recently regarded as part of the philosophy of mind. Were it successful in describing language behavior on planet earth I might be more sympathetic. Perhaps it would be possible to affect the hermeneutical shift toward scientific reasoning with a different model, in which case I might welcome the knowledge created. But in the case of Chomskian linguistics, "other forms of knowledge" strikes me as a run around meant to hide the fact that what is being proposed is a different set of ground truths. This is a phenomenon also to be found in the New Age section of the local bookstore, where so many ideas are proposed as "alternative science." Surely we do not fancy ourselves as operating from a different set of ground truths which in turn will yield "other forms of knowledge?" In that case, we have no business calling ourselves humanities computing. Steve Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Professorship in Bibliography at UCLA Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:00:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 611 (611) Posted for Michael Buckland (buckland_at_ISchool.Berkeley.EDU). Please excuse cross postings, and feel free to distribute. The Information Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, announces an opening for the newly created Martin and Bernard Breslauer Chair in Bibliography (see http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/jobs/breslauer_announcement.pdf ). Endowed Chairs at UCLA are reserved for distinguished scholars and teachers at the Full Professor level. It is expected that the Breslauer Professor will contribute to the long-standing leadership and innovation in all areas of bibliography of the Information Studies Department, here understood to include: the study of the collection and description of books and other textual works; the study of the production and use of textual works as physical objects; and the history of the book, of book arts, and of print culture. Emergent areas in which the Department is also interested include: the history of transitions from print to digital formats, and of the impact of such transitions on the book arts, on publishing and access systems, and on reading; the design of bibliographic systems that offer scholars in the arts and humanities access to creative and intellectual works; and approaches to the study of bibliographic collection and description that are informed by artistic and humanistic perspectives. For more information, see our website: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/. UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ From: Ken Friedman Subject: International Journal of Design Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:15:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 612 (612) -- current TOC & Special Issue CFP Friends, The current issue of the International Journal of Design was released yesterday. The International Journal of Design is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, including industrial design, visual communication design, interface design, animation and game design, architectural design, urban design, and other design related fields. It aims to provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas and findings from researchers across different cultures and encourages research on the impact of cultural factors on design theory and practice. It also seeks to promote the transfer of knowledge between professionals in academia and industry by emphasizing research in which results are of interest or applicable to design practices. The editors are now seeking papers for a special issue on Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design. The special issue editors are Prof. Keiichi Sato of the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology and Prof. Kuohsiang Chen of the Department and Institute of Industrial Design at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. The deadline is February 28, 2008. To read the current issue and to get more information on proposing articles for the special issue, please visit the journal web site at: http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/ With warm wishes for 2008. Ken Friedman -- International Journal of Design Vol. 1(3) December 2007 | Table of Contents Original Articles Fluency as an Experiential Quality in Augmented Spaces Jonas Löwgren Towards Female Preferences in Design - A Pilot Study Lishan Xue, Ching Chiuan Yen Effects of Visual-Auditory Incongruity on Product Expression and Surprise Geke D.S. Ludden, Hendrik N.J. Schifferstein Materials in Products Selection: Tools for Including User-Interaction in Materials Selection Ilse van Kesteren, Pieter Jan Stappers, Sjef de Bruijn Path-dependent Foundation of Global Design-driven Outdoor Trade in the Northwest of England Mary B Rose, Terence Love, Mike Parsons Perspectives Unstated Contributions - How Artistic Inquiry Can Inform Interdisciplinary Research Chris Rust Acknowledgement of Reviewers From: Willard McCarty Subject: politics via the Internet Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:43:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 613 (613) In "Brown and Friends" (London Review of Books, 3 January 2008), David Runciman comments on British PM Gordon Brown's habit of referring only to a small circle of people he knows very well, who are also intimately interconnected by school and family ties. He then says the following about the role of the Internet in the modern political scene: [deleted quotation]Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 21.445 what results? Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:02:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 614 (614) On Dec 29, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote: [deleted quotation]I'm moved to respond in part because I was student of Rorty's and was, even before that encounter, a hard-core Wittgensteinian (and therefore, perhaps, a dogmatic behaviorist when it comes to language as well). To the quoted passage, I say amen. I regard the disentangling of digital humanities from English, history, computer science, etc. as a great danger. Digital humanists naturally bristle at the suggestion that we are the handmaidens of these august disciplines, but I think that is perhaps more to do with the pejorative connotations of that mildly offensive designation than with the nature of the relationship expressed. On paper, I undoubtedly seem to some of my colleagues to be a specialist in something other than what they do (literary study), but I myself have never wanted to do anything but traditional literary criticism and theoretical work in English studies. Ideally, the computer gives us knowledge that is difficult to come by without the tools we have developed amidst our spirited debates, but to engage in this activity is, I think, to request more knowledge not "other forms of knowledge." I think Chomskian linguistics is facile nonsense, which obviously colors my view of their attempt to bring the procedures of natural science to bear on questions recently regarded as part of the philosophy of mind. Were it successful in describing language behavior on planet earth I might be more sympathetic. Perhaps it would be possible to affect the hermeneutical shift toward scientific reasoning with a different model, in which case I might welcome the knowledge created. But in the case of Chomskian linguistics, "other forms of knowledge" strikes me as a run around meant to hide the fact that what is being proposed is a different set of ground truths. This is a phenomenon also to be found in the New Age section of the local bookstore, where so many ideas are proposed as "alternative science." Surely we do not fancy ourselves as operating from a different set of ground truths which in turn will yield "other forms of knowledge?" In that case, we have no business calling ourselves humanities computing. Steve Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 <http://lenz.unl.edu/>http://lenz.unl.edu/ Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Michael Hart Subject: 2008: Predictions, Hopes and Fears Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:17:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 615 (615) Every year I write my predictions, hopes and fears, but this year I think we can all agree that these predictions cross boundaries, concern advances, and declines, in both the technology and social world orders that are far beyond anything I previously predicted. This year's predictions include "personal libraries" on "personal computers" to rival the largest libraries in the world; USB 3.0-- which will reduce overnight data copying and backups to ONE HOUR; and very inexpensive terabyte drives. Prediction #1: The "Personal Computer" as "Personal Library" Prediction #2: USB 3.0 Will Change The World of Copies/Backups Prediction #3: USB 3.0 Terabyte Drives Will Do More Than. . . . Prediction #4: Is "The Digital Divide" Half Empty Or Half Full? Prediction #5: Rethinking "The Digital Divide". . .More or Less The World's Largest Libraries, Will eLibraries Be Counted? Prediction #1: The "Personal Computer" as "Personal Library" In 2008, someone will create their own private "personal computer personal library" so large as to hold enough books to enter lists of the world's 100 largest libraries based on total books. As many of you know, I have been doing research on these "World's Largest Libraries" for a couple months, concentrating mostly on a total number of books held by such libraries. When I started this research, it was to write up some feasibility study parameters on building electronic libraries the same size. This was prompted by the advent of the new terabyte drives we are seeing on the market at very inexpensive prices. [More Below] The latest statistics I could find, officially being published in the upcoming new edition of "Library World Records," indicate The Library Of Congress is still the world's largest library with the grand total of around 32.5 million books, with several other huge libraries closer than one might think, in China and Russia. 32.5 million books. Sounds like a lot. Let's break that down into these new modern day terabyte drives-- these contain a trillion characters and are under $200 or e100. A million books of a million characters = 1 trillion characters. Each terabyte drive can hold a million books. 2.5+ million if you use any of the various compression programs, and these are so good today, that there is really never any need to actually uncompress the files to read them, sometimes even to edit them. . .it's all done very transparently. 2.5 million books times 13 equals 32.5 million books. 13 terabytes to hold the entire Library Of Congress. $3,000 bought my first 5 megabyte hard drive in 1979. $3,000 today will buy you the average computer sold and add that 13 terabytes. . .NOT EVEN ACCOUNTING FOR INFLATION!!! USB 3.0 Is Coming in 2008 Prediction #2: USB 3.0 Will Change The World of Copies/Backups USB 3.0 will change how we view drives, backups, deletions and a host of other similar topics. Starting in 2008 backups and copies that used to take from 10 PM to 8 AM will be so fast you can do them over your lunch break. 10 times faster. The utility of outboard USB drives, USB flash drives, etc., will pass a breakthrough point at which the general public will think nothing of making backups, and we will have heard the last of an assortment of complaints of lost data from Nobel Prize laureates who just never got around to backing up their data. You think I am joking? I don't want to name names, but a plenty large sample of such took place right here in Illinois, at local universities where I used to hang out. The "Big Change" will be how simply and easily entire libraries, 12 gigabytes worth, at 2,500 books per gigabyte, for the ~30,000 books in the average U.S. Public Library, will change hands in a literal minute or two with USB 3.0 being 10 times faster. Terabyte Drives Will Become Totally Portable in 2008 Prediction #3: USB 3.0 Terabyte Drives Will Do More Than. . . . The addition of USB 3.0 to terabyte drives means one hour copies of entire terabyte drives. No one thought about the portability of terabytes before, simply because the TIME involved was too great even if the WEIGHT of an average terabyte had fallen to briefcase proportions. However, at ONE HOUR copying time, you can now meet someone from another location and copy an entire terabyte during lunch hour. Try sending a terabyte over the Internet, just for comparison. Or even over your local network. Your network gurus will likely be all over you. The result is a freedom from the networks. Worst case scenario, you SEND the terabyte drive a thousand mile journey for the person to copy. . .or just let them keep it, and have them send you something else back later. There should be some opportunities for VERY inexpensive purchase of USB 2 drives and accessories, for those who don't need speed, but just want LOTS of terabytes. The combination of USB 3.0 and terabyte drives will provide some unexpected synergy and change the drive world. Unexpected for those who do not think ahead. You will see more and more drives carried from place to place. Offsite backups will finally become a real reality. As they should have been years and decades ago, and nearly were. But that's another story. Will "The Digital Divide" Rear It's Ugly Head? Again, Already? Prediction #4: Is "The Digital Divide" Half Empty Or Half Full? Given that there are well over 1 billion people on the Internet, and given that there are now at least 3 billion with cellphones, it appears that either side of "The Digital Divide" could claim, as legitimately as the other, that they are the larger, smaller, or whatever side they want to claim. The FACT is that of all the people in the world who WANT to link up via the Internet or cellphone, that it can no longer be said, with any degree of truth, that most people are without access. And it's not going to stop at 4 billion or even 5 billion, but 6 billion electronically connected people is a possibility in just a few more years. Given this kind of "market saturation" the only alternative from the corporate point of view will be to finally unleash all those "unsupported features" that have been lurking in cellphones. "Unsupported Features???" Oh, didn't they tell you??? There are perhaps twice as many features IN your cellphones as a person is told are there, many of which are kept out of reach in some kind of hardware manner, others are hidden via software. This means that "hackers" will soon reappear on the scene to add in the features your cellphone providers either "forgot" to tell you about, or actually intentionally disabled to keep you out of some other market for which they wanted to charge higher rates. No kidding, the average cellphone out there might have dozens of "new" features you haven't heard about, but that were there, all the time, ever since it was manufactured. Why? Up to now the world cellphone market was never 50% saturated. That meant the companies could still dream market doubling. Now they can't. Why? Remember "The Dot Com Bust?" That happened because the entire American computer industry were unable to consider the FACT that they had saturated half of what was their entire potential market. They had doubled their market time after time after time, etc. They would NEVER be able to double their market again once those saturation levels hit 50%. Sounds simple, eh? We had this stuff in math class in grade school. How many times can something double. Right up to just ONE doubling from saturation. Duh! And all the "Dot Com Billionaires" never figured this out. . . . This time they will. . .at least I hope so, or else cellphone as we know it. . .could go through the same agonizing reappraisal. So, the essence of this prediction is twofold: First, get used to the idea the average world citizen has access. Second, better get used to cellphone companies giving more to the customers, or they will lose market share to competitors. Steve Jobs figured this out. That's why he created the iPhone. Steve Jobs is NOT your average "Dot Com for Dummies" kinda guy. Prediction #5: Rethinking "The Digital Divide". . .More or Less 2008 is going to see a vast reappraisal of digital services. For some the "agonizing reappraisal" quotation will come to mind as they remember other times their beliefs conflicted with quite literal actual realities. The social engineering departments of various institutions, many of them libraries, have been considering limiting access to what services they can based on proof of local residency, i.e. living in the tax base supporting the particular institution. Given that this is a social engineering issue and not technical, at least not in the sense of the technologies mentioned earlier, this section will simply predict the issue, not the outcome as I have learned that social engineering often flies in the faces of the more technical aspects. However, one way or another, "The Digital Divide" has changed to being over half full, rather than over half empty. Some people resist that kind of change. Those people want to preserve the previous boundaries. The political policies may be obvious; they simply won't provide services to those they want to keep ignorant and illiterate. 2008 may be remembered as the year the conservative world made a conscious decision to cut off services to the masses, to provide their various services, library and others, ONLY to those proven to be legitimate residential members of their financial base. I don't really know what is going to happen here, but watching a movement of this nature should be very enlightening. Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Recommended Books: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury: For The Right Brain Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Ran,: For The Left Brain [or both] Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson: To Understand The Internet The Phantom Toobooth, by Norton Juster: Lesson of Life. . . _______________________________________________ gweekly mailing list gweekly_at_lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gweekly --- Listserv commands are sent to: LISTSERV_at_LISTSERV.SYR.EDU To sign off from DIG_REF, send a message with the command SIGNOFF DIG_REF To suspend mail, send a message with the command SET DIG_REF NOMAIL To re-start mail, send a message with the command SET DIG_REF MAIL To set to digest, send a message with the command SET DIG_REF DIGEST Please do not set your "out of office" messages to reply to listserv messages. From: Kata Balogh Subject: 2nd CfP -- ESSLLI 2008 Student Session Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:26:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 616 (616) *********************************************************** 2nd Call for Papers ESSLLI 2008 STUDENT SESSION 4-18 August 2008, Hamburg, Germany Submission deadline: 15 February 2008 Website: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13 *********************************************************** We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information to be held in Hamburg, Germany on August 4-15, 2008. The aim of the Student Session is to give an opportunity to students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master- and PhD-students) to present and discuss their work in progress with a possibility to get feedback from senior researchers. Each year, 18 papers are selected for oral presentation and a number of others for poster presentation. CALL FOR PAPERS The programme committee invites submissions of papers for oral and poster presentation and for appearance in the proceedings. We welcome submissions with topics within the areas of Logic, Language and Computation. *** Submission deadline: 15 February 2008 *** The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates as well as postgraduates. Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. SUBMISSION Student authors are invited to submit a full paper up to 7 pages inclusive of references. Note that the length of the final version of the accepted papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. The preferred formats of submissions are PostScript or PDF, although other formats will also be accepted. More submission details and all relevant information at: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13 CONTACT Kata Balogh ESSLLI 2008 Student Session chair email: k.balogh_at_uva.nl tel.: +31 20 5254544 fax: +31 20 5254503 postal address: Department of Philosophy Universiteit van Amsterdam Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: RE: 21.453 disentanglement Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:54:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 617 (617) Stephen Ramsay (as I understand him) said "amen" to the passage quoted from Rorty's 2004 article, and I -- nudged over the line by Willard's earlier request for comments -- now say amen to Stephen's characterization of "the disentangling" as "a great danger". And I'd say that the danger lies not in any ultimate success which that attempt to disentangle, as envisaged by Willard, may have. For to my mind, the attempt is futile. The danger is one of much wasted (or, at best, misdirected) effort, of misunderstandings, frustration and probably disillusionment attendant upon trying to wind up somewhere other than where we (as humanists =FCberhaupt) should be wanting to go. Perhaps this is more readily apparent to me because many practitoners within my own current (after earlier stints in humanities teaching and research, then in publishing) field, that of academic library/information work, operate under a quite similar misconception regarding that field's intellectual place in the world. (And its proper destiny, I dare say.) - Laval Hunsucker Universiteitsbibliotheek U. Amsterdam [deleted quotation] From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: The NEH Announces Two New Digital Humanities Programs at CNI Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:51:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 618 (618) ** The NEH Announces Two New Digital Humanities Programs at CNI ** At the recent Fall 2007 CNI Task Force Meeting here in Washington, DC, I announced two new digital humanities grant programs. They are: 1) Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities These grants are for institutes, workshops, or other training events in the digital humanities. The guidelines are out now and the deadline is April 9, 2008. See: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IATDH.html 2) NEH Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers This new program in our Division of Research will allow digital humanities centers to receive a grant to host a fellow in residence. The guidelines won't be out until February 2008 or so. But I have posted a one-page information sheet at: http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/cio/FDHC.OnePager.pdf Thanks, Brett ------------------------------------------------ Brett Bobley Chief Information Officer Director, Digital Humanities Initiative National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html (202) 606-8401 bbobley_at_neh.gov From: Dan O'Donnell Subject: Call for Nominations: TEI-C Council Chair Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:53:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 619 (619) SECOND CALL -- Apologies for cross posting Christian Wittern, who has served so ably as TEI Council Chair since 2003 stepped down at the end of his third term on December 31st, 2007. To assist it in its deliberations, the TEI Board is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for candidates to replace Professor Wittern in this important post. Nominees need not be members of the TEI, its Board, or Council. The successful candidate will be appointed to both the Board and Council for an initial term of two years. As an officer of the Consortium, the Council Chair is not remunerated. The Council is assigned a significant budget for travel and other costs including technical support and editorial assistance, however. The Council Chair is responsible for directing the activities of the Council and its workgroups. This involves maintaining and developing the Guidelines and proposing and assisting in the development of training documents and tutorials, technical services, and collaborations between the TEI and other organisations. In keeping with the emphasis of the 2007 Members' Meeting, the board is particularly interested in candidates who share the Board's interest in improving the Consortium's work on outreach, education, and collaboration. The Board intends to appoint a replacement for Professor Wittern within the next six weeks. Nominations should be directed to the Executive Secretary, Chris Ruotolo (ruotolo_at_virginia.edu), no later than 1200 UTC on January 11, 2008. For further information, please feel free to contact the Consortium Chair, Daniel Paul O'Donnell (daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca) or any member of the Consortium Board (see http://www.tei-c.org/About/board.xml for a list with contact addresses). -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Stuart Dunn Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: EVA London 2008: Electronic Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:21:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 620 (620) Visualisation & the Arts: 22nd-25th July [deleted quotation]+++PLEASE NOTE NEW POSTAL ADDRESS+++ Dr Stuart Dunn Research Associate Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre www.ahessc.ac.uk/stuart-dunn Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 2980 stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk AHeSSC Centre for e-Research 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK From: "Hunsucker, R.L." Subject: RE: 21.433 cognitive science like alchemy Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:56:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 621 (621) [deleted quotation]Since _Humanist_ was in a sort of hibernation over the holidays ( out of which it still has to come ? ), I'll go ahead now and comment, on the posting below, that the points you are making are to my mind excellent and very much on-track, and, furthermore, ones we should also *pragmatically* take very much to heart. ( But how do we, at least collectively, go about that ? -- *that's* always been the hard part. ) What you are in fact advocating is a "histoire du pr=E9sent" as conceived by Foucault (very much like what he also described as a "g=E9n=E9alogie"). Indeed maybe Rorty's "conversation" is a help in getting such a process started. But in the meantime, perhaps thinking in terms of consciously and fully exploiting what Star and Griesemer dubbed "boundary objects" would already amount to a significant improvement. Getting *that* act together is going to be hard enough, but still a piece of cake, in my opinion, when compared to a really effective, collectively legitimated "histoire du pr=E9sent" (which may ultimately be a human impossibility -- but that *doesn't* mean we shouldn't be constantly mindful that we don't yet have one, and act accordingly). The above shouldn't be taken to apply specifically (or necessarily) to cross-disciplinary affairs where one of those disciplines is humanities computing -- since I'm, as I indicated in an earlier contribution, not convinced just what a proper disciplinary place for humanities computing ought to look like. - Laval Hunsucker U. Amsterdam, Universiteitsbibliotheek [deleted quotation] From: Leif Isaksen Subject: 1st Annual Antiquist Workshop Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:23:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 622 (622) 1stAnnual Antiquist Workshop 21-23 April 2008 Department of Archaeology Southampton University <http://www.antiquist.org>www.antiquist.org CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS The 1st Annual Antiquist Workshop will be hosted at Southampton University Archaeology Department in April 2008. The purpose of the Workshop is to provide postgraduate students in Archaeological Informatics and associated disciplines with the opportunity to: --Broaden their skill base with a short series of practical seminars focusing on real-world applications of IT in archaeology --Get career guidance from professionals working in the field --Network with peers from other institutions --Become involved with the Antiquist online community for IT & Cultural Heritage Seminars will be based on topics requested by participants but are likely to include GIS, web-based mapping, 3D visualisation & reconstruction, data structuring and scripting. Workshop attendance is free but participants will need to pay for food and accommodation where required. The organisers will be happy to reserve accommodation at a local hostel or hotel on request. Places on the workshop are limited and will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. Topics requested by early registrants may also be given priority. The final deadline for registration is 10 February 2008. In order to register please send an email to l.isaksen_at_soton.ac.uk stating your name, institution and course, two specific topics which would be of interest to you, and whether accommodation arrangements should be made. Please feel free to forward this to any person or list likely to be interested. Best wishes The AAW team From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- December 2007 Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:53:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 623 (623) TL INFOBITS December 2007 No. 18 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. 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Next the software was trained "to understand particular accents using accurate transcriptions of short snippets of recorded speech." Then the researchers provided data on uncommon words so the software could recognize technical terms that might be used in university lectures. While the transcript's accuracy can be affected by speakers' verbal pauses or by nonnative English speakers' accents, the texts can be very close to the audio originals. The transcripts' accuracy is sufficient for searches, and there is potential for use by hearing-impaired students if future plans to allow users to make corrections to transcripts are implemented. You can search and try out the Lecture Browser at http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/. See also: "Searching Video Lectures: A Tool from MIT Finds Keywords So That Students Can Efficiently Review Lectures" By Kate Greene TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, November 26, 2007 http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19747/page1/ ...................................................................... ONLINE GROUP LEARNING PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS "Online group learning . . . if implemented appropriately, can provide an ideal environment in which interaction among students plays a central role in the learning process . . . . Why then is online group learning not more widely practiced, particularly within higher education?" In "Seven Problems of Online Group Learning (and Their Solutions)" (JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY, vol. 10, no. 4, 2007, pp. 257-268). Tim S. Roberts and Joanne M. McInnerney describe frequently-voiced justifications that instructors use for avoiding online group learning activities. 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Papers include: "This Was (NOT!!) an Easy Assignment: Negotiating an Activity-Based Multimodal Framework for Composing" By Jody Shipka -- "exploration of students' experiences of multimodal writing instruction" "Looking In by Looking Out: The DNA of Composition in the Information Age" By Randall McClure and Lisa Baures -- "provide[s] convincing arguments for the necessity of establishing collaborations between writing studies and library and information science professionals to provide adequate instruction in online research" "Research Instruction at the Point of Need: Information Literacy and Online Tutorials" By Tom Peele and Glenda Phipps -- explores the "issue of information seeking strategies used by today's students from the perspective of a student" Computers and Composition Online is a refereed online journal hosted at Bowling Green State University. For more information and back issues see http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/home.htm. 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To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence National Endowment for the Arts Research Report #47, November 2007 Complete PDF version (100 pages): http://www.arts.gov/research/ToRead.pdf 20-page Executive Summary: http://www.arts.gov/research/ToRead_ExecSum.pdf "TO READ OR NOT TO READ gathers and collates the best national data available to provide a reliable and comprehensive overview of American reading today. While it incorporates some statistics from the National Endowment for the Arts' 2004 report, READING AT RISK, this new study contains vastly more data from numerous sources. Although most of this information is publicly available, it has never been assembled and analyzed as a whole. To our knowledge, TO READ OR NOT TO READ is the most complete and up-to-date report of the nation's reading trends and--perhaps most important--their considerable consequences." ...................................................................... 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From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: Job Announcement: Digital Humanities Position at Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:19:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 624 (624) Brown University The Scholarly Technology Group at Brown is looking for the right person to complete our team. We're looking for a creative, technically sophisticated individual who will use computer methods and structured data to augment the resarch process for humanities scholars. We're not an acronym-based technical services shop; we are part of the university research environment, with a license to explore content and technology, and push the boundaries of practice where possible. If you're not interested in digitality or the humanities, you're probably not a good fit. As a senior technical member of the team, you will have the opportunity to explore and to lead, in a unique academic environment. An increased, university-wide, focus on the digital humanities and digital libraries make this an especially exciting moment to join STG. The Senior Research Programmer will be a technical contributor and a partner in defining and implementing technology in humanities research agendas at Brown. While this is not an academic position, STG has close relationships with the academic part of the university, and can arrange departmental affiliations for an appropriate candidate. This position requires breadth of vision and experience across significant and disparate fields. No candidate can be equally deep in all areas, so we are not limited by formal credentials in any specific area; we are looking for a candidate who can excel in an interdisciplinary environment. You will thrive here if you can communicate and think across the gap between Snow's "two cultures." We will also consider interested applicants without a formal humanities background. Applicants with a degree in Library Science, Information Science, or Computer Science and an interest in the kinds of problems involved in digital humanities projects and data are encouraged to apply. Senior Research Programmer - Humanities Scholarly Technology Group Brown University The Scholarly Technology Group (STG) at Brown University is seeking a senior staff member who will provide technical leadership and innovation as part of STG's involvement in, and engagement with, faculty research projects in the digital humanities. STG projects range from document databases based on XML and XML tools, to experiments in collaboration, classification, mapping and visualization. STG projects are founded in high-level information design, and require current knowledge of web standards and interaction design. The Senior Research Programmer is encouraged to have a relevant research agenda of their own, or to participate in the group's ongoing research into digital humanities topics. STG staff provide faculty projects with expertise in text encoding and metadata standards, accessibility, database design, web programming, digital project design, information design, and grant- writing. We combine a strong background in the humanities and social sciences with a deep interest in the meaning of digital technologies for scholarly communication. The Senior Research Programmer works closely with faculty, STG staff and students to carry out digital humanities projects by performing project analysis, providing technical leadership, system architecture and programming and software development. Since STG is a small group, this person can contribute at all levels: to recruit, plan, manage projects, write grant proposals, stay abreast of new methods and technologies and disseminate STG's work at conferences. Qualifications: * Minimum Bachelor's degree, advanced degree in the humanities desirable. Formal CS coursework or equivalent. * Experience in digital humanities, digital libraries or comparable area. * Strong technical background in relevant areas, ideally: XML, web technologies, metadata standards, text retrieval, software development * Interest in digital communications and collaboration, new media. * Strong analytical and problem solving skills; can formulate options, develop and recommend solutions, especially in a constantly changing work environment. * Ability to communicate STG ideas and results within the group and externally. STG is part of Computing and Information Services and provides advanced technology consulting to Brown humanities faculty primarily through large and small projects in support of scholarly work in the digital medium. We explore, extend anc contribute to the critical new technologies that are transforming scholarly work and helping to maintain its longevity: data and metadata standards, XML publication tools, text encoding methods, database design, and accessibility standards. We have a strong relationship with the Brown University Library's Center for Digital Initiatives, and often work on joint projects. STG consists of three staff members: the Director, a Senior Research Programmer, and a Research Programmer. STG also employs several student programmers and designers and works with graduate students who provide content expertise. For more information: www.stg.brown.edu or elli_mylonas_at_brown.edu To apply: careers.brown.edu, go to job B00938 [Elli Mylonas Scholarly Technology Group Associate Director, CIS Brown University http://www.stg.brown.edu] From: "Alan Liu" Subject: Toy Chest (tool set) for student project-building Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:50:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 625 (625) in digital humanities courses Toy Chest (Online or Downloadable Tools for Building Projects): http://wiki.english.ucsb.edu/index.php/Toy_Chest_%28Online_or_Downloadable_T ools_for_Building_Projects%29 (or navigate: http://wiki.english.ucsb.edu > Technology Resources > Toy Chest) "Toy Chest" collects online or downloadable software tools/thinking toys that humanities students and others without programming skills (but with basic computer and Internet literacy) can use to create interesting projects. Most of the tools gathered here are free or relatively inexpensive (exceptions: items that are expensive but can be used productively on a free trial basis). Also on this page are "paradigms"--books, essays, digital projects, etc.--that illustrate the kinds of humanities projects that software thinking tools/toys might help create." Each entry includes a descriptive annotation, screenshot, and link. Included at present are tools for diagramming, game creation, mapping, mashup creation, simulation & modeling, text analysis, visualization/pattern-discovery, and machinima. RATIONALE: Because digital networked technology is now used across the board by the sciences and engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, it increasingly prompts different disciplines to rethink their own dominant research/knowledge paradigms in light of other disciplines. (My favorite anecdote: a computer scientist on my campus, broad minded and honest, who, upon hearing a fine literary interpretation of a poem during a planning meeting for a collaborative project, paused reflectively and asked: "What's that for?" At which point, my social-science colleague piled on: "That's item one. Where are the other thousand samples needed for a valid study?" I remember the hush in the room, as the "ships passed in the night.") Meanwhile, digital networked technology has rapidly developed in the directions of so-called "Web services" and "Web 2.0" so as increasingly to enable non-programmers to use sophisticated software tools in visual-programming and other low-learning-curve styles to create conceptually interesting projects (e.g., "mashup"-creation platforms like Yahoo Pipes and Microsoft Popfly, simulation platforms like Netlogo, interactive animation platforms like Scratch, machinima platforms like Moviestorm). (And this is not even to mention blog-engines and wikis that simplify the creation of database-to-web resources adaptable to any number of outputs--e.g., archives, editions, museums, epistolary novels, etc.) Also, at the same time, humanities and digital humanities scholars such as Julia Flanders (on text encoding and quantitative imagination), Matthew Kirschenbaum (on digital forensics and "formal materiality"), Willard McCarty (on modeling), Jerome McGann and Lisa Samuels (on deformance), Franco Moretti (on "distance reading" and _Graphs, Maps, Trees_), Rita Raley (on codework), Stephen Ramsay (on algorithmic criticism), Geoffrey Rockwell (on textual analysis), and many others have been creating the theory for crossing between such established humanistic research paradigms as "interpretation" and alternative knowledge paradigms. I created my Toy Chest to harvest the confluence of the above three trends. The Toy Chest is designed specifically to support a suite of undergraduate and graduate courses that I am teaching next quarter (after a pilot course last year) entitled "Literature+" In these courses, the students are required to choose a literary work and do something with it for a project that is anything other than literary interpretation. ("Students, for example, can choose a story or poem to model, simulate, map, visualize, encode, text-analyze, sample, storyboard, blog, or redesign as a game, database, hypertext, or virtual world. What are the strengths and weaknesses of literary interpretation, close reading, or theory by comparison with other research methods?"): http://english149-w2008.pbwiki.com/ http://english236-w2008.pbwiki.com/ HELP!: Please post to Humanist any suggestions you have for online or downloadable (free, cheap, or usable on a trial-basis) project-creation tools that might be added to the Toy Chest. SUGGESTION FOR THE FUTURE: I am keeping this Toy Chest on my department's knowledge-base wiki, so it is not directly editable by members of this list. I wonder if it would be possible for Willard--as both the genius loci of Humanist and one of the chief theorists of the trends that the the Toy Chest represents--to investigate setting up a wiki for this purpose that would be open (upon Willard's approval) to members of Humanist at large? I think we could use a central repository of "digital humanities tools usable by the ordinary student." --Alan Liu From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: JISC/NEH Kickoff Event on International Digitization Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:52:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 626 (626) Announcement from the NEH and JISC JISC/NEH Kickoff Event on International Digitization (or Digitisation, if you prefer!). If you are in London on January 21, please do attend the JISC/NEH event being held at King's College. We will be celebrating the launch of our new joint digitization initiative and we have some great speakers lined up. For details, please see: http://tinyurl.com/3eyovq thanks, Brett ------------------------------------------------ Brett Bobley Chief Information Officer Director, Digital Humanities Initiative National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html (202) 606-8401 bbobley_at_neh.gov From: Ken Friedman Subject: CFP --- New Views 2: Conversations and Dialogues in Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:58:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 627 (627) Graphic Design Second Call for Papers/Posters Web site now online! New Views 2: Conversations and Dialogues in Graphic Design An international symposium defining graphic design for the future 9-11 July 2008 London College of Communication University of the Arts London United Kingdom New Views 2 seeks to look in depth at the broader questions that graphic designers are facing today in terms of the profession and educational practices. At the same time, the symposium is meant to generate debate and to identify what new challenges might lay ahead for practitioners, academics, industry and the profession overall. Themes to be addressed might include: -- Who are we? Problems of defining terminology: visual communication, communication design, graphic design, information environments -- the role of graphic design for the 'real world' -- graphic design and interdisciplinarity -- graphic design and research methods -- design writing/criticism and repositioning debates -- practice-led PhD research in the field of graphic design -- responsive curriculums and shifting paradigms -- research, innovation and new critical thinking An accompanying exhibition of posters from designers, students and academics opens in London 9th - 21st July, 2008 and then travels to RMIT, Australia. A digital exhibition will also be presented via the conference website. Deadline for Paper Abstracts: 1 February 2008 Deadline for intention to submit posters: 1 March 2008 For full details: http://www.newviews.co.uk Or, contact the co-organisers: Professor Teal Triggs Head of Research, School of Graphic Design, London College of Communication Co-Director, University of the Arts London Research Unit for Information Environments, London, UK t.triggs_at_lcc.arts.ac.uk Dr. Laurene Vaughan Director of Research and Innovation, School of Applied Communication, RMIT Executive Member RMIT Design Institute Melbourne, Australia laurene.vaughan_at_rmit.edu.au From: Ken Friedman Subject: CFP --- Changing the Change Conference -- Reminder Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:58:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 628 (628) 10-12 July 2008 CHANGING THE CHANGE: DESIGN VISIONS, PROPOSALS AND TOOLS An international conference on the role and potential of design research in the transition towards sustainability Torino, Italy http://www.changingthechange.org -- Organised by Co-ordination of Italian Design Research Doctorates in cooperation with the Conference of Italian Design Faculty Deans and Programme Heads In the framework of WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL TORINO 2008 An ICSID initiative of the IDA -- Endorsed by the Design Research Society -- The conference "Changing the Change" seeks to make a significant contribution to a necessary transformation that involves changing the direction of current changes toward a sustainable future. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of visions, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that will have to take place. At the heart of the conference, design researchers will present concrete and documentable research results. This will be complemented by invited keynote speaker presentations that will help paint a clearer picture of the common ground from which the conference will take off. -- AIMS The conference seeks to make a significant contribution to the twofold transformation underway. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of vision, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that we refer to as "changing the change." The conference has a double aim: - to consolidate a design research culture and practice oriented towards a constructive critical attitude able to reach all design disciplines. The conference intends to focus on the way in which the question of "changing the change" is present and widespread throughout the research community and in relation to all design fields: from product design to communication design; from interior design to interaction, service and strategic design; from social design to fashion design. - to outline the state-of-the-art of contributions that design research is today able to bring to social conversation about the future. The conference seeks to bring visibility to significant results. This with particular attention to visions of the future, to feasible solutions and to tools to help bring them into being. It will also enable us to make of the conference and its published output a tool for communication with the outside world; a tool able to demonstrate what design research can offer today to help re-orientate the transformation underway. In view of these aims, the conference will centre on the presentation of research results that could make a positive contribution to 'changing the change'. It will welcome contributions that take as their starting point transformations that have already taken place and those underway, and the necessity to re-orient them towards more sustainable outcomes. It hopes to present the widest range of possible world visions, feasible proposals and the design tools that could bring them into being. -- THEMES The field of interest of the conference is vast and will be divided into various specific themes within which more precise, focused discussion will be possible. This organisation into specific themes will be undertaken after contributions have been selected, so as to take into account what will actually be proposed. For the moment we only indicate an initial, general division into the three themes already introduced: visions, proposals and tools. Visions: this section will present research results that lead us to imagine possible worlds, or parts of possible worlds. It includes the results of activities in the field of scenario design and more general visions produced by research into specific products, communications and services. It also includes a comparative analysis of visions emerging from design history and from a comparison of different cultures. Proposals: this section presents results of design research that give rise to concrete solutions containing elements of systemic innovation. They are also legible as concrete steps towards a new generation of sustainable products, services and systems. So, products, services and product and service systems are proposed along with the communicative artefacts that link several actors and artefacts together. It also proposes places for a new everyday life, the activities that take place within them and the new production and consumption networks that emerge from them. Tools: this section presents the results of research that aims to redefine and develop conceptual and operational tools which enable designers to operate within change and influence its direction. Such tools enable them to participate constructively in new design networks, and deal with emerging problems. Tools may be proposed for conceptualisation and representation, for calculation and appraisal of results or for stimulation and prototype making. -- AUDIENCE The conference will mainly be a meeting point for academics, researchers and research students in the field of design theory and practice. However, in uniting a high academic level with the effort to present concrete results of activities carried out, it will also be of considerable interest to the wider design community and to those economic and social operators who recognise the potential of design practice and design research. -- CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts should be between 500 and 700 words long, excluding the bibliography. The deadline for the reception of abstracts is January 21, 2008. Reception of abstracts will be acknowledged and notices of acceptance or rejection will be sent by March 3, 2008. The abstracts will be evaluated and selected by a blind peer review process. Full papers are limited to 6000 words. The deadline for full papers is on May 26, 2008. Selection criteria The abstracts will be evaluated and selected by a blind peer review process. Coherently with the conference aims, the Peer Review Committee will base its decisions on three major criteria: (1) relevance to the topics of "Changing the change"? as outlined below and in the website, (2) focalisation, in terms of clarity of the vision, of the proposal or the design tool and theory they present, and (3) reliability, in terms of the quality of the design research on which the paper is based. More precisely: - abstracts must be clearly defined as visions, proposals or design tools and theories (please select the proper option at the head of the abstract template and delete the others) : visions refer to scenarios of possible worlds, or parts of possible worlds; proposals present specific solutions to specific problems; tools and theories introduce conceptual and operational devices enabling designers to operate in contemporary contexts. - abstracts must clearly refer to the contemporary context and to its on-going transformations (considering the different ways they are taking place in different regions of the world). In this framework, they should present design research results that, moving from a deep understanding of these transformations, propose a design contribution involving a re-orientation towards more sustainable directions. - abstracts must present design research results and clearly indicate the specific research programme they are based on (with its aims, methodology and main actors). Given these three pre-requisites, abstracts (and the papers that will follow) can deal with any topics in any design fields: from product to communication; from interior to interaction; from service to strategy; from social design to fashion. -- CALL FOR VISUALISATIONS Special consideration will be dedicated to abstracts/papers presenting design research projects with highly communicative visual results. Therefore, together with the abstract/paper, a visualisation can be submitted as material for an exhibition that will be organized parallel to the Conference. The visualisations do not substitute the papers. To be accepted for evaluation they have to refer to a paper that has to be selected by the Peer review Committee. The conference will host an exhibition based on the visualisations proposed by selected papers. These visualisations are not the traditional scientific posters. They are visual presentations of design research results. They have to show visions of possible worlds and proposals for sustainable solutions. Whoever intends to deliver a visualisation must submit a first draft together with the abstract of the paper presenting the research on which the visualization is based. (Deadline: January 21, 2008) -- PUBLICATIONS All selected and presented papers will be published on line, and placed in the conference website in printable form. A special peer review jury will adjudicate the best papers submitted. The best papers and the presentations of the keynote speakers will be published in book form. http://www.changingthechange.org -- From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:20:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 629 (629) Colleagues, Please forward this announcement to interested faculty and staff: In recent years, plagiarism and cheating have been highlighted in the news. Whether discussing high-profile cases like Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Godwin or reviewing works on the subject by notables like Judge Richard Posner, the public appears keenly interested in plagiarism. Plagiarism detection devices, once all the rage are, with greater intensity, being challenged legally and ethically as inappropriate vehicles for detecting plagiarism. Most recently, Turnitin.com is in the middle of litigation challenging its business practices as violations of copyright law. Please join the Center for Intellectual Property as we attempt to address the plagiarism and cheating issues on college campuses and try to build communities that value academic integrity. ----------- Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/ ----------- Dates: February 25 - March 7, 2008 Moderators: Gary Pavela, M.A., J.D., Director of Judicial Programs and Student Ethical Development, University of Maryland -- College Park & Kimberly Bonner, J.D., Executive Director, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College Studies show that establishing a community of shared academic values fosters academic integrity in the classroom. However, establishing that community may be more difficult when students adopt the values of a digital "remix" culture that challenges the traditional understanding of authorship. How do institutions foster academic integrity values in light of changing cultural norms? Are there special techniques and tools required? Are the best tools to use in preventing academic dishonesty "technical" like Turnitin.com? And are there additional legal and ethical issues involved when using technical measures to prevent academic dishonesty? Please see site for detailed course objectives- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#AI ------------------------------- ALSO, EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS JAN 11TH FOR: Integrating Access to Digital Course Materials: Blackboard/WebCT, Coursepacks, e-Reserves, Licensed Materials, e-Books, Open Access...What Will They Think of Next? Moderator: Georgia Harper, J.D., Scholarly Communications Advisor, University Libraries, University of Texas at Austin January 28 - February 8, 2008 SIGN UP NOW: Early Bird Rates $150 http://tinyurl.com/29jg53 [Secured Server] Online Workshop FAQ- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml Complete 2007-2008 Workshop Series see- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/ For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources & services please see our homepage- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 ofrancois_at_umuc.edu From: "Humanities" Subject: Call for Nomination - Holberg International Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:29:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 630 (630) Memorial Prize 2008 The Holberg International Memorial Prize 2008 The Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund hereby invites nominations for the Holberg International Memorial Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the academic fields of the arts and humanities, social science, law and theology. The prize, which was established by the Norwegian Storting, is awarded annually by the Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund. The prize for 2008 is NOK 4.5 million (approx. Euro 555,000/$750,000). > All further details can be found on the following web site: <http://www.holbergprisen.no> With kind regards Irma Vogel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Irma Vogel Senior Administrator & Unit Coordinator Standing Committee for the Humanities European Science Foundation Humanities Unit 1 quai Lezay Marnesia BP 90015 F - 67080 Strasbourg Tel +33 (0)388 76 71 26 Fax +33 (0)388 76 71 81 ivogel_at_esf.org http://www.esf.org/human From: Shuly Wintner Subject: Fwd: ACL SIG Semitic: call for nominations Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:32:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 631 (631) Hi, If you're interested in computational approaches to Semitic languages you may want to consider joining the ACL Special Interest Group. More information about the SIG is provided here: http://semitic.tk/ To join, go here: https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/semitic Shuly Begin forwarded message: [deleted quotation]Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: jobs at NYU Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:59:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 632 (632) Information Technology Services at New York University has two openings that we hope will appeal to readers of the Humanist. Information Technology Services (ITS) is NYU's central organization for technology-based services for University faculty, students, staff, and administrators. ITS provides computer, network, telephony and Internet services to the entire University. ITS comprises the Office of the Chief Information Technology Officer and five service departments working together in support of the broad spectrum of University activities. 1. Faculty Technology Specialist: ITS at New York University is looking to hire a Faculty Technology Specialist that will provide client service, technical knowledge, technical development and communications expertise in support of state-of-the-art computer technology used by faculty and researchers for teaching and research. The Specialist will advise and consult with faculty and researchers in the design, development, and implementation of information technology services for teaching and research. Provide technical support to faculty and researchers in curriculum and research development. S/he will develop and deliver training programs including conducting seminars, training sessions, and workshops. Qualifications: Qualified candidates will have a Bachelor's degree and 3 years relevant experience or an equivalent combination. The hired candidate must have experience supporting information technology, training, programming and client service and experience in one of the following areas: Instructional design, Statistical computing, GIS, High Performance Computing, Visualization, Advanced Video, Advanced Imaging. To apply: <https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?jobId=3D578715&ty= pe=3Dsearch&JobReqLang=3D1&recordstart=3D1&JobSiteId=3D27&JobSiteInfo=3D5787= 15_27&GQId=3D0>https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?job= Id=3D578715&type=3Dsearch&JobReqLang=3D1&recordstart=3D1&JobSiteId=3D27&JobS= iteInfo=3D578715_27&GQId=3D0 2. Faculty Technology Specialist -- Statistical Research (ITS) at New York University has an opening for a Faculty Technology Specialist (Statistical Research) in the ITS Statistical Lab and Data Services. The lab is a unit within New York University's Faculty Technology Services. The lab is the university's statistical information center for research and quantitative analysis providing in-depth consulting for statistical software, quantitative methods, Social Science data resources, geospatial resources and analysis, and technical developments relevant to research computing, including emerging data curation services. Lab staff will participate in new collaborations with NYU's division of libraries, including digital library and repository service development related to scholarly communication and= research. *Position Responsibilities* -- Consult with and provide guidance to faculty at all stages of the research process on discipline-related needs including statistics, geospatial analysis and data management. -- Provide statistical and technical support to users of the statistical laboratory teaching and research facilities. -- Assist users in managing, analyzing, and producing teaching and research projects with statistical and/or geospatial data. -- Develop online documentation and training materials relevant to statistics and data management. -- Help manage workshops and consulting services for faculty, students, and data center consultants. -- Provide expertise, guidance, and feedback to student consultants. -- Work collaboratively with other IT and library service units (Faculty Technology Services and the Business and Documents Reference Center). Qualifications Education and Experience* -- BA/BS or MA degree in statistics, social sciences, information science or related fields and two years of experience in an academic teaching, research, or user services environment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. -- Experience with advanced statistics methodology and related software (SPSS, SAS, STATA, R, GIS applications) -- Firm understanding of technical applications in statistical research and instruction. -- Preferred: ABD or Master's degree; statistical consulting experience and/or quantitative teaching in a social science field; knowledge of and experience with GIS, databases and data management; experience managing websites relating to statistics, data resources, geospatial and/or social science computing. * Skills & Abilities* -- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously. -- Preferred: Experience with HTML/XML, UNIX, network protocols, Perl, PHP, and Java programming. To apply: https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?jobId=3D617770&type=3Dsearch&JobReqLang=3D1&recordstart=3D1&JobSiteId=3D27&JobS iteInfo=3D617770_27&GQId=3D0 Matthew Zimmerman Manager, Faculty Technology Services New York University matt_at_nyu.edu office: 212-998-3038 cell: 917-7107301 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: OAI Harvesting at U of Maryland Digital Repository Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:31:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 633 (633) The University of Maryland Libraries is delighted to announce that records from our Digital Collections repository are available for OAI-PMH Harvesting. The Digital Collections repository consists of some 3000 digital objects, many of them from the Libraries own holdings: http://lib.umd.edu/digital/oaicat/OAIHandler For questions about the records, please contact libdcr_at_umd.edu With all best wishes, Susan -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib_at_umd.edu http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org From: Carsten Lutz Subject: DL2008 Second Call for Papers Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:24:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 634 (634) 21st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'08) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Dresden, Germany May 13-16, 2008 http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 15 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 23 March 2008 Camera ready papers due: 13 April 2008 DL'07 Workshop: 13-16 May 2008 (3 or 4 days) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics. Possible subjects include: * Foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems, and reasoning techniques for solving these problems. * Extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages. * Integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems. * Use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic web, and grid computing. * Building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. * Tools that exploit description Logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Bernhard Ganter, Dresden, Germany * Georg Gottlob, Oxford, UK * Maarten Marx, Amsterdam, Netherlands * Kent Spackman, Oregon, USA [...] Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Melanie Chernyk Subject: 2008 Digital Humanities Summer Institute open for Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:30:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 635 (635) registration Announcing the 2008 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, May 26-30, 2008 http://www.dhsi.org We are now open for registration! Early registration rates are available until April 1, 2008. To register, or for more information, go to this URL: http://www.dhsi.org/user_interface. See Registration Fees section below for rates. * Mandate The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to share ideas and methods, and to develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to activities that impact teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. * Host and Sponsors The institute is hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and has been sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Acadia University, the Society for Digital Humanities / Soci=E9t=E9 pour l'=E9tude des m=E9dias= interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others. * Curriculum Institute Lectures (to be confirmed): Margaret Conrad (U New Brunswick), Michael Eberle-Sinatra (U Montreal), Alan Liu (U California Santa Barbara), Melissa Terras (University College London) Introductory offerings: [1] Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Julia Flanders [Brown U] and Syd Bauman [Brown U]) [2] Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Allison Benner [U Victoria] and Cara Leitch [U Victoria]) Intermediate offerings: [3] Transcribing and Describing Primary Sources using TEI-conformant XML (instructed by Matthew Driscoll [Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen]) [4] Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments (instructed by Aimee Morrison [U Waterloo]) [5] Online Journal Publishing Using PKP's Open Journals System (OJS) (instructed by PKP Staff [Kevin Stranack and Alec Smecher]) Advanced consultations: [6] Issues in Large Project Planning and Management (instructed by Lynne Siemens [U Victoria], with seminar speakers TBA.) [7] Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities (instructed by David Hoover [New York U]) [8] Corpus Text Analysis for Linguistics (instructed by staff from Modelling Change: The Paths of French [France Martineau and Anthony Kroch]). * Registration Fees ($ CDN) Early registration fees for the institute are $950 for faculty and staff, and $500 for students. Standard fees will apply as of April 1st. Information about scholarships will be announced on this listserv as it becomes available. * Website For further details -- such as the list of speakers, a tentative schedule, the registration form, and accommodation information =AD see the institute's website, at this URL: http://www.dhsi.org. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Karin Armstrong Co-coordinator, Digital Humanities Summer Institute karindar at uvic.ca Phone 250-472-5401 Fax 250-472-5681 Melanie Chernyk Co-coordinator, Digital Humanities Summer Institute institut at uvic.ca Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London |=20 http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p.= 26).=20 From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: The Year in Review Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:39:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 636 (636) Readers of Humanist will undoubtedly be interested in Lisa Spiro's "Digital Scholarship in the Humanities" blog -- both in general, and for her extremely thoughtful and well researched "year in review," now in its second of thee parts. Lisa has has been a member of the DH community for many years, and brings the perspective of a literary scholar and a digital librarian to the discussion. I really wish she was writing my annual reports. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ From: "Ferstle, Thomas" Subject: RE: Welcome to Humanist Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:24:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 637 (637) Thank you for the welcome message and hello to the List! I've recently received my doctorate in the Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas after designing and selling standby industrial power systems in the international markets for twenty years. I did my dissertation on the assessment of visual rhetoric, and I am especially interested in the response of the rhetoric/composition field to the natural language applications that have made possible machine reading of student essays. I am an Assistant Professor of English at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, and I am looking forward to reading the posts/concerns from this list. Best to all, Tom Ferstle tferstle_at_mail.barry.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: Cognition, Technology & Work 10.1 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:39:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 638 (638) Volume 10 Number 1 of Cognition, Technology & Work is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com Editorial of the special issue on "Design process and human factors integration" Elie Fadier pp. 1 - 5 Enabling safety: issues in design and continuous design Pierre Falzon pp. 7 - 14 Psychology and human factors engineering B. Wilpert pp. 15 - 21 Evaluation of presentation of information for process control operations Peter Nickel, Friedhelm Nachreiner pp. 23 - 30 Behavioural adaptations to driver support systems: a modelling and road safety perspective P. C. Cacciabue, F. Saad pp. 31 - 39 Questions raised on the design of the "dead-man" device installed on= trams Robin Foot, Ghislaine Doniol-Shaw pp. 41 - 51 Operator centred design: example of a new driver aid system in the field of rail transport J. F=E9nix, J. -C. Sagot, C. Valot, S. Gomes pp. 53 - 60 Integrating human factors in freight interoperability safety design C. De la Garza, A. Weill-Fassina, M. Kaplan pp. 61 - 68 Integration of the human factor into the design and construction of fishing vessels C. Chauvin, G. Le Bouar, C. Renault pp. 69 - 77 From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: call for papers: Learning Inquiry Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:26:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 639 (639) Dear Colleagues; As Learning Inquiry starts it second year of publication we are sending out a call for participation in our ongoing attempt to create a transdiciplinary forum to engage the widest variety of perspectives on learning. We're looking for articles and special issues that push the boundaries and include new perspectives, but also take the opportunity to share research and experiences from particular locations of inquiry to a larger audience. Learning Inquiry is a refereed scholarly journal, which is devoted to establishing the area of "learning" as a focus for transdisciplinary study. The journal's goal is to be a forum centered on learning that remains open to varied objects of enquiry, including machine, human, plant and animal learning as well as the processes of learning in business, government, and the professions, both in informal and formal environments. The audience for this journal is anyone interested in learning, understanding its contexts, and anticipating its future. The first volume of Learning Inquiry has included papers from a wide variety of perspectives that have helped to frame the discourse we hope the journal will engender. Our first issue, on the futures of learning included contributions from Gary Natriello, Erik De Corte, Helen Verran, Mark Warschauer, Stuart Moulthrop, Douglas Kellner and Heinz Mandl on Discovery Networks, Metaphysics and Learning, Play, and Knowledge Management. Leonard J. Waks brought together a "Special Issue on Listening and Reflecting" with participation from Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon, Stanton Wortham, Latherine Schultz, Suzanne Rice, Elizabeth Meadows, Megan Laverty, Andrea English, A. G. Rud and Jim Garrison Past and forthcoming contributions cover topics as diverse as the ethical challenges of training brain surgeons, organizational learning theory, futures of digital learning, music and math, learning and discipline, and situated cognition. Learning Inquiry strives to strike a balance between presenting innovative research and documenting current knowledge to foster a scholarly dialogue on learning independent of domain and methodological restrictions. Learning Inquiry also presents special issues that identify the central areas of learning inquiry to provide focus for future research. How to submit a paper Please visit the journal website (http://learning-inquiry.info) Editors: Jason Nolan Ryerson University, CANADA Jeremy W. Hunsinger University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Editorial Board: David Berliner, Arizona State University, USA; Megan Boler, University of Toronto, CANADA; Erik De Corte, Catholic University of Leuven, BELGIUM; Katie Embree, Columbia University, USA; Charles Ess, Drury University, USA & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY; Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech, USA; Henry Giroux, McMaster University, CANADA; Mimi Ito, University of Southern California, USA & Keio University, JAPAN; Cushla Kapitzke, Queensland University of Technology, AUSTRALIA; Heinz Mandl, Ludwig Maximilians University, GERMANY; Kinshuk, Athabasca University, CANADA; Penina Mlama, University of Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA; Nuria Oliver, Microsoft, USA; K. Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College, USA; Ingvar Sigurgeirsson, Iceland University of Education, ICELAND; Joel Weiss, University of Toronto, CANADA From: staudek_at_fi.muni.cz (Jan Staudek) Subject: MEMICS 2008, First Call for Papers Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:25:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 640 (640) 4th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science MEMICS 2008 http://www.memics.cz November 14--16, 2008, Hotel Prestige, Znojmo, Czech Republic First Call for Papers The MEMICS 2008 workshop is organized jointly by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, and the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology. The aim: To provide a forum for doctoral students interested in applications of mathematical and engineering methods in computer science with a special focus on the various aspects of parallel and distributed systems. Topics: Submissions are invited especially in the following (but not exclusive) areas: parallel and distributed computing, GRID computing, computer networks and applications, computer security, theory of formal languages, formal verification, simulation, software and hardware testing and dependability, computer architectures, quantum computing. Invited talks: Several invited talks by distinguished researchers from various areas of interest of the workshop will be a part of the programme. Regular papers: Students are invited to register a paper before September 10, 2008 and submit the paper (not exceeding 8 pages in the LNCS style) before September 17, 2008. A selection of the best papers will be done during the workshop, and their authors will be awarded. Authors will be notified of acceptance by October 15, 2008. Detailed instructions are available at the conference web http://www.memics.cz/. Presentations: Students may also present recent outstanding work, if it has been (or will be) presented at a leading computer science conference. Presentations to be included in the programme will be selected on the basis of a one-page abstract, which interested students are invited to submit. The one-page abstracts will be published in the proceedings. The proceedings will be available at the workshop in printed form. Venue: The workshop will be held in Znojmo, a beautiful town on the Austrian borders famous for a number of examples of medieval architecture and nearby vineyards. Tourist attractions here include the Gothic Church of St. Nicholas, the town hall's Gothic tower, and the Romanesque rotunda. There is also an ancient castle atop a nearby hill. Programme Committee Chair Milan Ceska, FIT BUT, Brno Programme Committee Co-Chairs Zdenek Kotasek, FIT BUT, Brno Mojmir Kretinsky, FI MU, Brno Ludek Matyska, FI MU, Brno Tomas Vojnar, FIT BUT, Brno Organising Committee Chair Jan Staudek, FI MU, Brno Important Dates & Deadlines Paper/presentation registration: September 10, 2008 Paper/presentation submission: September 17, 2008 Author notification: October 15, 2008 Camera ready paper: October 24, 2008 Workshop November 14--16, 2008 From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 21.473 The Year in Review Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:28:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 641 (641) Is there supposed to be a URL, link, or other directions to find this "Year in Review?" Thanks!!! Michael [My guess is that the URL = http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/. --WM] On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Andrew Hawke Subject: Vacancies on Welsh Dictionary Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:30:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 642 (642) THREE VACANCIES ON WELSH DICTIONARY The University of Wales is seeking to appoint two Assistant Editors and a Technical Officer to join the team re-editing Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (the standard historical dictionary of Welsh). The first two positions are on a scale from 25,800 pounds to 30,000 (under review) and the second on a scale from 21,600 pounds to 25,100 (under review). The closing date is 25 January 2008. Full details are available at www.wales.ac.uk/dictionary/gpc_swyd.htm These appointments are a consequence of restructuring the project staffing following the retirement of the two Co-Editors, Mr Gareth Bevan and Mr Patrick Donovan. Mr Andrew Hawke has been promoted to the position of Managing Editor and other members of the staff have also been promoted. -- Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth, SY23 3HH University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 3HH, Wales, UK E-bost/e-mail: geiriadur_at_cymru.ac.uk | ff n/tel: +44 (0)1970 639094 | ffacs/fax: +44 (0)1970 631039) Gwefan/Web: http://www.cymru.ac.uk/geiriadur/ Nid yw'r neges hon o angenrheidrwydd yn adlewyrchu barn Prifysgol Cymru / This message does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University of Wales From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: ASPECT Ph.D. program now accepting students Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:43:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 643 (643) [deleted quotation]jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) () 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: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Re: 21.478 URL of Year in Review? Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:42:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 644 (644) Lisa Sipro's blog is indeed at <http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/>. For the blog-interested people among us, here are=20 some other humanities computing blogs I could trace: Dan Cohen <http://www.dancohen.org/> Matthew G Kirschenbaum <http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/> Geoffrey Rockwell <http://www.theoreti.ca/index.php?p=3Dindex> Stephen Ramsay <http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/> Lisa Spiro <http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/> St=E9fan Sinclair <http://www.stefansinclair.name/> Melissa Terras <http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/> Edward Vanhoutte <http://edwardvanhoutte.blogspot.com/> Vika Zafrin <http://wordsend.org/> Further pointers to HC blogs are welcome on or off this list. Edward =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Edward Vanhoutte Coordinator Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL) Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Associate Editor LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 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: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 21.478 URL of Year in Review? Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:45:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 645 (645) On Jan 14, 2008, at 12:42 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Yikes! I'm so sorry. Mea maxima culpa. http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/digital-humanities-in-2007-part-1-of-3/ -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska at Lincoln PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 http://lenz.unl.edu/ From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The January/February 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:40:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 646 (646) is now available. Greetings: The January/February 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles, 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 "Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign" contributed by Betsy Kruger. The articles include: Interoperability for Searching Learning Object Repositories: The ProLearn Query Language Stefaan Ternier and Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) / ARIADNE Foundation, Belgium; David Massart, European Schoolnet (EUN); and Alessandro Campi, Sam Guinea, and Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Italy Creating Preservation-Ready Web Resources Joan A. Smith and Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University Carrots and Sticks: Some Ideas on How to Create a Successful Institutional Repository Miguel Ferreira, Eloy Rodrigues, Ana Alice Baptista, and Ricardo Saraiva, University of Minho, Portugal Necessary but Not Sufficient: Modelling Online Archive Development in the UK Ian G. Anderson, HATII, University of Glasgow doi:10.1045/january2008-anderson The Current State-of-art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective Edwin Klijn, Koninklijke Bibliotheek The workshop report is: Next Steps for E-Science, the Textual Humanities and VREs: A Report on Text and Grid: Research Questions for the Humanities, Sciences and Industry, UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007 Stuart Dunn and Tobias Blanke, King's College London D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.dlib.org.ar Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the January/February 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson Editor D-Lib Magazine From: areces_at_loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Subject: AiML-2008: Second Call for Papers Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:41:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 647 (647) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AiML-2008 ADVANCES in MODAL LOGIC 9-12 September 2008, LORIA, Nancy, France http://aiml08.loria.fr DEADLINE: 31 March 2008 Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML-2008 is the seventh conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including the following: - history of modal logic - philosophy of modal logic - applications of modal logic - computational aspects of modal logic + complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics + modal and temporal logic programming + model checking + theorem proving for modal logics - theoretical aspects of modal logic + algebraic and categorical perspectives on modal logic + coalgebraic modal logic + completeness and canonicity + correspondence and duality theory + many-dimensional modal logics + modal fixed point logics + model theory of modal logic + proof theory of modal logic - specific instances and variations of modal logic + description logics + dynamic logics and other process logics + epistemic and deontic logics + modal logics for agent-based systems + modal logic and game theory + modal logic and grammar formalisms + provability and interpretability logics + spatial and temporal logics + hybrid logic + intuitionistic logic + monotonic modal logic + substructural logic Papers on related subjects will also be considered. INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers at AiML-2008 will include the following: - Mai Gehrke, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen http://www.math.ru.nl/mgehrke/ - Guido Governatori, The University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido/ - Agi Kurucz, King's College London http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/kuag/ - Lawrence Moss, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/moss/ - Michael Zakharyaschev, Birkbeck College http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/ [...] From: sudweeks_at_murdoch.edu.au Subject: CATaC08 deadlines and accommodation Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:46:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 648 (648) For those thinking about attending CATaC'08, June/juin 24-27 - two important elements of information (en anglais et en français): 1) the deadlines for CATaC'08 are coming up soon: Deadlines: Full papers (10-15 formatted pages) 21 January 2008 (extended) Short papers (3-5 formatted pages) 21 January 2008 Notification of acceptance mid-February 2008 Final formatted papers 28 February 2008 Calendrier: Communications longues (10-15 pages formatées) 21 janvier 2008 Communications courtes (3-5 pages formatées) 21 janvier 2008 Notification d'acceptation mi-février 2008 Version finale formatée 28 février 2008 (Please see conference website - www.catacconference.org - for further details.) AND 2): because of high seasonal demand, hotel rooms for conference participants should be booked as early as possible. In particular, the conference Hotel Atria encourages conference participants to book their rooms before February 10 if they wish to be guaranteed a room. Reservations are being organised through the Nîmes Tourist Office. 1. Download the accommodation booking form. 2. Complete form including credit card details and post/email/fax to Nîmes Tourist Office (address on accommodation form). == (Allez sur le site de la conférence - www.catacconference.org - pour plus de détails) ET AUSSI: Le mois de juin est particulièrement touristique et les réservations hôtelières des participants devraient donc être faites dès que possible. En particulier, l'Hôtel Atria encourage les participants à réserver leur chambre avant le 10 février pour que la réservation puisse être garantie. Les réservations sont organisées par l'intermédiaire de l'office de tourisme de Nîmes. 1. Téléchargez la fiche de réservation 2. complétez la fiche, sans oublier les renseignements pour votre carte de crédit et envoyez par poste/email/fax à l'office de tourisme (adresse sur la fiche de réservation Merci! Many thanks! Charles Ess / Fay Sudweeks / Marie-Christine Deyrich / Herbert Hrachovec From: Willard McCarty Subject: Scholarship on PDFs? Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:33:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 649 (649) Following is a query from a colleague at the University of Toronto. Any help would be very much appreciated. Yours, WM [deleted quotation]Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "Humanities" Subject: essay prizes: Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:31:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 650 (650) Dear colleagues, The European Science Foundation (ESF) offers two essay prizes each for academic papers related to the topics of the EUROCORES Programme: CNCC Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context. Deadline:15 February 2008 Info: www.esf.org/cncc-award Inquiries: cncc-award_at_esf.org From: "Humanities" Subject: Announcement: CNCC Summer School "Social Cognition Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:29:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 651 (651) and Social Narrative", San Marino First announcement. Apologies for cross posting. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 1 March 2008. The European Science Foundation and the EUROCORES Programme "Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context (CNCC)" is sponsoring a one-week interdisciplinary collegium/summer school on contemporary research in the area of social cognition, theory of mind, and narrative theory at the University of San Marino in San Marino. See the collegium website at <http://www.philosophy.ucf.edu/pcs/smCollegium.html>http://www.philosophy.uc= f.edu/pcs/smCollegium.html Organizers: Shaun Gallagher, Dan Hutto, Dan Zahavi. The collegium/summer school is open to a limited number of graduate students and post-doc researchers interested in theory of mind and the role of narrative and embodied intersubjectivity in our understanding of others. Priority will be given to CNCC-associated students and post-docs. Research presentations, discussions, and tutorial sessions will allow researchers and students to share knowledge and interact. Students will have the opportunity to earn 15 points in the ECTS system. San Marino is located more than 2,000 feet above the Italian countryside and is possibly the oldest existing republic in the world, with a history of independence dating back to 301 CE. The preliminary list of faculty includes: Cristiano Castelfranchi. Psychology. ISTC-CNR, Rome. (CNCC: CONTACT Group) Jonathan Cole. Neurophysiology. Universities of Southampton and Bournsmouth Stephen M. Fiore. Cognitive Science. University of Central Florida. (CNCC: BASIC Group) Shaun Gallagher. Philosophy/Cognitive Science. Universities of Central Florida & Hertfordshire. (CNCC: BASIC Group) Vittorio Gallese. Neuroscience. Universit=E0 degli Studi di Parma. (CNCC: BASIC Group) David Herman. English/Project Narrative. Ohio State University. Jessica Hobson. Psychology. Tavistock/University College London. Peter Hobson. Developmental Psychopathology. University College London. Dan Hutto. Philosophy. University of Hertfordshire. Tjeerd Jellema. Psychology. University of Hull. (CNCC: BOUNDARIES Group) Daniela Kloo. Psychiatry. Universit=E4t Salzburg, Austria (CNCC: METACOGNITION Group) Andrew Meltzoff. Developmental Psychology. University of Washington Jo=EBlle Proust. Jean Nicod Institute, Paris. (CNCC: METACOGNITION Group) Andreas Roepstorff. Neuroscience. University of Aarhus. (CNCC: BASIC Group) Stephen Stich. Philosophy. Rutgers University. Kai Vogeley. Neuropsychology. University of Cologne, Germany. (CNCC: BASIC Group) Patrizia Violi. Semiotics and Communication. Universities of Bologna & San Marino. Dan Zahavi. Philosophy. University of Copenhagen. (CNCC: BASIC Group) Topics include: social interaction in infancy, folk psychology, theory of mind, simulation theories, interaction theory, social neuroscience, mirror neurons, extended mind, the phenomenology of intersubjectivity, neurological deficits, and the role of narrative in social cognition. Free tuition. Funding is available to cover individual travel expenses for graduate students and post-docs who work in CNCC projects. For more information and application procedure please go to <http://www.philosophy.ucf.edu/pcs/smCollegium.html> Application deadline: 1 March 2008 From: Subject: Esse 9 Conference Panel. Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:38:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 652 (652) ESSE 9 conference -- Aarhus, Denmark, 22-26 August 2008: Seminar 20: Shakespeare and Discourse Stylistics. The next ESSE conference will be held at the University of Aarhus Denmark from 22 to 26 August 2008. We invite papers for seminar 20 on Shakespeare and Discourse= Stylistics From copia to stylistic reticence, Shakespeare's playtexts map out the extreme limits and impasse of verbal communication. The present seminar aims at assessing and highlighting the discourse strategies and structures at stake in conversational exchange and interaction in the very process of capturing the world of human understanding and relationships. Such a process involves the difficulty, sometimes the impossibility, and the exhilaration of mediating that world through language. Shakespeare's playtexts should be envisaged as being rooted in a cultural and rhetorical context in which meaning (and the difficulties of conveying meaning) is a collaborative construction, involving author, text, culture, and reader. Papers are welcome on the range of Shakespeare's negotiations with the problematics of the production of meaning. Areas of exploration include textual stylistics, semantics, pragmatics, and semiotics. Contact details for Panel 20: Dr. Mireille Ravassat (University of Valenciennes, France) E-mail: mireilleravassat_at_yahoo.fr Dr. Lene Petersen (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK) E-mail: Lene.Petersen_at_uwe.ac.uk Those wishing to participate in the Conference are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to both convenors of the seminar in question before 1 March 2008. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted no later than 21 March 2008. For more details, see the conference website: http://www.esse2008.dk/cfp_seminars.html ------------------------------------------------------ Dr Lene B. Petersen Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Drama Department of English, University of the West of England Bristol BS16 2JP 0117 32 84457 Lene.Petersen_at_uwe.ac.uk From: ucylkav_at_ucl.ac.uk Subject: Call for papers for 3D Scanning Conference (UCL, Date: 15 Jan 2008 15:16 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 653 (653) 27-28 March 2008) To: k.vacharopoulou_at_ucl.ac.uk Cc: anna.clark_at_ucl.ac.uk, s.macdonald_at_ucl.ac.uk, s.robson_at_ge.ucl.ac.uk, mark.carnall_at_ucl.ac.uk Reminder - Second Call for Papers Dear colleague, A conference on 3D Colour Laser Scanning will be held at UCL on the 27th and 28th of March 2008. Proposals are invited for contributions to the conference. The proposals, in the form of extended abstracts, should focus on one of the following main themes: 1. 3D scanning in Education and Interpretation 2. 3D scanning in Display and Exhibition 3. 3D scanning in Conservation. More general papers related to the applications of 3D scanning technologies in the museum and heritage sector are also welcome. Abstracts should be 800-1000 words, and in English. Author(s) should select 5 to 8 keywords and should indicate clearly on the Abstract Submission Form to which theme the paper is intended. The presenting author (corresponding author) must also be clearly indicated. Please note that the deadline for the submission of abstracts has been extended to the 8th of February 2008. Authors will be informed whether their papers have been submitted no later than 15th February 2008. Selected abstracts will be incorporated in an edited cd-rom publication. Please see below the proposed outline of the abstract submission form. Abstracts should be submitted electronically or by post to: Kalliopi Vacharopoulou, Chorley Institute, Pearson Building, UCL Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Email: k.vacharopoulou_at_ucl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)207 679 2074 The conference is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and is organised by UCL Museums and Collections and UCL Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me with further enquries or for an electronic version of the abstract submission form. I will be looking forward to hearing from you. Kindest regards, Kalliopi Vacharopoulou 3D Colour Laser Scanning Project Assistant UCL Museums and Collections ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM Title of the Paper: Theme [1]: Author(s) [2]: Corresponding Author [3] Keywords (5-8): ABSTRACT (800-1000 words) [4] [1] Authors must indicate clearly to which theme the paper is intended. The main themes are: Display and exhibition; Education and Interpretation; Conservation; General applications of 3d scanning in the museum sector. [2] Should include the author(s) name(s), affiliation, mailing address, e-mail. [3] Should indicate who the corresponding author is (i.e. the person who will be presenting the paper, in case of multiple authors) [4] An abstract should be 800-1000 words, and in English. It should include all main points of the paper that will be presented. -- _______________________________________________ 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: "Olga Francois" Subject: Online Workshop: Building a Community that Values Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:06:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 654 (654) Academic Integrity In recent years, plagiarism and cheating have been highlighted in the news. Whether discussing high-profile cases like Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin or reviewing works on the subject by notables like Judge Richard Posner, the public appears keenly interested in plagiarism. Plagiarism detection devices, once all the rage are, with greater intensity, being challenged legally and ethically as inappropriate vehicles for detecting plagiarism. Most recently, Turnitin.com is in the middle of litigation challenging its business practices as violations of copyright law. Please join the Center for Intellectual Property as we attempt to address the plagiarism and cheating issues on college campuses and try to build communities that value academic integrity. ------------------- Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/ ------------------- Dates: February 25 - March 7, 2008 Moderators: Gary Pavela, M.A., J.D., Director of Judicial Programs and Student Ethical Development, University of Maryland -- College Park & Kimberly Bonner, J.D., Executive Director, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College Studies show that establishing a community of shared academic values fosters academic integrity in the classroom. However, establishing that community may be more difficult when students adopt the values of a digital "remix" culture that challenges the traditional understanding of authorship. How do institutions foster academic integrity values in light of changing cultural norms? Are there special techniques and tools required? Are the best tools to use in preventing academic dishonesty "technical" like Turnitin.com? And are there additional legal and ethical issues involved when using technical measures to prevent academic dishonesty? Please see site for detailed course objectives- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#AI SIGN UP NOW: Early Bird Rates $150 http://tinyurl.com/29jg53 [Secured Server] Online Workshop FAQ- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources & services please see our homepage- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 ofrancois_at_umuc.edu From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Balisage: Markup, Montreal, August 12-15, 2008 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:07:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 655 (655) Willard, With OpenDocument Format as an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 26300) and OpenXML being debated for approval as an ISO standard, markup is more relevant than ever before for computing humanists. In the not too distant future (closer that I suspect many of us thought) the default format for most documents is going to be XML. Humanists readers should be interested in a new markup conference in Montreal, Canada this coming August that focuses on the leading edge of markup technology. Its organizers describe the conference as: "Balisage is a peer-reviewed conference designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It=92s all about the markup -- how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space) -- in short, changing the world and the web through the power of marked-up information." Further details can be found at: http://www.balisage.net/Handouts/Balisage-Versioning-flier1.pdf Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick_at_durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) From: Tom Elliott Subject: CFP last chance: The Publication and Study of Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:08:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 656 (656) Inscriptions in the Age of the Computer Apologies for cross-postings A reminder that proposals for papers to be included in the following panel are due 1 February 2008: CALL FOR PAPERS 2009 ASGLE Joint AIA/APA Panel Philadelphia, PA, January 8-11 2009 The Publication and Study of Inscriptions in the Age of the Computer Organized by Paul Iversen and Tom Elliott The computer age has unleashed powerful new technologies that enhance the study of Greek and Latin inscriptions, yet most scholars, academic institutions and publishing houses are still not comfortable with the idea of publishing inscriptions in a form that takes full advantage of the new possibilities. The Society, therefore, welcomes papers that discuss current or possible future computer-enhanced initiatives in the areas of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. We are particularly interested in papers that discuss theoretical applications of new technologies to the field of epigraphy and the formulation of international standards and protocols of publication and institutional credit, especially digital projects that go well beyond the mere encoding of the appearance of epigraphical sigla and indicia (which is akin to putting old wine into new wineskins) to include the en-coding of semantic and/or observational distinctions. Abstracts will be adjudicated anonymously by a committee of ASGLE and should not be longer than one page. Please follow the instructions for the format of individual abstracts that will appear in the October issue of the APA Newsletter. Abstracts should be sent to: Paul A. Iversen, ASGLE Secretary-Treasurer, Department of Classics, Case Western Reserve University, 11201 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7111 or paul.iversen (at) cwru.edu. The deadline is February 1, 2008. Please feel free to forward this announcement to others. -- Tom Elliott, Ph.D. Associate Director for Digital Programs (from 1 February 2008) Institute for the Study of the Ancient World New York University http://www.nyu.edu/isaw From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 657 (657) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 658 (658) [deleted quotation]Brian A. Bremen Associate Professor English Department 1 University Station, B5000 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-0195 Office: Parlin 127 email: bremen_at_curly.cc.utexas.edu Phone: 512-471-7842 Fax: 512-471-4909 From: Gabriel BODARD Subject: Humanities GRID Workshop Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:22:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 659 (659) Forwarded for Dolores Iorizzo. -------- Message original -------- De: Dolores Iorizzo Epistemic Networks and GRID + Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities 30-31 January 2008, Imperial College Internet Centre, Imperial College London Data driven Science has emerged as a new model which enables researchers to move from experimental, theoretical and computational distributed networks to a new paradigm for scientific discovery based on large scale GRID networks (NSF/JISC Digital Repositories Workshop, AZ 2007). Hundreds of thousands of new digital objects are placed in digital repositories and on the web everyday, supporting and enabling research processes not only in science, but in medicine, education, culture and government. It is therefore important to build interoperable infra-structures and web-services that will allow for the exploration, data-mining, semantic integration and experimentation of arts and humanities resources on a large scale. There is a growing consensus that GRID solutions alone are too heavy, and that coupling it with Web 2.0 allows for the development of a more light-weight service oriented architecture (SOA) that can adapt readily to user needs by using on demand utility computing, such as morphological tools, mash-ups, surf clouds, annotation and automated workflows for composing multiple services. The goal is not just to have fast access to digital resources in the arts and humanities, but to have the capacity to create new digital resources, interrogate data and form hypotheses about its meaning and wider context. Clearly what needs to emerge is a mixed-model of GRID + Web 2.0 solutions for the arts and humanities which creates an epistemic network that supports a four step iterative process: (i) retrieval, (ii) contextualisation, (iii) narrative and hypothesis building, and (iv) creating contextualised digital resources in semantically integrated knowledge networks. What is key here is not just managing new data, but the capacity to share, order, and create knowledge networks from existing resources in a semantically accessible form. To create epistemic networks in the arts and humanities there are core technologies that must be developed. The aim of this expert METHNET Workshop is to focus on developing a strategy for the implementation of these core technologies on an inter-national scale by bringing together GRID computing specialists with researchers from Classics, Literature and History who have been involved in the creation and use of electronic resources. The core technologies we will focus on in this two day work-shop are: (i) infrastructure, (ii) named entity, identity and co-reference services, (iii) morphological services and parallel texts, (iv) epistemic networks and virtual research environments. The idea is to bring together expertise from the UK, US, and European funded projects to agree upon a common strategy for the development of core infra-structure and web-services for the arts and humanities that will enable the use of GRID technologies for advanced research. DAY ONE- 10:00 ­ 6:00 SESSION I: GRID + Web 2.0 Infrastructure Rosemary Russell - ‘GRID and Web 2.0 in the DRIVER Project’ (DRIVER Project - http://www.driver-repository.eu/) David Giaretta ­ ‘GRID-WEB for Future Generations’ (CASPAR - http://www.casparpreserves.eu/) David Shotton ­ DATA WEBS for the Arts and Humanities (http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/activities/presentations/TDI_DavidShotton2.pdf) Marc Wilhelm Küster ­ TEXTGRID (http://www.textgrid.de) Tobias Blanke ­ The DARIAH Project (http://www.dariah.eu/) Brian Fuchs ­ The Future of GRID + Web 2.0 for Humanities SESSION II: Computational and Semantic Services: Named Entity, Identity and Co-reference Paul Watry: Named Entity and Identity Services for the National Archives www.liv.ac.uk Greg Crane ­ Co-Reference (Perseus - www.perseus.tufts.edu/) Hamish Cunningham/Kalina Bontcheva: AKT and GATE: GRID-WEB Services AKT/GATE- www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish Martin Doerr ­ Co-Reference and Semantic Services for Grid + Web 2.0 www.ics.forth.gr DAY TWO: 10:00 ­ 6:00 SESSION I: Morphological, Parallel Texts and Citation Services Greg Crane - “Latin Depedency Treebank”, Perseus Project www.perseus.tufts.edu Marco Passarotti - “Index Thomisticus” Treebank http://gircse.marginalia.it/~passarotti/ Notis Toufexis - ‘Neither Ancient, nor Modern: Challenges for the creation of a Digital Infrastructure for Medieval Greek’ http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/staff/nt262 Rob Iliffe ­ Intelligent Tools for Humanities Researchers, The Newton Project www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk SESSION II: Epistemic Networks and Virtual Research Environments Anna Maria Carusi/ Marina Jirotka ­ A Future Humanities VRE, OeRC web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/annamaria.carusi Simon Hodson - Virtual Research Environment for Political Discourse 1500-1800 www.earlymoderntexts.org/vre David Arnold - EPOCH , GRID, Web 2.0 (EPOCH) - www.brighton.ac.uk/mis/epoch Jurgen Renn - The Epistemic Web, Max Planck Berlin www.sis.pitt.edu/~repwkshop/papers/renn.ppt Martin Doerr and Dolores Iorizzo - Epistemic Networks and GRID + Web 2.0 (http://www.delos.info) Registration fee is £60 and places are limited. Please contact Dolores Iorizzo (d.iorizzo_at_ic.ac.uk) to secure a place or for further information. Please send registration to Glynn Cunin (g.cunin_at_imperial.ac.uk). http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events The Imperial College Internet Centre would like to acknowledge generous support from the AHRC METHNET for co-hosting this conference. From: ruy_at_cin.ufpe.br Subject: WoLLIC 2008 - Call for Papers Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:25:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 660 (660) Call for Papers 15th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2008) Edinburgh, Scotland July 1-4, 2008 (There will be a screening of George Csicsery's "Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem" http://zalafilms.com/films/juliarobinson.html with kind permission of the film director) 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 Fifteenth WoLLIC will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from July 1 to July 4, 2008. It is 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). [...] From: Maureen Engel Subject: job: Research Innovation Manager, Alberta Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:30:28 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 661 (661) <http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Academic/CompetitionDetails.aspx?key=2405> Research Innovation Manager Faculty of Arts - Arts Resource Centre Competition No. - A10013834 Closing Date - Mar 28, 2008 The Arts Resource Centre within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta is seeking an individual for the position of Research Innovation Manager. The successful candidate will be appointed to a Faculty Services Officer II position and is expected to be active in teaching, research and service. The position includes eligibility for promotion and tenure, has a competitive salary range of $57,618 - $81,642 (2007-08 scale), and a comprehensive benefits program. The Arts Resource Centre is a service department serving all 15 departments, 18 research institutes and 7 IT Intensive Research Studios in the Faculty of Arts. For information about our department, please consult our website at: <http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/arc/> The Research Innovation Manager promotes and supports the use of technology intensive research and is responsible for providing leadership and coordination on the use of technology in research, and the development and maintenance of a quality research environment in the Faculty. This includes the provision of comprehensive services; managing access to or development of appropriate facilities; establishing and maintaining quality relationships with researchers; consulting with researchers on infrastructure and staffing needs; advising researchers on technologies that will better facilitate their research; developing applications for Arts research projects; serving as project manager, where appropriate, for the computing aspects of major research projects and initiatives; and serving as technical manager of the Faculty's IT Intensive Research Studios. Additionally, the Research Innovation Manager ensures that the Arts Resource Centre and its Research Innovation Group are a responsive, centralized resource on research computing issues and trends to meet the needs of the Faculty. Candidates should hold a post-graduate degree (PhD preferred) in Humanities Computing or related field, 5 years experience working at the post-secondary level, and some supervisory experience. They should have an ability to provide information and advice to all levels across the Faculty of Arts and external agencies with expertise in research computing specifically for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Fine Arts. Excellent communication, organization, problem-solving, time-management, and interpersonal leadership skills are required. This position will supervise 3 programmer analysts, so expertise in programming, building software and computing systems, and web-site design for journal and research project sites is essential. Interested individuals are asked to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and the names of three confidential referees by March 28, 2008. If required the competition will remain open until the position is filled. Online applications are accepted. Note: Online applications are accepted until midnight Mountain Standard Time of the closing date. Applications may be forwarded to: Mail - Dr. Grace Wiebe, Director Arts Resource Centre Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E6 Email - ** Please ensure to reference Competition No. A10013834 when forwarding applications. ** All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. If suitable Canadian citizens or permanent residents cannot be found, other individuals will be considered. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: Visual Language Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:24:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 662 (662) The Glint and Glitter of Glass: The Future of Publishing with a Post-DNA Alphabet Nathaniel Bobbitt We live in a time that never was and never will be again. Such clever statements can be reflected in the media works of Beckett and the methodical "image-related thoughts" of Escher's studies of the plane (color symmetry). We sit on the schism between the interval (Zeno) and the computer (Turing). The following introduces a ruler (Cantor) as a substitute for doing humanities (creative, analytic, scholarly) with computers. Since the discovery of the structure of DNA, the advent of fractals, and micro-computing the stage has been set for greater contributions to the body of human knowledge with one draw-back: An inability to interact directly with nature. By developing a post-DNA alphabet I have arrived at a system to mark difference through a system of rulers (fractals). This system offers methods that bring to the humanities and life sciences the prospect of doing research through direct interact with nature. A post-DNA alphabet revisits earlier attempts at inventing language (Joyce, Cummings, Pound, Fenollosa, and G.Urton) and understanding structure (Darwin, Watson, Peirce, Barthes, Bassler, and J. Hawkins). In each of these cases the machine, the artifact (document), and function is overlaid with a lithographic based mode of communication. The implementation of a new symbol system (character set) needs to also identify its own communication theory as found in: Internet, social networks, or brain plasticity. The prospect of developing a post-DNA alphabet leads to the implementation of a publishing infrastructure that foregos lithographic forms of information exchange. William Blake had already anticipated the importance of the publishing process (acid technique) in a visionary expression: "...This I shall do, by printing in the infernal method, with corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and revealing the infinite which was hid" The role of developing a publishing infrastructure (optical) is to form a new view of documents that looks beyond the artifact found through digitization. What is ready for incubation will illustrate the role of visualization and simulation in scholarship, classification, and technical or expressive communication. I am looking for projects, researchers, and opportunities to further collaborate: to teach the global community a new language that breaks the information barrier with a fresh pattern to interact with nature. A multi-faceted character set has been designed to mark difference through a system of highlights. See: http://www.nabslab.com See page 5: http://web.mit.edu/i-m/resources/downloads2006/IM2.1SubmissionCompendium.pdf As we turn towards natural computing (Paun, T. Head, Adleman) a symbolic system forms the seeds for natural computing sensors. Without a proper character set the ability to do science or philosophy with computers lags without the necessary symbolic or computational structure. For more details contact me directly at: eye_at_nabslab.com From: Jørgen Villadsen Subject: 5th International Workshop on Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:23:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 663 (663) Constraints and Language Processing SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008) http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/ August 11-15, 2008 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4-15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany Workshop Organizers: Philippe Blache (Provence University, France) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), co-chair henning_at_ruc.dk Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Jørgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), co-chair jv_at_imm.dtu.dk Workshop Purpose: The CSLP 2008 workshop addresses the question of constraints and language processing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: natural language processing, knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. The purpose is to pursue a paradigm, unifying the different approaches into a common framework capable of explaining how constraints play a role in representing, processing and acquiring linguistic information, and this from a formal, technical, and cognitive perspective. Workshop Topics: The topics include, but are not limited to, constraint-based linguistic theories, constraints in human language comprehension and production, context modelling and discourse interpretation, acquisition of constraints, probabilistic constraint-based reasoning, constraint satisfaction technologies and constraint logic programming. [...] From: Suzanne Lodato Subject: grant competition: "Advancing Knowledge: The Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:52:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 664 (664) GRANT COMPETITION -- ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE: THE IMLS/NEH DIGITAL PARTNERSHIP The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications from U.S. nonprofit organizations to a digital humanities grant competition sponsored by the two federal agencies. The grant program, "Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership," seeks applications for projects that would explore new ways to share, examine, and interpret humanities collections in a digital environment and develop new uses and audiences for existing digital resources. Grants are intended to spur innovation and new collaborations; advance the role of cultural repositories in online teaching, learning, and research; and develop collaborative approaches involving the scholarly community and cultural repositories for the creation, management, preservation, and presentation of reusable digital collections and products. ; Projects must be collaborative with at least one museum, library, or archive as an integral member of the project team. Awards normally are for two years and typically range from $50,000 to a maximum of $350,000. Nonprofit institutions interested in applying can find guidelines online at <http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/Digital_Partnership.html> The deadline for applications is March 18, 2008, and applications must be submitted through <http://www.Grants.gov>www.Grants.gov. Applicants are encouraged to contact program officers who can offer advice about preparing the proposal and review draft proposals. Draft proposals should be submitted six weeks before the deadline. Questions and drafts may be submitted by e-mail to . Laura J. Word Senior Program Officer Division of Preservation and Access National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W . Room 411 Washington, D.C. 20506 202/606-8570 lword_at_neh.gov -- ************************************************ Suzanne M. Lodato Director Division of Preservation and Access National Endowment for the Humanities Room 411 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20506 (202) 606-8570 FAX: (202) 606-8639 e-mail: slodato_at_neh.gov ************************************************ Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: James Cummings Subject: Google hosting research data Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:05:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 665 (665) Dear all, I was reading recently about the plans of Google to start hosting research data.[1] They are launching a service in which they are starting with 120 terabytes of hubble space telescope data, and in addition the images of the Archimedes Palimpsest, which partly has inspired this Google project. The site will supposedly feature ways for members of the public to tag and annotate data, like images on flickr and videos on you-tube. (And these features and services have certainly created tangible benefits to our global society.) While making more data available online, especially to the information-poor, can only be seen as a good thing, announcements like this always leave me with a slightly uncertain sense of unease. If there is an increasing amount of annotation on such data, what technologies will develop to sort the wheat from the chaff. Sometimes my unease this is because I'm uncertain of how the service will operate, (i.e. will just anyone be able to annotate? Can I store my TEI texts there?) and sometimes because I worry about Google's motives (they don't really care *what* content, they just want as much as possible). The issues of online storage are, of course, quite interesting in their problems, limitations, and true costs.[3] I was interested partly because all the announcements are quite plain in citing both the hubble telescope and the Archimedes Palimpsest, and I was wondering if this was a conscious pairing of science and humanities data. Obviously part of my interest is piqued by this owing to the upcoming death of the AHDS (though the OTA will continue!). A place where one can dump, and then successively add to and annotate, research data certainly has its place and I will watch this development with interest. But this, and many other developments always seem to fall far short of the co-operative virtual research development platform that I've always wanted. What I want is a sourceforge-for-humanists, where we can undertake truly collaborative research but with the benefits of software development tools (such as a free subversion repository, web presence, bug tracking, forums, etc.), but alongside of that all the tools one might wish for a variety of humanities endeavours. (Say, if a small group of us were working on a critical edition, then image, image+text proofreading, variant reading tools, assisted editing, online markup editors, etc. But the point isn't just to allow this one activity, but any countless number of collaborative workflows.) There have been a number of attempts at this kind of thing, which always seem to fall short of the possibilities. I can't picture such a thing happening without significant commercial backing, and can't envision a company's business model which would help to create such a thing. In any case, I was wondering what other readers thought about this latest development in Google's mission to control, I mean 'organize', the world's information? Is my unease warranted, or am I just paranoid? -James [1]http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/google-to-provi.html [2]http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1246719,00.html [3]http://pimm.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/googles-palimpsest-project-promiscuous-distribution-of-all-science-data-sets/ -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk From: Simon Tanner Subject: Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education, and Museums Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:06:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 666 (666) - Call for Presentations [deleted quotation]jhoward_at_alliancelibrarysystem.com [deleted quotation]++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, 2nd Floor, London WC2B 5RL tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1678 or +44 (0)7887 691716 email: simon.tanner_at_kcl.ac.uk www.digitalconsultancy.net Digital Futures: 5 day training event for 2008 See: http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/digifutures/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: no killer app but work to be done Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:04:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 667 (667) Yesterday I was in a meeting with some people who share my desire if not need to reach the sceptics and reason with them about the validity of what we do in the digital humanities. One of these asked us to name or guess at the "killer app" that would at least make such sceptics vulnerable to persuasion. The answer that came back was that no such thing exists nor will -- because sceptical scholars will always be wanting to see not so much whatever tool might be a candidate but results from that or other tools which back up the claims made. My contribution to the response was to stress the quality of the argument made. Indeed, I'm inclined to think that such argument comes first but needs to be backed up with evidence. There's different kinds of evidence: (a) the disciplinarily specific kind, that shows what happens when e.g. a particular prosopographical tool is used to demonstrate the identity of a person from historical records that were formerly thought not to be related; (b) the kind which demonstrates in support of claims we tend to make that a discipline or disciplinary specialism has actually changed course because of such things; (c) the kind that records a given scholar's metanoia on seeing what can be done in his or her specialism; (d) the kind that results when many of (c) are recorded, studied and convincingly presented. Any others? My experience suggests that those of us closely involved can manage (a) without much difficulty and can relate individual anecdotes of (c) but that (b) and (d) constitute urgent work to be done. What say you? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Mats Dahlström Subject: cfp: Joint Nordic Use of WAB Bergen and VWA Helsinki Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:37:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 668 (668) Dear all, (sorry for any x-posting) Recently, the project "Joint Nordic Use of WAB Bergen and VWA Helsinki" (JNU VWAB) received a grant to support guest research initiatives at the Georg Henrik von Wright Archives in Helsinki (VWA) and the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB). The funding runs 2008-2010 and will provide stipends for research initiatives (both single users and research groups) in the following areas: (1) Wittgenstein research and philosophy, (2) digital scholarly editing, text technology and digital humanities, (3) Fields of intersection between (1) and (2). See <http://wab.aksis.uib.no/wab_jnu-vwab.page> for further details about the JNU VWAB project. We are hereby distributing a first call for proposals (deadline 29.2.2008), the details of which can be found at <http://wab.aksis.uib.no/jnu-vwab/wab_jnu-vwab-call1.page>, including an application form. Participants of selected projects are granted reimbursement of travel expenses, accomodation and living expenses and use of WAB or VWA free of charge for the agreed duration of the project. For questions, write to or call: alois.pichler_at_aksis.uib.no (tel. +47-55-589474), eldbjorg.gunnarson_at_aksis.uib.no (tel. +47-55-582970), Thomas.Wallgren_at_helsinki.fi (tel. +358-9-19129226), or hanne.appelqvist_at_helsinki.fi Yours / Mats Dahlström (member of the Management committee and User selection panel) ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Mats Dahlström, associate professor Swedish School of Library and Information Science UC Borås / University of Gothenburg, Sweden Mats dot Dahlstrom at hb dot se ; +46 33 435 44 21 ; http://www.adm.hb.se/~mad/ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| From: Susanna Mornati Subject: ELPUB2008 - CFP deadline EXTENDED to January 31, 2008 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:41:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 669 (669) *** Apologies for cross posting *** Due to numerous requests for a postponement, and compatible with the review process and the publication time, the deadline for abstracts submission has been extended to January 31: NEW DATE! 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada Second Call for Papers ELPUB2008 New submission deadline: January 31, 2008 <http://www.elpub.net/> Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0 Scholarly communications, in particular scholarly publications, are undergoing tremendous changes. Researchers, universities, funding bodies, research libraries and publishers are responding in different ways, from active experimentation, adaptation, to strong resistance. The ELPUB2008 conference will focus on key issues on the future of scholarly communications resulting from the intersection of semantic web technologies, the development of cyberinfrastructure for humanities and the sciences, and new dissemination channels and business models. We welcome a wide variety of papers from members of these communities whose research and experiments are transforming the nature of scholarly communications. Topics include but are not restricted to: * New Publishing models, tools, services and roles * New scholarly constructs and discourse methods * Innovative business models for scholarly publishing * Multilingual and multimodal interfaces * Services and technology for specific user communities, media, and content * Content search, analysis and retrieval * Interoperability, scalability and middleware infrastructure to facilitate awareness and discovery * Personalisation technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS, microformats) * Metadata creation, usage and interoperability * Semantic web issues * Data mining, text harvesting, and dynamic formatting * User generated content and its relation to publisher's content * Usage and citation impact * Security, privacy and copyright issues * Digital preservation, content authentication * Recommendations, guidelines, interoperability standards [...] From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 21.495 no killer app but work to be done Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:41:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 670 (670) True, you can't convince the skeptics. . .you still can't say that digitial music has wiped out analog music because a few places still make analog records which are really better, not that a true skeptic needs those last few words. Even when there are more eBooks than paper books, no way. Even when there are 100 times as many eBooks, not happening. It's not going to matter what they SAY about eBooks, reality is going in that direction and paper books will never reverse that trend, simply because you can /OWN/ MILLIONS OF eBOOKS IN A TERABYTE DRIVE [costing under $200]. Before Gutenberg the average person could own zero books. Before Project Gutenberg an average person could own 0 libraries. It's literally as simple as that. The cost/benefit ratio for eBooks is too much better than paper. Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Recommended Books: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury: For The Right Brain Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Ran,: For The Left Brain [or both] Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson: To Understand The Internet The Phantom Toobooth, by Norton Juster: Lesson of Life. . . On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: monograph on the experimental article Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:40:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 671 (671) My colleague John Lavagnino has drawn my attention to a monograph of interest to many, I expect, newly online: Charles Bazerman, "Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science" (1988), at http://wac.colostate.edu/books/bazerman_shaping/. The entire book is there, in bits or as a whole. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: j trant Subject: Museums and the Web 2008: an update Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:24:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 672 (672) Museums and the Web 2008 the international conference for culture and heritage on-line April 9 - 12, 2008 Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ ** Closing Plenary: Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information ** We're delighted that Clifford Lynch has agreed to close MW2008. He is one of the best synthetic speakers we know, able to draw together strands from many different communities towards our common goal of linking people with content and communities. Clifford will close MW2008 with thoughts about how approaches in the museum community mirror or diverge from others. ** Regular Registration Deadline: January 31, 2008 ** If you haven't already registered, the deadline for regular registration is coming up soon. Payment for regular registrations must be *received* by January 31, 2008, in order to get lower rates. Register on-line with a credit card to ensure the better rate. See https://www2.archimuse.com/mw2008/mw2008.registrationForm.html ** Pre-Conference Workshops Filling Up ** Many of the workshops at MW2008 have limited enrollment to ensure that they are great learning experiences. Several are now approaching their limit. If you've been thinking about adding a workshop to your registration, do so soon to avoid disappointment. ** Best of the Web Nominations Close February 1, 2008 ** Help us identify the best museum web sites launched in the last year. Nominate your favourite for a Best of the Web award. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/best/index.html for details. ** Demonstrations ** The first of the Demonstrations accepted for MW2008 are now listed on the conference web site. Demos are a great opportunity to see museum web sites up close and talk to the people who created them. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/demos/index.html for the list. ** Papers On-line ** All the papers from past Museums and the Web conferences are available on-line. See http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum ** Another Great Conference ** We're looking forward to MW2008 -- the twelfth time we will have come together to review the state of cultural, scientific and heritage content. With everything that's going on now, it's sure to add up to an exciting and informative week. We hope to see you in Montreal! jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2008 produced by April 9-12, 2008, Montreal, Canada Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2008_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 ------------- Museums and the Web 2008 is presented in conjunction with the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO). Museums and the Web 2008 is sponsored by Interwoven and Interflow. From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: CFP: Digital Humanities and African Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:25:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 673 (673) American/African Diaspora Studies Conference Call for Posters and Demonstrations Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies Conference University of Maryland, College Park May 2-3, 2008 URL: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/diaspora2008 The Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies Conference is issuing a call for posters that highlight digital humanities projects, tools or techniques or work in progress as they relate to the themes of the conference. We especially encourage submissions from independent scholars and scholars associated with academic institutions. 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 Neil Fraistat at fraistat_at_umd.edu by 6 p.m. on February 25, 2008. The proposals will be reviewed by the planning committee and successful applicants will be notified by March 10, 2008. The poster session will take place on the afternoon of May 3, 2008. This conference will address the increasing centrality of digitization to the archiving of materials, as well as the growth of digital technology in the teaching, scholarship and artistic production in the field of African American/African Diaspora Studies. The conference is a collaboration involving the African American/African Diaspora Area Group of the English Department, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, as well as other faculty and students from the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) and the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS). The conference, the first of its kind, will bring together approximately 150 national and international scholars, high school and middle school teachers, artists, students and attendees to discuss a growing body of work that has not as yet benefited from an organized forum that would allow practitioners to meet one another not only to discuss on-going projects, but also to debate the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical issues raised by the intersection of the fields of Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies. As the field of African American/African Diaspora Studies can benefit from a thoughtful consideration of the application of new media tools, so, too, can the field of digital humanities benefit from a focused discussion of scholarship informed by critical race studies. The program will begin on May 1st and 2nd with hands-on workshops, including one sponsored by the TEI Consortium and funded by the NEH, which will provide a practical introduction to text encoding and another that will focus on navigating online resources in African American and African Diaspora Studies. The workshops will be followed by a panel showcasing work by scholars in the field of African American/African Diaspora Studies that address and/or make use of digital technologies and new media. The chair and the respondents will be University of Maryland graduate students. The keynote address by Abdul Alkalimat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will be followed by a reception and the presentation of a multi-media art installation. The last day will be taken up by panels and seminars, one of which will be geared toward middle and high school teachers; digital "poster" sessions, using laptops, to introduce projects by students, faculty and independent scholars; and a closing multi-media performance. Confirmed participants include Abdul Alkalimat, Howard Dodson, Anna Everett, Jerome Handler, Paul D. Miller (AKA DJ Spooky), Alexander Weheliye, and Pamela Z. -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate 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/ http://mechanisms-book.blogspot.com/ From: "Melissa De Graaff" Subject: Summer School: CDA and Social Research Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:26:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 674 (674) Dear Colleagues I thought you might be interested to know about a Summer School in the Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, June 30 - July 4 2008, on the theme: Critical Discourse Analysis and Social Research. This is aimed at PhD students, post-docs and academic staff at an early career stage. The tutors are Professor Bob Jessop, Dr Ngai-Ling Sum, Professor Norman Fairclough and myself. Full details can be obtained at: <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/>http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/ I'd be grateful if you could pass this on to anyone you think it might interest. Best wishes Ruth Wodak Distinguished Professor Chair in Discourse Studies Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT United Kingdom Tel: xx44 1524 592437 Fax: xx44 1524 843085 <http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/265>http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/265 http://www.wittgenstein-club.at From: Methnet Subject: Conference: Human Computer Interaction 2008, Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:27:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 675 (675) Culture, Creativity, Interaction The organizers of Human Computer Interaction 2008 are keen for arts and humanities researchers to participate in the conference. ============================================== Human Computer Interaction 2008, Culture, Creativity, Interaction http:/www.hci2008.org Liverpool John Moores University, 1-5th September 2008 HCI 2008 is the 22nd running of the British HCI conference; one of Europe's largest and longest running HCI conferences. We invite full papers, workshop and tutorial proposals. Accepted papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and the BCS eWiCS library. In 2008 Liverpool is also European Capital of Culture. Join us for a range of exciting events. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): * Human-centred culture and creativity * Ubiquitous interactivity * Disappearing, ambient or tangible computing * Design and evaluation methods * Effecting affective HCI * Learning and training for HCI * Interaction for the performing arts * e-Security and e-safety * Users with unusual requirements * Mobile media access and sharing * Interactive public displays * Fun and games - the next generation Summary of Deadlines: * Papers submission: February 8th, 2008 * Author notification: April 2nd, 2008 * Final papers due: April 28th, 2008 * Other submissions: May 9th, 2008. Please see the website for formatting and submission information [...] From: amsler_at_cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 21.496 no killer app but work to be done Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:23:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 676 (676) The difficulty with finding a "killer app" is that you're asking for objective results rather than subjective results. I do not anticipate a mechanism for objective results in literary analysis, nothing like the discovery of carbon-14 dating for physical paper. What things do seem to divert the course of events in Humanities Computing? First and foremost are new FREE resources. Project Gutenberg certainly changed the course of humanities research, providing etexts of classics. It also provided a mechanism for large cultural organizations (like Canada!) to promote their historial literature worldwide with minimal cost. Whenever resources are made available for free they promote grass-roots investigations that otherwise wouldn't take place. The Linguistic Data Consortium preserves data, but hasn't had the same sort of impact because its data is so expensive, especially to individuals without sufficient institutional backing. The Oxford Text Archive is somewhere in the middle, with modest cost requirements. I think there is a direct inverse correlation between the cost of resources and the impact of digital information. Google is a strange blend of free and proprietary data such that its well-publicized projects (Google Maps, Google Books, Google's N-grams) have some dramatic impact, but NO serious impact when you reach for the data they don't release (e.g., the OCR text of Google Books in the public domain released as PDF image files). The FREE avialability of the Wiki software also appears to have had a significant impact on what can be done. This impact is muted only by the relative difficulty for non-systems programmers in using this FREE software. What would greatly alter that would be for someone to offer a free downloadable plug-and-play Wikimedia software system for Windows PCs. Download this, run this, and you can create a Wiki on your system. I personally believe Wikis are the most significant non-Microsoft Office killer app of the last several years. Wikis realize in practice what Apple hinted at in hypercards, but failed to achieve because they couldn't scale upward to users expectations. Lacking FREE resources, the next best thing are additions to nearly universally used commercial software. The first "killer app" was spreadsheets in Microsoft's Excel. The reason that "app" was a killer probably had more to do with its inclusion in the widely distributed standard Microsoft Office suite of software than with its perceived utility. If spreadsheets had been sold as a stand-alone product from XYZ-corporation, marketed to accountants and costing $1000 each unit; it wouldn't have been a "killer app". Anything that gets added into a nearly universally available software utility can have significant impact. Customized software packages that require specific purchases for each discipline are limited in what they can achieve. This is a software analogy with a standard axiom of hardware development. Special purpose computers cannot compete long-term with general purpose computers. The cost of special-purpose products is not contained in the one-time creation of the product, but in the lifelong maintenance and upgrading of the product. Usually, the general purpose product's upgrades will completely overtake the special purpose product in a couple of generations---and generations are only 18 months apart. In software the product never exceeds its targeted market, and hence can't achieve "killer app" status because that requires the general computing public to find applications for the software not anticipated by its developers. The fact that a spreadsheet can hold historical data, literary references, compile footnoted references, build indexes, etc. are all beyond its envisioned role as an accounting system utility. So, there you have it. I think the Humanities should pour labor into projects such as Project Gutenberg. While the publishing lobby managed to block public domain texts from extending after 1923 for the rest of our lifetimes, that still leaves not only a vast amount of text before 1923 to be captured but the prospect of obtaining permission from post-1923 authors for submission of their still-copyrighted works. Project Gutenberg however needs help becoming more authoratitive (just as Wikis need help becoming more scholarly and reliable). The Project Gutenberg aversion to identifying specific editions of texts is damaging to the ability to use the data for more comprehensive digital computing. It is highly commendable that Project Gutenberg is exemplary in their standards for accurate text, but lacking the ability to know which editions of a work are being represented limits the applications of the data. Once again, it is not the perceived goal of the developers (making texts available to human readers) but the ability of the data to find additional uses (e.g., corpus linguistic analyses) that distinguishes good resources from broadening their appeal to the level of a "killer app". From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 21.495 no killer app but work to be done Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:28:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 677 (677) True, you can't convince the skeptics. . .you still can't say that digitial music has wiped out analog music because a few places still make analog records which are really better, not that a true skeptic needs those last few words. Even when there are more eBooks than paper books, no way. Even when there are 100 times as many eBooks, not happening. It's not going to matter what they SAY about eBooks, reality is going in that direction and paper books will never reverse that trend, simply because you can /OWN/ MILLIONS OF eBOOKS IN A TERABYTE DRIVE [costing under $200]. Before Gutenberg the average person could own zero books. Before Project Gutenberg an average person could own 0 libraries. It's literally as simple as that. The cost/benefit ratio for eBooks is too much better than paper. Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Recommended Books: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury: For The Right Brain Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Ran,: For The Left Brain [or both] Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson: To Understand The Internet The Phantom Toobooth, by Norton Juster: Lesson of Life. . . From: Peter Boot Subject: Online annotation in digital editions Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:47:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 678 (678) Dear colleagues, I am compiling a list of digital editions that offer interactive online annotation facilities. (For now) I am not interested in annotation tools with eg. CD-rom based editions, or in external annotation tools that might be used in conjunction with the digital edition, such as Google Notebook, Diigo or Notefish. The reason that I am interested is that the subject of my upcoming PhD thesis is annotation facilities and their application in research. My focus is on emblem books, but the subject is much wider. I am specifically interested in annotation in scholarly text editions, but it is hard to define these terms (=91scholarly=92, =91text=92, and =91edition=92) precisely, and there is no need to do so here. What is important is that it should be possible to annotate not just at the level of the text, but at the level of text constituents =AD pages, paragraphs or other. There is a draft section of the thesis on=20 http://www.peterboot.nl/onlineannotationdraft.pdf. I list the sites that I discuss there below. I'd like to hear about sites that I missed, especially if they offer facilities that are=20 significantly different from the sites that I mention. Thank you for your suggestions, Peter Boot Wikisource and wikibooks Wikis are not very suitable tools for annotation, but the wiki is what most people tend to think of when I talk about annotation. See for examples: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Annotations_of_The_Complete_Peanuts, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor, http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Zimmerische_Chronik, http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Von_abtuhung_der_Bylder Weblogging and CommentPress Most weblog tools come with elementary comment facilities; CommentPress is an add-on for structured comments in WordPress. See e.g. annotation to Martin Luther King: http://www.futureofthebook.org/natestearns/letterfrombirminghamjail/ Virtual Humanities Lab Still at experimental stage http://golf.services.brown.edu/projects/VHL/index.php Online Chopin Variorum Edition Also experimental http://www.ocve.org.uk/ Telma Limited facilities for private annotation and bookmarking http://www.cn-telma.fr/ For a sample edition see http://www.cn-telma.fr/nesle/ Gallica 2 beta Tagging at page level and bookmarks http://gallica2.bnf.fr/ UCLA Proper notes and bookmarks, that can be saved into collections and shared with others E.g. in http://digital.library.ucla.edu/canonlaw/ Collaboratories A number of sites offer facilities for collaboration of which annotation is only an ingredient (Collate, Ipsa, HyperNietzsche). A recent addition is Footnote (www.footnote.com), commercial and not geared towards scholarly use, but very remarkable in its range of annotation facilities. Programming language manuals commenting facilities Popular open source platforms such as PHP and Perl have manuals where users can (and do) contribute notes. For a random sample: http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.general.php Again, not for scholarly use, but still an example of serious collaborative annotation that enhances the value of texts. From: Nancy Ide Subject: Second Linguistic Annotation Workshop Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:59:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 679 (679) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN) Sharable Corpus and Best Practice Guidelines Working Group Sessions 1-6PM, May 27, 2008 The Second Linguistic Annotation Workshop Held in conjunction with LREC 2008 Marrakech, Morocco <http://verbs.colorado.edu/LAW2008/>http://verbs.colorado.edu/LAW2008/ The SIGANN Sharable Corpus and Best Practice Guidelines Working Groups will hold a joint session at the Second Linguistic Annotation Workshop on the afternoon of May 27, 2008, in Marrakech, Morocco. The session will be devoted to issues surrounding the merging and harmonization of linguistic annotations representing various phenomena that may have been produced by different groups using different formats, and may be based on different theoretical approaches. The discussions will use as a point of departure linguistic annotations of a portion of the SIGANN Sharable Corpus contributed by members of the computational linguistics community. We solicit contributions of manually or automatically produced annotations of the SIGANN Sharable Corpus for any linguistic phenomenon, including but not limited to morpho-syntax, syntax, semantic roles, word senses, named entities, temporal elements, events, co-reference and other discourse-level phenomena. The annotations will be collected in early April, after which the session organizers will coordinate an effort to merge and compare the contributed annotations. Based on the experience of this exercise, discussion points including examples will be drawn up for consideration in the joint session. Issues to be considered will include: (1) What are the issues/problems of merging diverse annotations of different phenomena into a single multi-layer annotation, in terms of harmonizing different physical formats? (2) What are the issues/problems of merging diverse annotations of different phenomena into a single multi-layer annotation, in terms of enabling a coherent and comprehensive linguistic description? (3) Are there phenomena for which an attempt at compatibility/harmonization is not desirable? (4) What are the implications and/or suggestions of this exercise for the development of best practice guidelines for linguistic annotation? (5) Are there certain phenomena (e.g. segmentation into tokens, phrases, etc.) that lend themselves more readily to the specification of standard practices, and for which the existence of a common method would enhance annotation interoperability? (6) What are the good and bad consequences of introducing a theoretical bias into the merging process? A theoretically biased merging procedure creates essentially a new annotation that uses previously created annotation as input in a destructive manner so that the input annotation can not be read directly from the merged output. Can the creation of a merged annotation that is consistent with a theory justify making these changes? Can "errors" in input annotation be detected in this way Those who wish to contribute annotations and/or be involved in discussions at the session should consult the LAW II website for details: <http://verbs.colorado.edu/LAW2008/>, or contact the session organizers. Session organizers: Best Practices Working Group Nancy Ide, Vassar College (ide [at] cs.vassar.edu) Sharable Corpus Working Group Adam Meyers, New York University (meyers [at] cs.nyu.edu) From: John Lavagnino Subject: ACH elections Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:27:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 680 (680) [Once again my apologies precede a message that is delayed in the sending because of incompetent software and the general mess of e-mail these days. The following apparently disappeared before I could spot it. Thanks to the alertness of Dot Porter and John Lavagnino it is now being sent out. --WM] To all ACH Members on the Humanist listserv, elections for the next cohort of ACH officers are now underway. See instructions below. Votes may be cast through *January 31*. A message concerning the election was also sent to a list of the current ACH membership. If you are a member of the ACH and you did not receive that message, please log into the membership database as instructed below and make sure that your email address is up to date. If your name does not appear in the database but you are a member in good standing, please contact Melissa Terras (m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk) Thank you, Dot Porter ACH Executive Secretary ********************************* Voting is now underway to choose ACH officers for the coming calendar year. The election is being conducted on-line at the ACH "Member Services" web page. Please follow these steps to cast your vote: 1. Go to the ACH web site http://www.ach.org . 2. Click "current membership" near the bottom of the right column. The current membership list is displayed. 3. Type your surname in the indicated field of the "Member Access" box, as it appears in the displayed list. (If your name is misspelled or otherwise incorrect in the list, you may edit your record and fix it once you're logged in) 4. Type your password in the indicated field. If you have forgotten (or never set) your password, use the "forgotten password?" link. You will need your reference number from your subscription to "Literary and Linguistic Computing." 5. Click "LogIn". A voting announcement line appears at the top of the current membership list. 6. Click the "Vote Now!" link to display the slate of offices and candidates. You may click each candidate's name to see their biographical and platform statements. 7. Mark your preferences and click "Vote" to cast your ballot. 8. You may take this opportunity to edit your membership record and update it as needed. When you are finished . . . 9. Click "LogOut" in the "Member Access" box. Votes are encoded to preserve confidentiality and held until the closing date, after which the results will be tallied, certified, and announced. You may override your vote by repeating this process any time before that deadline. -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter_at_uky.edu 859-257-1257 x.82115 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter_at_vis.uky.edu *************************************** From: Peter Boot Subject: Online annotation in digital editions Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:47:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 681 (681) Dear colleagues, I am compiling a list of digital editions that offer interactive online annotation facilities. (For now) I am not interested in annotation tools with eg. CD-rom based editions, or in external annotation tools that might be used in conjunction with the digital edition, such as Google Notebook, Diigo or Notefish. The reason that I am interested is that the subject of my upcoming PhD thesis is annotation facilities and their application in research. My focus is on emblem books, but the subject is much wider. I am specifically interested in annotation in scholarly text editions, but it is hard to define these terms ('scholarly', 'text', and 'edition') precisely, and there is no need to do so here. What is important is that it should be possible to annotate not just at the level of the text, but at the level of text constituents' pages, paragraphs or other. There is a draft section of the thesis on http://www.peterboot.nl/onlineannotationdraft.pdf. I list the sites that I discuss there below. I'd like to hear about sites that I missed, especially if they offer facilities that are significantly different from the sites that I mention. Thank you for your suggestions, Peter Boot Wikisource and wikibooks Wikis are not very suitable tools for annotation, but the wiki is what most people tend to think of when I talk about annotation. See for examples: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Annotations_of_The_Complete_Peanuts, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor, http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Zimmerische_Chronik, http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Von_abtuhung_der_Bylder Weblogging and CommentPress Most weblog tools come with elementary comment facilities; CommentPress is an add-on for structured comments in WordPress. See e.g. annotation to Martin Luther King: http://www.futureofthebook.org/natestearns/letterfrombirminghamjail/ Virtual Humanities Lab Still at experimental stage http://golf.services.brown.edu/projects/VHL/index.php Online Chopin Variorum Edition Also experimental http://www.ocve.org.uk/ Telma Limited facilities for private annotation and bookmarking http://www.cn-telma.fr/ For a sample edition see http://www.cn-telma.fr/nesle/ Gallica 2 beta Tagging at page level and bookmarks http://gallica2.bnf.fr/ UCLA Proper notes and bookmarks, that can be saved into collections and shared with others E.g. in http://digital.library.ucla.edu/canonlaw/ Collaboratories A number of sites offer facilities for collaboration of which annotation is only an ingredient (Collate, Ipsa, HyperNietzsche). A recent addition is Footnote (www.footnote.com), commercial and not geared towards scholarly use, but very remarkable in its range of annotation facilities. Programming language manuals commenting facilities Popular open source platforms such as PHP and Perl have manuals where users can (and do) contribute notes. For a random sample: http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.general.php Again, not for scholarly use, but still an example of serious collaborative annotation that enhances the value of texts. From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 9.4 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:49:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 682 (682) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 9, Issue 4 January 29, 2007 -- February 4, 2008 Views TWO LETTERS FROM JOHN STUCKEY IN EGYPT John Stuckey, Ubiquity's ace correspondent in Egypt, has written us two letters, and grapples= with two of the most important questions we can think of: -- Is Phil Yaffe right about English as a common language? Read John's thoughts in: About English: On the Other Hand <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i4_stuckey1.html> --How many Americans does it take to change a light bulb? <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i4_stuckey2.html> From: "Dr. Indira Guzman" Subject: IT Culture and Values Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:39:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 683 (683) Please consider this call for papers. IT Culture and Values: Occupational, Organizational and Societal (Call for papers) AMCIS 2008 - Toronto, Ontario - 14-17 August 2008 Mini-track ID: AMCIS-MT-74-2008 Mini-track title: IT Culture and Values: Occupational, Organizational and Societal Track: Social Aspects of IS Papers Due: March 3, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: April 14, 2008 Camera Ready Copy Due: April 28, 2008 Conference web site: http://www.business.mcmaster.ca/amcis2008/callforpapers.htm Description: The goal of research on culture and IT is diverse in both context and method. Rather than focusing on cross-cultural studies that compare IT development and use in different countries, the focus of this mini-track is to provide a forum for research that seeks to understand the values and assumptions embedded in both the technology, and the human group served by the technology (i.e. the occupational group, the organization, the society). Recent articles (e.g. Leidner & Kayworth, 2006) continue to call for more attention to values and cultural assumptions associated with IT if we are to be successful in addressing various types of conflict. We would like to make AMCIS the main venue for reporting issues and research associated with occupational, organizational, and social cultural issues. Specifically, we would like to see a forum for exploration of changes in embedded values, assumptions and social change related to information and communication technologies. Even the concept of "IT culture" can be interpreted in many ways. We see this concept of "IT culture" as a complex organizational phenomenon thatis suitable for an AMCIS mini-track. Suggested topics: * The IT culture, the information culture, the digital culture, the online culture, the geek culture, and culture in virtual environments * Organizational culture, information systems and management * IT cultural issues in organizations and in modern society, such as the "generational divide", and cultural change due to information and communication technologies * IT Culture and other issues such as education, security, change, etc. * IT culture and system conflicts within organizations and society * Impact of IT culture on occupational, organizational and societal use of IT * Occupational Culture, the IT workforce, end-user studies where culture matters * Methodological issues conducting IT culture research (i.e. case studies, ethnography, mixed methods) * An assessment of software for supporting culture studies * Ethnography and culture in virtual environments Mini-track Chair(s): Michelle Lynn Kaarst-Brown, Syracuse University, mlbrow03_at_syr.edu Indira R. Guzman, TUI University, iguzman_at_tuiu.edu Mini-track gmail account: amcismt742008_at_gmail.com A complete version of this CFP can be found here: http://www.business.mcmaster.ca/amcis2008/MT/amcis-pr-074 Thank you and please contanc us if you have questions. Best wishes, Indira Indira R. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Information Systems Assistant Professor of Business Administration TUI University; 5665 Plaza Dr. Cypress, CA 90630, U.S.A. Tel: 714.816.0366 or 1.800.375.9878 Ext.2026; Fax: 714.229.8934 iguzman@tuiu.edu | http://www.indiraguzman.com From: Subject: 6th International Summer School Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:40:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 684 (684) in Formal Languages andApplications 6th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS (formerly International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications) Tarragona, Spain, July 21 - August 2, 2008 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University http://www.grlmc.com ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Mathematics. Other graduate students (for instance, from Linguistics, Electrical Engineering, Molecular Biology or Logic) as well undergraduate students can attend too provided they have a good background in discrete mathematics. All courses will be compatible in terms of the schedule. (There will be no courses in parallel.) COURSES AND PROFESSORS JULY 21-26: Martyn Amos (Manchester), Synthetic Biology: Biological Engineering [6 hours] Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest), Language Theoretic Models of Multi-Agent Systems [14 hours] Zoltan Esik (Tarragona), An Axiomatic Theory of Automata [6 hours] Rusins Freivalds (Riga), Elliptic Curves [6 hours] Max Garzon (Memphis), Biomolecular Nanotechnology [6 hours] Masami Ito (Kyoto), Regular Grammars [6 hours] Martin Kutrib (Giessen), Cellular Automata [6 hours] Claudio Moraga (Mieres), Fuzzy Formal Languages [6 hours] Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima), Two-Dimensional Languages [6 hours] Mitsunori Ogihara (Rochester), Computational Complexity and Molecular Computation Models [6 hours] Friedrich Otto (Kassel), Restarting Automata [6 hours] COURSES AND PROFESSORS JULY 28 - AUGUST 2: Francine Blanchet-Sadri (Greensboro), Partial Words [6 hours] Henning Bordihn (Potsdam), Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars [8 hours] Wojciech Buszkowski (Poznan), Type Logics and Grammars [8 hours] Manfred Droste (Leipzig), Weighted Automata [8 hours] Joerg Flum (Freiburg, Germany), Parameterized Complexity [6 hours] Tom Head (Binghamton), Computing with Light Using Transparency and Opacity [6 hours] Satoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo), Grammatical Models and Algorithms for Biological Sequence Analysis [6 hours] Mark-Jan Nederhof (St.-Andrews), Probabilistic Parsing [6 hours] Alexander Okhotin (Turku), Language Equations [6 hours] Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt), Descriptional Complexity of Automata and Grammars [12 hours] Sheng Yu (London, Canada), Finite Automata [16 hours] [...] From: Leslie Carr Subject: OR08 Repository Developer Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:41:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 685 (685) Challenge: Invitation to Participate Repository developers are invited to participate in a new "Repository Challenge" prize activity to produce demonstrations of novel repository capability during the OR08 conference. The Open Repositories conference annually attracts developers who working on a wide variety of repository-oriented platforms and projects from across the world. As well as providing a forum for discussion of the cutting edge of repository R&D, this year's conference will run a rapid cross-platform repository integration challenge. The aim is to get delegates working in small teams to try to quickly pull together established platforms and services to demonstrate a glimpse of some real-life, user-relevant scenarios and services. The "Repository Challenge" will be based around small teams of developers trying to achieve goals set by the repository manager and user community. This all takes place in a "scrapheap-code challenge [UK]" / "junkyard-code wars[US]" atmosphere over the two days of the conference. An awards ceremony at the conference dinner will celebrate the achievements of the teams with cash prizes given to the best demos (first team prize =£2,500 / $5,000 / €3.350). The Repository Challenge is intended to provide concrete examples of the ideas raised at a recent Repository Unconference, an event run by the JISC Common Repository Interface Group (CRIG) to identify key issues that repositories need to address to make a genuine impact in Higher Education. These include bringing the repository closer to the researcher's working environment, automatically generating metadata, running multiple interfaces and taking advantage of Web 2.0 and utility computing services. To participate in the repository challenge, register for OR08 at http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ and email the Repository Challenge Chair: David Flanders (d.flanders_at_bbk.ac.uk ). Comments are invited on the outputs of the Unconference (photos of the flipcharts) which are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ wocrig . Other CRIG discussion is available via blog planet: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jisc-crig . Background information on CRIG can be found at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/CRIG . For more information on the challenge, contact the Repository Challenge Chair: David Flanders (d.flanders_at_bbk.ac.uk). -- Les Carr Open Repositories 2008 Conference Chair PS Although this is not an ostensibly "Open Access" technical challenge, the suggested improvements will improve OA provision by making document and metadata deposit easier. But such efforts will only be effective as part of balanced diet of OA policy and technical development! From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Digital Dialogues at MITH Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:20:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 686 (686) Below is MITH's spring 2008 Digital Dialogues schedule. All talks are free and open to the public. Matt Tuesdays @12:30-1:45 in MITH's Conference Room B0135 McKeldin Library University of Maryland, College Park 2.5 Marilee Lindemann (English and LGBT), "On the Internet, Everybody Thinks I'm a Dog" 2.12 The Gamer Symphony Orchestra: Discussion and Performance 2.19 No Talk 2.26 Doug Eyman (George Mason), "Play and Pedagogy: An Ecological Framework for Teaching Writing with Video Games" 3.4 Bernard Frischer (Virginia), "Making Culture Virtual: Recent 3D Modeling Projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities" 3.11 Ken Price (Nebraska), "Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?" Presented for the Rosenzweig Forum on Technology and the Humanities, 4:00 pm, McKeldin Special Events Room (6th floor, room 6137). 3.18 Spring Break 3.25 Oni Buchanan (Independent Writer and Musician), "The Mandrake Vehicles: Kinetic Poetry in Physical and Digital Forms" 4.1 Sunil Iyengar (National Endowment for the Arts), "To Read or Not to Read: A Discussion of the NEA's Latest Report on Reading" 4.8 John Carlson (Virginia), "Designing Tools for Interpretive Encoding: The MetMachine Markup Generator" 4.15 Kari Kraus (College of Information Studies and English), "Rezzing Books: Codex Technology in the Metaverse" 4.22 Jonathan Auerbach (English), "Early Cinema as New Media" 4.29 Greg Crane (Tufts), "Cyberinfrastructure and Cultural Heritage" 5.01-03 Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies Conference. See http://www.mith2.umd.edu/diaspora2008 for more details. MITH Neil Fraistat, Director http://www.mith.umd.edu/ tel: 301.405.8927 fax: 301.314.7111 mith_at_umd.edu -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate 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/ http://mechanisms-book.blogspot.com/ From: "Olga Francois" Subject: AI Workshop: Early Registration Extended! Guest Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:20:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 687 (687) Speaker Added! and More! Greetings, You still have time. We have extended the "Early Registration" date for the academic integrity online workshop to Friday, February 15, 2008. Once all the rage, plagiarism detection devices are, with greater intensity, being challenged legally and ethically as inappropriate tools for detecting plagiarism. Currently, the plagiarism detection service Turnitin.com is in the middle of litigation against several high school students who are challenging its business practices as a violation of copyright law. In this workshop, the legal and scholarly implications of this struggle will be explored, along with the many challenges in fostering academic integrity in our colleges & universities. Join the moderators and our special chat guest: *Don McCabe*, Professor of Management & Global Business, Rutgers Business School - Newark & New Brunswick. Professor McCabe has conducted research on college and university student perceptions and attitudes towards cheating in the US & Canada. Most recently he has shifted that focus and has surveyed over 18,000 high school students in the United States. Please join the Center for Intellectual Property as we attempt to address the plagiarism and cheating issues on college campuses and attempt to outline practices for change: ---------------------------------------------------------- Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#AI Register by 2/15 ---------------------------------------------------------- Dates: February 25 - March 7, 2008 Moderators: Gary Pavela, M.A., J.D., University of Maryland, College Park; Kimberly Bonner, J.D., Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC; Guest Speaker: Don McCabe, Ph.D., Rutgers Business School SIGN UP NOW: Early Bird Rates $150 http://tinyurl.com/29jg53 [Secured Server] Online Workshop FAQ- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources & services please see our homepage- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ -- Olga Francois, Assistant Director Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780 Adelphi, MD 20783 ofrancois_at_umuc.edu From: Joseph Vaughan Subject: Re: 21.504 Online annotation in digital editions Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:18:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 688 (688) Chris, Regarding Croquet, have they actually written the code that allows Word (or another office app) to be pulled into the environment? Last time I saw it, there was a mock up of using word in the croquet environment, but no actual code yet. It was about 9 months ago. Thanks, Joseph ----- Joseph Vaughan Director / Humanities CIO UCLA Center for Digital Humanities (310) 903 3990 From: Lily Diaz Subject: Re: 21.503 Online annotation in digital editions? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:19:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 689 (689) Dear Peter, I send you the link to our project on the Digital Facsimile of the Map of Mexico 1550. <http://cipher.uiah.fi/mexico_new/> Do not hesitate to contact me if you have more questions. Best regards, Lily ------------------------------------- Dr. Lily Diaz Professor, Systems of Representation & Digital Cultural Heritage University of Art and Design Helsinki 135C HŠmeentie SF 00560 Helsinki, Finland + 358 9 75630 338 + 358 9 75630 555 (FAX) From: Lily Diaz Subject: Re: 21.504 Online annotation in digital editions Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:19:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 690 (690) Hi, I would like to also put forth our own ImaNote tool developed at the Media Lab Helsinki.Ê ImaNote <http://imanote.uiah.fi/about>http://imanote.uiah.fi/about The tool allows for different groups of researchers to annotate maps and images. The tool was originally developed for use in the Ê Digital Facsimile of the Map of Mexico 1550 project. Project website <http://cipher.uiah.fi/mexico_new/>http://cipher.uiah.fi/mexico_new/ Tool application <http://systems-of-representation.uiah.fi/map_of_mexico/mapview/mom2>http://systems-of-representation.uiah.fi/map_of_mexico/mapview/mom2 The tool is now also being tested for use to gather commentaries from users in museum exhibitions.ÊThe approach is being developed by Mariana Salgado who is a doctoral student in the Lab:Ê Museums and the Web 2006 <http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/papers/salgado/salgado.html>http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/papers/salgado/salgado.html We are on the lookout for partners who are interested in using it as well as working with us in similar projects. Best regards, Lily ------------------------------------- Dr. Lily Diaz Professor, Systems of Representation & Digital Cultural Heritage University of Art and Design Helsinki 135C HŠmeentie SF 00560 Helsinki, Finland + 358 9 75630 338 + 358 9 75630 555 (FAX) From: Willard McCarty Subject: experience and communication Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:17:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 691 (691) In the Introduction to his wonderful Essays in Experimental Logic (1916), American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey speaks of the problems caused by the view that experience only exhibits ideas but has nothing essential to do with having them -- the belief that "the natural scene and operations of our life are lacking in ideal import, [with] the consequent tendency to flee for the lacking ideal factors to some other world inhabited exclusively by ideals." [deleted quotation]He goes on. [deleted quotation]With the readjusted mixture of ideation, experiment and experience of the world that has come about with computing, is there not the opportunity to do somewhat better, esp with communicating to a troubled and troubling public the role of what we do in the life of society? Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: musical and historical virtualities? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:22:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 692 (692) I would be very grateful to know of any musicological scholarship that has stepped beyond "music information retrieval" to attempt modelling the musical imagination -- interpretational, improvisational or otherwise. I know of the writings of Margaret Boden and Philip Johnson-Laird on this subject but would appreciate more. I would also be grateful for anything of a similar kind in historiography, i.e. concerned with the reconstruction (i.e. modelling) of what presumably was or modelling of what might have been. That this sort of thing happens is clear, and people do make claims to that effect. I am looking for critical discussions which actually examine the process, look for its stress-points etc. Many thanks. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: historical modelling Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:46:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 693 (693) Willard, Again, I refer you to Phil Sabin. He has a new book out that posits a system for reconstructing ancient battles. Best, Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate 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/ http://mechanisms-book.blogspot.com/ From: John Lavagnino Subject: Graphs as a computational tool Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:48:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 694 (694) Hi, Willard--- fine discussion by Brian Hayes, with a pointer to the literature: http://bit-player.org/2008/computing-graphics John -- Dr John Lavagnino Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London 26=AD29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 20 7848 2453 www.lavagnino.org.uk General Editor, The Oxford Middleton http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780198185697 http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780198185703 From: Subject: Re: 21.511 musical and historical virtualities? Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:48:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 695 (695) Willard, Are you acquainted with RILA (Repertoire internationale de la litterature musical)? It has several decades of abstracts of musicological studies around the world and may very well contain some stuff useful to you. Check them out at rilm.org. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" To: Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:27 AM [deleted quotation] From: Yorick Wilks Subject: Companions Project Newsletter Date: 6-7 October, 2008 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 696 (696) Register your interest: events_at_oii.ox.ac.uk Details: http://www.companions-project.org/events/ -------------------------------------------------- 5. Scientists Discuss Artificial Companions -------------------------------------------------- The Oxford Internet Institute, a Companions project partner, hosted a workshop meeting of scientists from Europe and the USA to discuss the future of 'Artificial Companions in Society' in Oxford on October 26th, 2007. Research into such characters is fast expanding and the general perception is one of a future in which people will become emotionally attached to these companions and will rely on them in various ways, such as storing and accessing their personal memories on the Internet. The workshop was preceded by a lecture by Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science at MIT and Technology Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Her lecture, entitled 'Cyberintimacies/Cybersolitudes', asked questions such as 'What kinds of relationships are appropriate to have with machines?' Papers presented at the workshop, on speakers' perspectives on the present and future of this emerging science, included titles such as: 'Conversationalists, maybe - But Confidants?' (by Margaret Boden); 'Falling in Love with a Companion' (David Levy); 'Are Artificial Companions Better Than Real Ones?' (Joanie Gillispie); 'A Victorian Companion?' (Yorick Wilks) and 'Robots Should be Slaves' (Joanna Bryson) (the Position papers are available on the Companions website). The event was organized by Professor Yorick Wilks, Director of the EU- funded Companions project, on behalf of the e-Horizons Institute, a unit of the James Martin School of the 21st Century; the workshop was also supported by Microsoft Research. Companions events: http://www.companions-project.org/events/ -------------------------------------------------- 6. Feature: Nabaztag as a first Companion -------------------------------------------------- The Nabaztag rabbit is being used as the first Companion avatar in two initial demonstrators in the project. In the Health and Fitness Companion being integrated at the University of Tampere, Nabaztag is the free- standing rabbit available commercially from Violet in Paris, adapted with an API so as to receive speech input as well as output. In the Senior Companion, being integrated at the University of Sheffield, Nabaztag is appearing as a talking 2D screen rabbit, discussing the content of personal photos.Nabaztag is the brain-child of Rafi Halidjan (the name is the Armenian for rabbit). It is a plastic rabbit that can move its ears, flash colours and speak. Its input is entirely wifi, driven from a remote website. The standard use is to convey messages and emotions, all input at a website, to a remote friend or lover: it can flash blue with ears down and say or sing 'I miss you', or indeed anything else you type in. Rafi Halidjan is on the Companions Governing Council and we hope for a closer relationship in the future as Nabaztag has much of the attractive, distinctive and expressive quality one wants in a physical embodiment of the Companion idea: especially as the Tampere version can now listen as well as talk! -------------------------------------------------- 7. Our Industrial Partners -------------------------------------------------- Loquendo The automatic speech recognizer (ASR) and the text-to-speech (TTS) system integrated in the present Companions demonstrators have been provided by Loquendo. While themes related to improving acoustic quality, naturalness, and expressivity of speech generation are subjects of research done by Loquendo in Companions, the ASR integrated in the demonstrators is the Loquendo commercial product. Loquendo ASR can support speech applications that need accurate recognition of broad vocabularies, up to 1,000,000 forms of words. The speech recognition engine is based on algorithms that integrate neural networks and continuous density hidden Markov models. The TTS pronunciation lexicon ensures that specialized vocabularies, abbreviations, acronyms, and even regional pronunciation differences, can sound as the speech application developer intends them to. The acoustic characteristics of the voices (speech, speaking rate, and volume) can be fine tuned and controlled at the application level. http://www.loquendo.com/en/index.htm Telefonica One of the today's buzzwords among telco companies and a technology that can significantly enable some of the future Companions features is IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem). This acts as the glue that will bring today's mobile, fixed and IP telephony into a convergent, unified entity. IMS will offer significant advantages on concepts such as multidevice situations, usability, session transferring, identity tracking, personalization, security and others, all of which will undoubtedly be crucial in the future Companions prototypes. The same Telefonica I+D team working on Companions has recently collaborated in the development of scenarios and implementation for one of these projects, involving many of the above concepts. Our mixed presence and identity tracking demonstrator performs transference of sessions between different devices such as PCs, smartphones and touch panels, enabling users to perform complex tasks such as reading their incoming mail and SMS/MMS, accessing the internet and granting access to their homes. We hope to bring some of this technology in later stages of the project to make the Companion not only able to recognise each user's presence, but to follow her or him along using different devices. http://www.tid.es/html_eng/index.html As An Angel As An Angel is a European SME, founded in 2001, based in Paris, specialized in human-computer dialogue and agent-based multimodal interfaces. It has produced a dozen conversational agents, prototypes and demonstrators for advertising agencies, banks, and other advertisers. As An Angel is about to launch an online automated generator of personified avatars, named AngelStudio. This generator allows the user to develop his or her virtual double in just a few minutes. This personified and learning avatar will be able to achieve the following delegated actions such as representing the user on his/her personal site or blog, meeting sites and forums, online communities or virtual worlds and simulation games. The first application of AngelStudio technology is the game SimDate, currently in its final stage of development and due to launch online in January 2008. In this simulation of a seduction dialogue, the players purpose is to seduce a character (derived from a real person) through an instant messaging-like dialogue with a webcam. http://www.asanangel.com/ Teliasonera The major undertaking of TeliaSonera has been the development of a dialogue management method suitable for automatic troubleshooting and other problem-solving applications. The method has a theorem-proving flavour, in that it recursively decomposes tasks into sequences of subtasks and atomic actions. An explicit objective when designing the method has been that it should be tailored for use by other people than the designers themselves. A pilot implementation in the domain of over-the-phone broadband support has been developed and has been used for internal data collection in order to validate the basic ideas and fine-tune the design. We are particularly interested in trying to apply unsupervised machine learning methods, such as reinforcement learning, to enable this kind of system to learn to improve its behaviour by itself. http://www.teliasonera.com/ The consortium: http://www.companions-project.org/about/consortium.cfm -------------------------------------------------- 8. Companions Scientific Governing Council -------------------------------------------------- Chair: Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain); Members: Professor James Allen (University of Rochester, USA); Professor Dr Harry C. Bunt (University of Tilburg, Netherlands); Dr Gregory Grefenstette (CEA, France); Dr Rafi Haladjian (Violet, France); Dr David Levy (Intelligent Systems, UK). -------------------------------------------------- 9. Contact -------------------------------------------------- Professor Yorick Wilks Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Sheffield, 211 Portobello Rd, Regent Court, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 2221804 Email: mailto:yorick_at_dcs.shef.ac.uk Web: http://www.companions-project.org/ Companions is a European Commission Sixth Framework Programme Information Society Technologies Integrated Project (IST-34434) From: Johnny Søraker (by way Subject: International workshop: the Good Life in a Technological Age Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:47:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 697 (697) Call for Papers: THE GOOD LIFE IN A TECHNOLOGICAL AGE Multidisciplinary Workshop at the University of Twente, The Netherlands June 12-14, 2008 Organized by Philip Brey (chair), Adam Briggle, Ed Spence, Johnny Soraker Department of Philosophy, University of Twente and 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology, the Netherlands. Maximum number of participants: 32 This workshop will consider the implications of contemporary technology for the quality of life, and will examine approaches from philosophy and social and behavioural science for studying the quality of life in a technological age. Since the industrial revolution, modern technology has seriously impacted day-to-day life and has engendered changing ideals of the good life. In recent years, new technologies in the information, medical, industrial, and other sectors have further impacted everyday life. In this workshop, different disciplinary perspectives, from philosophy, psychology, economics and other fields, will be employed to interpret and evaluate contemporary relations between technology and the quality of life. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: Philip Brey, Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Netherlands Luigino Bruni, Department of Economics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy Charles Ess, Interdisciplinary studies, Drury University, USA Jeroen van den Hoven, Department of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Anton Tupa, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, USA Ruut Veenhoven, Department of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam Peter-Paul Verbeek, Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Netherlands More invited speakers will be announced on http://ceptes.nl/glita TOPICS INCLUDE: -- Philosophical and empirical methods for studying the good life and quality of life in a technological culture -- Implications of modern technology for the quality of life -- Hedonist, desire-satisfactionist and objective list accounts of contemporary life -- Quality of life, consumer culture and consumer technologies -- Quality of life, political philosophies and technology policy -- Quality of life, sustainability and the environment -- Quality of life and information technology -- Quality of life and biomedical technology -- New technologies and changing ideals of the good life -- Welfare economics and technology -- Happiness studies and technology We are looking for contributions that employ conceptions of the quality of life or well-being that go beyond traditional social-economical quality-of-life indices, and that consider either the subjective preferences and psychological states of persons (as in psychology and welfare economics) or particular normative ideals of the good life (as developed in philosophy). SUBMISSION OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS: Authors should submit an electronic version of an extended abstract (1000-1500 words). The abstract should be in doc, rtf or pdf format and be submitted by email to glita_at_gw.utwente.nl before March 10, 2008. WORKSHOP FORMAT: Each participant will give a short presentation followed by discussion. For invited papers a commentator will be assigned. There will be a plenary discussion at the end of the workshop. PUBLICATION: We are currently considering reputable publishers for a book consisting of the best papers from the workshop. Full papers for inclusion in the book should be submitted before November 1, and will be peer-reviewed. IMPORTANT DATES: March 10 Extended abstract submission deadline March 21 Notification of acceptance June 12-14 Workshop November 1 Submission of full paper (optional) PRACTICAL INFORMATION: There is no registration fee for the workshop, but participants cover their own expenses for travel and accommodation (inexpensive accommodation will be available). More information about transportation and local accommodation can be found on our Website: http://ceptes.nl/glita. If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please direct them to glita_at_gw.utwente.nl. Johnny Hartz Søraker PhD Research fellow Department of Philosophy, University of Twente Office phone: +31 (0)5 3489 4639 Home phone: +31 (0)5 3489 4978 Mobile: +31 (0)6 4705 9544 Skype: johnny.soraker MSN: johnny_soraker_at_hotmail.com URL: http://www.utwente.nl/ceptes/research_staff/Soraker/ From: hra_at_pixel.cviog.uga.edu (Hamid R. Arabnia) Subject: Call For Papers: Computer Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:49:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 698 (698) Science & Computer Engineering Conferences - July 2008, USA, WORLDCOMP'08 CALL FOR PAPERS WORLDCOMP'08 The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA (composed of 25 Joint Conferences) Academic Sponsors: Three technical chapters of IEEE, Research labs at: Harvard University, MIT, UCLA, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emory University, University of North Dakota, PSU/Saudi, Russian Academy of Sciences, and others (see below). Corporate sponsors include Google and NIIT. You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08) is composed of the following 25 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 14-17, 2008, USA): o BIOCOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology o CDES'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design o CGVR'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality o CIC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Communications in Computing o CSC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing o DMIN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining o EEE'08: The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government o ERSA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms o ESA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications o FCS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science o FECS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering o GCA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications o GEM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods o ICAI'08: The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence o ICOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing o ICWN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks o IKE'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering o IPCV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition o ITSL'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory and Statistical Learning o MLMTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications o MSV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods o PDPTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications o SAM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management o SERP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice o SWWS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org) PURPOSE/HISTORY: This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Many of the 25 joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective fields. We anticipate to have 2,600 or more attendees from over 80 countries participating in the 2008 joint conferences. The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact. The model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication among researchers from all over the world in different fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Both inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the conferences. WORLCOMP'08 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial speakers included: Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley); Prof. David Cheriton (Stanford U.), Prof. A. K. Dunker (Indiana U. and Purdue U.); Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (developer of X Window, ...); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and many other distinguished speakers. [...] From: geoff_at_cs.miami.edu Subject: IJCAR, last Call for Papers Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:50:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 699 (699) IJCAR 2008 - The 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Sydney, Australia, 10th - 15th August, 2008 http://2008.IJCAR.org Last Call for Papers -------------------- ================================================ | Paper Registration Deadline is 22nd February | ================================================ IJCAR 2008 is the 4th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, and is a merger of leading events: CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems), FTP (Workshop on First-order Theorem Proving) and TABLEAUX (Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods) IJCAR is the premier international joint conference on all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. The IJCAR technical program will consist of presentations of high-quality original research papers, system descriptions and invited talks. There will be two days of workshops and tutorials, 10th and 11th August, and the conference 12th to 15th August. Conference chair: Peter Baumgartner (NICTA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers --------------- IJCAR 2008 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Original research papers and descriptions of working automated deduction systems are solicited. See the IJCAR website for a detailed list of logics, methods, and applications of interest. The proceedings of IJCAR 2008 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI/LNCS series. Submission details: Submission is electronic, through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=IJCAR2008 Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer "llncs" format, which can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The page limit is 15 pages for full papers. The page limit is 7 pages for short system descriptions that provide brief overviews or target recent developments. Full system descriptions that provide in-depth presentation of original ideas in an implemented system can be submitted as full papers. All full papers will be evaluated according to highest standards in terms of originality, significance, technical quality, and readability. Program co-chairs: Alessandro Armando (Universit`a di Genova) Peter Baumgartner (NICTA) Gilles Dowek (l'Ecole Polytechnique) Important dates: Paper registration deadline: 22nd February 2008 Paper submission deadline: 3rd March 2008 Notification of paper decisions: 18th April 2008 Final version of papers due: 23rd May 2008 Conference dates: 12th-15th August 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Erika Farr Subject: Digital Scholarship Program Manager Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:33:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 700 (700) Digital Scholarship Program Manager New Position Emory University Libraries invites applications for a new Digital Scholarship Program Manager to coordinate projects sponsored by the Institute for Digital Scholarship. The Institute is an initiative in the libraries' strategic plan and establishes ongoing funding to build on a long history of digital research and development sponsored by multiple granting agencies. The Institute will catalyze, lead, and sustain pioneering efforts to create new forms of high quality scholarship using digital media. The Institute is envisioned to be a prominent and distinctive feature of the Emory University Libraries and in the larger field of academia, providing leadership among peer universities in transformative new models for scholarship in the 21st century, accomplished through strategic partnerships among faculty, librarians, and technologists. The Institute will provide standards and best practices for developing digital publications and digital library services, and will support the development and management of digital projects endorsed by Emory Libraries, provide research opportunities and professional development for students of a Certificate program, and publish proceedings from the annual symposia series. Responsibilities: The Digital Scholarship Program Manager position resides in the Institute for Digital Scholarship in the Emory University Libraries' Robert W. Woodruff Library and will: collaborate with faculty, librarians, archivists, and technologists to develop, propose, and manage projects/programs; coordinate multiple, ongoing, inter-dependent digital scholarship projects pursued by the libraries and collaborative partners; support project development through planning, research, and grant writing; monitor project schedules and deadlines; contribute to the documentation of project findings; engage in emerging research in the fields of digital scholarship and digital libraries; -- coordinate with others on fundraising and publicity; and -- present research and project findings in professional settings at the campus and national level. Qualifications: Masters or doctoral degree required. Experience with digital scholarship projects in a research setting is essential. Requires experience in academe interacting on a professional level with faculty. Requires knowledge of legal issues regarding digital archiving and publication of content, and an excellent understanding of the research process, university institutional structures, and high-level approaches to the organization of information. Knowledge of current digital library technologies, standards and best practices. The successful candidate must have effective communication skills, the ability to work collaboratively and maintain effective, creative, and flexible working relationships with colleagues, faculty, staff and graduate students. Demonstrated interest in professional activities. Desired skills include project management, effective planning and public speaking in professional and academic environments. Salary and Benefits: Salary and rank dependent upon qualifications and experience; the position is in the Librarian (faculty-equivalent) employment category. Comprehensive benefits package, including tuition benefits. Several retirement plan options are available, including TIAA/CREF. Generous support for moving expenses. Application: Send letter of interest, resume, and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three references to: Dianne M. Smith, Library Human Resources Officer, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322-2870. E-mailed applications are encouraged (with materials as Word attachments) sent via Linda Nodine at libln_at_emory.edu; applications may be faxed to 404/727-0805. Application review begins December 2007 and continues until position is filled. Environment: Emory University is recognized internationally for its outstanding liberal arts college, superb professional schools, and one of the leading health care systems in the Southeast. Emory is enriched by the legacy and energy of Atlanta, whose downtown area is just 15 minutes away. Emory's future is being guided by an ambitious strategic plan and implementation will transform its campus and positively influence local and global communities. The Libraries of Emory University include the General Libraries and Libraries for health sciences, law, theology, business and Oxford College. Holdings of the five Emory Libraries total approximately 3.1 million volumes. The libraries also provide access to thousands of electronic information resources, including more than 40,000 e-journal titles. The Woodruff Library's Center for Library and Information Resources (CLAIR), provides an integrated service environment. It brings together technology specialists and librarians in a facility that includes a learning commons, e-classrooms, a distance learning classroom, Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching, the Heilbrun Music and Media Library, the Electronic Data Center, group study rooms, comfortable study space with data connections, and Jazzman's Cafe. Wireless access is available throughout the building and in the Matheson Reading Room in Candler Library. The Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library contains modern literary manuscript archives, notable African American collections, University archives, and other major manuscript and rare book holdings acquired for research and teaching. The Emory Libraries are members of the Association of Research Libraries, OCLC, the Center for Research Libraries, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the Digital Library Federation. Emory University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and encourages women and minority candidates. Erika L. Farr, PhD Digital Programs Team Leader Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University p: 404-727-9048 e: elfarr_at_emory.edu Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Joseph Vaughan Subject: RE: 21.508 Online annotation in digital editions Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:58:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 701 (701) Regarding Croquet, have they actually written the code that allows Word (or another office app) to be pulled into the environment? Last time I saw it, there was a mock up of using word in the croquet environment, but no actual code yet. It was about 9 months ago. From: Kata Balogh Subject: Last Call for Papers -- ESSLLI 2008 Student Session Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:03:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 702 (702) *********************************************************** Last Call for Papers ESSLLI 2008 STUDENT SESSION 4-18 August 2008, Hamburg, Germany Submission deadline: 15 February 2008 Website: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13 *********************************************************** We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information to be held in Hamburg, Germany on August 4-15, 2008. The aim of the Student Session is to give an opportunity to students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master- and PhD-students) to present and discuss their work in progress with a possibility to get feedback from senior researchers. Each year, 18 papers are selected for oral presentation and a number of others for poster presentation. CALL FOR PAPERS The programme committee invites submissions of papers for oral and poster presentation and for appearance in the proceedings. We welcome submissions with topics within the areas of Logic, Language and Computation. *** Submission deadline: 15 February 2008 *** The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates as well as postgraduates. Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. SUBMISSION Student authors are invited to submit a full paper up to 7 pages inclusive of references. Note that the length of the final version of the accepted papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. The preferred formats of submissions are PostScript or PDF, although other formats will also be accepted. More submission details and all relevant information at: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13 CONTACT Kata Balogh ESSLLI 2008 Student Session chair email: k.balogh_at_uva.nl tel.: +31 20 5254544 fax: +31 20 5254503 postal address: Department of Philosophy Universiteit van Amsterdam Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: TL Infobits -- January 2008 Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:58:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 703 (703) TL INFOBITS January 2008 No. 19 ISSN: 1931-3144 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitjan08.php. You can read all back issues of Infobits at http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/. ...................................................................... Technology and Higher Education's Future 2008 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies Technology and Emerging Issues in Academic Libraries Bookmarking Tool for Scholars Overview of Institutional Repositories Recommended Reading Infobits Subscribers -- Where Were We in 2007? ...................................................................... TECHNOLOGY AND HIGHER EDUCATION'S FUTURE A new year has brought new publications that contemplate the future effects of technologies on education. Three of these documents are presented here. In "How Technology Will Shape Our Future: Three Views of the Twenty-First Century" (ECAR Research Bulletin, Issue 2, 2008), Thomas L. Franke "explores three of the most compelling views of our longer-term future, the role of technology in those possible futures, and the impact these alternative futures might have on higher education. The alternatives range from a future of extreme constraint and possible collapse . . . to one of unprecedented abundance, where most of the current work of higher education will be automated. . . ." The report is available online to members of ECAR subscribing institutions at http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/erb/ERB0802.pdf. To find out if your institution is a subscriber, go to http://www.educause.edu/ECARSubscribingOrganizations/957. ECAR (EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research) "provides timely research and analysis to help higher education leaders make better decisions about information technology. ECAR assembles leading scholars, practitioners, researchers, and analysts to focus on issues of critical importance to higher education, many of which carry increasingly complicated and consequential implications." For more information go to http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=4. ...................................................................... 2008 HORIZON REPORT ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES The 2008 Horizon Report is a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Each year the report "describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years." Some key trends that this year's report calls attention to include: Grassroots video: "What used to be difficult and expensive, and often required special servers and content distribution networks, now has become something anyone can do easily for almost nothing." Collaboration webs: "The newest tools for collaborative work are small, flexible, and free, and require no installation. Colleagues simply open their web browsers and they are able to edit group documents, hold online meetings, swap information and data, and collaborate in any number of ways without ever leaving their desks." Mobile broadband: "New displays and interfaces make it possible to use mobiles to access almost any Internet content -- content that can be delivered over either a broadband cellular network or a local wireless network." Data mashups: "The availability of large amounts of data . . . is converging with the development of open programming interfaces for social networking, mapping, and other tools. This in turn is opening the doors to hundreds of data mashups that will transform the way we understand and represent information." Collective intelligence: "In the coming years, we will see educational applications for both explicit collective intelligence -- evidenced in projects like the Wikipedia and in community tagging -- and implicit collective intelligence, or data gathered from the repeated activities of numbers of people, including search patterns, cell phone locations over time, geocoded digital photographs, and other data that are passively obtained." Social operating systems: "Social operating systems will support whole new categories of applications that weave through the implicit connections and clues we leave everywhere as we go about our lives, and use them to organize our work and our thinking around the people we know." The complete report is available at http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf. The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an "international 501(c)3 not-for-profit consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies." For more information, go to http://www.nmc.org/. The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is a "strategic initiative of EDUCAUSE. While EDUCAUSE serves those interested in advancing higher education through technology, ELI specifically explores innovative technologies and practices that advance learning." For more information, go to http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?Section_ID=86. ...................................................................... TECHNOLOGY AND EMERGING ISSUES IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES This month the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Research Committee has published its latest "Environmental Scan," a report identifying the "major assumptions shaping the practice of academic librarianship, as well as to identify emergent issues of concern to the profession." The committee compiled a list of ten assumptions for the future of academic libraries and librarians and outlined several "emergent issues" that are predicted to be of increasing importance. Some of the assumptions listed include: -- More emphasis will be placed on digitizing collections, preserving digital archives. -- Students and faculty will expect to find a rich digital library presence. -- Debates about intellectual property will become increasingly common in higher education. -- Demands for technology-related services and technology-rich user environments will continue to grow and will require additional funding. "Environmental Scan 2007" is available at http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/Environmental_Scan_2.pdf. ACRL, a division of the American Library Association, is a professional association of academic librarians and other interested individuals. It is dedicated to enhancing the ability of academic library and information professionals to serve the information needs of the higher education community and to improve learning, teaching, and research. For more information, contact Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795 USA; tel: 800-545-2433; fax: 312-280-2520; email: acrl@ala.org; Web: http://www.ala.org/acrl/. ...................................................................... BOOKMARKING TOOL FOR SCHOLARS CiteULike is a free social bookmarking tool that lets you store, organize, and share the scholarly papers you are reading and find out who is reading the same papers. If a paper is from an academic or scientific publication that the tool recognizes, it will automatically extract citation information from the Web page and add it to your entry. Articles from other sources require that the user type in the citation details. To read more about CiteULike, see "Keeping Citations Straight, and Finding New Ones" (INSIDE HIGHER ED, January 31, 2008) at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/31/citeulike. To try out the tool go to http://www.citeulike.org/. ...................................................................... OVERVIEW OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES Charles W. Bailey, Jr., compiler of SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING BIBLIOGRAPHY (now in its 70th edition), has recently published "Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite", a work "designed to give the reader a very quick introduction to key aspects of institutional repositories and to foster further exploration of this topic though liberal use of relevant references to online documents and links to pertinent websites." The document covers definitions of institutional repositories, why institutions should have them, and the issues authors face when contributing to repositories. "Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite" is available at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License, and it can be freely used for any noncommercial purpose in accordance with the license. You can access all of Bailey's publications on scholarly communication at http://www.digital-scholarship.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. "Thanks to YouTube, Professors Are Finding New Audiences" By Jeffrey R. Young THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION January 9, 2008 http://chronicle.com/free/2008/01/1159n.htm "Forget Lonelygirl15, YouTube's 2006 online video phenom. Professors are the latest YouTube stars. The popularity of their appearances on YouTube and other video-sharing sites may end up opening up the classroom and making teaching--which once took place behind closed doors--a more public art." ...................................................................... INFOBITS SUBSCRIBERS -- WHERE WERE WE IN 2007? Each January issue of Infobits includes an annual subscriber tally listing the countries represented by our subscribers. At the end of January 2007, there were 7,533 subscribers (an increase of 111 subscribers since last year's count). Here are some brief statistics about our current subscribers. The majority of the subscribers we could identify by country are in the United States (3,566) and other English-speaking countries: Canada (447), Australia (273), and the United Kingdom (170). 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From: "J.Nerbonne" Subject: 2-yr. lecturer position in Groningen Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:01:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 704 (704) Two-Year Lecturer Position (Universitaire Docent) The department of Humanities Computing (Alfa-Informatica) at the University of Groningen is seeking a temporary: Lecturer (Universitair Docent) Full-time position for two years Vacancy number: 208018 The department is focused on computational linguistics, especially in syntactic and phonological processing, and would most like to strenghten this focus by attracting researchers in computational linguistics with specializations complementary to those of the current staff, e.g. text sentiment analysis, historical linguistics, text authoring tools, or computer-supported language learning. We are willing to consider other, similar specializations. The teaching duties will be concentrated on language processing and statistics. The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to research, including grant proposals, and will be asked to assume a share of organizational tasks, e.g. recruitment, communication or software/hardware support. Requirements: A Ph.D. degree in (Computational) Linguistics or a related field such as Linguistics, Computer Science, or Artificial Intelligence. Proven research ability documented by publications. Proven interest and success in computational and statistical studies is a must. Ability to work independently and interest in interdisciplinary research. Willingness to learn Dutch and to locate in Groningen. Terms and Conditions of Employment The salary for a lecturer ranges form a initial € 3129 tot a maximum of € 4284,- (Salary scale 11) for the full-time position. Commencement of employment is August 2008. The duration of contract is for two years. Pending further funding, we may be able to continue the position for two more years. For additional information, please see http://www.rug.nl/let/onderwijs/communicatieeninformatie/informatiekunde http://www.infokunde.nl/ or contact prof. dr.ir. John Nerbonne e-mail: j dot nerbonne at rug dot nl tel.: +31 50 363 58 15 Application Your application should include a cover letter, including remarks on how this position fits in your career goals, a current curriculum vitae (including a list of publications), a sketch of current research interests and the name and e-mail addresses of two referees. Please submit applications by March 15, 2008 to: University of Groningen Personnel and Organization Department P.O. Box 72 9700 AB Groningen The Netherlands E-mail address: vmp at rug dot nl When applying for this job always mention the vacancy number 208018. J.Nerbonne, Information Science Tel. +31 50 363 58 15 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen FAX +31 50 363 68 55 P.O. Box 716 www.let.rug.nl/nerbonne NL 9700 AS Groningen From: "Israel Cohen" Subject: historical virtualities? ==> anthropomorphic maps - Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:00:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 705 (705) an ancient GIS Willard McCarty, hello -- You wrote: [deleted quotation]<http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/>http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ I learned about anthropomorphic maps from the linguist Dan Moonhawk Alford (deceased) and the anthropologist Stan Knowlton. They described the maps of Napi, the creator of the Blackfoot Indians (aka The Old Man) and his wife (The Old Woman) in Alberta, Canada. I "found" similar maps of a male body (Hermes ?) in the Middle East and a female body (Aphrodite) in north Africa. Anthropomorphic Maps Anthropomorphic maps were generated by configuring the body of a god or goddess over the area to be mapped. The name of each part of that body became the name of the area or feature under that part. This produced a scale 1:1 map-without-paper on which each placename automatically indicated its approximate location and direction with respect to every other place on the same map whose name was produced in this way. You are cordially invited to join the BPMaps discussion group on this topic, a very quiet list that averages about 2 messages per month. The URL is: <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/>http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/ The Challenge: To produce computer software that will find additional body-part maps elsewhere in the world. Available inputs: (1) geographic databases with ancient place names (e.g., the Perseus project). (2) body-part names on Swadesh lists. Unfortunately, the navel is not included. Attributes of Anthropomorphic Maps (1) The navel is the center of the body, the center of the map, and usually the center of the map's language community. (2) Place names (toponyms) may be reversed, metathesized, misspelled or euphemized for various reasons: (a) The same part in the same language exists on another map of a different body. Cranium > Mo[n]rocco because Ukraine existed? Aphrodite is looking backwards over her right shoulder. She is bent at her waist (Misr/Mitzraim = MoSNaiM). (b) The left (sinister) part is altered in names for left-right pairs (arms, legs, eyes, ears). DoFeN = side reversed to Nafud in north Arabia. SHvK = thigh with a T-sound for the letter shin = TvK reversed to Kuwait. BeReKH = knee metathesized to Bahrain. (c) Names that represent taboo body parts or funcitons are reversed or euphemized: Semitic PoS (female pudenda) reverses to yam SooF = sea of reeds (Red Sea). Mare Rubrum (Latin for Red Sea) represents Aphrodite's menstruation. NeGeV is a reversal of vagina. CaNa3an (3 = aiyin with a G-sound as in 3aZa = Gaza) is a reversal of Greek gyneco-. Sinai = "snatch" is spelled SiNi in Hebrew. The aleph=CHS is intentionally missing. ZaYiN = weapon (a euphemism for his male member) is in Sinai as the desert of Zin. (3) Names may be loan-translated due to conquest or language-change. (a) Roxolania (Semitic Ro[chs]SH = head) => Rus *( Ro_at_SH) => Ukraine (Greek kranion) * Caused by a change in the sound of the aleph from CHS to a glottal stop. (b) Libya (Semitic LeB = heart) => Cyrenaica (Latin cor = heart, compare coronary) => Libya (4) Rivers and bodies of water may be named after bodily excretions: (a) Milk River in Alberta. (b) Red Sea (Latin Mare Rubrum) is Aphrodite's menstruation. (c) Gulf of Aqaba (Semitic QaVaH = digestion/defecation) (5) Internal body parts may represent subdivisions of external parts. (a) Arabic Misr / Hebrew Mitzraim (< TSaR = narrow) = waist (Hebrew MoSNaim). Egypt (< Greek hepato- = liver). Goshen (with a T-sound shin < Semitic QiTN = bean) = bean-shaped kidney. Goshen exported Arabic QuTN = cotton => Latin Gossypium (English gossamer = cotton-like) (b) Atlas mountains < atlas = first cervical vertebra that supports the cranium. (6) Islands near a body's hands may be named for weapons. (a) Trinacria = trident (< Gk tri = three + Semitic NaKaR = to pierce) => Sicily (< VL *sicila < Latin secula = sickle to harvest wheat; compare Semitic SaKiN = knife). The trident was in Neptune/Poseidon's right hand (Italy, like Anatolia < N'TiLas yad = arm being washed by the seas). (b) Greece = reversal of Semitic S'RoG = (weighted) net, held in his left hand. (c) Crete = reversal of targe = small shield (compare English target) also in his left hand. Aphrodite The map of Aphrodite is in north Africa. Her face [PaNim] was lost during the 3rd Punic war. The rest of her is still there. She is looking backwards over her right shoulder, so her CRaniuM is reversed at Morocco. It still has a Fez. Her chin [SaNTir] is reversed at Tunisia. The Atlas (anatomy: first cervical vertebra) mountains support her head. Her hair [Sa3aRa] is the Sahara desert. Her backbone [amood SHiDRa] is the Gulf of Sidra. Her heart [LeB] is Libya. Her breast [SHaD] is Chad. Her narrow [TZaR] waist is Misr / Mitzraim. Her liver (Greek hepato-) is Egypt. Cotton (Arabic QuTN, Latin Gossypium) was exported from Goshen, her [QiTNit = bean]-shaped kidney. Her side [TZaD] is Sudan. Her other side [DoFeN] is Dafur. Her left [SMoL] leg is Somalia. [NeGeV] is a reversal of vagina and may be related to [NeKeV] = aperture. [CaNa3aN] was her Latin cunnus (and a reversal of Greek gyneco-). Its name changed to [YiSRa_at_eL] at the time when [Ya3aKoV] / Jacob "fought with god and men" [Gen 32:29]. This represented a change in sovereignty from Africa to Asia minor. [ YiSRa_at_eL] is that body part that gives [@oSHeR] = delight to [@eL] = god when it is [YaSHaR] = straight, upright. Changing Jacob's name from [Ya3aKoV] = "ankle; curved, bent" to [YiSRa_at_eL] = "straight, upright + god" is a well-known Hebrew pun. Hermes The body-part map of Hermes is in Asia minor. kHermes [kHoR = hole + MoSnaim = waist] lived at Mt. kHermon before he moved Mt. Olympus (Greek omphalos = navel). Later his name was reversed to become Latin Mercury. Compare Amerigo Vespucci and America. His head [Ro_at_SH] was at Roxolania/Rus, south of Belarus. Its name changed to the Ukraine (Gk kranion = cranium, *not *Slavic u kraina = to/at the border). His throat [GaRGeret] is Georgia. His left shoulder [KaSaF] is the Caspian sea. His right shoulder [@aTZiL] was Euxinus, now the Black Sea. His right arm/hand is being washed [NaTiLat] at Anatolia. His upper arm (Sanskrit irma) at Armenia, biceps (Greek pontiki = muscle) at Pontus, elbow [KiFooF yaD] at Cappadocia, wrist [m'FaReK] at Phrygia, and thumb [BoHeN] at Bithynia were in Anatolia. His heart (Greek cardia) became Kurdistan. His narrow [TZaR] waist is Syria and his navel (Sanskrit nabhila) reverses to LeBaNon. South of Lebanon is the male member (Greek phallus) named Philistina. See [CaNa3aN / YiSRa_at_eL] above. His buttocks [YeReKH] is Iraq. His thigh [shin-vav-kuf] sounded like TvK and reversed to Kuwait. His knee [BeReKH] is partially reversed in Bahrain. His right [Y'MiN] foot is at Yemen. These two bodies are connected, literally, at Sinai (with an aleph that is not written in Hebrew, compare "snatch", a reversal of [K'NiSah] = entrance), a part of her body that contains the desert of Zin, his "zaiyin". Needless to say, I am not personally responsible for this connection that occurred over 3000 years ago. Aphrodite as an Anthropomorphic Map The goddess we call Aphrodite Is not just an old Grecian deity. The Phoenicians did make Her a map. It's not fake. Her body is cartograffiti. The Punic war destroyed her face, The Romans left nary a trace. But her hair is still there, In Sahara, that's where. And her chin's a Tunisian place. Mt. Atlas is her first verTebra. Her backbone is now Gulf of Sidra. Her heart is in Libya, Her left leg, Somalia. Her breast is in Chad wearing no bra. The Greeks called her liver Egypt, an' Her kidney was Biblical Goshen. She's bent at her waist, Now Misr-ably placed. The Red Sea was her menstruation. As a kid I did think the Red Sea Was an English map typo: lost E, From Reed Sea in Hebrew. But that could not be true, Mare Rubrum 'twas Latin, B.C. Aphrodite with Hermes did sin, We know this is true 'cause within Her "snatch" we call Sinai His "zaiyin" does still lie. It's known as the desert of Zin. dosh kham, Israel "izzy" Cohen, BPMaps moderator cohen.izzy_at_gmail.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/ From: Ken Friedman Subject: CFP: International Journal of Design Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:03:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 706 (706) International Journal of Design: Call for Papers http://www.ijdesign.org/ -- Dear Colleagues, The International Journal of Design (http://www.ijdesign.org/) has published the three issues of Volume 1 (2007). (Contents of the three issues are listed at the end of this email.) All contents are freely available online. We invite you to read, download, or forward these articles to your colleagues. The 18 articles published in Volume 1 have received great responses, having been viewed more than 50,000 times online in total. In the last month alone, the journal website was visited more than 5000 times by readers from 1,265 cities and 95 countries/territories around the world. We sincerely invite you to submit your best work to the International Journal of Design. Please refer to Author Guidelines online at http://www.ijdesign.org/. We are also seeking papers for a special issue on Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design, which will be published in August 2008. The deadline for submitting full papers is February 28, 2008. Best Regards, Lin-Lin Chen Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Design http://www.ijdesign.org/ -- Vol. 1(1) April 2007 | Table of Contents - Editorial Lin-Lin Chen: International Journal of Design: A Step Forward - Articles Wen-chih Chang and Tyan Yu Wu Exploring Types and Characteristics of Product Forms Manlai You, Chun-wen Chen, Hantsai Liu and Hsuan Lin A Usability Evaluation of Web Map Zoom and Pan Functions Chien-Hsiung Chen and Yu-Hung Chien Effects of RSVP Display Design on Visual Performance in Accomplishing Dual Tasks with Small Screens Kin Wai Michael Siu Guerrilla Wars in Everyday Public Spaces: Reflections and Inspirations for Designers Pieter Desmet and Paul Hekkert Framework of Product Experience - Design Case Studies Toni-Matti Karjalainen It Looks Like a Toyota: Educational Approaches to Designing for Visual Brand Recognition -- Vol. 1(2) August 2007 - Table of Contents - Articles Privacy in the United States: Some Implications for Design Christena Nippert-Eng Imagining the Orient: Cultural Appropriation in the Florence Broadhurst Collection Vicki Karaminas Metaphors in Design Problem Solving: Implications for Creativity Hernan Pablo Casakin - Design Case Studies Product Analysis Based on Botswana's Postcolonial Socio-cultural Perspective Richie Moalosi, Vesna Popovic, Anne Hickling-Hudson Transforming Taiwan Aboriginal Cultural Features into Modern Product Design: A Case Study of a Cross-cultural Product Design Model Rung-Tai Lin - State-of-the-Art Reviews User Value: Competing Theories and Models Suzan Boztepe -- Vol. 1(3) December 2007 - Table of Contents - Articles Fluency as an Experiential Quality in Augmented Spaces Jonas Löwgren Towards Female Preferences in Design - A Pilot Study Lishan Xue, Ching Chiuan Yen Effects of Visual-Auditory Incongruity on Product Expression and Surprise Geke D.S. Ludden, Hendrik N.J. Schifferstein Materials in Products Selection: Tools for Including User-Interaction in Materials Selection Ilse van Kesteren, Pieter Jan Stappers, Sjef de Bruijn Path-dependent Foundation of Global Design-driven Outdoor Trade in the Northwest of England Mary B Rose, Terence Love, Mike Parsons - Perspectives Unstated Contributions - How Artistic Inquiry Can Inform Interdisciplinary Research Chris Rust From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD position for "Cultural, Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:10:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 707 (707) Political and Religious Ideologies and the Appraisal of New Media" [sent on behalf of Johnny Søraker ] The Department of Philosophy of the University of Twente in the Netherlands is looking for a Ph.D. Student (M/F, full time) for the project “Cultural, Political and Religious Ideologies and the Appraisal of New Media” The PhD position is part of a prestigious and exciting international research project in philosophy named “Evaluating the Cultural Quality of New Media”. This five-year project, which includes six researchers and involves 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 Prof. Dr. Philip Brey. The project is part of a new international Centre of Excellence in Ethics and Technology (http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu) of the departments of philosophy of Twente University, Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology. Objectives The aim of the PhD project is to perform a study of interpretations and evaluations of new media and their consequences 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 involve a study of liberal, communitarian, conservative, religious and post materialist evaluations of new media, and the assessment of what the benefits and harms of new media cultures are and how these can be evaluated within these ideologies. It will also provide normative critiques of current ideological stances regarding new media. Profile A Master’s degree or equivalent degree in philosophy, preferably with a background in ethics and/or social 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 (international) candidates with only a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. Demonstrable interest in philosophical issues relating to information technology and new media (but previous work in this area not required). Good analytical skills. Good communication skills in English, in writing as well as orally. Good team spirit. Creativity, open-mindedness, and an ability to develop new ideas. Offer A four-year full-time Ph.D. position, preferably starting April 1, 2008. The gross salary is € 2.000,- in the first year going up to € 2.558,- in the fourth year (€ 27.456,- and € 35.699,- per annum, respectively, including vacation pay and end-of-year bonus). The position also comes with a personal budget of € 8.000,- for travel and conference attendance. Information and application A description of the PhD project, the overall project of which it is a part and a FAQ can be retrieved from http://www.ceptes.nl/vici. Applicants are advised to read these texts before applying. For questions not answered on the website please contact the project leader, Prof. 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 your qualifications for it, as well as 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 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). Your application can be sent before March 7, 2008 by e-mail (preferred) or by normal post to dr. ir. J.F.C. Verberne (e-mail: pz-gw_at_gw.utwente.nl), managing director of the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands. Vacancy number: 08/035. Job interviews will be held on March 13 and/or 14, 2008. Women are strongly encouraged to apply. From: "Israel Cohen" Subject: historical virtualities? ==> anthropomorphic maps - Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:00:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 708 (708) an ancient GIS Willard McCarty, hello -- You wrote: [deleted quotation]<http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/>http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ I learned about anthropomorphic maps from the linguist Dan Moonhawk Alford (deceased) and the anthropologist Stan Knowlton. They described the maps of Napi, the creator of the Blackfoot Indians (aka The Old Man) and his wife (The Old Woman) in Alberta, Canada. I "found" similar maps of a male body (Hermes ?) in the Middle East and a female body (Aphrodite) in north Africa. Anthropomorphic Maps Anthropomorphic maps were generated by configuring the body of a god or goddess over the area to be mapped. The name of each part of that body became the name of the area or feature under that part. This produced a scale 1:1 map-without-paper on which each placename automatically indicated its approximate location and direction with respect to every other place on the same map whose name was produced in this way. You are cordially invited to join the BPMaps discussion group on this topic, a very quiet list that averages about 2 messages per month. The URL is: <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/>http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/gro up/BPMaps/ The Challenge: To produce computer software that will find additional body-part maps elsewhere in the world. Available inputs: (1) geographic databases with ancient place names (e.g., the Perseus project). (2) body-part names on Swadesh lists. Unfortunately, the navel is not included. Attributes of Anthropomorphic Maps (1) The navel is the center of the body, the center of the map, and usually the center of the map's language community. (2) Place names (toponyms) may be reversed, metathesized, misspelled or euphemized for various reasons: (a) The same part in the same language exists on another map of a different body. Cranium > Mo[n]rocco because Ukraine existed? Aphrodite is looking backwards over her right shoulder. She is bent at her waist (Misr/Mitzraim = MoSNaiM). (b) The left (sinister) part is altered in names for left-right pairs (arms, legs, eyes, ears). DoFeN = side reversed to Nafud in north Arabia. SHvK = thigh with a T-sound for the letter shin = TvK reversed to Kuwait. BeReKH = knee metathesized to Bahrain. (c) Names that represent taboo body parts or funcitons are reversed or euphemized: Semitic PoS (female pudenda) reverses to yam SooF = sea of reeds (Red Sea). Mare Rubrum (Latin for Red Sea) represents Aphrodite's menstruation. NeGeV is a reversal of vagina. CaNa3an (3 = aiyin with a G-sound as in 3aZa = Gaza) is a reversal of Greek gyneco-. Sinai = "snatch" is spelled SiNi in Hebrew. The aleph=CHS is intentionally missing. ZaYiN = weapon (a euphemism for his male member) is in Sinai as the desert of Zin. (3) Names may be loan-translated due to conquest or language-change. (a) Roxolania (Semitic Ro[chs]SH = head) => Rus *( Ro_at_SH) => Ukraine (Greek kranion) * Caused by a change in the sound of the aleph from CHS to a glottal stop. (b) Libya (Semitic LeB = heart) => Cyrenaica (Latin cor = heart, compare coronary) => Libya (4) Rivers and bodies of water may be named after bodily excretions: (a) Milk River in Alberta. (b) Red Sea (Latin Mare Rubrum) is Aphrodite's menstruation. (c) Gulf of Aqaba (Semitic QaVaH = digestion/defecation) (5) Internal body parts may represent subdivisions of external parts. (a) Arabic Misr / Hebrew Mitzraim (< TSaR = narrow) = waist (Hebrew MoSNaim). Egypt (< Greek hepato- = liver). Goshen (with a T-sound shin < Semitic QiTN = bean) = bean-shaped kidney. Goshen exported Arabic QuTN = cotton => Latin Gossypium (English gossamer = cotton-like) (b) Atlas mountains < atlas = first cervical vertebra that supports the cranium. (6) Islands near a body's hands may be named for weapons. (a) Trinacria = trident (< Gk tri = three + Semitic NaKaR = to pierce) => Sicily (< VL *sicila < Latin secula = sickle to harvest wheat; compare Semitic SaKiN = knife). The trident was in Neptune/Poseidon's right hand (Italy, like Anatolia < N'TiLas yad = arm being washed by the seas). (b) Greece = reversal of Semitic S'RoG = (weighted) net, held in his left hand. (c) Crete = reversal of targe = small shield (compare English target) also in his left hand. Aphrodite The map of Aphrodite is in north Africa. Her face [PaNim] was lost during the 3rd Punic war. The rest of her is still there. She is looking backwards over her right shoulder, so her CRaniuM is reversed at Morocco. It still has a Fez. Her chin [SaNTir] is reversed at Tunisia. The Atlas (anatomy: first cervical vertebra) mountains support her head. Her hair [Sa3aRa] is the Sahara desert. Her backbone [amood SHiDRa] is the Gulf of Sidra. Her heart [LeB] is Libya. Her breast [SHaD] is Chad. Her narrow [TZaR] waist is Misr / Mitzraim. Her liver (Greek hepato-) is Egypt. Cotton (Arabic QuTN, Latin Gossypium) was exported from Goshen, her [QiTNit = bean]-shaped kidney. Her side [TZaD] is Sudan. Her other side [DoFeN] is Dafur. Her left [SMoL] leg is Somalia. [NeGeV] is a reversal of vagina and may be related to [NeKeV] = aperture. [CaNa3aN] was her Latin cunnus (and a reversal of Greek gyneco-). Its name changed to [YiSRa_at_eL] at the time when [Ya3aKoV] / Jacob "fought with god and men" [Gen 32:29]. This represented a change in sovereignty from Africa to Asia minor. [ YiSRa_at_eL] is that body part that gives [@oSHeR] = delight to [@eL] = god when it is [YaSHaR] = straight, upright. Changing Jacob's name from [Ya3aKoV] = "ankle; curved, bent" to [YiSRa_at_eL] = "straight, upright + god" is a well-known Hebrew pun. Hermes The body-part map of Hermes is in Asia minor. kHermes [kHoR = hole + MoSnaim = waist] lived at Mt. kHermon before he moved Mt. Olympus (Greek omphalos = navel). Later his name was reversed to become Latin Mercury. Compare Amerigo Vespucci and America. His head [Ro_at_SH] was at Roxolania/Rus, south of Belarus. Its name changed to the Ukraine (Gk kranion = cranium, *not *Slavic u kraina = to/at the border). His throat [GaRGeret] is Georgia. His left shoulder [KaSaF] is the Caspian sea. His right shoulder [@aTZiL] was Euxinus, now the Black Sea. His right arm/hand is being washed [NaTiLat] at Anatolia. His upper arm (Sanskrit irma) at Armenia, biceps (Greek pontiki = muscle) at Pontus, elbow [KiFooF yaD] at Cappadocia, wrist [m'FaReK] at Phrygia, and thumb [BoHeN] at Bithynia were in Anatolia. His heart (Greek cardia) became Kurdistan. His narrow [TZaR] waist is Syria and his navel (Sanskrit nabhila) reverses to LeBaNon. South of Lebanon is the male member (Greek phallus) named Philistina. See [CaNa3aN / YiSRa_at_eL] above. His buttocks [YeReKH] is Iraq. His thigh [shin-vav-kuf] sounded like TvK and reversed to Kuwait. His knee [BeReKH] is partially reversed in Bahrain. His right [Y'MiN] foot is at Yemen. These two bodies are connected, literally, at Sinai (with an aleph that is not written in Hebrew, compare "snatch", a reversal of [K'NiSah] = entrance), a part of her body that contains the desert of Zin, his "zaiyin". Needless to say, I am not personally responsible for this connection that occurred over 3000 years ago. Aphrodite as an Anthropomorphic Map The goddess we call Aphrodite Is not just an old Grecian deity. The Phoenicians did make Her a map. It's not fake. Her body is cartograffiti. The Punic war destroyed her face, The Romans left nary a trace. But her hair is still there, In Sahara, that's where. And her chin's a Tunisian place. Mt. Atlas is her first verTebra. Her backbone is now Gulf of Sidra. Her heart is in Libya, Her left leg, Somalia. Her breast is in Chad wearing no bra. The Greeks called her liver Egypt, an' Her kidney was Biblical Goshen. She's bent at her waist, Now Misr-ably placed. The Red Sea was her menstruation. As a kid I did think the Red Sea Was an English map typo: lost E, From Reed Sea in Hebrew. But that could not be true, Mare Rubrum 'twas Latin, B.C. Aphrodite with Hermes did sin, We know this is true 'cause within Her "snatch" we call Sinai His "zaiyin" does still lie. It's known as the desert of Zin. dosh kham, Israel "izzy" Cohen, BPMaps moderator cohen.izzy_at_gmail.com http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/ From: M.R.L.Clayton [mailto:M.R.L.Clayton_at_open.ac.uk] Subject: FW: EMMP Research Seminar - Entrainment in Congado music Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:52:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 709 (709) Sent: Fri 01/02/2008 16:53 To: Arts-Experience-Info-List Please forward to interested parties! Experience and Meaning in Music Performance Project (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/experience/index.html) presents a RESEARCH SEMINAR Friday 8th Febraury 2008 - 2 pm Central Meeting Room - CMR 07 (Walton Hall) ENTRAINMENT IN CONGADO MUSIC Martin Clayton (OU), Laura Leante (OU), Glaura Lucas (OU - British Academy Visiting Fellow) Congado is a form of Afro-Brazilian ritual rich with music and dance performance, often performed simultaneously by multiple independent groups. The fact that each group attempts to play independently and resist influence from other co-present groups makes the ritual an ideal case study for the study of rhythmic coordination or entrainment. The speakers filmed a two-day festival in May 2006, and have been working colleboratively on the analysis of these recordings during Dr Lucas's residency in the UK (Dec 07 - Feb 08). In this seminar we will present the results of this analysis, and discuss the relationship between the empirical and the ethnographic aspects of our work. ALL WELCOME From: Willard McCarty Subject: the decline-and-fall myth Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:06:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 710 (710) Lubomir Dolezel begins his article "Possible Worlds of Fiction and History", (New Literary History 29.4, 1998), as follows: [deleted quotation]Except perhaps for the threat to interdisciplinarity, Dolezel's statement must remind nearly everyone here of some other occasion when someone has declared an imminent Information Deluge. Vannevar Bush said more or less the same thing in his famous piece in Atlantic Monthly, "As We May Think" (July 1945), in which he imagined information technology not as the cause of the problem but as its solution: [deleted quotation]A few days ago I listened to a lecture by a noted researcher specializing in mobile telephony, who did not construct a Deluge from an unquestioned surfeit of information (whatever that is) but spoke of our radically increasing connectedness as a similar Force threatening all sorts of things, such as peace of mind. I am using capitalization here, signifying personification, because mingled with the facts of the matter and propelling them along, like the water of a torrent carrying along rocks, tree branches and detrius of all kinds, I hear the panic of a decline-and-fall, hell-in-a-handbasket myth, which requires some god or superhuman force of destiny. I suspect that there are facts to be got at, though every attempt I've heard to calculate how much information there is and to predict how much there will be never gets beyond measurable quanta (now commonly reckoned in petabytes) to human perception and the psychology of attention. It never questions *what information is*. I also find myself wondering about a possible relationship between the supposed decline-and-fall of the world and the certain biological decline-and-fall of the doom-sayer. Be that as it may, I wonder if a better response to Dolazel (and mutatis mutandis to the others) is to point out that the real problem in his formulation of the threat to interdisciplinarity is his assumption that one should "master all the published literature in all the special fields", as if the knowledge worth having were the linear product of a cumulative process. Isn't it wiser to respond by revising our idea of what knowledge is and to rethink our strategies for getting it? Isn't it better to observe what we are in fact doing e.g. with Google's 20 petabytes of data per day (http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/01/google-mapreduce-stats.html) and figure out how to do it well? Comments? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 21.525 historical & musical virtualities Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:35:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 711 (711) Willard, as you probably know, Shawn Graham has done some work and writing on modelling Roman social history (I have not checked Shawn's writing, but the concept looks interesting): http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~grahams/models.html BTW, I found this with the help of Digital Humanities Toy Chest (http://liu.english.ucsb.edu/wiki2/index.php/Toy_Chest) -- thanks very much to Alan Liu! Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia From: Tommie Meyer Subject: Principles of Knowledge Representation and Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 23:52:47 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 712 (712) UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences <http://www.kr.org/KR2008/>http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. We intend KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage ``reports from the field" of building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation. 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Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Willard McCarty Subject: reports on OLD on CD-ROM? Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:26:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 713 (713) Any reports on the likely quality of the Logos Software version of the Oxford Latin Dictionary, on CD, would be greatly appreciated. See http://www.logos.com/OLD. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: cbf_at_berkeley.edu Subject: Humanities computing job descriptions Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:34:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 714 (714) Dear Colleagues, If you have (or are) a humanities computing specialist in your institution, I would be grateful if you could send me a job description of the position. I am particularly interested in staff who specialize in making connections between technology that is "out there" and faculty or students who have research problems that they would like to solve. I would be grateful if you could send such job descriptions directly to me rather than burdening Humanist with them. Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber Director, The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley From: ubiquity Subject: UBIQUITY 9.5 Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:35:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 715 (715) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 9, Issue 5 February 5, 2008 -- February 11, 2008 Views END LAPTOP SERFDOM <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i5_andersen.html> Ubiquity associate editor and champion of computing sanity, Espen Andersen, beseeches us all to end laptop serfdom. It seems like a reasonable request, so let's do what he says. From: "Grover Zinn (imap)" Subject: Re: 21.524 wolf! wolf! Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:37:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 716 (716) Dear Willard and All, I hesitate to write (particularly at this time of the night) about things I read years ago at Rice U. in philosophy/religion (although I was engaged in a Physics B.A. then; only after that would I pursue Religion) and in discussions at noon over computing possibilities (how will we know "it" is truly intelligent; some things never change :-) ) But--from those conversations about knowledge and more and more of it, I recall Michael Polanyi's idea that we don't master all the fields; we overlap with each other so that through the overlaps we manage to extend our 'grasp' of the material(s). Connectedness??? I recently was reading a book by and then conversing with one of my colleagues in art history about Dominican education (which it would have taken me a long time to scour out what I was seeking) and finding that we, in our rather "separate" fields, were interested in the same text: a twelfth century text by an author I studied---a text cited in c13 and later Dominican educational programs. So, with a pedestrian example we must all have experienced, I venture to say that the "overlap" method of extension of "grasp" may well be a rather unsophisticated way of saying that there are ways we will survive the flood (so to speak). But then there is the marvelous ability to trace (to which you allude Willard), through the volumes scanned by Google, for specific citations in books you may never have come across in ordinary life. Is this 'short circuiting' research or producing new 'paths' for finding and connecting the pieces that we all work on? Where does it end? Or does it end? Indeed, I think you are right: the question is not to lament overload, but realize that we have more information, more ways to "question" it, and a vast "grasp". But how do we do this best? How to we do it responsibly? AND HOW do those of us who pursue serious research at institutions that cannot afford the (medieval) databases at hand in the large research universities continue on our way?? Trips to the "big locations" (like Princeton, ND, or, ideally London or Paris for a medievalist) or what? Some things can be gotten through consortia (OhioLink for library book loans is fabulous---and fast). But databases cost money. On the other hand, manuscripts are more accessible (so to speak) through some web pages, through rapid Xerox copies of microfilm (much easier to read), etc. Of course, you need at some point to see the mss, but other times you just need the "data'! Well, I could ramble even more, but need to shut this down and go read some Stephen Jay Gould for few minutes. Well, so much for Ohio musings in the middle of the night (as a brief conclusion to an evening of translating Gregory the Great; from the sublime earlier to the mundane now.) best to all Grover Grover A. Zinn William H. Danforth Professor of Religion (emeritus) former Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074 440-775-8866 (department) grover.zinn_at_oberlin.edu On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:57 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: "Dot Porter" Subject: ACH Election Results Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:45:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 717 (717) Dear Colleagues, I am very pleased to announce the results from the ACH 2008 Elections: * President: Julia Flanders * Vice-President: Melissa Terras * ACH Executive Council: - Paul Caton - Matthew L Jockers - Bethany Nowviskie - St=E9fan Sinclair Thanks very much to all the candidates and to these individuals for being willing to serve - and thanks also to all who voted. Finally, thanks to the nominations committee (Susan Schreibman (Chair), Neil Fraistat, John Lavagnino, and Claire Warwick) for preparing such a strong slate. The ACH is the Association for Computing in the Humanities and, like the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), has Humanist and the journal Literary and Linguistic Computing as its official publications. For more information on the ACH please see: http://www.ach.org/ Yours, Dot (ACH Executive Secretary) --=20 *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities http://www.rch.uky.edu Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments http://www.vis.uky.edu dporter_at_uky.edu 859-257-1257 x.82115 *************************************** From: David Sewell Subject: Job posting: Yale University Press, Digital Production Editor Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:44:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 718 (718) [I am posting this on behalf of Yale UP. Please reply to the contact address in the posting, not to me. For an online version, see http://aaupnet.org/jobs/joblist.php?job=415 . --David S.] Position Description Yale University Press Digital Production Editor Description: Under the general direction of the Manager of Digital Publishing but with minimal guidance and with considerable latitude for exercising discretion and independent judgment, will carry out the following responsibilities: Manage workflow and content management for various new digital projects and maintain schedules. Determine optimal production strategy for individual titles and develop Document Type Definitions for vendors to follow in digitizing previously published work. Arrange for or perform copyediting of original digital publications and checking of vendor files on all digital publications. Work closely with Acquisitions and Production Departments to ensure that editing and production conform to each project?s publishing plan and that projects stay on schedule. Meet with authors or editors of complex publications to advise on manuscript and illustration preparation for cost-efficient publication. Coordinate closely with consultants and other editors of digital documentary editions. Investigate new production methods for electronic publications and propose improvements to internal workflow on documentary editions that are published both as books and as digital publications. Qualifications Preferred knowledge, skills, and abilities: * Thorough experience with XML (from DTD and schema creation to XSL/transform output) * Ability to troubleshoot errors in XML files * Experience with a content management system * Familiarity with code pages, character sets, and/or encoding, and with Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines * Ability to learn new platforms and programs, especially databases and spreadsheets, and ability to adapt them to new uses * Experience working with a GUI XML editor, such as oXygen, Epic, or XMetal * Quality assurance skills * Experience with rendering output from XML source files * Copyediting skills and knowledge of editorial norms, including familiarity with Chicago Manual of Style * Experience with Adobe Acrobat and Distiller, and HTML Help Workshop a plus * Experience with outsourcing/off-shoring a plus * Database Management System (DBMS) experience a plus * Development/Scripting experience a plus (e.g., .NET, Java, PERL, Python, etc.) Special Licenses, Registration, or Certification: None Education or Training: B.A. minimum. Programming experience a plus. Level and Type of Experience: Significant publishing experience a plus. Preferably three to five years? relevant experience with an academic or reference publisher. Familiarity with XML coding, TEI practices, and current and emerging technologies for producing digital publications. Background in humanities computing helpful. Application: For immediate consideration, please apply online at www.Yale.edu/jobs - the Auto req ID for this position is 3427BR. We invite you to discover the excitement, diversity, rewards and excellence of a career at Yale University. Yale University, one of the country's great workplaces, offers exciting opportunities for meaningful accomplishment and true growth. Our benefits package is among the best anywhere, with a wide variety of insurance choices, liberal paid time off, fantastic family and educational benefits, a variety of retirement benefits, recreational facilities including the largest gym in the country, and much more. Yale University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. E-mail: daniel.lee_at_yale.edu Posted: 2/06/08 -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 801079, 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: Johannes Kaufmann Subject: Job advertisement for computer and media scientists Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:48:22 +0100 (CET) X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 719 (719) Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig Closing date: 29-02-2008 Under reserve of the approval of the state of Lower Saxony the Georg Eckert Institute for In-ternational Textbook Research in Braunschweig is looking for an INFORMATION SCIENTIST or MEDIA AND COMPUTING SCIENTIST (WEB-PROJECTS MANAGER) for three years, as a start (a prolongation is possible). We offer: An interesting and independent occupation in a research institute, that offers various services to scientific and political institutions and to the practice of education in Germany. We attrib-ute central importance to the installation of a web-based offering of services (internet portal, virtual research environment, internet editions). You will be in charge of the Communications Department and you will act as a connecting person for the research departments and the library. Your work will start as soon as possible. We expect: -- Appropriate university education -- Experiences with planning, constructing and implementing web-based information platforms and IT-based database systems -- Experiences with IT-based documentation and library science -- Internet programming and design skills -- Sufficient German language skills Of advantage are: -- Leadership experience -- Doctorate Depending on qualification a payment up to salary scale TV-L 14 is offered. We explicitly appreciate the application of women. In the case of equal qualifications applications of se-verely handicapped people will be preferred. Please send your application, including curriculum vitae, work samples, information about previous projects, programming language skills, web-programming skills, and publications (if applicable) until 29-02-2008 via e-mail to borchers_at_gei.de or by mail to Georg-Eckert-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung Keyword Application “Information Scientist“ Celler Straße 3 D-38114 Braunschweig. From: Willard McCarty Subject: source for the Enchiridion Musices of Odo? Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:31:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 720 (720) In the Preface to a very interesting historical document, Edmund A Bowles, ed., Computers in Humanistic Research: Readings and Perspectives (Prentice-Hall, 1967), the editor quotes Odo of Cluny's Enchiridion Musices: "Remarking about the monochord -- a musical instrument used mainly for pedagogy -- the disciple remarks, 'Indeed, you gave me a wonderful master who, made by me, teaches me, and teaching me, knows nothing himself.' (p. viii). Would anyone know of a convenient online source for the Enchiridion Musices, from which I could extract the original Latin? Thanks. Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: R D Boyle Subject: digitisation and backlit digitisation of Arabic prayers Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:49:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 721 (721) We have created a resource at http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabictexts/PB/ This is a digitisation and backlit digitisation of an C18th set of prayers in Arabic held in the Leeds library. This is a prototype site. I'd be interest in feedback on oversights and/or its utility. Please feel free to publicise this resource widely. Roger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Professor Roger Boyle Mail: roger_at_comp.leeds.ac.uk * Head, School of Computing Phone: 0113 3435487 * University of Leeds Mobile: 0771 5049478 * Leeds, LS2 9JT Fax: 0113 3435468 * UK http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/roger From: "Shana M Kimball" Subject: JEP Volume 11.1 now online Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:49:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 722 (722) Dear JEP subscribers: We are pleased to announce the publication of the Winter 2008 issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing (http://journalofelectronicpublishing.org). 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 Shortly after Amy Friedlander was named director of programs of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) last April, we asked her to be a JEP guest editor, reprising her roles as editor of the online magazine, iMP: The Magazine on Information Impacts, and as editor of D-Lib Magazine. This time, we proposed, her job would be easier: she could put together an issue without having to first establish the editorial policies (as she had done with iMP and D-Lib). Gracious and hardworking as always, Amy selected ten scholars and thinkers and invited them to contribute to a Special Issue on Communications, Scholarly Communications and the Advanced Research Infrastructure. She supported them through the writing and editing, and produced this stunning collection of articles from a stellar set of authors for your edification and reading pleasure. In Cyberscholarship: High Performance Computing Meets Digital Libraries, William Y. Arms takes us into the world of high-performance computing and shows us how the scholarly enterprise can change as computer scientists work with researchers in other fields to apply new tools to data in digital format. (Full disclosure here: Bill was founding publisher of D-Lib, and Amy was founding editor.) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.103 Jeremy Birnholtz looks at another face of cyberscholarship, the effect of having a number of researchers, often from different fields, contributing to one finding. In When Authorship Isn=92t Enough: Lessons from CERN on the Implications of Formal and Informal Credit Attribution Mechanisms in Collaborative Research, Birnholtz reports on the results of months of interviews at CERN. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.105 New cyberinfrastructures require not only collaboration across disciplines, but collaboration across organizations. In The Virtual Observatory Meets the Library, G. Sayeed Choudhury tells of the lessons learned=97academic, technological, and sociological=97when Johns Hopkins University created an astronomical database. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.111 Karla L. Hahn points out that the revolution in communication has come=97we are in the midst of it, she writes=97and the train may be leaving the station without the scholars and librarians on board. In Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly Communication, she suggests ways that these groups can get back into the discussion. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.108 In Can Universities Dream of Electric Sheepskin? Systemic Transformations in Higher Education Organizational Models, Charles Henry raises fundamental questions about the nature of the university now that communication and scholarship are so ingrained in academe. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.101 Ronald L. Larsen reports on a workshop he co-chaired with William Arms on the implications of large-scale digital content on network infrastructure in On the Threshold of Cyberscholarship. His conclusion is that digital information needs to be collected, stored, and made available in new ways today. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.102 Digitization has made it possible not only to give more scholars access to the surviving manuscripts of the Romance of the Rose that are locked in libraries and archives around the world, it has given scholars more access than even the original owners had in the Middle Ages. Stephen G. Nichols tells that story in "Born Medieval": MSS. in the Digital Scriptorium. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.104 Kathlin Smith asks the important questions of where digital objects are kept and who is responsible for them, and begins to answer them, in Institutional Repositories and E-Journal Archiving: What Are We Learning? http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.107 Peter Suber takes us on a whirlwind tour of the past year in Open Access happenings in Open Access in 2007. The sheer volume of activity is its own argument that open access is a growing trend. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.110 Another look at open access raises the question of sustainability, both of the approach and of the data itself. In Open Access Publishing and the Emerging Infrastructure for 21st-Century Scholarship, Donald Waters asks, =93open access for what and for whom and how can we ensure that there is sufficient capital for continued innovation in scholarly publishing?=94 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.106 Finally, Amy Friedlander, our guest editor, wraps it all up for us in The Triple Helix: Cyberinfrastructure, Scholarly Communication, and Trust. Her thesis is that the cyberinfrastructure supports communication, which in its turn both creates and increases the trust that is necessary to the success of the infrastructure. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.109 Enjoy! From: "Anna Bentkowska" Subject: 3DVisA Seminar: Turning the Pages, 20 February 2008 Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:38:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 723 (723) Dear All, Colleagues and students with interests in manuscripts, rare books, 3D visualisation and electronic resources may be interested in attending Turning the Pages 2.0 3D digital audio-facsimile of manuscripts and rare books A 3DVisA seminar with Michael Stocking, Armadillo Systems Organised by the JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA) Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 4pm Seminar room, 2nd floor Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Turning the Pages is a technology for creating interactive 3D facsimile of books. It powers an ongoing digitisation programme of the most treasured, illuminated manuscripts and rare books in the British Library, National Library of Ireland, USA National Library of Medicine, and other libraries and archives. For more information and links see 3DVisA Index of 3D Projects, http://3dvisa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/project19.html. Introduced in 1998, the technology was originally available on local terminals. Since 2001 it has been developed for the web by Armadillo Systems. Michael Stocking will discuss the new version of software, TTP 2.0, launched in 2007, which provides a more realistic 3D environment for the books as well as new analytical tools. The partnership with Microsoft indicates its future potential. Some issues to be covered: 3D environment, the problem of scale, how do you integrate 1000 books; how important is the user interface design, especially for academic research? Features versus reach; the current use of markup (XML) and potential for further development, open source versus proprietary, technical standards (scanning, file formats and resolutions). Alberto Campagniolo, an MA Digital Culture and Technology student at King's will give an overview of the existing 3D techniques for the visualisation of books. It will be helpful if you use TTP in advance of the seminar and note any questions you may have. Recommended reading/listening on the British Libary website (http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html): Jane Austen's history of England 'by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian', a manuscript completed in 1791, when she was just 15 years old. Free, but registration required. To reserve a place please email anna.bentkowska_at_kcl.ac.uk _______________________ Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska_at_kcl.ac.uk 3DVisA www.viznet.ac.uk/3dvisa The London Charter www.londoncharter.org CHArt publications_at_chart.ac.uk Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland www.crsbi.ac.uk From: Arianna Ciula Subject: CFP: TEI_at_galway symposium 2 Apr 2008] Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:40:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 724 (724) Call for Papers: TEI_at_galway, Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 2 April 2008 The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway will host this year's annual meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Council. This meeting will be accompanied by a oneday symposium allowing researchers to present and discuss TEI-related topics and projects particularly in (but not restricted to) Ireland. It is designed to create a communication forum among scholars and the TEI Council and to strengthen the TEI community by bringing together experts from the various initiatives and projects. Contributions from all disciplines using the TEI are encouraged, for example -- Scholarly editing -- Historical editing -- Dictionaries -- Linguistics -- Authoring -- Digital Archives -- Digital Libraries -- Manuscripts. Papers and presentations should not exceed 20 minutes, to be followed by a discussion. They may describe initiatives, planned projects, work in progress and best practices as well as highlight particular areas of interest or features of the TEI or encoding in general. Contributions to a poster session are also welcome. Publication of the proceedings of the symposium is planned. Submissions: Please email an abstract of about 250-500 words to malte.rehbein_at_nuigalway.ie. Deadlines: Submission of abstracts: 25 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 3 March 2008 Submission of full paper for consideration for publication: 31 July 2008 Contact: Malte Rehbein c/o Moore Institute National University of Ireland, Galway University Road Galway, Ireland Phone: +353 91 49 3903 Fax: +353 91 49 5507 Email: malte.rehbein_at_nuigalway.ie From: "cinziapux_at_tiscali.it" Subject: International Seminar of Digital Philology: Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:43:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 725 (725) announcement and cfp ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 'The Marriage of Mercury and Philology: Problems and Outcomes in Digital Philology' International Seminar of Digital Philology Edinburgh, March 25th - 27th, 2008 Venue: e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh The conference is organised and hosted by the e-Science Institute, National e-Science Centre, and supported by the University of Edinburgh, the Italian Institute in Edinburgh, and the French Institute in Edinburgh. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE In late Antiquity, at the beginning of a new era, Martianus Cappella wrote his 'De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae' in which he proposed a then revolutionary synthesis of technique (Mercury) and culture (Philology). Inspired by Cappella, this conference will explore the interaction between Information and Communication Technology systems and the philological analysis of both ancient and modern manuscripts and printed texts: in other words Digital Philology. The discussions at this conference focus on both the theoretical and practical issues encountered in the creation of digital texts and both critical and genetic editions. The implications for research and teaching will be examined and current projects in the field will be presented. The aim of the conference is to approach these issues from an international perspective, in order to establish collaboration in research and teaching, and to provide new contributions to the field as a result. Workshops will provide a forum for discussing experiences, ideas, issues and new tools related to Digital Philology with students. The conference welcomes both leading scholars and young researchers working on the problems of textual criticism and editorial scholarship in the electronic medium, as well as students, teachers, librarians, archivists, and computing professionals who are interested in representation, access, exchange, management and conservation of texts. WEBCAST The conference will be webcast in order to allow wider participation. The link to the webcast will appear on the e-Science Institute website http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/854/index.cfm. 1 hour before the workshop / webcast is due to be broadcast. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS The conference aims to encourage international conversations and networking between participants in different projects and countries, and to offer an international perspective on the issues of textual criticism and editorial scholarship in the electronic medium. As the conference is actively promoting a European perspective, speakers will come from different European countries. Keynote speakers will be academic scholars renowned in the field of Digital Philology. The following have confirmed their participation: Peter Robinson, University of Birmingham, UK; Jean-Louis Lebrave, Institut des Textes et Manuscrits, CNRS / ENS, France; Paolo D'Iorio, Institut des Textes et Manuscrits CNRS / ENS, France; Domenico Fiormonte, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy; Andrea Bozzi, Istituto Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Pisa, Italy; Edward Vanhoutte, CTB - Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie, Koningstraat, Belgium; Manfred Thaller, University of Cologne, Germany. SUBMISSIONS -TOPICS: We welcome proposals that discuss any aspect of the interaction between ICT and philology. In order to provide a good overview of the current state of Digital Philology, the conference will focus on four main topics: 1. Tools: Pieces of software; technologies and multimedia tools employed to create digital critical and genetic editions; multimedia archives and collaborative publications (representation, cataloguing, collation, comparison, textual analysis, textual genesis, interchange, management and preservation of manuscripts and printed editions in text/image/audio/video format). 2. Products: Digital critical and genetic editions, multimedia archives, and collaborative publications available on CD-ROMs and/or on the World Wide Web (current projects, work in progress, updates on continuing mature projects). 3. Methodologies: Impact of ICT on philological studies Methodological approaches used when preparing a digital edition Accomplishment of a digital edition that is truly new and innovative What ICT in textual criticism enables scholars to do that could not be done before Digital philology as 'traditional' philology in a new fashion Digital philology as a new discipline in itself Relation between digital and traditional philology Collaborative publication of digital editions / Collaborative philological research in a virtual environment. 4. Learning/Teaching: The use of critical and genetic editions and multimedia archives in learning/teaching languages, linguistics, literature, history, palaeography, creative writing, textual criticism, digital philology. -TYPES OF PROPOSAL: Paper: Proposals for papers should be no less than 750 words. Papers will be allocated 50 minutes for presentation, including a 10 minute question- answer session. Workshop: Proposals for workshops should be no less than 500 words. Workshops will be allocated 50 minutes for presentation, including 30 minutes of collaborative work. There should be no difference in quality between papers and workshop presentations. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but workshops may be a more suitable way of presenting projects with teaching and interactive purposes, since they provide an opportunity for students to exchange ideas, methods and techniques with international scholars. The choice between the two modes of presentation should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. Proposals are peer-reviewed. -FORMAT OF PROPOSAL All proposals must be uploaded onto the Call for Papers page on the e- Science website http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/854/proposal.cfm in PDF, PPT format. Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Proposals which do not conform to this format, or which arrive after the deadline will not be considered. The information required for all proposals includes: Type of proposal: paper, workshop Title: title of paper, workshop Keywords: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper or workshop Author: name of first author Affiliation: of first author E-Mail: of first author Author: name of second author (repeat these three headings as necessary) Affiliation: of second author E-Mail: of second author The deadline for proposals is 7th March 2008 -LANGUAGE: Proposals and Presentations should be done in English. REGISTRATION Registration is through the e-Science Institute website: http://www. nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/854/index.cfm Delegates should register before 7th March 2008 (the initial deadline of 25th February has been extended). Afterwards, higher fees will be applied. For information on accommodation, please visit the Information for Visitors page: http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Information_for_Visitors WIKI We invite you to visit the e-Science Institute wiki that has been set up for the International Seminar of Digital Philology: http://wiki.esi. ac.uk/International_Seminar_of_Digital_Philology This section provides space for community discussion, as well as other useful information. If you are new to Wikis there is a very simple introduction to editing them at Help:Editing on the top page, or you can use the Help link in the sidebar CONTACT US If you require any further information please contact Cinzia Pusceddu, Conference Organiser, on 0044 (0)131 6503746 or by email: cinzia.pusceddu_at_ed.ac.uk. -- Cinzia Pusceddu Italian Division of European Languages and Cultures University of Edinburgh David Hume Tower George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JX Office: 34 Buccleuch Place, top floor, 4.5 Phone: 0044 (0)131 6503746 From: staudek_at_fi.muni.cz (Jan Staudek) Subject: FIDIS/IFIP Internet Security and Privacy Summer School 2008 Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:45:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 726 (726) Call for Contributions ---------------------- =================================================== The Future of Identity in the Information Society ? - Challenges for Privacy and Security =================================================== FIDIS/IFIP Internet Security & Privacy Summer School 2008 to be held at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Rep., 1-7 September 2008 After the success of the 2007 IFIP/FIDIS Summer School, the focus of this Summer School will be on security and privacy issues in the Internet environment, and namely aspects of Identity Management in relation to current and future technologies in a variety of contexts. FIDIS supports interdisciplinary exchange and IFIP takes a holistic approach to technology. So participants? contributions combining technical, socio-economic, ethical, philosophical, psychological or legal perspectives on challenges for privacy and security in relation to identity aspects are welcome. Topics of interest include: identity management, security, profiling and customer relation management, data mining, advanced identity solutions, access control, ID related crime, computer forensics, RFID, tracking technologies, biometrics, privacy, anonymity and pseudonymity, identities in social networks, surveillance, data retention, availability, legal and economic aspects of security, impact on social exclusion / digital divide / cultural issues, case studies for the use of identifiers in various application areas, trust and accountability. On the first five days (September 1-5), all the sessions will start with introductory lectures by two invited speakers, followed by parallel workshops and seminars in the afternoons. The workshops will typically consist of short presentations based on the contributions that have been submitted by the participating PhD students, followed by active discussion. However, the submission of other forms of workshop proposals is welcome as well. The weekend programme (September 6-7) will feature practical hands-on security & privacy workshops, namely a local version of the Capture The Flag exercise organized by Lexi Pimenidis (RWTH Aachen University). Contributions will be selected based on an extended abstract review by the Summer School Programme Committee. Accepted (short) papers will be made available to all participants in the Summer School Pre-Proceedings. After the Summer School, authors will have the opportunity to submit their final full papers, addressing also the discussions at the Summer School, for publication in the Summer School Proceedings published by the official IFIP publisher Springer Science and Business Media. The papers to be included in the Final Proceedings will again be reviewed and selected by the Summer School Programme Committee. Students that actively participate, in particular those who present a paper, can receive a course certificate which awards 3 ECTS at the PhD level. Submission (2-4 pages) deadline: April 28, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2008 Short paper for the pre-proceedings: August 10, 2008 Grants will be available to students from Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Repub lic, Estonia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine - courtesy to Microsoft Research. More information is available at the Summer School website: www.buslab.org/SummerSchool2008 General Chair: Vashek Matyas (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Programme Committee Co-Chairs: Dan Cvrcek (University of Cambridge, UK) Simone Fischer-Hubner (Karlstad University, Sweden) From: Jones Sophia Subject: First DRIVER Summit - Presentations available on line Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:48:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 727 (727) On 16 and 17 January 2008, DRIVER II successfully carried out its first Summit in G=F6ttingen, Germany. It is considered a successful milestone on the way to building a professional, active repository community. The first day focused on the current repository community in Europe and globally, the results of the DRIVER studies and a discussion of Open Access and repository infrastructures. The morning of the second day focused on disciplinary repositories and their relationship to institutional repositories. The latter part of the day focussed on national and international repository networks with representatives from a number of networks speaking. The presentations are now available on line and can be found on the DRIVER Support website at http://www.driver-support.eu/multi/DRIVERSummit.php. For more information on DRIVER please visit www.driver-community.eu From: Michael Norton Subject: Re: 21.534 online source for the Enchiridion Musices of Odo? Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:05:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 728 (728) This is the from the version of the Dialogus of Odo and can be seen at the online Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum. http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/tml/start.html They provide this from the editions of Gerbert & Migne. The following URL points to the Migne version: http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/tml/9th-11th/ODODI_TEXT.html Vere, inquam, magistrum mirabilem mihi dedisti, qui a me factus me doceat, meque docens ipse nihil sapiat. Imo propter patientiam et obedientiam sui eum maxime amplector; cantabit enim mihi quando voluero, et nunquam de mei sensus tarditate commotus verberibus vel injuriis [Viennens virgis] cruciabit. Mike /*************************************** * Michael L. Norton, Ph.D. * Associate Professor * Dept. of Computer Science * School of Music * MSC 4103 / ISAT-CS #209 * James Madison University * Harrisonburg VA 23807 * 540-568-2777 * nortonml_at_jmu.edu **************************************/ On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: alexandra Subject: Summer school: neural networks Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:11:02 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 729 (729) SUMMER SCHOOL NN2008 NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING July 7-11, 2008, Porto, Portugal ============================================================= http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt email: nn-2008@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 POSTER/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 Multi-Valued and UB Neurons , Functional Networks , MLP's with Entropic Criteria 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. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME A preliminary programme and further information about the classes are available at the school webpage (http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt) [...] Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Tommie Meyer Subject: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 23:52:47 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 730 (730) UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences <http://www.kr.org/KR2008/>http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. We intend KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage ``reports from the field" of building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style (pdf only) <<http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php>http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php> Paper length is 7 pages maximum including title, author information and references. Authors may add to the paper an optional, clearly marked Appendix containing technical material (such as proofs, evaluation results etc.) supporting claims made in the paper. The Appendix must not exceed 2 additional pages in AAAI style. The evaluation of the submission will be based on the quality of the paper. The optional Appendix will be used in case reviewers are in doubt about claimed results. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 Conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. Final versions of papers will be considerably longer than the submissions: for each accepted paper 11 pages in AAAI style will be allocated in the proceedings. Topics of interest include: - Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent logics - Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation - Temporal and spatial reasoning - Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis - Reasoning about action and change, Action languages, Situation calculus, Dynamic logic - Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty - Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics - Graphical representations for belief and preference - Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and doxastic logics, - Multiagent logics of belief and knowledge - Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming - Computational aspects of knowledge representation - Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning - Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion - Description logics, Ontologies - Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems - Decision theory, Preference modelling and representation, Reasoning about preference - KR & Autonomous Agents: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics - KR & Multiagent Systems: Negotiation, Group decision making, - Cooperation, Interaction, KR & game theory - Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization - KR and machine learning, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge discovery and acquisition - WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration - Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence [...] From: Susan Schreibman Subject: CFP: E-Criticism: New Critical Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:04:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 731 (731) Methods and Modalities, Modern Language Association The Modern Language Association's Committee on Information Technology invites proposals on the topic of "E-Criticism: New Critical Methods and Modalities" for the 2008 convention to be held in San Francisco 27-30 December 2008 <http://www.mla.org/convention>. This poster session will focus on presenting new forms of literary criticism that utilize the expressive and computational capability of the computer via new models, paradigms, and tools. Proposals are especially welcome that explore new forms of criticism via multimedia, text encoding, virtual realities, and datamining. 350-word abstracts by 15 March to Susan Schreibman . All presenters must be members in good standing of the MLA by April 2008. In some cases wavers can be sought for presenters who are not in the field of modern languages or literary studies. The MLA will supply poster boards and 25" screens for each presenter. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib_at_umd.edu http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org From: "Elisam Magara" Subject: Re CALL FOR PAPERS _ WAC 6 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:05:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 732 (732) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Please receive an announcement for a session on "Digital Heritage and Global Realities: Responses from Africa and the Arab World" within the Digital Archaeology Theme of World Archaeological Congress 6, to be held in Dublin, 29th June - 4th July 2008 (all themes and sessions at http://www.ucd.ie/wac-6/ ). Session Digital Heritage and Global Realities: Responses from Africa and the Arab World This session will present the emerging digital documentation of heritage and archaeological sites in the developing world. Focusing on the role the 'global north' play in the provision of expertise and appropriate training in the digital documentation of cultural heritage, as well as the role governments, international scholarly networks, and individual researchers are playing in the digitization of African and Arab cultural heritage and archaeological sites. A number of initiatives will be shared and evaluated for their impact on the communities they seek to serve. These initiatives will also be examined as potential models for future collaboration, involvement, and innovation. Session organizers: Cinzia Perlingieri Universita degli Studi di Napoli "l'Orientale" Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, 12 80134, Naples, ITALY Tel. fax: ++39081293501 ++39081440594 cinzia.perlingieri_at_gmail.com Elisam Magara East African School of Library and Information Science, Makerere University Uganda Library and Information Association Office Tel: 256-414-531530 Fax: 256-414-540817, Mobile: 256-772-495592 magara_at_easlis.mak.ac.ug From: Håkan Carlsson Subject: A friendly reminder: Invitation Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:03:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 733 (733) to Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication NCSC 2008 **Apologies for any Cross-Posting** Dear Friends, Following up the success of the previous conferences, Lund University Libraries are proud to invite you to the Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, NCSC 2008. The registration is open at the conference website, <http://www.lub.lu.se/en/ncsc.html>http://www.lub.lu.se/en/ncsc.html, and you are urged to register soon as the conference is quickly filling up. In order to discuss, present and analyse the problems and challenges that arise within scholarly communication Lund University Libraries invite scholars, publishers, vendors, editors, librarians and other interested parties to the Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication 21 - 23 April 2008 in Lund, Sweden. The conference takes place every second year and aims to be an important contribution to the discussion and the development in Europe and internationally. This time the conference is subtitled Openess – Trade, Tools and Transparency, with sessions focus on research evaluation, business models and text mining in an open communication landscape. Welcome to Lund in April! Best regards, Håkan Carlsson --------- Håkan Carlsson Director of Scientific Comunication Biblioteksdirektionen / Head Office Lunds universitet / Lund University Libraries Box 134 221 00 LUND Tel. +46 46-222 15 30 Fax + 46 46-222 36 82 From: Willard McCarty Subject: anywhere you want to go (so long as you can drive there) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:51:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 734 (734) I am finding some assistance to thinking about the future of humanities computing by digging into its past. In Edmund A Bowles, ed., Computers and Humanistic Research (Prentice-Hall, 1967), for example, Philip Smith, in "The Computer and the Humanist", pp 16-28, reviews progress to that date, or what he calls "a hopeful note about the future": the promise of automation of input, looking to the day when machines will be able to read "any type font that we may present", though this, he says, may require that we tear our books apart; printing achieved at 600 lines/minute; a general understanding of what computers can and cannot do without learning how to program expertly; programming languages developed for the humanist; time-sharing on mainframes, so that we can all operate as if we had our own machines; etc. "To sum up this prognosis, the ending is happy, in true American tradition." Fulfillment of the promise he sketches is not a taxing nor a surprising matter to delineate, even if some unforeseen changes must be supplied, e.g. by personal computers, the Web and so forth. There is no disturbance to a story of progress, nothing in particular to learn other than to qualify one's predictions. More or less the same continues in remarks by the volume editor, in "Toward a Research of New Dimensions" (pp. 8-15), with an important exception I'll get to in a moment. Citing a widely quoted humanist of the time, Ephim Fogel (who invented the term "vision-actuality interval", or VAI,to caution his colleagues that patience is required), Bowles notes that, [deleted quotation]Bowles goes on to detail other advantages -- the computer provides "an infinitely more reliable repository than the mind of the proverbial absent-minded professor"; it "permits the scholar to broaden his data base, for the first time making possible the comprehensive inclusion of all relevant material"; it can "simulate a problem or situation" (by which Bowles means "model"), thus saving time in research; it is not subject to "the vagaries of human fatigue". Again, there is little here to object to, and in the case of the remark about conversation with a programmer much for some of us still to learn about collaborative research, as my colleague Harold Short has pointed out. But one can be excused for feeling that something here is missing amidst all this talk of progress, most of which has been achieved without great upheaval. A bit later on Bowles responds to a question circulated at a conference at Yale two years earlier: "What can a computer do?" [deleted quotation]I suppose you have to be a pedestrian or a cyclist to see the problem here, and so the question that is never addressed, so far as I can tell, in this book, and, alas all too seldom since then. To continue with the automotive metaphor, what happens to one's sense of going once one becomes a driver? What happens to a city whose urban planners think only in terms of the automobile? Yours, WM Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). From: Melanie Chernyk Subject: Scholarship Announcement -- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:03:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 735 (735) 2008 Digital Humanities Summer Institute [Please redistribute / please excuse cross-posting] Announcing the 2008 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, May 26-30, 2008 http://www.dhsi.org * Scholarships We are pleased to announce that funding from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, and other partners, makes possible the offering of a limited number of scholarship-subsidized spots in the 2008 Summer Institute. These will be awarded to scholars in the digital humanities, both students and professionals. The application deadline is March 1st. Applicants will be informed of their success before March 15th. The application form is available on line at: http://www.dhsi.org/home/scholarships. Scholarships will be awarded first to those coming to the institute for the first time, then to returning participants. * Additional ACH Travel Bursary The Association for Computers and the Humanities (http://www.ach.org) is offering several bursaries to assist graduate students by defraying travel and lodging costs. You may apply for the this bursary at the same time as for Institute scholarships by indicating on the scholarship application form that you are a graduate student member of the ACH and would like to be considered for the ACH bursary. * Mandate The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to share ideas and methods, and to develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to activities that impact teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. * Host and Sponsors The institute is hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and has been sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Acadia University, the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others. * Curriculum Institute Lectures (to be confirmed): Margaret Conrad (U New Brunswick), Michael Eberle-Sinatra (U Montreal), Alan Liu (U California Santa Barbara), Melissa Terras (University College London) Introductory offerings: [1] Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Julia Flanders [Brown U] and Syd Bauman [Brown U]) [2] Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Allison Benner [U Victoria] and Cara Leitch [U Victoria]) Intermediate offerings: [3] Transcribing and Describing Primary Sources using TEI-conformant XML (instructed by Matthew Driscoll [Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen]) [4] Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments (instructed by Aimee Morrison [U Waterloo]) [5] Online Journal Publishing Using PKP's Open Journals System (OJS) (instructed by PKP Staff [James MacGregor and Alec Smecher]) Advanced consultations: [6] Issues in Large Project Planning and Management (instructed by Lynne Siemens [U Victoria], with seminar speakers TBA.) [7] Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities (instructed by David Hoover [New York U]) [8] Corpus Text Analysis for Linguistics (instructed by staff from Modelling Change: The Paths of French [France Martineau and Anthony Kroch]). * Registration Fees ($ CDN) Early registration fees for the institute are $950 for faculty and staff, and $500 for students. Standard fees will apply as of April 1st. * Website For further details -- such as the list of speakers, a tentative schedule, the registration form, and accommodation information ­ see the institute's website, at this URL: http://www.dhsi.org. -- Melanie Chernyk Co-coordinator, Digital Humanities Summer Institute phone (250) 472-5401 fax (250) 472-5681 institut_at_uvic.ca From: "Alan Corre " Subject: 21.538 "anywhere you want to go" Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:01:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 736 (736) Willard, quoting Philip Smith's mention of "programming languages developed for the humanist", prompts me to share the following. Eighteen years ago, I published with Prentice-Hall -- the same publisher as published Smith's comments -- a book I called "Icon Programming for Humanists." "Icon" in this context has nothing to do with the now common use of the word which came along subsequently, but is simply the name of a programming language that is especially adapted to dealing with texts. I showed in the book how Icon could be fruitfully applied to stylistics, in particular to the rigorous procedures suggested by Anthony Kenny in his 1982 book "The Computation of Style," but there carried out manually. At the urging of Clinton Jeffery, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Idaho, I have embarked on a second, updated edition of this book, which will take into account the truly amazing changes in computing that have occurred over the past two decades. Professor Jeffery is enthusiastically cooperating with me in this effort, which will be made available, later this year hopefully, on the Internet without charge. He comments in his foreword to the book that "books on text processing are few and far between." I have also included a new chapter on working with Unicode for non-Roman scripts, giving Russian, Tamil, and Hebrew as examples. Humanists might want to encourage programmers to consider this language for projects on which they embark. It is a relatively easy language to learn, and can greatly expedite text processing. The standard manual of the language is available on line at http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/lb3.htm Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee corre@uwm.edu http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/