From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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. <a href="http://www.billymeier.com/billy_meier.htm">http://www.billymeier.com/billy_meier.htm</a>),
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,
<a href="http://www.engl.uvic.ca/Faculty/MBHomePage/">http://www.engl.uvic.ca/Faculty/MBHomePage/</a>) 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 (<a href="http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/home.html">http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/home.html</a>), 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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>.
Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for 
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | 
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



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Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 2 (2)




From: Shayne Brandon <wsb4q_at_virginia.edu>


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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Jan Baetens <jan.baetens_at_arts.kuleuven.be>
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:
<a href="http://www.imageandnarrative.be/">http://www.imageandnarrative.be/</a>
Table of contents:
<<a href="http://www.imageandnarrative.be/digital_archive/introduction.htm">http://www.imageandnarrative.be/digital_archive/introduction.htm</a>>Introduction
Jan Baetens
Pascal Gielen
Rudi Laermans
<<a href="http://www.imageandnarrative.be/digital_archive/desurmont.htm">http://www.imageandnarrative.be/digital_archive/desurmont.htm</a>>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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser_at_computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
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 <a href="http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/">http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/</a> for more
information and a link to the proposals website.


From: "J.L.Abdelnour-Nocera" <J.L.Abdelnour-Nocera_at_open.ac.uk>
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
<a href="http://iit.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id07">http://iit.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id07</a> <<a href="http://iit.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id07">http://iit.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id07</a>>
held in conjunction with the 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on
Human-Computer Interaction Interact'2007
<a href="http://www.interact2007.org/">http://www.interact2007.org/</a>
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
(<a href="http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0">http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0</a>),
including no page numbers. Submitted papers must be in PDF or Word
for Windows format. Papers should be submitted to
<a href="http://hercules.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id07">http://hercules.tvu.ac.uk/sociotech-id07</a>
[...]


From: Simon Tanner <simon.tanner_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 � &#x201c;JPEG2000 in practise&#x201d; 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&#x201d; Mike Pringle, Visual Arts Manager, AHDS
10:40-11:10
&#x201c;Preservation Planning&#x201d;  � Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology.
11:10-11:40
&#x201c;JP2&#x2019;s preservation capabilities within PLANETS&#x201d; 
Manfred Thaller, Cologne University
11:40-12:10
&#x201c;Encoding lossy compressed JP2 files: using 
signal peak signal to noise ratio to dynamically 
modulate compression&#x201d;. 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
&#x201c;JPEG2000 in Practise&#x201d; - Aly Conteh, Digitisation Programme Manager, BL
14:30-15:00
&#x201c;Adobe&#x201d; - 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.
<a href="http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/digifutures/">http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/digifutures/</a>


From: "Alexander Gelbukh (MICAI-2007)" <cfp2007b_at_micai.org>
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" <daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca>
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 <a href="http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/">http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/</a>
Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/">http://www.tei-c.org/</a>
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: <a href="http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/">http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/</a>


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
           <a href="http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws">http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws</a>
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" <roger_at_COMP.LEEDS.AC.UK>
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
       <a href="http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/mahdiyya-quran/">http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/mahdiyya-quran/</a>
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 <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i18_peter.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i18_peter.html</a>><a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiqu">http://www.acm.org/ubiqu</a>=
ity/views/v8i18_peter.html



From: "Lorna M. Hughes" <lorna.hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
     <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU>:
[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" <jv_at_IMM.DTU.DK>
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
<a href="http://context-07.ruc.dk/dc.html">http://context-07.ruc.dk/dc.html</a>
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
<a href="http://context07.ruc.dk/cfp.html">http://context07.ruc.dk/cfp.html</a>
SUBMISSION AND FORMAT
See details at <a href="http://context-07.ruc.dk/dc.html">http://context-07.ruc.dk/dc.html</a>
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
<a href="http://context-07.ruc.dk">http://context-07.ruc.dk</a>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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
<a href="http://www.ruc.dk/~henning">http://www.ruc.dk/~henning</a>
---------------------------------------
CONTEXT conference at Roskilde: <a href="http://context-07.ruc.dk">http://context-07.ruc.dk</a>


From: Wim Van Mierlo <Wim.Van-Mierlo_at_SAS.AC.UK>
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  FRAN�&#x2021;OIS DUPUIGRENET (Enssib) Typography 
and theology in the �&#x20ac;&#x2dc;Poetical Labyrinths�&#x20ac;&#x2122; 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 KA&#x160;PAROVÁ (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 <unsworth_at_uiuc.edu>
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 <adrian.miles_at_rmit.edu.au>
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
<a href="http://www.altx.com/ebooks/ulmer.html">http://www.altx.com/ebooks/ulmer.html</a>
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 <a href="http://www.altx.com/ebooks/">http://www.altx.com/ebooks/</a>

-- 
cheers
Adrian Miles
this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x]
vogmae.net.au




From: Craig Bellamy <craig.bellamy_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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 <a href="http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/">http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/</a> 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
<a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/</a>
-----
26 - 29 Drury Lane
3rd Floor
King's College London
LONDON, WC2B 5RL
Phone: 020 7848 1976


From: Dan O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca>
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 <<a href="http://www.tei-c.org/">http://www.tei-c.org/</a>>
Director, Digital Medievalist Project <<a href="http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/">http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/</a>>
Associate Professor and Chair of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Vox: +1 403 329 2378
Fax: +1 403 382-7191
Homepage: <a href="http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/">http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/</a>


From: "Jack Boeve" <JBoeve_at_umuc.edu>
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
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/</a>
If you are unable to travel for the annual copyright symposium -- you
need not be left out. Consider registering for the live webcast!
Visit <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/webcast">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/webcast</a> 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
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2z4po3">http://tinyurl.com/2z4po3</a> [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
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/</a>




From: Martyn Jessop <martyn.jessop_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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 <areces_at_loria.fr>
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 *
<a href="http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2007/DC/">http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2007/DC/</a>
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 <PShillingsburg_at_DMU.AC.UK>
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:
<a href="http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/activities/text.php">http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/activities/text.php</a>
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 <daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca>
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 <a href="http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/">http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/</a>
Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/">http://www.tei-c.org/</a>
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: <a href="http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/">http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/</a>


From: Desmond Schmidt <schmidt_at_itee.uq.edu.au>
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)
<a href="http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~schmidt">http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~schmidt</a>


From: Martin Mueller <martinmueller_at_northwestern.edu>
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" <mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com>
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)
<a href="http://www.mith.umd.edu/">http://www.mith.umd.edu/</a>
<a href="http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/">http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/</a>


From: Stan Ruecker <sruecker_at_ualberta.ca>
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: <a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/textvis/featurelens">http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/textvis/featurelens</a>
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
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
[deleted quotation]humanities and
[deleted quotation]

From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 




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>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:
<<a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/">http://doc.weblogs.com/</a>> [...]


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 <unsworth_at_uiuc.edu>
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
<a href="https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/dh2007.fullprogram.pdf">https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/dh2007.fullprogram.pdf</a>
You can register at
<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/conftool">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/conftool</a>
(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" <carolyn.guertin_at_gmail.com>
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
<<a href="http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/">http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/</a>><a href="http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/">http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/</a>
Email: <mailto:carolyn.guertin_at_gmail.com>carolyn.guertin_at_gmail.com  




From: Joel Goldfield <joel_at_cs.fairfield.edu>
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 <dascolia_at_tiscalinet.it>
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'
<a href="http://www.jiia.it">http://www.jiia.it</a>
JIIA Eprints Repository (OAI-PMH) <a href="http://eprints.jiia.it/">http://eprints.jiia.it/</a>
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 Corl�ita
del Dipartimento di Archeologia, Universit� 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
* Betr�, 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 Ricc�,
Bruno (2007) Realt� 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 et� romana
dal GIS alla realt� 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 gi� edite in 'e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic
Studies'. La disseminazione � autorizzata dai rispettivi autori, sentita
la prof.ssa Bettina Arnold, General Editor e-Keltoi, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Anthropology.
* Parcero Oubi�a, C�sar and Cobas Fern�ndez, Isabel (2004) Iron Age
Archaeology of the Northwest Iberian Peninsula. e-Keltoi: Journal of
Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp. 1-72. ISSN 1540-4889
* Garc�a 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, Mart�n 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
�lvarez-Sanch�s, Jes�s R. (2005) Oppida and Celtic society in western
Spain. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp.
1-31. ISSN 1540-4889
Marco Sim�n, 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
Jord�n C�lera, 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 Pedre�o, Juan Carlos (2005) Celtic Gods of the Iberian
Peninsula. e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, 6. pp.
1-43. ISSN 1540-4889
Luj�n-Mart�nez, 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: <a href="http://www.jiia.it">http://www.jiia.it</a>
& 'Archaeological Disciplinary Repository'
JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository)
URL: <a href="http://eprints.jiia.it/">http://eprints.jiia.it/</a>
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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)

<a href="http://www.mla.org/tenure_promotion">http://www.mla.org/tenure_promotion</a>
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
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU>:
[deleted quotation]


From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns_at_vt.edu>
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
<a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/t73064v85621/">http://www.springerlink.com/content/t73064v85621/</a>
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
<a href="http://www.stswiki.org/">http://www.stswiki.org/</a>  sts wiki
<a href="http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/">http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/</a>  Learning Inquiry-the journal
<a href="http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/">http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/</a>  Transdisciplinary
Studies:the book series


From: Susan Schreibman <sschreib_at_umd.edu>
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"
(<a href="http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/publications.html">http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/publications.html</a>). 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
<a href="http://lib.umd.edu/dcr">http://lib.umd.edu/dcr</a>
<a href="http://irith.org">http://irith.org</a>
<a href="http://macgreevy.org">http://macgreevy.org</a>




From: Gabriel BODARD <gabriel.bodard_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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 <a href="http://epidoc.sf.net">http://epidoc.sf.net</a>.
-- 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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/</a>
<a href="http://www.currentepigraphy.org/">http://www.currentepigraphy.org/</a>


From: Gregory Crane <gregory.crane_at_tufts.edu>
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 <kuldar_at_csse.unimelb.edu.au>
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)
<a href="http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/">http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/</a>
In conjunction with the 11th IEEE International
EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007)
"The Enterprise Computing Conference"
<a href="http://edoc.mitre.org/">http://edoc.mitre.org/</a>
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
<a href="http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys/">http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys/</a>
***************************************************************************
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 <a href="http://www.easychair.org/VORTE2007">http://www.easychair.org/VORTE2007</a>. 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 <methnet_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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: <a href="http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/">http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/</a> 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.
&lt;a name="uzitor" href="mailto:noFreeLunch_at_anyWhereanyWhenanyHOW.ca&gt;
The phony directory of email addresses: a new genre for an old problem?
Francois Lachance
<a href="http://berneval.blogspot.com/2007/05/inspired.html">http://berneval.blogspot.com/2007/05/inspired.html</a>



From: Craig Bellamy <craig.bellamy_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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.
<a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/</a>
best,
Craig

-- 
Dr Craig Bellamy
Research Associate
ICT Guides, AHDS,
King's College, London
<a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/</a>
-----
26 - 29 Drury Lane
3rd Floor
King's College London
LONDON, WC2B 5RL
Phone: 020 7848 1976




From: B Tommie Usdin <btusdin_at_mulberrytech.com>
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:
    <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/at-a-glance.html">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/at-a-glance.html</a>
    <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/abstracts.html">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/abstracts.html</a>
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: <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/</a>
Registration: <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/registration.html">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/registration.html</a>
Extreme Markup Languages 2007          mailto:extreme_at_mulberrytech.com
August 7-10, 2007                  <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme">http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme</a>
Montreal, Canada                          <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com">http://www.extrememarkup.com</a>


From: Leslie Chan <chan_at_UTSC.UTORONTO.CA>
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"
       <<a href="http://www.elpub.net">http://www.elpub.net</a>>
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:  <a href="http://www.elpub.net">http://www.elpub.net</a>.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Best
Leslie Chan
Program Chair, Elpub2007
Bob Martens
Local Chair, Elpub2007


From: "Olga Francois" <OFrancois_at_umuc.edu>
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
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/</a>
If you are unable to travel for the annual copyright symposium-- you
need not be left out. Consider registering for the live webcast!
Visit <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/webcast">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/webcast</a> 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
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2z4po3">http://tinyurl.com/2z4po3</a> [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
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/</a>




From: Bonnie Wilson <bwilson_at_cnri.reston.va.us>
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 (<a href="http://www.dlib.org/">http://www.dlib.org/</a>) 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 <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i19_fernandez.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i19_fernandez.html</a>>http<<a href="http://www.acm">http://www.acm</a>.=
org/ubiquity/views/v8i19_fernandez.html>://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i19_=
fernandez.html



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Martyn Jessop <martyn.jessop_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 <a href="http://www.londoncharter.org/">http://www.londoncharter.org/</a>.
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 <mike.fraser_at_computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
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              <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) 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"
<a href="http://www.history.ac.uk/digit/peer/">http://www.history.ac.uk/digit/peer/</a>
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
<a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/</a>
<a href="http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/">http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/</a>
<a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/</a>




From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
(<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/</a>) -- 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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: { brad brace } <bbrace_at_eskimo.com>
Subject: The Insatiable Abstraction Engine: LEA Dispersive
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 06:40:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 54 (54)

Anatomies Special - May 2007
The Insatiable Abstraction Engine:
<a href="http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/abstraction-engine.html">http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/abstraction-engine.html</a>
<a href="http://bbrace.net/abstraction-engine.html">http://bbrace.net/abstraction-engine.html</a>
1,254 new, found, two-word P-poems/titles arranged in alphabetical order:
<a href="http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/P/Paced-the-Planks.html">http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/P/Paced-the-Planks.html</a>
<a href="http://bbrace.net/P/Paced-the-Planks.html">http://bbrace.net/P/Paced-the-Planks.html</a>
Paced-the-Planks
       Pachinko-Parlor
Pacific-Coast
Packed-Rather-Tight
Packed-Snow
Packet-Tracks
Padded-Turquoise
Pagan-Friend
Pagan-Harbors
Pagan-Mysteries
Pagan-Myths
Pagan-Survival
Pagan-Ways
Paid-Hacks
Paid-Participants
Paid-Vacations
Painful-Detail
Painful-Dilemma
Painful-Discharge
Painful-Foreign-Body
Painful-Hesitation
Painful-Passage
Painful-Past
Painful-Platitudes
Painful-Preoccupation
Painful-Psychodramas
Painful-Pursuit
Painfully-Elegant
Pains-and-Pangs
Pains-and-Penalties
Pains-and-Pleasures
Painstaking-Exactness
Paint-Peeling
Painted-Black
Painted-Ceiling
Painted-Cheeks
Painted-Glass
Painted-Lips
Painted-Pictures
Painting-Propped
Paintless-Picket
Paints-Pictures
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Palaver-Wholly
Pale-Blue
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Pale-Ghost
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Pale-Reflexions
Pale-Saline
Pale-Shaft
Pale-Sign-Traced
Pale-Silhouette
Pale-Spectres
Pale-Trappings
Pale-Waters
Palely-Gilded-Globes
Pallid-Cheeks
Pallid-Crescent
Pallid-Horse
Pallid-Now
Pallid-Sky
Palpable-Aura
Palpable-Gesture
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Panic-Terror
Panic-Welling
Panther-Billowing
Panther-Piss
Pantomime-Princes
Pants-Down
Pants-Pocket
Paper-and-Ink
Paper-Petals
Paperwrapped-Packages
Paradise-Pickles
Paradise-Regained
Paradoxically-Perhaps
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Parallel-Career
Parallel-Chains
Parallel-Person
Parallel-Plane
Paralysed-Limb
Paralyzed-Barbs
Paramount-Forms
Paranoid-Elite
Parapets-Calculated
Parasol-Patterned
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Parched-Lips
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Parchments-Precisely
Parent-Corporations
Parenthetical-Phrase
Parenthetical-Statements
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Paris-Prepared
Parish-Priest
Parsley-Sprigs
Part-and-Parcel
Part-Asunder
Part-Implied
Part-Owner
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Part-Played
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Partial-Eclipse
Partial-Paralysis
Partial-Profile
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Passing-Phrase
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Path-You-Please
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       Patriotic-Plaque
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Peace-Treaty
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Peaceful-People
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Pearly-Phlegm
Pearly-Pink
Peasants-Planting
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Peeling-Picture
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Pensive-Delivery
Penultimate-Porches
People-and-Places
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People-React
People-Stared
People=B9s-Pictures
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Pepperoni-Pizza
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Perfect-Certainty
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Perfect-Disguise
Perfect-Embodiment
Perfect-End
Perfect-Fraud
Perfect-Fright
Perfect-Guess
Perfect-Illustration
Perfect-Mark
Perfect-Marvels
Perfect-Necessity
Perfect-Parabola
Perfect-Participant
Perfect-Particle
Perfect-Pause
Perfect-Pedigree
Perfect-Picture
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Perfect-Place
Perfect-Plaque
Perfect-Poise
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Perfect-Prince
Perfect-Proportion
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Perfect-Time
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Perfectly-Naked
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Perfectly-Placid
Perfectly-Planned
Perfectly-Plausible
Perfectly-Polished
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Perfectly-Pure
Perfectly-Revealed
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Perfectly-Timed
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Perfumed-Overflowing
Perfumed-Phrase
Perhaps-Even
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Perilous-Time
Perilous-Vicissitudes
Period-Colour
Period-Following-Passion
Period-Forays
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Periodic-Epic-Events
Periodic-Erethism
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Permitting-Stars
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Perpetual-and-Delicious
Perpetual-Dance
Perpetual-Delight
Perpetual-Delirium
Perpetual-Displacement
Perpetual-Duties
Perpetual-Excitement
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Perpetual-Present
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Perpetual-Tension
Perpetual-Traveler
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Perpetual-Vow
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Persian-Princes
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Person-Present
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Perverse-Pride
Perverse-Satisfaction
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Petrified-Spoils
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Petty-Chronologies
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Petty-Distractions
Petty-Hassles
Petty-Intrigues
Petty-Pretensions
Petty-Squabbles
Petty-States
Petty-Whim
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Phosphor-Glint
Photoflash-Plain
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Phrase-Registered
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Pickle-Juice
Pickle-Mutation
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Pickled-Shoat
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Pictures-Midst
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Piercing-Hardness
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Piercing-Squeal
Piercing-Tinkle
Piercing-Whines
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Pineapple-Plants
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Pink-and-Violet
Pink-Bologna
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Pink-Glass
Pink-Kimono
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Pink-Over
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Pink-Petals
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Pious-Prince
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Pitiful-Knot
Pitiless-Path
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Pitiless-Perseverance
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Place-Well
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Plainest-Possible
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Planet-Jupiter
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Platonic-Nature
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Plausible-Deniability
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Played-Pool
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Playful-Reference
Pleasant-Encounter
Pleasant-Extrapolations
Pleasant-Genial-Smoke
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Pleasant-Likeness
Pleasant-Obscurity
Pleasant-Pastime
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Pleasant-Perfumes
Pleasant-Possibility
Pleasant-Prospect
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Pleasure-Dome-Decree
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Pleasure-Preferred
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Plebeian-Origin
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Plenipotentiary-Powers
Plenty-of-That-Yet-to-Come
Plenty-Room
Plesiauri-Paddle
Plodding-Concept
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Plotted-Path
Pluck-and-Scatter
Plucked-Strings
Plum-Pudding
Plump-and-Dark
Plump-and-Flushed
Plump-Form
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Plunge-and-Twist
Plunge-Deep
Plunged-Willy-Nilly
Plunging-Recklessly
Plus-Sign
Plush-Turtle
Pocket-Knife
Pocket-Mirror
Pocket-Universe
Poetic-Beauty
Poetic-Charm
Poetic-Justice
Poetic-Language
Poetic-Pearl
Poetic-Pleasure
Poetic-Properties
Poetic-Truths
Poetry-Portal
Poignant-Alloy
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Point-of-View
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Pointing-High-Upward
Pointless-Carnage
Pointless-Chatter
Pointless-Existence
Pointless-Protest
Pointless-Resistance
Poisoned-Darts
Poisoned-Fruit
Poisoned-Portraits
       Poisonous-Phosgene
Poke-Fun
Polar-Opposite
Polar-Pull
Polar-Snowstorm
Polemical-Assertion
Police-Power
Polished-and-Glazed
Polished-Armor
Polished-Ebony
Polished-Exterior
Polished-Ivory
Polished-Oak
Polished-Phrases
Polished-Sides
Polished-Technique
Polished-Walls
Polite-Conversation
Polite-Offer
Polite-Pause
Polite-Phrases
Polite-Preamble
Polite-Renditions
Polite-Society
Politeness-Pretended
Political-Agenda
Political-Party
Political-Police
Political-Policies
Political-Pressure
Political-Turmoil
Polychrome-Cathedral
Polyrhythmic-Patterns
Pompous-Fop
Pompous-Splendour
Ponderous-Muzzles
Ponderous-Nonchalance
Ponderous-Progress
Ponderous-Task
Ponderous-Volume
Pooled-Intuition
Poor-Boy
Poor-Devil
Poor-Fellow
Poor-Fools
Poor-Little-Tyke
Poor-Lunatic
Poor-Opinion
Poor-Pagodas
Poor-Papa
Poor-Peasant
Poor-Peep
Poor-People
Poor-Pet
Poor-Polly
Poor-Population
Poor-Puss
Poor-Sweet
Poor-Wretches
Poorest-Player
Poorly-Played
Pop-Podium
Pop-Psych-Parables
Poplar-Trunks
Popular-Busts
Popular-Conceit
Popular-Expression
Popular-Ferment
Popular-Hysteria
Popular-Package
Popular-Phrase
Popular-Piece
Popular-Prejudice
       Popular-Prejudice
Popular-Pressures
Popular-Saying
Popular-Sense
Popular-Sentiments
Popular-Struggles
Popular-Support
Popularly-Invested
       Population-Pressure
Porcelain-Fissure
Porch-Posts
Porko-Politicos
Portentous-and-Mysterious
Portentous-Phrase
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Posh-Place
Positive-Fury
Positive-Pleasure
Positive-Torment
Positively-Indispensable
Possibility-Mining
Possible-Analogies
Possible-Authority
Possible-Combinations
Possible-Conjoinment
Possible-Connections
Possible-Danger
Possible-Doubt
Possible-Fissures
Possible-Harm
Possible-Haste
Possible-Limits
Possible-Pattern
Possible-Pleasures
Possible-Presence
Possible-Proof
Possible-Proteges
Possible-Route
Possible-Shape
Possible-Surroundings
Possible-Truth
Possible-Worlds
Possibly-Be
Possibly-Plain
Post-of-Honor
Posthumous-Glory
Postwar-Period
Pot-Shot
Potato-Chips
Potato-Peelings
Potent-Mix
Potent-Perfume
Potent-Pulses
Potent-Relics
Potent-Sway
Potential-and-Presaged
Potential-Danger
Potential-Intrusions
Potential-Only-Postpones
Pounded-Ship-Biscuit
Poverty-and-Squalor
Poverty-Stricken
Powder-Flask-and-Shot
Powdered-Cheeks
Powdery-Haze
Powdery-Light
Power-Pylons
Power-Vested
Powerful-Impulses
Powerful-Interests
Powerful-Monster
Powerful-People
Powerful-Places
Powerful-Remedy
Powers-of-Discernment
Powers-Pass
Practical-Interests
Practical-Occasions
Practical-Production
Practical-Proof
Practical-Purpose
Practical-Purposes
Practical-World
Practising-Professions
Pragmatic-Maneuvers
Pragmatic-Part
Pragmatic-Person
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Prawn-Farms
Prayer-Sticks
Prayerful-Clarity
Prearranged-Plan
Precarious-Equilibrium
Precarious-Passage
Precarious-Position
Precariously-Posed
Preceding-Season
Precious-Blood
Precious-Bundle
Precious-Extracts
Precious-Inheritance
Precious-Juice
Precious-Object
Precious-Packages
Precious-Part
Precious-Particles
Precious-Possession
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Precious-Qualifier
Precious-Relic
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Precious-Seconds
Precious-Setting
Precious-Substance
Precious-Time
Precious-Vein
Precipitious-Cracks
Precise-Attachment
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Precise-Detail
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Precise-Moment
Precise-Place
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Precise-Point
Precise-Posture
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Precision-of-Detail
Preconceived-Idea
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Predawn-Tapioca
       Predetermined-Pattern
Predictable-Consequences
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Predicted-Consequences
Predicted-Interval
Prefaces-and-Dedications
Preferred-Mere-Assertions
Pregnant-Lesson
Prehistoric-Plants
Prehistoric-Roar
Preliminary-Perturbation
Preliminary-Sketch
Preliminary-View
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Premeditated-Reprise
Premises-Spoiled
Prenatal-Reveries
Prerecorded-Message
Prescribed-Patterns
Present-Condition
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Present-Decline
Present-Impasse
Present-Instance
Present-Irrespective
Present-Irreverence
Present-Paradigm
Present-Pleasure
Present-Possibilities
Present-Pursuit
Present-Regime
Present-Time
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Preserved-Relics
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Pretend-to-Quote
Pretentious-Snob
Pretentious-Tirades
Prettiest-Phrases
Pretty-Cocksure
Pretty-Dramatic
Pretty-Dreary-Place
Pretty-Ghastly
Pretty-Girls
Pretty-Large-Number
Pretty-Laughter
Pretty-Lively-Times
Pretty-Mama
Pretty-Much
Pretty-Nearly-Pay
Pretty-Neat-Device
Pretty-One
Pretty-Ones
Pretty-Painting
       Pretty-Pastures
Pretty-Pathetic
Pretty-Patterns
Pretty-Penny
Pretty-Phrase
Pretty-Pickle
Pretty-Pictures
Pretty-Plainly
Pretty-Presumptuous
Pretty-Quick
Pretty-Soon
Pretty-Sophomoric
Pretty-Sure
Pretty-Things
Pretty-Titles
Pretty-Vacancies
Pretty-Vague
Pretty-Young-Princess
Pretty-Yum
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Prevailing-Mist
Prevailing-Opinions
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Previously-Planned
Previously-Produced
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Price-Tag
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Priceless-Relic
Priceless-Specimen
Prickled-Spiral
Prickly-Flush
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Priestly-Destiny
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Primal-Instinct
Primal-Instincts
Primal-Myths
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Prime-and-Perfect
Prime-Collection
Primeval-Breathlike-Vapor
Primeval-Darkness
Primitive-Curiosity
Primitive-Missionaries
Primitive-Painter
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Primordial-Chiasm
Primordial-Depths
Primordial-Gap
Primordial-Meanings
Primordial-Unity
Princely-Fortune
Princely-Sum
Principal-Owners
Principal-Place
Principal-Precepts
Principal-Proprietors
Printed-Admonishments
Printed-Page
Printed-Pages
Prior-Permission
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Prior-Provenance
Prior-Transgression
Prison-Barracks
Pristine-Waters
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Private-Collection
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Privileged-Brow
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Prize-Idiot
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Prize-Pupils
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Probably-Not-True
Probably-Nothing
Probably-Prevented
Probe-Deeper
Procedure-Packets
Proceeded-Far
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Process-Proposes
Procession-Filed
Processional-Grandeur
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Prodigious-Heights
Prodigious-Impression
Prodigious-Long-Horn
Prodigious-Noise
Prodigious-Power
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Prodigious-Project
Prodigious-Strain
Prodigy-of-Ponderous-Misery
Produce-Paragons
Production-Pace
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Profane-Pleasures
Profane-Songs
Profane-Talk
Profane-Words
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Professional-Abnegation
Professional-Cool
Professional-Etiquette
Professional-Habit
Professional-Utilization
Professor-Emeritus
Profit-and-Loss
Profit-Margin
Profit-Motive
Profound-Contrast
Profound-Convulsions
Profound-Darkness
Profound-Delicacy
Profound-Desire
Profound-Existence
Profound-Experience
Profound-Ideas
Profound-Ignorance
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Profound-Meaning
Profound-Panic
Profound-Pinex
Profound-Pity
Profound-Pleasure
Profound-Quiet
Profound-Regard
Profoundest-Slumber-Slept
Profoundly-Personal
Profusely-Praised
Progressive-Consternation
Progressive-Contraction
Progressive-Delusion
Progressive-Treatment
       Projectile-Point
Projecting-Piece
Proleptic-Gloom
Prolific-Hybrids
Prolonged-Abode
Prolonged-Absence
Prolonged-and-Shrill
Prolonged-Contact
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Prolonged-Solemn-Tones
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Prolonged-Symmetry
Prominent-Cheekbones
Prominent-People
Prominent-Place
Prominent-Position
Promised-Deliverance
Promised-Land
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Proper-Place
Proper-Standards
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Prophetic-Mirror
Prophetic-Promissorations
Prophetic-Syncretism
Propiatiatory-Obolus
Propitious-Mounds
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Proprietary-Rights
Pros-and-Cons
       Prosaic-Probity
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Protection-or-Prestige
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Proud-Gods
Proud-Hour
Proud-Isolation
Proud-Part
Proud-Patriot
Proud-Perseverance
Proud-Satisfaction
Proud-Warrior-Hunters
Prove-Fatal
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Proverbial-Duck
Proverbial-Place
Provided-Pleasing
       Provincial-Potentates
Provisional-Confirmation
Provisional-Pardon
Provisional-Splendour
Proviso-Points
Provocative-Gazes
Provocative-Glance
Provoke-Disclosures
Prurient-Speculations
Pry-It-Open
Prying-Eyes
Pseudo-Dialogues
Psychedelic-Miasma
Psychic-Excrescences
Psychic-Vertigo
       Psychotic-Episodes
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Public-Emotions
Public-Entreaty
Public-Evil
Public-Eye
Public-Idyl
Public-Menace
Public-Nuisance
Public-Opinion
Public-Outcry
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Public-Positions
Public-Praise
Public-Property
Public-Purpose
Public-Quandary
Public-Recognition
Public-Room
Public-Sector
Public-Servant
Public-Silence
Public-Stocks
Public-Weal
Public-World
Publicly-Paraded
Puckered-Impurities
Puerile-Prejudice
Puff-Pastry
Puffy-Poufs
Puissant-Prince
Pulled-Past
Pulled-Taut
Pulling-Apart-Muffins
Pulsating-Poison
       Pulsing-Certainty
Pulu-Penang
Pummelled-and-Buffeted
Punch-Phasing
Punctilious-Externals
Punctual-Guests
Puncture-Pomposity
Pungent-Smoke
Pungent-Trail
Punishable-Offense
Pupiled-Voids
Puppet-Peering
Pure-Air
Pure-and-Simple
Pure-Blank
Pure-Bluff
Pure-Crazy
Pure-Direct
Pure-Evocation
Pure-Fabrication
Pure-Glee
Pure-Hypnotic-Gold
Pure-Invention
Pure-Jubilation
Pure-Landscape
Pure-Matter
Pure-Nature
Pure-Negation
Pure-Osmosis
       Pure-Panic
Pure-Perversity
Pure-Phenomenalism
Pure-Possibility
Pure-Present
Pure-Sky
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The Insatiable Abstraction Engine:
<a href="http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/abstraction-engine.html">http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/abstraction-engine.html</a>
<a href="http://bbrace.net/abstraction-engine.html">http://bbrace.net/abstraction-engine.html</a>
1,254 new, found, two-word P-poems/titles arranged in alphabetical order:
<a href="http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/P/Paced-the-Planks.html">http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/P/Paced-the-Planks.html</a>
<a href="http://bbrace.net/P/Paced-the-Planks.html">http://bbrace.net/P/Paced-the-Planks.html</a>



From: John Sears <j.sears_at_MMU.AC.UK>
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:
<a href="http://www.eri.mmu.ac.uk/events/legacies-of-practical-criticism/">http://www.eri.mmu.ac.uk/events/legacies-of-practical-criticism/</a>
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
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From: "Ray Siemens" <siemens_at_uvic.ca>
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
<a href="http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/">http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/</a>, 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 <ken.friedman_at_bi.no>
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 <unsworth_at_uiuc.edu>
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:
<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/dh2007.abstracts.pdf">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/dh2007.abstracts.pdf</a>
and a web version will be up shortly, at
<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/abstracts/">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/abstracts/</a>
Late registration for the conference remains open on the web until
May 25th, at
<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/</a>
After May 25th, those wishing to register may do so on-site, at the
conference.
John



From: Desmond Schmidt <schmidt_at_itee.uq.edu.au>
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)

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From: "Juliana Tambovtseva" <jultamb_at_yandex.ru>
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 <mailto:yutamb_at_mail.ru>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:
<<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/openlearn2007/conference.php">http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/openlearn2007/conference.php</a>>
Forms for submission of papers can be found at
<<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/openlearn2007/papers.php">http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/openlearn2007/papers.php</a>>
and should be emailed
to
<mailto:openlearn-conference_at_open.ac.uk> 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 | <a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>.=
=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)

<<mailto:craig.bellamy_at_kcl.ac.uk>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.
<<a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/</a>><a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/</a>
best,
Craig

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Research Associate
ICT Guides, AHDS,
King's College, London
<<a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/</a>><a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/</a>
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Director, eCreate Lab
Department of English
University of Texas at Arlington
203 Carlisle Hall, Box 19035
<<a href="http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/">http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/</a>><a href="http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/">http://www.uta.edu/english/ecreate/</a>
Email: <mailto:carolyn.guertin_at_gmail.com>carolyn.guertin_at_gmail.com


From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 f�ted. 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 | <a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>.




From: isaac stephens <isaacta2003_at_yahoo.com>
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:
<<a href="http://www.history.ucr.edu/people/grad_students/stephens/index.html">http://www.history.ucr.edu/people/grad_students/stephens/index.html</a>><a href="http://www.history.ucr.edu/people/grad_students/stephens/index.html">http://www.history.ucr.edu/people/grad_students/stephens/index.html</a> 
or
<<a href="http://www.history.ucr.edu/">http://www.history.ucr.edu/</a>><a href="http://www.history.ucr.edu/">http://www.history.ucr.edu/</a>.
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Tom Horton <horton_at_cs.virginia.edu>
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
(<a href="http://softwaretheory.net">http://softwaretheory.net</a>) 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
(<a href="http://research.ucsd.edu/postdoc/benefits.aspx">http://research.ucsd.edu/postdoc/benefits.aspx</a>). 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 -
<a href="http://www.calit2.net">http://www.calit2.net</a>), and the Center for Research in Computing and
the Arts (CRCA - <a href="http://crca.ucsd.edu">http://crca.ucsd.edu</a>). 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 (<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/</a>). 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 <methnet_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 Fronti�res: 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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>.


From: Anthony Jones <info_at_thegrantinstitute.com>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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:
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html</a>.
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/</a>
<a href="http://www.currentepigraphy.org/">http://www.currentepigraphy.org/</a>




From: IngentaConnect InTouch <intouch_at_ingentaconnect.com>
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)
<a href="http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr">http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr</a>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: on awareness
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 06:34:59 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 71 (71)

Martin E. M�ller, "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&#x2019;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 | <a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>.  



From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies <hypermedia_joyce_at_yahoo.co.uk>
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)
<<a href="http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/technicity.html">http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/technicity.html</a>>
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
<<a href="http://www.litterariapragensia.com/">http://www.litterariapragensia.com/</a>> For the latest issue of Litteraria
Pragensia journal, visit
<<a href="http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/journals/current_issue.html">http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/journals/current_issue.html</a>> 



From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i20_pfeiffer.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i20_pfeiffer.html</a>>



From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns_at_vt.edu>
Subject: Interactions: Artifacts & Us
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:03:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 74 (74)

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From: "Joergen Villadsen" <jv_at_imm.dtu.dk>
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
                 <a href="http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2007.html">http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2007.html</a>
Affiliated with CONTEXT07, <a href="http://context-07.ruc.dk">http://context-07.ruc.dk</a>
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,
<a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>
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 <a href="http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2007.html">http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2007.html</a>
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.
     <a href="http://context-07.ruc.dk">http://context-07.ruc.dk</a>
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 <a href="http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2007.html">http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2007.html</a>


From: Kevin Kee <kevin.kee_at_brocku.ca>
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)" <j.h.soraker_at_gw.utwente.nl>
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, <mailto:ECAP07_at_gw.utwente.nl>
More information: <<a href="http://www.utwente.nl/ecap07">http://www.utwente.nl/ecap07</a>>
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:
<<a href="http://www.utwente.nl/ecap07/programme/">http://www.utwente.nl/ecap07/programme/</a>><a href="http://www.utwente.nl/ecap07/programme/">http://www.utwente.nl/ecap07/programme/</a>
[...]




From: Wendell Piez <wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com>
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?
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_model">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_model</a>
and add to these --
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_cycle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_cycle</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback</a>
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:
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From: Alexander Czmiel <czmiel_at_bbaw.de>
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.
<a href="http://www.bbaw.de/schein/stelle/telota.html">http://www.bbaw.de/schein/stelle/telota.html</a>
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
<a href="http://pom.bbaw.de/index-en.html">http://pom.bbaw.de/index-en.html</a>
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  -  <a href="http://www.bbaw.de">http://www.bbaw.de</a>  -  <a href="http://www.telota.de">http://www.telota.de</a>




From: "Wayne Hanewicz" <hanewiwa_at_uvsc.edu>
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 <schmidt_at_itee.uq.edu.au>
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 <mdharris_at_acm.org>
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" <neal.audenaert_at_gmail.com>
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" <jannidis_at_LINGLIT.TU-DARMSTADT.DE>
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:
<a href="http://www.lri.fr/~fekete/ps/CrassonFeketeCifed04-final.pdf">http://www.lri.fr/~fekete/ps/CrassonFeketeCifed04-final.pdf</a>
Didn't look like a waste of time to me,
Fotis Jannidis



From: Hugh Cayless <hcayless_at_email.unc.edu>
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: <a href="https://s4.its.unc.edu/RAMS4/">https://s4.its.unc.edu/RAMS4/</a>
details.do?posID=0057419
UNC's Digital Library is home to Documenting the American South
(<a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu">http://docsouth.unc.edu</a>) 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" <jultamb_at_yandex.ru>
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
<mailto:yutamb_at_mail.ru>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 (<a href="http://www.cs.tcd.ie/esslli2007">http://www.cs.tcd.ie/esslli2007</a>) 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 <Wim.Van-Mierlo_at_SAS.AC.UK>
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)
<file:///cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School07/20July-Lovett.htm>One
thousand years of writing manuscripts
Half day - pm
Dr Marigold Norbye (UCL)
<file:///cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School07/20July-Norbye.htm>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)
<file:///cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School07/27July-Lovett.htm>Writing
Gothic Book Script
Dr Mara Hofmann (IES)
<file:///cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School07/27July-Hofman.htm>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:
<<a href="http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School07/index.htm">http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School07/index.htm</a>><a href="http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School07/index.htm">http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School07/index.htm</a> 
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: <mailto:cmps_at_sas.ac.uk?subject=Summer%20School%202006>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: <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol22/issue2/index.dtl?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol22/issue2/index.dtl?etoc</a>
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Original Articles
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   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.
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   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 <<mailto:wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com>
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?
<<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model</a>><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model</a> 
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_model">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_model</a>
and add to these --
<<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle</a>><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle</a> 
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_cycle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_cycle</a>
<<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback</a>><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback</a>
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
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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:
<<a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/</a>><a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/</a>
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
<<a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/index.html">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/index.html</a>><a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/index.html">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/index.html</a>
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
<<a href="http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/tei-Ubuntu.iso">http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/tei-Ubuntu.iso</a>>
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 <ken.friedman_at_bi.no>
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
<a href="http://www.ijdesign.org">http://www.ijdesign.org</a>
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:
<a href="http://www.ijdesign.org">http://www.ijdesign.org</a>
--
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
<a href="http://www.ijdesign.org">http://www.ijdesign.org</a>




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:
<a href="http://curlew.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ach/">http://curlew.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ach/</a>
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
<a href="http://lenz.unl.edu/">http://lenz.unl.edu/</a>




From: Norman Gray <norman_at_astro.gla.ac.uk>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) 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

-- 
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Norman Gray  :  <a href="http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/">http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/</a>
Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK


From: "Juliana Tambovtseva" <jultamb_at_yandex.ru>
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
<mailto:yutamb_at_mail.ru>yutamb_at_mail.ru Be well, remain sincerely and
cordially Yuri




From: Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html</a>
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/</a>
<a href="http://www.currentepigraphy.org/">http://www.currentepigraphy.org/</a>




From: David Sewell <dsewell_at_virginia.edu>
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:
    <a href="http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/">http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/</a>
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:
   <a href="http://as400.hrs.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/db2www/jobs/ucdet06.mac/details?jva=PV%20UPR%20D10BC%20002">http://as400.hrs.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/db2www/jobs/ucdet06.mac/details?jva=PV%20UPR%20D10BC%20002</a>
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: <a href="http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/">http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/</a>




From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 <m.lana_at_lett.unipmn.it>
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 <vogel_at_cs.tcd.ie>
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 <hart_at_pglaf.org>
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 <Ryan.Deschamps_at_Dal.Ca>
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:
<a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/webtools/web_chi_tut.html">http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/webtools/web_chi_tut.html</a> ).
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" <jultamb_at_yandex.ru>
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 <mailto:yutamb_at_mail.ru>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 <a href="http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008">http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008</a>
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 <a href="http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008">http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008</a>


From: Carlos Areces <areces_at_loria.fr>
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, <a href="http://www.folli.org">http://www.folli.org</a>) 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 <a href="http://www.folli.org/submission.php">http://www.folli.org/submission.php</a>
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" <elli_mylonas_at_BROWN.EDU>
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" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu>
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
<a href="http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitmay07.php">http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitmay07.php</a>.
You can read all back issues of Infobits at
<a href="http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/">http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/</a>.
......................................................................
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 <a href="http://innovateonline.info/index.php">http://innovateonline.info/index.php</a>.
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:
<a href="http://innovateonline.info/">http://innovateonline.info/</a>.
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
<a href="http://www.uliveandlearn.com/PortalInnovate/">http://www.uliveandlearn.com/PortalInnovate/</a>.
See also:
"Motivating Today's College Students"
By Ian Crone
PEER REVIEW, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2007
<a href="http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi07/pr-wi07_practice.cfm">http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi07/pr-wi07_practice.cfm</a>
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:
<a href="http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/">http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/</a>.
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
<a href="http://www.trainingmag.com/msg/content_display/publications/e3if330208bec8f4014fac339db9fd0678e">http://www.trainingmag.com/msg/content_display/publications/e3if330208bec8f4014fac339db9fd0678e</a>
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:
<a href="http://www.trainingmag.com">http://www.trainingmag.com</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://www.ifets.info/issues.php?show=current">http://www.ifets.info/issues.php?show=current</a>.
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 <a href="http://www.ifets.info/">http://www.ifets.info/</a>. The journal is
published by the International Forum of Educational Technology &
Society. For more information, see <a href="http://ifets.ieee.org/">http://ifets.ieee.org/</a>.
......................................................................
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;
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402258.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402258.html</a>)
"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;
<a href="http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=48289">http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=48289</a>).
        
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
<a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Spam_May_2007.pdf">http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Spam_May_2007.pdf</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html">http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html</a>.
......................................................................
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:
<a href="http://www.sensepublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=287">http://www.sensepublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=287</a>
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
<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i18_peter.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i18_peter.html</a>.
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 <sruecker_at_ualberta.ca>
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" <elli_mylonas_at_brown.edu>
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 <a href="http://careers.brown.edu">http://careers.brown.edu</a>
* 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 <a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu">http://www.stg.brown.edu</a>.
* 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 <a href="http://www.wwp.brown.edu">http://www.wwp.brown.edu</a>.
* 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
<a href="http://www.brown.edu/Administration/">http://www.brown.edu/Administration/</a> Human_Resources/prospective_staff.html.



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Antonella D'Ascoli <dascolia_at_tiscalinet.it>
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) <a href="http://eprints.jiia.it/">http://eprints.jiia.it/</a>
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
<a href="http://lrcw3.humnet.unipi.it/home_it.html">http://lrcw3.humnet.unipi.it/home_it.html</a>
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: <a href="http://www.jiia.it">http://www.jiia.it</a>
& 'Archaeological Disciplinary Repository'
JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository)
URL: <a href="http://eprints.jiia.it/">http://eprints.jiia.it/</a>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Shana Kimball <kimballs_at_umich.edu>
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.
<<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.202">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.202</a>>
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.
<<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.211">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.211</a>>
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.
  =
  <<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.209">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.209</a>>
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.
<<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.208">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.208</a>>
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.
<<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.207">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.207</a>>
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.
  <<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.206">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.206</a>>
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.
  <<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.205">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.205</a>>
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.
  <<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.204">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.204</a>>
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.
  <<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.203">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.203</a>>
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 <patrick_at_durusau.net>
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
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) 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" <RAM-Verlag_at_t-online.de>
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 <springeralerts_at_springer.delivery.net>
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 <a href="http://springerlink.com">http://springerlink.com</a>
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&#x2019; 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 Garn�s, Olga Gr�nberger, 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 <Tatjana.Chorney_at_SMU.CA>
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
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
[deleted quotation]www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html
[deleted quotation]


From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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,
<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v8i22_denning.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v8i22_denning.html</a>, 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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v8i22_denning.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v8i22_denning.html</a>>



From: Mats Dahlstrom <Mats.Dahlstrom_at_hb.se>
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 <areces_at_loria.fr>
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)
                      <a href="http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M5">http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M5</a>
             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
                         <a href="http://m4m.loria.fr/">http://m4m.loria.fr/</a>
[...]



From: Ryan Deschamps <Ryan.Deschamps_at_Dal.Ca>
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:
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0108/p14s01-stct.html">http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0108/p14s01-stct.html</a>
2.  Microsoft's "surface computer":
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgx9ygMXz8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgx9ygMXz8</a>
3.  Photosynth technology:
<a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129</a>
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 <unsworth_at_uiuc.edu>
Subject: nora: the definitive demo
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:23:09 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 125 (125)

At this URL
<a href="http://www.noraproject.org/OL_demo.php">http://www.noraproject.org/OL_demo.php</a>
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 <a href="http://monk.lis.uiuc.edu:7070/monk">http://monk.lis.uiuc.edu:7070/monk</a>,
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 <a href="http://www.noraproject.org/team.php">http://www.noraproject.org/team.php</a>) 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
(<a href="http://www.monkproject.org">http://www.monkproject.org</a>).
John Unsworth



From: Ido Dagan <dagan_at_cs.biu.ac.il>
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
<a href="http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/bisfai07/">http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/bisfai07/</a>
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
<a href="http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/bisfai07/">http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/bisfai07/</a>
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
<a href="http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/bisfai07/">http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/bisfai07/</a>
So see you soon at Bar-Ilan!
The BISFAI 2007 Organizers 



From: "Peter Ryan" <pryan_at_politics.ryerson.ca>
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:
<a href="https://www.runner.ryerson.ca/PRSurvey/survey.cfm">https://www.runner.ryerson.ca/PRSurvey/survey.cfm</a>
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:
<a href="https://www.runner.ryerson.ca/PRSurvey/survey.cfm">https://www.runner.ryerson.ca/PRSurvey/survey.cfm</a>
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:
<a href="http://prnetworks.blogspot.com">http://prnetworks.blogspot.com</a>
*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 <m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk>
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,
<ghislaine.rowe_at_classics.ox.ac.uk>
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: <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/</a>
General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly:
<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/</a>
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:
<<a href="http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780199204557">http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780199204557</a>>



From: Ryan Deschamps <Ryan.Deschamps_at_Dal.Ca>
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:
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0108/p14s01-stct.html">http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0108/p14s01-stct.html</a>
2.  Microsoft's "surface computer":
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgx9ygMXz8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgx9ygMXz8</a>
3.  Photosynth technology:
<a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129</a>
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
____________________________
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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 <mdharris_at_acm.org>
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
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web</a>> in which web content
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content</a>> can be expressed not only
     in natural language <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language</a>>,
     but also in a form that can be understood, interpreted and used by
     software agents <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent</a>>, thus
     permitting them to find, share and integrate
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_integration">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_integration</a>> information more
     easily.^[1] <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-0">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-0</a>> It
     derives from W3C
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium</a>> director
     Tim Berners-Lee <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee</a>>'s
     vision of the Web as a universal medium for data
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data</a>>, information
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information</a>>, and knowledge
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge</a>> exchange.
     At its core, the semantic web comprises a philosophy,^[2]
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-1">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-1</a>> a set of design
     principles,^[3] <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-2">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-2</a>>
     collaborative working groups
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_groups">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_groups</a>>, 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]
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-3">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-3</a>> Other elements
     of the semantic web are expressed in formal specifications.^[5]
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-4">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web#_note-4</a>> Some of these
     include Resource Description Framework
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework</a>> (RDF),
     a variety of data interchange formats (e.g. RDF/XML
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework</a>>, N3
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_3">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_3</a>>, Turtle
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_%28syntax%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_%28syntax%29</a>>, N-Triples
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=N-Triples&amp;action=edit">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=N-Triples&amp;action=edit</a>>),
     and notations such as RDF Schema
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schema">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schema</a>> (RDFS) and the Web
     Ontology Language
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language</a>> (OWL). All of
     which are intended to formally describe
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_logic">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_logic</a>> concepts
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept</a>>, terms
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology</a>>, and relationships
     <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality</a>> 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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Ryan Deschamps <Ryan.Deschamps_at_Dal.Ca>
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 <unsworth_at_uiuc.edu>
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" <siemens_at_uvic.ca>
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 (<a href="http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/posters.php">http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/home/posters.php</a>):
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: <a href="http://www.ht07.org/">http://www.ht07.org/</a>
RSS News Feed: <a href="http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/news/atom.xml">http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/news/atom.xml</a>
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
---------------
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<a href="http://www.sigweb.org/">http://www.sigweb.org/</a> )
Hoppers @ KWeb (<a href="http://hoppers-kweb.cs.manchester.ac.uk/">http://hoppers-kweb.cs.manchester.ac.uk/</a>)
The University Of Manchester (<a href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/">http://www.manchester.ac.uk/</a> )
The Information Management Group (<a href="http://img.cs.manchester.ac.uk/">http://img.cs.manchester.ac.uk/</a>)
The ACM Student Research Competition - sponsored by Microsoft Research (
<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/">http://research.microsoft.com/</a>)
Eastgate Systems (<a href="http://www.eastgate.com/">http://www.eastgate.com/</a>)
Taylor & Francis Group (<a href="http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/">http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/</a> )



From: Methnet <methnet_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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:
<a href="http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/">http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/</a>
Following your registration for EVA, please complete the bursary
application form, available on the AHRC ICT Methods Network website:
<a href="http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html">http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html</a>
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: <a href="http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/contacts">http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/contacts</a>



From: Hugh Houghton <h.a.g.houghton_at_BHAM.AC.UK>
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:	<a href="http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2008/RED/index.htm">http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2008/RED/index.htm</a>
RED website: 		<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/">http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/</a>



From: Craig Bellamy <craig.bellamy_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
(<mailto:hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk>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
<<a href="http://www.chart.ac.uk">http://www.chart.ac.uk</a>>www.chart.ac.uk
Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i23_gautam.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i23_gautam.html</a>>



From: James Cummings <James.Cummings_at_OUCS.OX.AC.UK>
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 <<a href="http://www.ahds.ac.uk/">http://www.ahds.ac.uk/</a>>
(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
<<a href="http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/">http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/</a>>, the Arts and Humanities e-Science
initiative
<<a href="http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humanities_e-science_initiative.asp">http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humanities_e-science_initiative.asp</a>>
(with the AHRC and EPSRC), its contribution to the wider e-Science
Initiative <<a href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/default.htm">http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/default.htm</a>>, and in
particular the Research Grants and Studentships Scheme
<<a href="http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humanities_e-science_initiative.asp">http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humanities_e-science_initiative.asp</a>>
and the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
<<a href="http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/">http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/</a>> (AHESSC). JISC's Support of Research
committee has also funded the Aria project
<<a href="http://aria.dmu.ac.uk/whatIs.html">http://aria.dmu.ac.uk/whatIs.html</a>> and a related Projects and Methods
database <<a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/pmdb-extension/#details">http://ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/pmdb-extension/#details</a>>
which have now been merged into an integrated resource, the ICT Guides
<<a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/</a>>.
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."
For further information, please contact Philip Pothen on 020 3006 6049,
(m) 07887 564 006 or p.pothen_at_jisc.ac.uk <mailto:p.pothen_at_jisc.ac.uk>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Anything in this message which does not clearly relate to the official
work of the sender's organisation shall be understood as neither given
nor endorsed by that organisation.

-- 
Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk




From: Christoph Fl=FCeler <christophe.flueler_at_unifr.ch>
Subject: mss of Abbey Library of St Gall online
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:45:45 +0200
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 141 (141)

Manuscripts of the Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland online
- free access: <<a href="http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en">http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en</a>>
- 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
<<a href="http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/de">http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/de</a>>German,
<<a href="http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/fr">http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/fr</a>>French,
<<a href="http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en">http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en</a>>English and
  <<a href="http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/it">http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/it</a>>Italian
Please recommend it to your colleagues and put a
link to CESG on your homepage.
Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities
Computing | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London | <a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>.



From: Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html</a>

-- 
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/</a>
<a href="http://www.currentepigraphy.org/">http://www.currentepigraphy.org/</a>


From: Methnet <methnet_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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:
<<a href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/785/">http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/785/</a>>
On-demand webcast:
<<a href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=785">http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=785</a>>
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
(<<a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/history/staff/early_modern/mark_greengrass.html">http://www.shef.ac.uk/history/staff/early_modern/mark_greengrass.html</a>>)
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
(<<a href="http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ocorcho/">http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ocorcho/</a>>
) 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:<<a href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/773/">http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/773/</a>>
On-demand webcast:
<<a href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=773">http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=773</a>>
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:
<<a href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/774/">http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/774/</a>>
On-demand webcast at:
<<a href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=774">http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=774</a>>
Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 




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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Lorna Hughes <lorna.hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: AHeSSC e-Science Theme lectures
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:44:05 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 146 (146)

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From: "Ray Siemens" <siemens_at_uvic.ca>
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 <a href="http://www.dhsi.org/">http://www.dhsi.org/</a>.
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 <a href="http://www.dhsi.org/">http://www.dhsi.org/</a>, 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" <mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com>
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)
<a href="http://www.mith.umd.edu/">http://www.mith.umd.edu/</a>
<a href="http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/">http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/</a>




From: Gabriel BODARD <gabriel.bodard_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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 (<a href="http://www.ahds.ac.uk/">http://www.ahds.ac.uk/</a>), 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]]
<a href="http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/news/news_pr/2007/information_for_applicants_to_AHRC_june_deadline.asp">http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/news/news_pr/2007/information_for_applicants_to_AHRC_june_deadline.asp</a>
[[2]] <a href="http://www.stoa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/ahrc-letter.pdf">http://www.stoa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/ahrc-letter.pdf</a>
[[3]] <a href="http://www.stoa.org/?p=658">http://www.stoa.org/?p=658</a>
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/</a>
<a href="http://www.currentepigraphy.org/">http://www.currentepigraphy.org/</a>



From: Susan Schreibman <sschreib_at_umd.edu>
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
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Conference papers will be published by
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The event is open to all and free of charge for TEI Consortium
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From: Neven Jovanovic <neven.jovanovic_at_ffzg.hr>
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." <cwbailey_at_digital-scholarship.com>
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.
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html</a>
New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans:
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/</a>
RSS: <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans">http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans</a>
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.
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm</a>
For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital
publications since my resignation from the University
of Houston Libraries, see:
<a href="http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-digital-publications-changes/">http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-digital-publications-changes/</a>
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)
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756">http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756</a>
<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss">http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss</a>
(2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory
of over 270 related Web sites)
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm</a>
(3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm</a>
Related Article
An article about the bibliography has been published
in The Journal of Electronic Publishing:
<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html</a>

-- 
Best Regards,
Charles
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Digital Scholarship
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/</a>
DigitalKoans/Flashback
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/</a>
<a href="http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/">http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/</a>
Open Access Bibliography/Webliography
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm</a>
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html</a>
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm</a>


From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i24_bmpsoa.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i24_bmpsoa.html</a>><a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiq">http://www.acm.org/ubiq</a>=
uity/views/v8i24_bmpsoa.html=20




From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" <mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com>
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:
<a href="http://francais.concordia.ca/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=169&amp;I">http://francais.concordia.ca/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=169&amp;I</a>
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
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU>:
[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" <mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com>
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)
<a href="http://www.mith.umd.edu/">http://www.mith.umd.edu/</a>
<a href="http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/">http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/</a>




From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 



From: "John G. Keating" <john.keating_at_nuim.ie>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) 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 <simon.mahony_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
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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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) 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
<a href="http://lenz.unl.edu/">http://lenz.unl.edu/</a>


From: "John G. Keating" <john.keating_at_nuim.ie>
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 <Arthur.Sale_at_UTAS.EDU.AU>
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
<a href="http://adt.caul.edu.au/memberinformation/submissionsurvey/survey2006.doc">http://adt.caul.edu.au/memberinformation/submissionsurvey/survey2006.doc</a>.
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
<a href="http://adt.caul.edu.au/">http://adt.caul.edu.au/</a>).
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" <ptrourke_at_methymna.com>
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
<a href="http://collection.eliterature.org/">http://collection.eliterature.org/</a>
[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 <a href="http://eliterature.org/pad/elp.html">http://eliterature.org/pad/elp.html</a>, 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

--
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Assistant Professor of English
Associate Director,
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
University of Maryland
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From: Shuly Wintner <shuly_at_cs.haifa.ac.il>
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 <Tatjana.Chorney_at_SMU.CA>
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" <rst_at_uky.edu>
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
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU> wrote:
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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 <neven.jovanovic_at_ffzg.hr>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: "Carolyn Guertin" <carolyn.guertin_at_gmail.com>
Subject: Language Lab Supervisor - U Texas at Arlington
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:28:00 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 175 (175)

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From: Desmond Schmidt <schmidt_at_itee.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: 21.110 ideal readers for a database?
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
[deleted quotation]-------------------------
Desmond Schmidt
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering,
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia


From: "John G. Keating" <john.keating_at_nuim.ie>
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
(<a href="http://www.irishineurope.ie/">http://www.irishineurope.ie/</a>) 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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd
1617, p. 26).



From: Patrick Durusau <patrick_at_durusau.net>
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: <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/overlap/index.html">http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/overlap/index.html</a>
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" <Mark_Davies_at_byu.edu>
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:
       <a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/time/">http://corpus.byu.edu/time/</a>
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
<a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc">http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc</a>), 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
(<a href="http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu">http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu</a>), or visit:
       <a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/">http://corpus.byu.edu/</a>
for information and links to related corpora, including the upcoming BYU
American National Corpus [BANC] (350+ million words, 1990-2007+).
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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 **
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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Wendell Piez <wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com>
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:
<a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/index.html">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/index.html</a>
Regards,
Wendell
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From: Mark Wolff <wolffm0_at_hartwick.edu>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) 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
<a href="http://bumppo.hartwick.edu/~mark/">http://bumppo.hartwick.edu/~mark/</a>




From: simon mahony <simon.mahony_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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
<a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX">http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX</a>



From: Christoph Fl�eler <christophe.flueler_at_unifr.ch>
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: <<a href="http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en">http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en</a>>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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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, <a href="http://genista.de/shop/i26.html">http://genista.de/shop/i26.html</a>.)
  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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Cristina Vertan <vertan_at_informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
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:  <a href="http://www.lt4el.eu/nlp_knowrep200709.html">http://www.lt4el.eu/nlp_knowrep200709.html</a>
             RANLP'2007 site:  <a href="http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/">http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/</a>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 
1617, p. 26).


From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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: <<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i25_intelligence.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i25_intelligence.html</a>>


From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
<a href="http://www.perryhoberman.com/">http://www.perryhoberman.com/</a>, 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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Methnet <methnet_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 <a href="http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme">http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme</a>) 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 <a href="http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/">http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/</a>
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
                             <a href="http://www.memics.cz/">http://www.memics.cz/</a>
                 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
<a href="http://www.memics.cz/">http://www.memics.cz/</a>.
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 <a href="http://springerlink.com">http://springerlink.com</a>
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 G�ranzon
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 &#x2018;the hills&#x2019;, what has been gained and lost?
Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen
Page  471 - 495
 From Taylorism to competence-based production
Peter Br�dner
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 &#x201c;Kyosei&#x201d;
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 <btusdin_at_mulberrytech.com>
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.
     * <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/at-a-glance.html">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/at-a-glance.html</a>
     * <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/abstracts.html">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/abstracts.html</a>
     * <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/topics.html">http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/topics.html</a>
You may also be interested in the preconference 
"International Workshop on Markup of Overlapping 
Structures" (<a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/overlap/index.html">http://www.extrememarkup.com/overlap/index.html</a>).
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: Montr�al, Canada
     * HOST: IDEAlliance
     * REGISTRATION and HOTEL INFORMATION: <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/">http://www.extrememarkup.com/</a>
     * 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: <a href="http://www.concretesyntax.com/">http://www.concretesyntax.com/</a>
     * QUESTIONS: Email to extreme_at_mulberrytech.com or call
            Tommie Usdin +1 301/315-9631
     * MORE INFORMATION as available: <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/">http://www.extrememarkup.com/</a>
     * PROCEEDINGS of previous EXTREME MARKUP Conferences:
       <a href="http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme/proceedings/">http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme/proceedings/</a>
    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                  <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme">http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme</a>
Montreal, Canada                          <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com">http://www.extrememarkup.com</a>
======================================================================


From: "J. Trant" <jtrant_at_archimuse.com>
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
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/</a>
** 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
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/papers/ichim07.proposal.form.html">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/papers/ichim07.proposal.form.html</a>
** 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:
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/register/">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/register/</a>
*** Questions? ***
Contact the ICHIM07 Conference Co-Chairs
David Bearman and Jennifer Trant , Archives & Museum Informatics
e-mail: ichim07_at_archimuse.com
[...]




From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu>
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
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......................................................................
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
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The current membership comprises more than 1,900 colleges,
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Boulder, CO, and Washington, DC. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at
<a href="http://www.educause.edu/">http://www.educause.edu/</a>.
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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
<a href="http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/acsfa/edlite-txtbkstudy.html">http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/acsfa/edlite-txtbkstudy.html</a>.
        
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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
<a href="http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/29">http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/29</a>. 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: <a href="http://www.irrodl.org/">http://www.irrodl.org/</a>.
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
<a href="http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm07/eqm0726.asp">http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm07/eqm0726.asp</a>
"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 <a href="http://www.ecollege.com/news/EdVoice.learn">http://www.ecollege.com/news/EdVoice.learn</a>.
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: <a href="http://www.ecollege.com/">http://www.ecollege.com/</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/06/2007060101c/careers.html">http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/06/2007060101c/careers.html</a>.
The Chronicle of Higher Education [ISSN 0009-5982] is published weekly
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NW, Washington, DC 20037 USA; tel: 202-466-1000; fax: 202-452-1033;
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"Of Hot Tubs and Beowolf: E-learning for Seniors"
By Mark Notess
eLearn Magazine
<a href="http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=opinion&amp;article=85-1">http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=opinion&amp;article=85-1</a>
and
"Online Learning for Seniors: Barriers and Opportunities"
By Mark Notess and Lesa Lorenzen-Hube
eLearn Magazine
<a href="http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=research&amp;article=7-1">http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=research&amp;article=7-1</a>
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From: "Natasha McCarthy" <natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk>
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:
<<a href="http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Philosophy_flyer.pdf">http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Philosophy_flyer.pdf</a>>.
Kind regards,
Natasha
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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p.=
  26).



From: Carlos Areces <areces_at_loria.fr>
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)
                      <a href="http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M5">http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M5</a>
             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
                         <a href="http://m4m.loria.fr/">http://m4m.loria.fr/</a>
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:
<a href="http://www.easychair.org/M4M5/">http://www.easychair.org/M4M5/</a>
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." <R.L.Hunsucker_at_uva.nl>
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
(<a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/dgrumanib/1997008.htm">http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/dgrumanib/1997008.htm</a>)
or the University of Connecticut Econ Dept.'s "Ideas" site
(<a href="http://ideas.repec.org/p/dgr/umanib/1997008.html">http://ideas.repec.org/p/dgr/umanib/1997008.html</a>).
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 <areinhard_at_BOLCHAZY.COM>
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
(<<a href="http://eclassics.ning.com">http://eclassics.ning.com</a>>) 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!
Andrew

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From: Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html</a>

-- 
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(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
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From: Stan Ruecker <sruecker_at_ualberta.ca>
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:
<a href="http://www.nativemaps.org/?q=top_menu/1/88/90">http://www.nativemaps.org/?q=top_menu/1/88/90</a>
yrs,
Stan
Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
[deleted quotation]


From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i26_cloning.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i26_cloning.html</a>>



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
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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:
<quote>
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.
</quote>
   -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance</a>
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 <jhuns_at_vt.edu>
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)
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From: "Charles Baldwin" <Charles.Baldwin_at_mail.wvu.edu>
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: <a href="http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/projects/ubu_radio">http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/projects/ubu_radio</a> or
the url for the .pls file (the script that launches the stream) is
<a href="http://peacemaker.stat.wvu.edu:8000/listen.pls">http://peacemaker.stat.wvu.edu:8000/listen.pls</a>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
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From: Melissa Terras <m.terras_at_UCL.AC.UK>
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 <franconi_at_inf.unibz.it>
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
                  <a href="http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/WIDM2007">http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/WIDM2007</a>
                    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 <kuldar_at_csse.unimelb.edu.au>
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)
<a href="http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/">http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/</a>
In conjunction with the 11th IEEE International
EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007)
"The Enterprise Computing Conference"
<a href="http://edoc.mitre.org/">http://edoc.mitre.org/</a>
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
<a href="http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys/">http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys/</a>
***************************************************************************
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 <dene_at_eaze.net>
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
<a href="http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/dtc/elo08.html">http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/dtc/elo08.html</a> (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 <methnet_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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: 
<a href="http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk/vru/collaborativeart/index.php">http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk/vru/collaborativeart/index.php</a>



From: "J. Trant" <jtrant_at_archimuse.com>
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 <a href="http://tagger.steve.museum">http://tagger.steve.museum</a>
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 <a href="http://tagger.steve.museum">http://tagger.steve.museum</a>
        - create an account [this is important for our research]
        - Tag Art!
To learn more about our research, visit <a href="http://www.steve.museum">http://www.steve.museum</a>
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		<a href="http://www.archimuse.com">http://www.archimuse.com</a>
__________




From: "Gabriel Bodard" <gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html</a>

-- 
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/</a>
<a href="http://www.currentepigraphy.org/">http://www.currentepigraphy.org/</a>




From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i27_lin.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i27_lin.html</a>>


From: Bonnie Wilson <bwilson_at_cnri.reston.va.us>
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 (<a href="http://www.dlib.org/">http://www.dlib.org/</a>)
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 <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i28_persuasive.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i28_persuasive.html</a>>



From: Stuart Dunn <stuart.dunn_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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://<<a href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/788/">http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/788/</a>>
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
<<a href="http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/E-Science_in_the_Arts_and_Humanities">http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/E-Science_in_the_Arts_and_Humanities</a>>
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
<<a href="http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme">http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme</a>>
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
(<mailto:stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk>stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk) or Tobias
Blanke (<mailto:tobias.blanke_at_kcl.ac.uk>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 <ken.friedman_at_bi.no>
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" <tgelder_at_unimelb.edu.au>
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
(<<a href="http://www.cognexus.org">http://www.cognexus.org</a>>)
Rationale can be downloaded from <<a href="http://ww.austhink.com">http://ww.austhink.com</a>>
Regards
Tim v.G. 



From: "H.M. Gladney" <hgladney_at_gmail.com>
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
<a href="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_2.htm">http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_2.htm</a>
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.  <a href="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney">http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney</a>


From: Marian Dworaczek <Marian.Dworaczek_at_USASK.CA>
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:
<<a href="http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM">http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM</a>><a href="http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM">http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM</a>
Changes and additions are greatly appreciated.
Marian Dworaczek
University of Saskatchewan Library



From: "Stanislav Roudavski" <stanislav_at_stanislavroudavski.net>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
Schr�dinger 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 Schr�dinger'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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>.
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:
<file://www.flosscom.net> The Summer University Toolkit Development
Space: <<a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/flosscom">http://wiki.ubuntu.com/flosscom</a>> The Summer University Work
Space at Ubuntu / Launchpad: <<a href="http://launchpad.net/flosscom">http://launchpad.net/flosscom</a>>
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:
<file://www.flosscom.net> Summer University Toolkit Development Space:
<<a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/flosscom">http://wiki.ubuntu.com/flosscom</a>> Summer University Work Space at Ubuntu
/ Launchpad: <<a href="http://launchpad.net/flosscom">http://launchpad.net/flosscom</a>>
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Beyond control: learning technology for the social network generation
4-6 September 2007, Nottingham, England
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<<a href="http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/">http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/</a>>ALT-C 2007 -
<<a href="http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/conference_committee.html">http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/conference_committee.html</a>>
Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities
Computing | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26).



From: "Tim van Gelder" <tgelder_at_unimelb.edu.au>
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
<<a href="http://www.austhink.com/rationale/">http://www.austhink.com/rationale/</a>><a href="http://www.austhink.com/rationale/">http://www.austhink.com/rationale/</a>
Regards
Tim v.G.
On 20/07/07, Stanislav Roudavski
<<mailto:stanislav_at_stanislavroudavski.net>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

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From: "Melissa Terras" <m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk>
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: <a href="http://www.vera.rdg.ac.uk">http://www.vera.rdg.ac.uk</a> .
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:
<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/circah/vera/">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/circah/vera/</a>
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.
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From: "hinton_at_springnet1.com" <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" <prb8b_at_virginia.edu>
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:
<a href="http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=10">http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=10</a> .  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" <stanislav@stanislavroudavski.net>
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 







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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)
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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 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.
<quote>
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.
</quote>
He is quite eloquent on the place of the hands on nature of our
involvement in the production of knowledge:
<quote>
Cette consience, prolongee par un organe polyvalent, la main, fait que non
seulement <i>Homo sapiens</i> 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.
</quote>
The quotations are from a selection of reviews published under the title
_Anachroniques_ (1962).


From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd
1617, p. 26).



From: "RAM-Verlag" <RAM-Verlag_at_t-online.de>
Subject: Glottometrics 14, 2007
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:26:10 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 239 (239)

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From: "Natasha McCarthy" <natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk>
Subject: Engineering and Metaphysics
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:51:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 240 (240)

Dear all
The next seminar in The Royal Academy of Engineering series on
philosophy of engineering will be held on September 3rd 2007.  The
title of the seminar is 'Engineering and Metaphysics'.  Speakers at
the seminar will be Professor Peter Simons of the Philosophy
department at the University of Leeds, Dr Luciano Floridi of the
Philosophy department at University of Oxford and Dr Hasok Chang, of
the Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL.
An electronic flyer will be distributed shortly with further
information about the speakers and their talks.
Kind regards,
Natasha
If you would rather not receive emails on the philosophy of
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From: simon mahony <simon.mahony_at_KCL.AC.UK>
Subject: The New AV Classics Database: a community-annotated resource
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:50:59 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 241 (241)

Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007
Friday 27th July at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street,
London
Janice Siegel (Hampden-Sydney College, VA)
'The New AV Classics Database: a community-annotated resource'
ALL WELCOME
The newest incarnation of the much-expanded AV Classics Database is
about to become interactive (users will be able to post reviews of
items) and allows for easier, more extensive and more accurate searches
for listed resources using an advanced Web 2.0 interface.
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html</a>
----------------------
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
<a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX">http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX</a>


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
                           <a href="http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/">http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/</a>
                                    * * * * *
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" <stanislav_at_stanislavroudavski.net>
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
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From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i29_services.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i29_services.html</a>><a href="http://www.acm.org/ub">http://www.acm.org/ub</a>=
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 <I>Plenty: Digressions on Food</I> quotes Octavio Paz.
<quote>
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.
</quote>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
<a href="http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr">http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr</a>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 
1617, p. 26).


From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
<a href="http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr">http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr</a>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Suzana Sukovic <suzana.sukovic_at_student.uts.edu.au>
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 <kalle.korhonen_at_HELSINKI.FI>
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
<a href="http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/ecal/">http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/ecal/</a>
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" <C60DEV1_at_wpo.cso.niu.edu>
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
<<a href="https://www.ulib.niu.edu/jobs.cfm">https://www.ulib.niu.edu/jobs.cfm</a>><a href="https://www.ulib.niu.edu/jobs.cfm">https://www.ulib.niu.edu/jobs.cfm</a>.
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:
<<a href="http://www.ulib.niu.edu/digitalprojlist.cfm">http://www.ulib.niu.edu/digitalprojlist.cfm</a>><a href="http://www.ulib.niu.edu/digitalprojlist.cfm">http://www.ulib.niu.edu/digitalprojlist.cfm</a>. 
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 <john.bradley_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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." <R.L.Hunsucker_at_uva.nl>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns_at_vt.edu>
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 <simon.mahony_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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
<a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=3DWC2R3DX">http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=3DWC2R3DX</a>



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)

PORTUGU�S
     Est� no ar o n�mero 7 da Mafu�, Revista 
Digital de Literatura, que pode ser
acessada pelo endere�o www.mafua.ufsc.br.
     A revista entra renovada no seu quarto ano 
de exist�ncia, com uma mudan�a na
equipe editorial e com um novo design que a torna 
visualmente mais interessante.
Para esta edi��o foram aprovados 12 ensaios, produzidos por alunos
representantes de 9 universidades do pa�s. Poesia, religiosidade, mitologia,
adapta��o e literatura infantil, jornalismo e hist�ria, a rela��o entre
literatura e sociedade comp�em a variedade de temas trazidos ao leitor pelos
ensaios publicados nesta edi��o.
    Enriquecem o conte�do da Mafu� n� 7 as demais se��es da revista. Seguindo o
prop�sito de renova��o, a se��o Entrevista extrapola a Literatura e chega �
�rea da M�sica, em uma conversa com o pianista, compositor e regente Alberto
Heller. Do acervo da Biblioteca da UFSC, vem para a se��o Obra Rara a colet�nea
Contos Brasileiros, uma rara reuni�o de contos de grandes nomes da nossa
literatura publicada em 1922.  Entre as Cria��es, est�o trabalhos dos artistas
Eliana Borges, Vera Casa Nova, Sinibaldo Gerbasi e Paulo Zapella, autor da capa
da revista, que a partir desta ter� uma capa produzida por um artista diferente
a cada edi��o.
Boa leitura!
ENGLISH
            The seventh issue of Mafu�, Digital 
Literature Journal, is now online
and can be accessed at www.mafua.ufsc.br.
             Mafu� enters it&#x2019;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&#x2019;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 Mafu� n�7. Continuing the journal&#x2019;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&#x2019;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&#x2019;s cover.
Mafu�, from this edition forth, will have a new cover for each edition.
Good readings!
ESPANHOL
          Est� en el aire el n�mero 7 de Mafu�, Revista Digital de Literatura,
que se encuentra en la direcci�n www.mafua.ufsc.br  .
          La revista empieza renovada su cuarto 
a�o de existencia, con un cambio
en el equipo editorial y con un nuevo dise�o la hace m�s interesante.
Para la presente edici�n se aprobaron 12 ensayos, producidos por alumnos
representantes de 9 universidades brasile�as. Poes�a, religiosidad, mitolog�a,
adaptaci�n y literatura infantil, periodismo e historia, la relaci�n entre
literatura y sociedad, todos son temas que componen la variedad proporcionada
al lector por los ensayos publicados en esta edici�n.
          Enriquecen el contenido Mafu� n�7 las dem�s secciones de la revista.
Siguiendo el prop�sito de renovaci�n, la secci�n Entrevista sobrepasa la
Literatura y entra en el campo de la M�sica, en una conversaci�n con el
pianista, compositor y regidor (maestro) Alberto Heller.
         Del acervo de la Biblioteca de la UFSC viene para la secci�n Obra Rara
la compilaci�n Contos Brasileiros, una rara reuni�n de cuentos de grandes
nombres de la literatura brasile�a publicada en 1922.
         Entre las Creaciones est�n trabajos de 
los artistas Eliana Borges, Vera
Casa Nova, Sinibaldo Gerbasi y Paulo Zapella, autor de la tapa de la revista.
�sta, a partir de la edici�n actual, tendr� siempre una tapa diferente.
Disfr�tela!
FRANC�S
        Le septi�me num�ro de Mafu�, revue 
litt�raire, est d�j� en ligne et peut
�tre lu � l�adresse www.mafua.ufsc.br.
       Mafu� rentre renouvel�e dans sa quatri�me ann�e d�existence : l��quipe
d��dition a chang� et la revue pr�sente un nouveau projet graphique qui la rend
visuellement plus int�ressante.
       Pour cette �dition, 12 essaies �crits par des �tudiants repr�sentant
quelques universit�s br�siliennes ont �t� approuv�s par notre conseil et, donc,
publi�s. Po�sie, religion, mythologie, adaptation et lit�rature enfantine,
journalisme et histoire, les rapports entre lit�rature et soci�t�, voici
quelques-uns des sujets composant la vari�t� des th�mes pr�sent�s au lecteur
par les essaies.
       D�autres sections de Mafu�  ont �t� enrichies davantage : Interview a
oubli� provisoirement la Litt�rature et est venue toucher le domaine de la
Musique, dans une discussion avec le pianiste et musicien Alberto Heller.
Une oeuvre de la Biblioth�que de l&#x2019;UFSC a �t� num�ris�e dans la section des
Oeuvres Rares : un recueil de nouvelles, Contos, publi� en 1922.
  Parmi les Cr�ations, il ya les travaux des artistes Eliana Borges, Vera Casa
Nova, Sinibaldo Gerbasi et Paulo Zapella (celui-ci �tant l&#x2019;auteur de la page
d&#x2019;ouverture de la revue ; dor�navant, toutes les �ditions en auront une, cr��e
par un artiste different � chaque fois).
Bonne lecture!



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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, <a href="http://www.archive.org/">http://www.archive.org/</a>,
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, <a href="http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/">http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/</a>. 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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Nancy Ide <ide_at_cs.vassar.edu>
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
<<a href="http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk">http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk</a>><a href="http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/">http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/</a>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: simon mahony <simon.mahony_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html</a>
----------------------
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
<a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX">http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX</a>



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 <sramsay_at_unlserve.unl.edu>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) 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
<<a href="gopher://gopher:epas.utoronto.ca:70/11/cch/hum_comp/software/TACT">gopher://gopher:epas.utoronto.ca:70/11/cch/hum_comp/software/TACT</a>>.
(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
<a href="http://lenz.unl.edu/">http://lenz.unl.edu/</a>




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 lan�amento do quarto n�mero da Revista Texto Digital (ISSN
1807-9288), no endere�o <a href="http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br">http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br</a>. Publicada apenas em
formato eletr�nico, essa revista � um espa�o destinado � publica��o de textos
cuja tem�tica envolva a Literatura e o Texto no Meio Digital, assim como as
implica��es 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 <a href="http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br">http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br</a>. Published only in electronic format,
this magazine means to be a space for publishing texts who&#x2019;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 quatri�me numero de Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288) vient de para�tre, �
l�adresse <a href="http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br">http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br</a>. Cette revue, qui n�est publi� qu�en
version num�rique, sur le web, propose un espace 
de publication en ligne ouverte
� des travaux portant sur la litt�rature et les textes dans le num�rique,
ainsi que l&#x2019;�criture, la lecture et l&#x2019;apprentissage de litt�rature � l&#x2019;aide des
ordinateurs.
Amigos,
Venimos a divulgar el n�mero 4 de la revista Texto Digital (ISSN 1807-9288), en
la direcci�n <a href="http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br">http://www.textodigital.ufsc.br</a>. Publicada solamente en formato
electr�nico, esa revista es un espacio para publicaci�n de textos acerca de la
literatura y de los textos en el medio digital, y tambi�n las implicaciones de
escrita, lectura, ense�anza y aprendizaje en ese medio.
Att.
Comiss�o Editorial da Revista Texto Digital
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Centro de Comunica��o e Express�o
N�cleo de Pesquisas em Inform�tica, Literatura e Ling��stica
Pr�dio B - Sala 509
Telefone(48) 3331-6590



From: "Natasha McCarthy" <natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk>
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:
<<a href="http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf">http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf</a>><a href="http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf">http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf</a>
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:    <mailto:natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk>natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk
Web:       <<a href="http://www.raeng.org.uk">http://www.raeng.org.uk</a>>www.raeng.org.uk


From: "Natasha McCarthy" <natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk>
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) <a href="http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/wpe">http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/wpe</a>
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
(<a href="http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/wpe">http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/wpe</a>), 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
<a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html">http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html</a>) 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 <Wim.Van-Mierlo_at_SAS.AC.UK>
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
<a href="http://ies.sas.ac.uk">http://ies.sas.ac.uk</a>



From: "Bobley, Brett" <BBobley_at_neh.gov>
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:
<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html</a>
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:  <a href="https://securegrants.neh.gov/dhi.asp">https://securegrants.neh.gov/dhi.asp</a>
Thank you,
Brett
------------------------------------------------
Brett Bobley
Chief Information Officer
Director, Digital Humanities Initiative
National Endowment for the Humanities
<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html</a>
(202) 606-8401
bbobley_at_neh.gov


From: AHRC ICT Methods Network <methnet_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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 <a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/hca/ahc/conf.htm">http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/hca/ahc/conf.htm</a>
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:
<a href="http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html">http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html</a>
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" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu>
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
<a href="http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitjul07.php">http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitjul07.php</a>.
You can read all back issues of Infobits at
<a href="http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/">http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html">http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html</a>.
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: <a href="http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/">http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm07/erm0740.asp">http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm07/erm0740.asp</a>.
EDUCAUSE Review [ISSN 1527-6619], a bimonthly print magazine that
explores developments in information technology and education, is
published by EDUCAUSE (<a href="http://www.educause.edu/">http://www.educause.edu/</a>). Articles from current
and back issues of EDUCAUSE Review are available on the Web at
<a href="http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/">http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing">http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing</a>.
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 (<a href="http://www.jstor.org/">http://www.jstor.org/</a>) and ARTstor
(<a href="http://www.artstor.org/">http://www.artstor.org/</a>), and we are currently incubating three
initiatives: Aluka (<a href="http://www.aluka.org/">http://www.aluka.org/</a>), a digital library of
scholarly resources from and about the developing world; NITLE
(<a href="http://www.nitle.org/">http://www.nitle.org/</a>), a collaborative effort to promote emerging
technologies in liberal arts contexts; and Portico
(<a href="http://www.portico.org/">http://www.portico.org/</a>), a permanent archive of electronic scholarly
journals." For more information about Ithaka, go to
<a href="http://www.ithaka.org/">http://www.ithaka.org/</a>.
See also:
"New Model for University Presses"
By Scott Jaschik
INSIDE HIGHER ED, July 31, 2007
<a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/31/ricepress">http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/31/ricepress</a>
"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
<a href="http://optimalscholarship.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-difference-publisher-makes.html">http://optimalscholarship.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-difference-publisher-makes.html</a>
"[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
<a href="http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/SER07017B.pdf">http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/SER07017B.pdf</a>.
For more information about the 2007 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional
Conference and to view the proceedings, go to
<a href="http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=248">http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=248</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://www.wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx">http://www.wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx</a>
"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; <a href="http://fm.schmoller.net/">http://fm.schmoller.net/</a>) on David Jennings' posting on
anarchism (<a href="http://alchemi.co.uk/archives/ide/is_web_20_a_man.html">http://alchemi.co.uk/archives/ide/is_web_20_a_man.html</a>), I
was led to the link to Leadbeater's book.]
[...]



From: Sergei Nirenburg <sergei_at_umbc.edu>
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: <a href="http://ilit.umbc.edu/ASI">http://ilit.umbc.edu/ASI</a>. 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" <philbu_at_gmx.net>
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
<a href="http://www.inst.at/kctos/sektionen_a-f/fiser_budka.htm">http://www.inst.at/kctos/sektionen_a-f/fiser_budka.htm</a>
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
<a href="http://www-distance.syr.edu/apa5th.html">http://www-distance.syr.edu/apa5th.html</a>), 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
<a href="http://www.inst.at/kctos/publikationen_en.htm">http://www.inst.at/kctos/publikationen_en.htm</a>).=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 <a href="http://www.philbu.net">http://www.philbu.net</a>


From: Timothy Stinson <tlstinson_at_gmail.com>
Subject: CFP: Digital Media and Peer Review in Medieval Studies <fwd>
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
<a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX">http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX</a>



From: Sean and Karine Lawrence <seanlawrence_at_writeme.com>
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 <a href="http://purl.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.org/emls/emlshome.html</a>
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 <amdghr_at_GMAIL.COM>
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 <gabriel.bodard_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html</a>

-- 
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
<a href="http://www.digitalclassicist.org/">http://www.digitalclassicist.org/</a>
<a href="http://www.currentepigraphy.org/">http://www.currentepigraphy.org/</a>




From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 Schr�dinger'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 Schr�dinger's book, 
allow me a small bit of background. Schr�dinger 
(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 Schr�dinger 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 Schr�dinger 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, 
Schr�dinger-like bravery is required.
Comments?
Yours,
WM
Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities 
Computing | Centre for Computing in the 
Humanities | King's College London | 
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in 
infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26).  



From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i31_mohan.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i31_mohan.html</a>>



From: "Helena Francke" <Helena.Francke_at_hb.se>
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
<a href="http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/">http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/</a>
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
<a href="http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/index.htm#guest">http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/index.htm#guest</a>
* David Brolin
Den digitala hammarens filosof: Vilem Flusser-introduktion på svenska
[The Philosopher of the Digital Hammer: An Introduction in Swedish to
Vilém Flusser] (Review)
<a href="http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/db.htm">http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/db.htm</a>
* Lars Ilshammar
When Computers Become Dangerous: The Swedish Computer Discourse of the
1960s
(Refereed Section)
<a href="http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/li.htm">http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/li.htm</a>
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)
<a href="http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/eh.htm">http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/eh.htm</a>
* Kenneth Hanstrom
Autenticitet i en digital varld: Langsiktsbevarande av allmanna
handlingar [Authenticity in a Digital World: Long Term Preservation of
Public Records] (Open Section)
<a href="http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/kh.htm">http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/kh.htm</a>
* Karin Wagner
Internet Art and the Archive (Open Section)
<a href="http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/kw.htm">http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/kw.htm</a>
* Pauline Singh, Jane E. Klobas & Karen Anderson
Information Seeking Behaviour of Electronic Records Management Systems
(ERMS) Users Implications for Records Management Practices (Refereed
Section)
<a href="http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/psjkka.htm">http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-9/psjkka.htm</a>
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 <cmwitt_at_mail.utexas.edu>
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
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From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz_at_OUCS.OX.AC.UK>
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 <lou.burnard_at_computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
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 <a href="http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07">http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07</a> 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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 <a href="http://springerlink.com">http://springerlink.com</a>
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, J�rgen 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, J�rg 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
G�rard Lachapelle
pp. 481 - 488
MoteTrack: a robust, decentralized approach to RF-based location tracking
Konrad Lorincz, Matt Welsh
pp. 489 - 503 



From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman_at_bi.no>
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,
<<a href="http://www.ijdesign.org">http://www.ijdesign.org</a>>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
<<a href="http://www.ijdesign.org">http://www.ijdesign.org</a>>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
<<a href="http://www.IJDesign.org">http://www.IJDesign.org</a>>www.IJDesign.org
Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 




From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns_at_vt.edu>
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
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School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard_at_computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
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 <a href="http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07">http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07</a> 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
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Original Articles
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   Quantitative Authorship Attribution: An Evaluation of Techniques
        Jack Grieve
        Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:251-270.
        <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/251?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/251?etoc</a>
   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.
        <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/271?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/271?etoc</a>
   Metamorphosis: Remediation in Early English Books Online (EEBO)
        Diana Kichuk
        Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:291-303.
        <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/291?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/291?etoc</a>
   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.
        <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/305?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/305?etoc</a>
   Discovery of Language Resources on the Web: Information Extraction from
   Heterogeneous Documents
        Viktor Pekar and Richard Evans
        Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:329-343.
        <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/329?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/329?etoc</a>
   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.
        <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/345?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/345?etoc</a>
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Review Article
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   Digital Art and Technical Convergence: A Review of Silicon Remembers
   Carbon, an Exhibition
        Marilyn Deegan
        Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:363-366.
        <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/363?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/363?etoc</a>
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Reviews
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   Georeferencing: The Geographic Associations of Information. * Hill, Linda L.
        Stuart E. Dunn
        Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:367-369.
        <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/367?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/367?etoc</a>
   An Approach to Videogame Criticism. * Ian Bogost.
        Stephen Ramsay
        Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:369-370.
        <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/369?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/369?etoc</a>
   Aesthetic Computing. * Fishwick, Paul A. (ed).
        Stan Ruecker
        Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:370-372.
        <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/370?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/370?etoc</a>
   Challenge and Change in the Information Society. * Susan Hornby and Zoe
   Clarke (eds).
        Melissa M. Terras
        Lit Linguist Computing 2007 22:372-374.
        <a href="http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/372?etoc">http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/372?etoc</a>



From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cwbailey_at_DIGITAL-SCHOLARSHIP.COM>
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).
<a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0UByvn6MY_2bYljXrnUGsdMA_3d_3d">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0UByvn6MY_2bYljXrnUGsdMA_3d_3d</a>
Thanks.

--
Best Regards,
Charles
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Digital Scholarship
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/</a>
DigitalKoans/Flashback
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/</a>
<a href="http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/">http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/</a>
Open Access Bibliography/Webliography
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm</a>
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html</a>
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm</a>




From: "Laura Gottesman" <lgot_at_loc.gov>
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: <a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html</a>
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
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/">http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/</a> .] 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
(<a href="http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf">http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf</a>) 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:
<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html</a> . LC*s technical
guidelines are found at:
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf">http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf</a> .
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
< <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-digital.html">http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-digital.html</a>  >



From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i32_cio.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i32_cio.html</a>>



From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cwbailey_at_DIGITAL-SCHOLARSHIP.COM>
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.
<a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0UByvn6MY_2bYljXrnUGsdMA_3d_3d">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0UByvn6MY_2bYljXrnUGsdMA_3d_3d</a>
The responses so far have been very helpful.  Thanks again.

--
Best Regards,
Charles
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Digital Scholarship
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/</a>
DigitalKoans/Flashback
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/</a>
<a href="http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/">http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/</a>
Open Access Bibliography/Webliography
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm</a>
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html</a>
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm</a>




From: simon mahony <simon.mahony_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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
<a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX">http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX</a>



From: Natasha Smith <nsmith_at_email.unc.edu>
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:
<a href="http://www.lib.unc.edu/jobs/epa/nc_maps.html">http://www.lib.unc.edu/jobs/epa/nc_maps.html</a>
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 (<a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu">http://docsouth.unc.edu</a>) 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 <<a href="http://www.unc.edu/">http://www.unc.edu/</a>> 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<<a href="http://www.arl.org/">http://www.arl.org/</a>>,
the Center for Research Libraries, the Triangle Research Libraries Network
(TRLN) and SOLINET <<a href="http://www.solinet.net/">http://www.solinet.net/</a>>. The TRLN libraries, including
the Health Sciences <<a href="http://www.hsl.unc.edu/">http://www.hsl.unc.edu/</a>> and
Law<<a href="http://library.law.unc.edu/home.shtml">http://library.law.unc.edu/home.shtml</a>>libraries at Chapel Hill
plus the libraries at Duke
University <<a href="http://www.lib.duke.edu/">http://www.lib.duke.edu/</a>>, North Carolina Central
University<<a href="http://www.nccu.edu/library/shepard.html">http://www.nccu.edu/library/shepard.html</a>>,
and North Carolina State University <<a href="http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/">http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/</a>>, have
combined collections of over eleven million volumes.
*The Region*
   The Triangle region <<a href="http://triangle.citysearch.com/">http://triangle.citysearch.com/</a>> 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
<<a href="http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/workshops.html">http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/workshops.html</a>>.
              --
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 <<a href="http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/">http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/</a>>.
Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 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:
<<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html</a>><a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/gu">http://www.neh.gov/grants/gu</a>=
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
<<a href="http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/">http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/</a>>
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
(<<a href="http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf">http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf</a>>
outlined by the Library of Congress.
NDNP builds on the foundation established by an
earlier NEH initiative: the United States
Newspaper Program (USNP)
<<a href="http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html">http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html</a>>.
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:
<<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html</a>>
. LC=92s technical guidelines are found at:
<<a href="http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf">http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf</a>>



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: "Donald Waters" <DJW_at_mellon.org>
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 <<mailto:rbarrick_at_stanford.edu>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:
<<a href="http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/digital_hum.htm">http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/digital_hum.htm</a>>
email: <mailto:shc-fellowships_at_stanford.edu>
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
<mailto:rbarrick_at_stanford.edu>rbarrick_at_stanford.edu


From: Melissa Terras <m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk>
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&#x2019; , 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&#x2019;
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: <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/</a>
Blog: <a href="http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/">http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/</a>
General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: 
<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/</a>
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:
<<a href="http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557">http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557</a>><a href="http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557">http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199204557</a>




From: Carlos Areces <areces_at_loria.fr>
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)
                      <a href="http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M5">http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M5</a>
             Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France
                           November 29-30
====================================================================
The EasyChair Submission Page is now open at:
                   <a href="http://www.easychair.org/M4M5/">http://www.easychair.org/M4M5/</a>
====================================================================
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
                         <a href="http://m4m.loria.fr/">http://m4m.loria.fr/</a>
[...]


From: "Natasha McCarthy" <natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk>
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:
<<a href="http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf">http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf</a>><a href="http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf">http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_Metaphysics_flyer.pdf</a>
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:    <mailto:natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk>natasha.mccarthy_at_raeng.org.uk
Web:       <<a href="http://www.raeng.org.uk">http://www.raeng.org.uk</a>>www.raeng.org.uk
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From: Martin Mueller <martinmueller_at_northwestern.edu>
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" <jtrant_at_archimuse.com>
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
  Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada
  <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/</a>
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 <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/</a>
Search the bibliography of past papers (all 
on-line since 1997) at <a href="http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum/">http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum/</a>
* PROPOSAL FORM *
On-line proposal submission is required. Use the 
form at <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/mw2008.proposal.form.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/mw2008.proposal.form.html</a>
[...]



From: Stefan Sinclair <sgsinclair_at_gmail.com>
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 &#x2013; 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 &#x2013; 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 &#x2013; you will be 
greatly missed. My thoughts and sympathies are with your family.
St�fan

--
Dr. St�fan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University
Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793
Address:
     TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia
     Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2
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From: Suzanne Gossett <sgosset_at_LUC.EDU>
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." <e.r.okell_at_DURHAM.AC.UK>
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 <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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
(<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/pf/v8i28_persuasive.pdf">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/pf/v8i28_persuasive.pdf</a>).><a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/pf/v8i28_persuasive.pdf">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/pf/v8i28_persuasive.pdf</a>).
See: 
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i33_yaffee.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i33_yaffee.html</a>><a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i33_yaffee.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i33_yaffee.html</a>  



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 <mailto:cmstdir_at_mcmaster.ca>cmstdir_at_mcmaster.ca
Deadline:        No later than 4:00 pm Friday, August 31, 2007

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this address for communication that is
susceptible to spambots. My regular email address
starts with my user handle sgs and uses the
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Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793
Address:
      TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia
      Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2
<<a href="http://stefansinclair.name/">http://stefansinclair.name/</a>>




From: John Bonnett <jbonnett_at_BROCKU.CA>
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:
<a href="http://storytelling.concordia.ca">http://storytelling.concordia.ca</a>


From: Dot Porter <dporter_at_UKY.EDU>
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
(<mailto:stinson_at_jhu.edu>stinson_at_jhu.edu). Please include name,
professional/university affiliation, and contact information.

-- 
Timothy L. Stinson
Postdoctoral Fellow
Johns Hopkins University
<<a href="http://dkc.jhu.edu/%7Etstinson/">http://dkc.jhu.edu/%7Etstinson/</a>><a href="http://dkc.jhu.edu/~tstinson/">http://dkc.jhu.edu/~tstinson/</a>
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From: Shuly Wintner <shuly_at_cs.haifa.ac.il>
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 <georock_at_mcmaster.ca>
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,
<a href="http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/TaporRecipes">http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/TaporRecipes</a>
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,
<a href="http://tapor2.mcmaster.ca/myLinks/HumComp">http://tapor2.mcmaster.ca/myLinks/HumComp</a>
3. Students can use tools without TAPoR accounts. They can search for
a tool and use it from,
<a href="http://portal.tapor.ca/tools/">http://portal.tapor.ca/tools/</a>
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 <kimballs_at_umich.edu>
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
<<a href="http://scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/">http://scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/</a>><a href="http://scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/">http://scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/</a> 



From: Nancy Ide <ide_at_cs.vassar.edu>
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
<a href="http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/">http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/</a>
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
(<a href="http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/2008/html/paper.jsp">http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/2008/html/paper.jsp</a>). Submissions are
made through the START system, accessible at <a href="http://icgl08.cs.vassar.edu">http://icgl08.cs.vassar.edu</a>.
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 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 <a href="http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008">http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008</a>
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 <simon.mahony_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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
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King's College London
Kay House
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London WC2R 3DX
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813
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From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v8i34_invocation.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v8i34_invocation.html</a>>



From: Katherine L Walter <kwalter_at_unlnotes.unl.edu>
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 <a href="http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/">http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/</a>.
*****************************************
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
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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!
<a href="http://www.chart.ac.uk/">http://www.chart.ac.uk/</a>
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
<mailto:hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk>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:
<<a href="http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html">http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html</a>>.
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" <msuchanova_at_esf.org>
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:
<<a href="http://www.esf.org/research-areas/space/activities/inif-activities.html">http://www.esf.org/research-areas/space/activities/inif-activities.html</a>>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" <OFrancois_at_umuc.edu>
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
    <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml</a>
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- <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml</a>
---------------
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 -
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#copyright">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#copyright</a>
---------------
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 -
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#DMCA">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#DMCA</a>
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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 -
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#integratingaccess">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#integratingaccess</a>
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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 -
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#AI">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#AI</a>
TO SIGN UP:
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/29jg53">http://tinyurl.com/29jg53</a> [Secured Server]

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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 <craig.bellamy_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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: 
<<a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/allProjects.jsp">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/allProjects.jsp</a>><a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/allProjects.jsp">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/allProjects.jsp</a>
Highlight:
3D Reconstruction of the Unbuilt Project Pont 
destin� � r�unir la France � l&#x2019;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 Biblioth�que 
Sainte-Genevi�ve, 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 Biblioth�que 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: 
<<a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=766">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=766</a>><a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=766">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=766</a> 
Suggestions for new projects most welcome.
Kind Regards,
Craig Bellamy

--
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Research Associate
ICT Guides, AHDS,
King's College, London
<<a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/</a>><a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/">http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/</a>
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Phone: 020 7848 1976




From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu>
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
<a href="http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitaug07.php">http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitaug07.php</a>.
You can read all back issues of Infobits at
<a href="http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/">http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/</a>.
......................................................................
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"
(<a href="http://www.sloan-c.org/workshop/learningonline_june07.asp">http://www.sloan-c.org/workshop/learningonline_june07.asp</a>), presenters
Burks Oakley and Ray Schroeder provided a list of their top 20 Web 2.0
technologies. These technologies are linked to from
<a href="http://www.sloan-c-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Burks_Oakley_and_Ray_Schroeder:_Top_20_Technologies">http://www.sloan-c-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Burks_Oakley_and_Ray_Schroeder:_Top_20_Technologies</a>.
You can join workshop participants in evaluating these technologies in
the SloanCWiki at <a href="http://www.sloan-c.pbwiki.com">http://www.sloan-c.pbwiki.com</a>.
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 <a href="http://www.aln.org/">http://www.aln.org/</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=49570">http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=49570</a>.
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:
<a href="http://www.campus-technology.com/">http://www.campus-technology.com/</a>.
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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
<a href="http://www.thejeo.com/Volume4Number2/Angelino%20Final.pdf">http://www.thejeo.com/Volume4Number2/Angelino%20Final.pdf</a>.
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:
<a href="http://www.thejeo.com/">http://www.thejeo.com/</a>.
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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
<a href="http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImpressionsofCommuni/44739">http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImpressionsofCommuni/44739</a>
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
<a href="http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=4">http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=4</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://research.google.com/university/search/">http://research.google.com/university/search/</a>.
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
<a href="http://research.google.com/university/translate/">http://research.google.com/university/translate/</a>.
For an overview of all Google Research activities visit
<a href="http://research.google.com/">http://research.google.com/</a>.
......................................................................
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)
<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i28_persuasive.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i28_persuasive.html</a>
"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)
<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i33_yaffee.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i33_yaffee.html</a>
"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" <anna.bentkowska_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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 <a href="http://3dvisa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/bulletin.html">http://3dvisa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/bulletin.html</a>
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 <K.Bontcheva_at_dcs.shef.ac.uk>
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
<a href="http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007">http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007</a>
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: <a href="http://www.euromap.bas.bg/reg/">http://www.euromap.bas.bg/reg/</a>
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" <mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com>
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:
<a href="http://www.mith2.umd.edu/programs/mith_speakers_fall_2007.pdf">http://www.mith2.umd.edu/programs/mith_speakers_fall_2007.pdf</a>
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)
<a href="http://www.mith.umd.edu/">http://www.mith.umd.edu/</a>
<a href="http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/">http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/</a>


From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
<a href="http://ies.sas.ac.uk/">http://ies.sas.ac.uk/</a>, 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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 




From: Wolfram Horstmann <wolfram.horstmann_at_GMAIL.COM>
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.
<a href="http://www.driver-repository.eu">http://www.driver-repository.eu</a>
<a href="http://www.driver-support.eu">http://www.driver-support.eu</a>
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.
<a href="http://www.libereurope.eu">http://www.libereurope.eu</a>
Contacts:
DRIVER, Dr. Norbert Lossau, lossau_at_sub.uni-goettingen.de
<mailto:lossau_at_sub.uni-goettingen.de>
LIBER, Hans Geleijnse, Hans Geleijnse_at_uvt.nl <mailto:Geleijnse_at_uvt.nl>



From: Yorick Wilks <Yorick_at_dcs.shef.ac.uk>
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
<<a href="http://www.companions-project.org/">http://www.companions-project.org/</a>>
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 <<a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs">http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs</a>>or
enquire from <mailto:yorick_at_dcs.shef>.  DEADLINE
September 30, 2007.
Dr Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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  <a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity</a>.
See:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i35_saha.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i35_saha.html</a>><a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i35_saha.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i35_saha.html</a> 



From: Shuly Wintner <shuly_at_cs.haifa.ac.il>
Subject: CFP: CICLing-2008
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:50:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 333 (333)

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From: "Alison Holgate" <A.Holgate_at_maney.co.uk>
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 Sup�rieure (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 Sup�rieure,
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-Fran�ois Allemand1,
Gilles Charvin2, Vincent Croquette1, Giuseppe Lia2 and David Bensimon1
(1Ecole Normale Sup�rieure, 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 Sup�rieure, 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)

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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
<a href="http://www.springer.com/west/home/engineering?SGWID=4-175-22-173736544-0">http://www.springer.com/west/home/engineering?SGWID=4-175-22-173736544-0</a>
********************************************************************
LORENZO MAGNANI,
Morality in a Technological World. Knowledge as Duty,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007
Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521877695)
<a href="http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521877695">http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521877695</a>
Author's Website: <a href="http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/site.php">http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/site.php</a>
*********************************************************************



From: DH2007 <dh2008_at_digitalhumanities.org>
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
<a href="https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/index.php?conf=main">https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/index.php?conf=main</a>




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:
<<a href="http://www.muohio.edu/visualrhetoric/Miamiworkshop.pdf">http://www.muohio.edu/visualrhetoric/Miamiworkshop.pdf</a>> 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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 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:
<<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/">http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/</a>>
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: <<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/">http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/</a>> 



From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i36_yaffe.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i36_yaffe.html</a>><a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i36_yaffe.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i36_yaffe.html</a> 



From: Susan Schreibman <sschreib_at_umd.edu>
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 <a href="http://www.lib.umd.edu/">http://www.lib.umd.edu/</a> for more information.
RESPONSIBILITIES: This new position will support the office of
Digital Collections and Research (DCR) <a href="http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr">http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr</a>.
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 <a href="http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/PASD/LPO/LibJobs/0807.html">http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/PASD/LPO/LibJobs/0807.html</a>
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
<a href="http://lib.umd.edu/dcr">http://lib.umd.edu/dcr</a>
<a href="http://irith.org">http://irith.org</a>
<a href="http://macgreevy.org">http://macgreevy.org</a>


From: "Jason Rhody" <jasonrhody_at_gmail.com>
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:
<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/JISC.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/JISC.html</a>
For further information about NEH's Digital Humanities Initiative, please=
  see:
<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html</a>
------
Jason Rhody < jrhody_at_neh.gov >
Senior Program Officer
National Endowment for the Humanities
Digital Humanities Initiative
<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html</a>
202.606.8364




From: Julia Flanders <Julia_Flanders_at_Brown.edu>
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
<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/</a>. 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 <a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/</a> 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 Aut�noma de M�xico", Ernesto Priani Sais�,
Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico


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 <Mark_Davies_at_byu.edu>
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: <a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/aacl2008">http://corpus.byu.edu/aacl2008</a>
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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)
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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 <aacl2008_at_byu.edu>.
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" <jtrant_at_archimuse.com>
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
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/</a>
--------------------------------------------------------------
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 <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001615.html">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001615.html</a>
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
<a href="https://www2.archimuse.com/ichim07/ichim07.registrationForm.html">https://www2.archimuse.com/ichim07/ichim07.registrationForm.html</a>
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
<a href="http://conference.archimuse.com">http://conference.archimuse.com</a> 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
<a href="http://conference.archimuse.com/blog/dbear/ichim07_in_memory_of_xavier_perrot">http://conference.archimuse.com/blog/dbear/ichim07_in_memory_of_xavier_perrot</a>
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
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/</a>
[...]


From: "Olga Francois" <OFrancois_at_umuc.edu>
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
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml</a>
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
- <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#copyright">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#copyright</a>
-----
DMCA, P2P FILESHARING AND CAMPUS RESPONSES
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml</a>
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 -
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#DMCA">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#DMCA</a>
SIGN UP TODAY!
Early Bird Rates $150 each
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/29jg53">http://tinyurl.com/29jg53</a> [Secured Server]
Online Workshop FAQ- <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml</a>
For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources & services
please see our homepage-  <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/</a>

--
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 <a href="http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008">http://www.action-m.com/dhms2008</a>
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 <klists_at_saphor.de>
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
<a href="http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2008/tracks.php#trackE-humanities">http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2008/tracks.php#trackE-humanities</a>
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
<a href="http://people.fh-worms.de/~kuester">http://people.fh-worms.de/~kuester</a>


From: Shuly Wintner <shuly_at_cs.haifa.ac.il>
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: <a href="http://cl.haifa.ac.il/LangAcq07/program.shtml">http://cl.haifa.ac.il/LangAcq07/program.shtml</a>
More information: <a href="http://cl.haifa.ac.il/LangAcq07/">http://cl.haifa.ac.il/LangAcq07/</a>
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: <a href="http://cl.haifa.ac.il/LangAcq07/">http://cl.haifa.ac.il/LangAcq07/</a>
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   <a href="http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly">http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly</a>


From: "Olga Francois" <OFrancois_at_umuc.edu>
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
    <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/index.shtml</a>
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- <a href="http://tinyurl.com/29jg53">http://tinyurl.com/29jg53</a>
Other titles in the 2007-2008 Workshop Series include:
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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-
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml</a>
Moderator Bios- <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/moderators.shtml">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/moderators.shtml</a>
FAQ- <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml</a>
SIGN UP TODAY!
Early Bird Rates $150 each
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/29jg53">http://tinyurl.com/29jg53</a> [Secured Server]
For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources & services
please see our homepage at- <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/</a>
--
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" <CS-Admin_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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:
<a href="http://wendyearle.wordpress.com/seminar-what-good-is-e-learning/">http://wendyearle.wordpress.com/seminar-what-good-is-e-learning/</a>
To book a place, please go to:
<a href="http://www.instituteofideas.com/events/battleofideas2007/satellite_learning.html">http://www.instituteofideas.com/events/battleofideas2007/satellite_learning.html</a>
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 <a href="http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/">http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/</a> (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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Bonnie Wilson <bwilson_at_cnri.reston.va.us>
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
(<a href="http://www.dlib.org/">http://www.dlib.org/</a>) 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 <ken.friedman_at_bi.no>
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:
<a href="http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/">http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/</a>
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 <Ryan.Deschamps_at_Dal.Ca>
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.
<a href="http://del.icio.us/Greebie/keen">http://del.icio.us/Greebie/keen</a>
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 <pbrantley_at_diglib.org>
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.
<a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/the_work_of_lea.html">http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/the_work_of_lea.html</a>
pb

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digital library federation  | <a href="http://www.diglib.org">http://www.diglib.org</a>
__________________________________________________
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From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i36_yaffe.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i36_yaffe.html</a>><a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i37_tsekeris.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i37_tsekeris.html</a> 


From: Methnet <methnet_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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.
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/">http://www.arts-humanities.net/</a>
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:
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/366">http://www.arts-humanities.net/366</a>
For further information please contact Torsten Reimer
(torsten.reimer_at_kcl.ac.uk).



From: John Unsworth <unsworth_at_uiuc.edu>
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 <ptrolard_at_artsci.wustl.edu>
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 <a href="http://www.wustlcareers.com">http://www.wustlcareers.com</a> & 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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 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
<<a href="http://tamujobs.tamu.edu/">http://tamujobs.tamu.edu/</a>><a href="http://tamujobs.tamu.edu/">http://tamujobs.tamu.edu/</a>  (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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: "Olga Francois" <OFrancois_at_umuc.edu>
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
         <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/</a>
         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
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/29jg53">http://tinyurl.com/29jg53</a> [Secured Server]
Online Workshop FAQ- <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml</a>
Complete 2007-2008 Workshop Series see- <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/</a>
For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources & services
please see our homepage-  <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/cip/">http://www.umuc.edu/cip/</a>

--
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" <Elli_Mylonas_at_Brown.Edu>
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: <a href="http://www.interfictions.org/readingdigitalliterature">http://www.interfictions.org/readingdigitalliterature</a>
*	Katherine Hayles: The Literary as Distributed Cognition in
Strickland and Jaramillo's slippingglimpse
*	Rita Raley: List(en)ing Post
*	J�rgen Sch�fer: 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:
<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/english/events/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/english/events/</a>
or:
<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/phpnews/wmview.php?ArtCat=3">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/phpnews/wmview.php?ArtCat=3</a>
Max Saunders
Professor of English
King's College London


From: Soraj Hongladarom <hsoraj_at_chula.ac.th>
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: <a href="http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/APCAP2007/">http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/APCAP2007/</a>
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
(<a href="http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/CAP/AP-CAP.html">http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/CAP/AP-CAP.html</a>).
AP-CAP2007 is part of the series of conferences organized by the
International Association for Computing and Philosophy
(<a href="http://www.ia-cap.org">http://www.ia-cap.org</a>). 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 <arianna.ciula_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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)
Universit� 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
<a href="http://www.dgs.univr.it/dol/main?ent=3Dseminario&amp;id=3D897">http://www.dgs.univr.it/dol/main?ent=3Dseminario&amp;id=3D897</a>.

--
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
<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch</a>




From: "John Maguire" <J.Maguire_at_ria.ie>
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 <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i38_japan.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i38_japan.html</a>>



From: Arianna Ciula <arianna.ciula_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 <a href="http://www.dgs.univr.it/dol/main?ent=seminario&amp;id=897">http://www.dgs.univr.it/dol/main?ent=seminario&amp;id=897</a>.

-- 
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
<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch</a>


From: <carlos.martin_at_urv.cat>
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
<a href="http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2008/index.html">http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2008/index.html</a>
*******************************************************************************
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." <cwbailey_at_digital-scholarship.org>
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.
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html</a>
New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans:
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/</a>
RSS: <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans">http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans</a>
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.
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm</a>
For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital
publications since my resignation from the University
of Houston Libraries, see:
<a href="http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-digital-publications-changes/">http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-digital-publications-changes/</a>
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)
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756">http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756</a>
<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss">http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss</a>
(2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory
of over 270 related Web sites)
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm</a>
(3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm</a>
Related Article
An article about the bibliography has been published
in The Journal of Electronic Publishing:
<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html</a>

-- 
Best Regards,
Charles
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Digital Scholarship
<a href="http://www.digital-scholarship.org/">http://www.digital-scholarship.org/</a>
DigitalKoans
Open Access Bibliography
Open Access Webliography
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog




From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: "J. Trant" <jtrant_at_ARCHIMUSE.COM>
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
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hope to see you in Montreal,
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Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2008	produced by
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  (CCO).



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p.
26). 



From: Stuart Dunn <stuart.dunn_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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 
<<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde</a>=
x=3D6011><a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php</a>=
?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
<mailto:stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk>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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Andreas Aschenbrenner <aschenbrenner_at_sub.uni-goettingen.de>
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
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) schrieb:
[deleted quotation]

From: Michael Norton <nortonml_at_jmu.edu>
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:
<<a href="http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonJMU2001.ppt">http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonJMU2001.ppt</a>><a href="http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonJMU2001.ppt">http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonJMU2001.ppt</a>
(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"
<<a href="http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonRutgers2002.pdf">http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonRutgers2002.pdf</a>><a href="http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonRutgers2002.pdf">http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonRutgers2002.pdf</a>
and
"Representation, Interpretation, and Integration: A Layered
Architecture for the Encoding of Medieval Liturgical Manuscripts"
<<a href="http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005.pdf">http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005.pdf</a>><a href="http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005.pdf">http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005.pdf</a> 
(paper)
<<a href="http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005-Slides.pdf">http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005-Slides.pdf</a>><a href="http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005-Slides.pdf">http://nortonlx.cs.jmu.edu/papers/NortonKalamazoo2005-Slides.pdf</a> 
(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
   * <mailto:nortonml_at_jmu.edu>nortonml_at_jmu.edu
   ***********************************/
On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:39 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of
Willard McCarty
<<mailto:willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
[deleted quotation]


From: Julia Flanders <Julia_Flanders_at_Brown.edu>
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" <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" <jtrant_at_archimuse.com>
Subject: ICHIM07 papers on-line
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:05:44 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 21 Num. 385 (385)

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ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting
digital culture and heritage
Toronto, October 24-26, 2007
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/</a>
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ICHIM07 Papers are now on-line
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html</a>
The first group of papers to be presented at the International
Cultural Heritage
Informatics Meeting are now on-line. See the full list at
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html</a>
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.
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Closing Plenary: Ranjiit Makkuni on the Eternal Gandhi
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001589.html">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001589.html</a>
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.
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Full details on-line at <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/register/index.html">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/register/index.html</a>
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Questions?
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

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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
                             <a href="http://www.memics.cz/">http://www.memics.cz/</a>
                 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: <a href="http://www.memics.cz">http://www.memics.cz</a>




From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p.
26). 



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Carlos Areces <carlos.areces_at_loria.fr>
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
(<a href="http://www.springer.com/west/home/philosophy/logic?SGWID=4-40392-70-35503189-0">http://www.springer.com/west/home/philosophy/logic?SGWID=4-40392-70-35503189-0</a>) 
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 Bra�ner (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 Bra�ner, Roskilde University, Denmark (editor-in-chief)
Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark
==================================================================
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INRIA Researcher               fax   : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79
                                e-mail: carlos.areces_at_loria.fr
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From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu>
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
<a href="http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitsep07.php">http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitsep07.php</a>.
You can read all back issues of Infobits at
<a href="http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/">http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://www.usi.edu/business/mamcknight/publications/INTHIG281.pdf">http://www.usi.edu/business/mamcknight/publications/INTHIG281.pdf</a>.
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
<a href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620187/description">http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620187/description</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://www.educause.edu/ers0706">http://www.educause.edu/ers0706</a>.
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
<a href="http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=4">http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=4</a>.
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
<a href="http://jite.org/documents/Vol6/JITEv6p169-180Keengwe218.pdf">http://jite.org/documents/Vol6/JITEv6p169-180Keengwe218.pdf</a>
"[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 <a href="http://jite.org/">http://jite.org/</a>. 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: <a href="http://informingscience.org/">http://informingscience.org/</a>.
"Student Expectations Study: Key Findings from Online Research and
        Discussion Evenings Help in June 2007 for the Joint Information
        Systems Committee"
July 2007
<a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/studentexpectations.pdf">http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/studentexpectations.pdf</a>
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 <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/">http://www.jisc.ac.uk/</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://www.atwoodpublishing.com/books/295.htm">http://www.atwoodpublishing.com/books/295.htm</a>.
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 <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">http://creativecommons.org/</a>.
......................................................................
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
(<a href="http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitmar07.php#1">http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitmar07.php#1</a>), 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
<a href="http://its.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree">http://its.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree</a>.
......................................................................
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
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/06/070806fa_fact_specter">http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/06/070806fa_fact_specter</a>
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
<a href="http://lists.unc.edu/read/rss?forum=infobits">http://lists.unc.edu/read/rss?forum=infobits</a>.
......................................................................
[...]


From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v8i39_levy.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v8i39_levy.html</a>>



From: Wendell Piez <wapiez_at_mulberrytech.com>
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)
Montr�al 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: <a href="http://www.balisage.net/">http://www.balisage.net/</a> for details on Balisage
Updates: subscribe to the Markup Conference Announcement list
      <a href="http://www.balisage.net/MarkupAnnounce.html">http://www.balisage.net/MarkupAnnounce.html</a>
Questions: info_at_balisage.net
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Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com">http://www.mulberrytech.com</a>
17 West Jefferson Street                    Direct Phone: 301/315-9635
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Rockville, MD  20850                                 Fax: 301/315-8285
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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
<mailto:hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk>hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk
www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk


From: Kuldar Taveter <kuldar_at_csse.unimelb.edu.au>
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)
           <a href="http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/">http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/</a>
             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 <a href="http://edoc.mitre.org/">http://edoc.mitre.org/</a>.
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:
<quote>
* 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day
does not exist in this year in Italy,
Poland, Portugal and Spain.
</quote>
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.]
<quote>
Clocks count forward with craze, but<lb/>
bells count backwards in sober grace.
<cit>Volume One: The Early Years. ed. by Margaret Atwood and Barry
Callaghan.</cit>
</quote>
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...
<quote>
Scaliger's reconstruction also required him to ignore or distort
other texts directly relevant to his
enterprise.
</quote>
The grace...
<quote>
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.
</quote>
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 <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance</a>
24/6



From: John Unsworth <unsworth_at_uiuc.edu>
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 <a href="http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/">http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/</a>.  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 <p.j.heslin_at_DURHAM.AC.UK>
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.
<a href="http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/">http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/</a>
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  <a href="http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin">http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin</a>




From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i40_rao.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i40_rao.html</a>>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i11_math.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i11_math.html</a>>
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:
<<a href="http://www.aucegypt.edu/newsatauc/inner4.cfm?ArticleId=3D883">http://www.aucegypt.edu/newsatauc/inner4.cfm?ArticleId=3D883</a>>.
We are pleased to report that John will be
sending Ubiquity periodic "Letters from Cairo" in
information technology there and everywhere.



From: EUROS 2008 <euros2008_at_labe.felk.cvut.cz>
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 (
<<a href="http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/">http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/</a>><a href="http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/">http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/</a>)
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
<<a href="http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/">http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/</a>><a href="http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/">http://www.action-m.com/euros2008/</a>
Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 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 Luk�cs, 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 
<<a href="http://www.telospress.com">http://www.telospress.com</a>><a href="http://www.telospress.com">http://www.telospress.com</a>, 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 | 
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in 
infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26).  



From: "John Maguire" <J.Maguire_at_ria.ie>
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 R�oga na h�ireann
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 R�oga na h�ireann
Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities



From: "J. Trant" <jtrant_at_archimuse.com>
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
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/</a>
dedicated to the memory of Xavier Perrot
---------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------
Papers On-line
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/speakers/index.html</a>
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
---------------------------------------------------------------
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001615.html">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001615.html</a>
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
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001589.html">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001589.html</a>
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
<a href="https://www2.archimuse.com/ichim07/ichim07.registrationForm.html">https://www2.archimuse.com/ichim07/ichim07.registrationForm.html</a>
Please register in advance if you'll be able to join us. Full details
on-line at <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/register/index.html">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/register/index.html</a>
--------------------------------------------------------------
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
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/">http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/</a>	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
                              <a href="http://2008.IJCAR.org">http://2008.IJCAR.org</a>
              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
      <a href="http://www.easychair.org/IJCAR2008/">http://www.easychair.org/IJCAR2008/</a>.
Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer "llncs" format,
which can be obtained from <a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>. The
page limit is 15 pages for full papers, and 5 pages for system descriptions.
[...]



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
<a href="http://www.sciencecodex.com/harvard_scientists_predict_the_future_of_the_past_tense">http://www.sciencecodex.com/harvard_scientists_predict_the_future_of_the_past_tense</a>.
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 Gu�don 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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26).


From: Journals Publicity <j-publicity_at_PRESS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
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
(<a href="http://journalsuchicago.qm4.net/a/1/6530335/318859/default.aspx">http://journalsuchicago.qm4.net/a/1/6530335/318859/default.aspx</a>).
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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: Richard Cunningham <richard.cunningham_at_acadiau.ca>
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:
<a href="http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/jobs.html">http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/jobs.html</a>
Thank you -- I hope you will consider applying or sending this to
someone who might want to.
Keep Innovating!
Brett



From: Phillip Barron <pbarron_at_nationalhumanitiescenter.org>
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 <<a href="http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us">http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us</a>><a href="http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/">http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/</a> 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
<mailto:pbarron_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us>pbarron_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us
National Humanities Center
7 Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
<<a href="http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org">http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org</a>><a href="http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org">http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org</a>
<a href="http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us">http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us</a>
Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. 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 <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101202489.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101202489.html</a>.
Yours,
WM
[deleted quotation]Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: daniele radicioni <radicion_at_di.unito.it>
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: <a href="http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it">http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it</a>
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" <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" <hgladney_at_pacbell.net>
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
<<a href="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_2.htm">http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_2.htm</a>>
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.  <<a href="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney">http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney</a>><a href="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney">http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney</a>


From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 <a href="http://springerlink.com">http://springerlink.com</a>
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&#x2019;ichi Konomi
505 - 506
Ubiquitous computing in the real world: lessons 
learnt from large scale RFID deployments
Shin&#x2019;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&#x2019;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 G�teborg film festival
Sara Ljungblad, Maria H�kansson, 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 Kilpel�naho, 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 | 
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in 
infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26).  



From: "H.M. Gladney" <hgladney_at_pacbell.net>
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
<<a href="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_3.htm">http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_3.htm</a>>
Cheerio, Henry
H.M. Gladney,
Ph.D.  <<a href="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney">http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney</a>>


From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
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:
<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i41_pal.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i41_pal.html</a>>


From: "Shana M Kimball" <kimballs_at_umich.edu>
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
<<a href="http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/">http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/</a>> .  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:
<a href="http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/longfeed.xml">http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/longfeed.xml</a>
-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
<a href="http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/browse.html">http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/browse.html</a>
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 <<a href="http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/">http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/</a>>.
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
<a href="http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/commentpress">http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/commentpress</a>.
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.305">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.305</a>
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.
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.304">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.304</a>
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.
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.308">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.308</a>
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.
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.302">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.302</a>
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. <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.310">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.310</a>
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. <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.307">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.307</a>
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
<a href="http://www.ithaka.org/">http://www.ithaka.org/</a> as a pdf file, and in a
"commentable" version at <a href="http://www.scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/">http://www.scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/</a> .
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. <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.309">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.309</a>
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.
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.302">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0010.302</a>
Enjoy!



From: "Prof. Roland Sussex" <sussex_at_uq.edu.au>
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
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU> 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:    <a href="http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/index.html?page=18094&amp;pid=19591">http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/index.html?page=18094&amp;pid=19591</a>
School's website:
          <a href="http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/">http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/</a>
Applied linguistics website:
          <a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/slccs/AppliedLing/">http://www.uq.edu.au/slccs/AppliedLing/</a>
Language Talkback ABC radio:
Web:    <a href="http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/languagetalkback/">http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/languagetalkback/</a>



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: "David L. Hoover" <david.hoover_at_nyu.edu>
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
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
[deleted quotation]
-- 
       David L. Hoover, Professor of English & Webmaster
              NYU English Department, 212-998-8832
              <a href="http://english.fas.nyu.edu/page/home">http://english.fas.nyu.edu/page/home</a>
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
                 George Eliot, Middlemarch




From: "Espen S. Ore" <espen_at_espenore.tk>
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
<a href="http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/">http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/</a>
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 <a href="http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/">http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/</a>.
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:
<a href="https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/">https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/</a>
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
(<a href="http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/">http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/</a>) and the Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing (_<a href="http://www.allc.org/awards/bursary.htm">http://www.allc.org/awards/bursary.htm</a>_).
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" <dalbello_at_scils.rutgers.edu>
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 (<a href="http://www.iuc.hr/">http://www.iuc.hr/</a> )
Don Ivana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia, and
Hotel Odisej, island Mljet, Pomena, Croatia (<a href="http://www.hotelodisej.hr">http://www.hotelodisej.hr</a>)
Web site: <a href="http://www.ffos.hr/lida/">http://www.ffos.hr/lida/</a>
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
<a href="http://www.croatia.hr/">http://www.croatia.hr/</a> and for Dubrovnik at
<a href="http://www.dubrovnik-online.com/">http://www.dubrovnik-online.com/</a>
Mljet is one of the most enchanting islands in the Adriatic, a sea that
abounds with beautiful islands to start with. Hotel Odisej
(<a href="http://www.hotelodisej.hr">http://www.hotelodisej.hr</a>) is in a small harbor. Near the hotel is the
entrance to Mljet National Park (<a href="http://www.np-mljet.hr/">http://www.np-mljet.hr/</a>) 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
   <a href="http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello">http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello</a>


From: Leslie Chan <chan_at_UTSC.UTORONTO.CA>
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
<a href="http://www.elpub.net">http://www.elpub.net</a>
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     <<a href="http://www.elpub.net">http://www.elpub.net</a>>
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:
<a href="http://elpub.scix.net">http://elpub.scix.net</a>
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 <stuart.dunn_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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
<mailto:stuart.dunn_at_kcl.ac.uk>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, <<a href="http://www.telospress.com/">http://www.telospress.com/</a>><a href="http://www.telospress.com">http://www.telospress.com</a> .
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

--
<<a href="http://www.telospress.com/">http://www.telospress.com/</a>>
Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities
Computing | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26).


From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies <hypermedia_joyce_at_yahoo.co.uk>
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)
<<a href="http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/language_systems.html">http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/language_systems.html</a>><a href="http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/language_systems.html">http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/language_systems.html</a>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 




From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
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 |
<a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/</a>. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26). 



From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CICLing-2008)" <cfp2008b_at_cicling.org>
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 <klists_at_saphor.de>
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, <joern.sieglerschmidt AT
uni-konstanz.de>.
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" <franz.barjak_at_fhnw.ch>
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: <a href="http://www.fhnw.ch/plattformen/avross">http://www.fhnw.ch/plattformen/avross</a>.
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 <dh2008_at_digitalhumanities.org>
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
<a href="http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/">http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/</a>
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 <a href="http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/">http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/</a>.
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:
<a href="https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/">https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/</a>
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
(<a href="http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/">http://www.ach.org/ach_bursary/</a>) and the Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing (_<a href="http://www.allc.org/awards/bursary.htm">http://www.allc.org/awards/bursary.htm</a>_).
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
<a href="https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/">https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/conftool/</a>




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: <a href="http://www.vectorsjournal.org">http://www.vectorsjournal.org</a>
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 <methnet_at_KCL.AC.UK>
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.
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/">http://www.arts-humanities.net/</a>
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:
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/event">http://www.arts-humanities.net/event</a>
NEW USER GROUPS
Archaeology and 3D technology
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/archaeology_3d_technology">http://www.arts-humanities.net/archaeology_3d_technology</a>
A special interest group for archaeologists and heritage
professionals working with 3-dimensional data and spatial analysis
technologies
Intimacy: Across Digital and Visceral Performance
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/">http://www.arts-humanities.net/</a> intimacy_across_digital_visceral_performance
Explorations of intimate encounters in performance practice, bridging
across digital performance and live art
The Digital Body
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_body">http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_body</a>
Discussions on virtual, mixed and augmented realities and their
relation to the body
Wmatrix
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix">http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix</a>
A user group for the Wmatrix corpus analysis and comparison tool
NEW DISCUSSIONS
After the AHDS: The End of National Support?
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/forum/after_ahds_end_national_support">http://www.arts-humanities.net/forum/after_ahds_end_national_support</a>
Interview: Paul Rayson Wmatrix, text mining
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix/forum/">http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix/forum/</a>
interview_paul_rayson_wmatrix_text_mining
Web Portals and the Historic Environment
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/forum/web_portals_historic_environment">http://www.arts-humanities.net/forum/web_portals_historic_environment</a>
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:
<a href="http://www.arts-humanities.net/wiki">http://www.arts-humanities.net/wiki</a>
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 virt